Back in early April of 2025, a collection of committees in the House of Representatives released a massive report in which they detailed the stunning amount of potential criminal activity going on in ActBlue, the major Democratic Party fundraising platform long suspected of illicit activity.
Announcing the report on April 2 in a press release, the committees said that their report revealed “extensive fraud” in ActBlue. They wrote, “Today, the House Judiciary Committee, the Committee on House Administration, and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a joint interim staff report . . . [that] reveals that ActBlue made its fraud-prevention rules “more lenient” twice in 2024—even though there is extensive fraud on the platform, including from foreign sources.”
Continuing, they noted that ActBlue personnel were utterly unserious about fixing the fraud problem, writing, “Internal documents show that ActBlue executives and staff are aware that both foreign and domestic fraudulent actors are exploiting the platform but do not take the threat seriously. In fact, they attempted to hide the changes to avoid sparking discussions about fraud on the platform.”
Building on that, they noted that ActBlue executives were focused on DEI rather than dealing with the fraud problem, with the rate of fraud even going up after they started noticing suspicious activity. The report stated: “For example, ActBlue’s training guide for new fraud-prevention employees instructed them to “look for reasons to accept contributions,” rather than err on the side of flagging suspicious donations. Internal communications further reveal that, rather than seeking to reduce or eliminate fraud, ActBlue’s chief fraud-prevention official was willing to accept 10 percent more fraud while focusing on DEI.”
Giving another example, the press release noted that ActBlue illegally allowed hundreds of foreign IP addresses, likely meaning foreigners, to donate with prepaid cards. It said, “Additionally, in a thirty-day window during September and October 2024, ActBlue detected 237 separate donations made from foreign IP addresses using domestic prepaid cards.”
In the report itself, the committees noted that ActBlue was weakening the integrity of American elections by allowing foreign donations, saying, “The Committee on House Administration, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform are charged with ensuring the integrity of American elections. To that end, the Committees are examining allegations that ActBlue, a leading political fundraising organization, allowed bad actors, including foreign actors, to exploit its online platform to make fraudulent political donations.”
Describing what all the evidence collectively shows, they then wrote, “This interim staff report details the Committees’ troublesome preliminary findings. Internal documents produced to the Committees by ActBlue and its fraud-prevention contractor, Sift, demonstrate a lack of commitment to stopping fraud and paint a picture of complacency on ActBlue’s fraud-prevention team. Put simply, the documents reflect a fundamentally unserious approach to fraud prevention at ActBlue—one that has left the door open for large-scale fraud campaigns on Democrats’ top fundraising platform.”
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The lawmakers noted, describing the overall situation, “Altogether, ActBlue’s internal documents and communications paint a damning picture: despite repeated instances of fraudulent donations to Democrat campaigns and causes from domestic and foreign sources, ActBlue is not demonstrating a serious effort to deter fraud.”