{"id":4603,"date":"2026-08-19T05:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4603"},"modified":"2026-08-19T05:06:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T05:06:21","slug":"dems-keep-taking-actblue-money-despite-mounting-fraud-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4603","title":{"rendered":"Dems Keep Taking ActBlue Money Despite Mounting Fraud Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_1 --> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Many progressive 2026 candidates continue to accept campaign funds through ActBlue despite ongoing congressional inquiries and allegations from Democratic donors that something suspicious is happening on the mega-fundraising platform.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4601\">Meta Appears To Steer \u2018Ceuta\u2019 Searches To Warning Statement, Resources For Moving To \u2018New Country\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recipients of the funds include not only Democratic national figures such as New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, but also more than 9,000 candidates in state, county and school district elections. <strong>(RELATED: How Do You Beat The Rising Left Populists? Republicans Have To Learn On The Fly)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, a late-July video sheds new light on investigations and Republican complaints of corruption after ActBlue cited an 88-year-old woman living in a Michigan mobile home as having donated more than $150,000 in 1,500 donations over the last five years, according to a video by Michigan Enjoyer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHell no. I don\u2019t have that kind of money,\u201d Elizabeth Waffle said, later adding that she is living in the trailer as her house had burned down two years ago, and even accepted money from the reporter who offered to pay for her to get her overgrown lawn mowed after she complained she wouldn\u2019t have the money to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Waffle said that she had used ActBlue on several occasions, but that \u201c$150,000 is very abnormal, I think it\u2019s wrong, there\u2019s something in there that\u2019s off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_2 --> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zEDxg_NatWE?si=eAS4AVs8YA6Z828J\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Since 2004, ActBlue has raised more than $19 billion in donations for almost exclusively Democratic and progressive candidates, but over the last two years has faced joint House committee investigations alleging illicit foreign donations and the failure to prevent fraud in the company.<\/p>\n<p>A joint interim staff report from the Committee on House Administration, the House Judiciary Committee and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform determined that ActBlue had become \u201cmore lenient\u201d on fraud despite allegedly being rife with it. <\/p>\n<p>The committees reached that conclusion after finding internal documents suggesting that ActBlue executives and staff were exploiting the platform and had taken steps to hide those changes, with staff instructed to \u201clook for reasons to accept contributions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4599\">EXCLUSIVE: Government Buildings Are Falling Apart, But One Official Has A Solution<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_3 --> <\/p>\n<p>In only a month, ActBlue detected 237 donations made from foreign IP addresses using domestic prepaid cards, the joint committees said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2026, the same committees released a second part of the joint interim staff report that revealed the legal and compliance teams had left the company after the 2024 election and that the five current or former ActBlue employees pleaded the Fifth a total of 146 times during their depositions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPut simply: every member of ActBlue\u2019s legal and compliance team appears to have left the platform after the 2024 election because of its \u2018knowing and willful\u2019 acceptance of illegal foreign contributions, and the subsequent cover-up,\u201d the committee\u2019s report said.<\/p>\n<p>In response, ActBlue released a statement denying allegations that the donation platform had obstructed the committee\u2019s inquiry and claimed it had gone above what was legally required to cooperate with the House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActBlue is a safe and secure fundraising platform that enables millions of Americans to participate at a grassroots level in the most fundamental pillar of our society: elections,\u201d the statement read. \u201cFor 21 years, we\u2019ve been a vital part of the infrastructure of our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite these allegations, no major Democrat had stepped back from ActBlue, continuing to fund their campaigns, with some Democratic lawmakers suggesting the criticism of the fundraising giant was hypocritical while suggesting that the Right is ignoring fraud found in Republican fundraising, while others argued that targeting ActBlue was just an act of racism targeting the group\u2019s Black founder and CEO. <strong>(RELATED: ActBlue CEO Refuses To Answer Congress\u2019 Easiest Questions)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=4597\">EXCLUSIVE: Gun YouTuber Brandon Herrera Outraises Democrat Opponent\u2019s Entire Campaign In First 45 Days Of Q3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ActBlue did not respond to the Daily Caller\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many progressive candidates continue to accept campaign funds through ActBlue despite ongoing inquiries and allegations from Democratic donors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[134,2064,2440,860,1492,57,2557,387],"class_list":["post-4603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-2026-midterms","tag-abdul-el-sayed","tag-actblue","tag-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-democrats","tag-fundraising","tag-michigan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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