Aw, we have been waiting for this for so long, and if it turns into nuthin' again...MAN.
I'm gonna be pissed.
What gives me hope is that you know what's been found has to have some people twitchy.
For one thing, Liz Cheney's skeevy boyfriend is squawking about it, and ActBlue is making sure everyone knows what he said.
Like, 'take Jamie Raskin's word for it' means something or...something.
@RepRaskin is saying what grassroots donors already know: this investigation was never about stopping fraud.
— ActBlue (@actblue) September 17, 2026
Get the facts: https://t.co/K3LG5EdIGC pic.twitter.com/aaD8OU1QRe
What isn't fraud that ActBlue isn't doing, you ask?
The investigation Congressional Republicans have had going into the shady Democratic fundraiser and money vector came out with a real whopper of a report yesterday, accusing the Democratic platform of telling fibs about how secure the donation-acceptance process was.
I know, right - imagine that!
Naturally, the ActBlue hierarchy wanted a kinder, gentler money launde(oops)...donation process (goofy me) and instructed its fraud prevention team to do basically the opposite of what a fraud team is normally tasked with doing.
They were told to look for all the reasons to take the money, instead of the one indicator that they probably shouldn't.
..."The Committees’ oversight has found that ActBlue, in its own words, decided to take 'a more lenient approach' to fraud prevention in 2024, weakening its fraud-prevention policies at least twice even though internal assessments showed that these changes would result in a measurable increase in fraudulent contributions," the report said, citing an ActBlue staff report.
"Similarly, internal trainings directed ActBlue’s fraud prevention team to 'look for reasons to accept contributions' rather than to examine them closely for indicators of fraud — as required by federal regulation. ActBlue took this lax approach to fraud prevention even though it had detected at least 22 significant fraud campaigns on the platform in recent years, including several from foreign sources."
I'll bet that worked like a charm.
Interestingly enough, too, their passport verification procedures supposedly used the passport number. And it was quite the coolest trick, because normally you'd think that, okay - the actual passport number would be bounced against a known passport number in a database.
That's how you check these things, right?
Aw. Not ActBlue.
Their 'passport number verification' turned out to mean the passport that wanted to donate money had the correct NUMBER of digits for a passport, not the correct numbers.
Yay! Donor X, IP Islamabad, gives ActBlue, say, nine 'passport' numbers - ActBlue says '9 is the correct number - verified,' and we'll take that cha-ching.
ACCEPT THAT GREAT DONATION!
...As an example, the report cited a letter by ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones to Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., which maintained that donations on the platform made by people with addresses outside the U.S. required a passport number for verification.
But Republicans alleged that the verification "only ensures that the entered passport number contains a certain number of characters, not that it is a valid U.S. passport number," rendering it an essentially meaningless step.
The report also included excerpts purporting to show ActBlue supervisors green-lighting donations despite "red flags," including a memo lauding a donation as a "great accept" but noting, "Donor sometimes has an IP in Hong Kong, but none of their other signals raise any eyebrows."
This is incredible.
— AG (@AGHamilton29) September 17, 2026
ActBlue has been accused for awhile of facilitating illegal foreign donations to campaigns. Their solution was a “passport verification” tool.
But they didn’t actually verify the passport numbers were real, just that the donor entered the right # of digits. https://t.co/tkCKJsUsDY pic.twitter.com/dbGJzcqoEk
As for the possible offense the committee is alleging, the crime would be facilitating fraudulent donations. The 'take it easy, make it easy' procedural route is documented not only in multiple supervisor communications but also in ActBlue training materials for handling those foreign donations.
"Dead To Rights": Internal ActBlue Records Show Foreign-Flagged Donations Waved Through, Whistleblower Messages Deleted https://t.co/4HDrL7rAVo
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 17, 2026
HOW MUCH FRAUD IS TOO MUCH FRAUD?
It was like asking Fauci, so you know what the answer really was.
🚨 BREAKING: House report says ActBlue covered up donation fraud and foreign money — after its own people pled the Fifth 146 times. pic.twitter.com/fGT6wIbGXN
— Eric Deters (@bulllaw) September 16, 2026
This isn't the only ActBlue iron in the fire, which gives me hope in relation to the plaintive cry at the beginning of this post - that there may actually be a frog march or two at the end of these investigations.
Just a few months ago, the ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones repeatedly plead the fifth while testifying in front of Congress.
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) September 15, 2026
We need to keep digging. pic.twitter.com/WJDkxIHnrm
Another angle that they're crawling up some ActBlue orifices over is the organization's use of what have been dubbed 'smurfs' or unwitting citizens - usually seniors - whose names have been used for numerous donations to Democratic candidates in enormous amounts of money.
For example, the unsuspecting Mrs. Elizabeth Waffle had no idea what her interviewer was talking about when he broached the subject of the over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in donations she's made.
Mrs. Waffle lives in a trailer.
ActBlue is facing scrutiny after a report last week raised questions about thousands of political donations made in the name of an 88-year-old Michigan woman.
The story caught national attention after Michigan Enjoyer reporter Charlie LeDuff posted a video interviewing Elizabeth Waffle of Milan, Michigan.
“I doubt it,” Waffle said when asked by LeDuff if she’s made 14,696 donations totaling more than $150,000 in the past five years, which are the totals reported by Michigan Enjoyer.
Living in a trailer, Waffle said she didn’t think it was possible she’d donated that much.
“I don’t have that kind of money,” she said. “I can’t believe it.”
ActBlue is an online platform used nationally by Democratic candidates and progressive organizations to raise funds.
According to Federal Election Commission records pulled by The Center Square, Waffle’s name shows $100,295 in contributions processed through ActBlue across the 2021-2022, 2023-2024 and the 2025-2026 election cycles. That is a total of 12,900 donations ranging from $0.24 to $107.50.
Online sleuths digging through FEC campaign filings have started to categorize ActBlue smurf individuals by candidates, and many candidates share smurfs.
What’s up with the Act Blue Smurfs? Have you documented who the huge donations that pass through them are from? This is campaign finance fraud. pic.twitter.com/93CF1sstxx
— BJane1182 (@FrancesJaneB) September 16, 2026
Senator Mark Kelly has one smurf who alone has donated over $1.3 million in his list of little blue generous souls.
Election Watch has a fascinating smurf page of clickable links that pulls data from the FEC, the Michigan and Wisconsin Secretaries of State, and campaign finance filings, and it gives you a sense of what smurfing is. You'll see some of the names, or variations of the name, all with the same address, that have hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations attributed to them.
He also has ActBlue. This is all for Democratic causes or candidates - mostly candidates.
Want to see Actblue - go to my website https://t.co/NsPd2SWuuY and you will find: Political Committee C00401224, ACTBLUE has accepted 178,204,660 Smurfed donor transactions totaling $3,543,266,360 from 281,434 unique Smurfing donors. That is criminally laundered money.…
— Peter Bernegger (@PeterBernegger) September 15, 2026
...That these transactions encompass 39.7% of the 449,329,799 available committee transactions and also being 29.3% of the $12,075,259,871 full committee transaction valuation.
It is believed this report provides evidentiary data supporting an assertion that potential violations have occurred of the Federal Campaign Act of 1971, as amended (FECA), including but not limited to 52 U.S.C. § 30122 (Contributions in the name of another), and 52 U.S.C. 30104 / 11 C.F.R. § 104.3(b) (False/Inadequate reporting).
It is devoutly to be wished that ActBlue's larcenous days of laundering the cash with impunity...
— Fashionably_T 🇺🇲 (@Fashionably84) September 17, 2026
...are about over.
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