{"id":2664194,"date":"2026-09-18T13:08:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/smoking-gun-internal-messages-show-dem-megafunder-actblue-lied-to-congress-covered-up-shady-foreign-donations\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T13:13:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T17:13:47","slug":"smoking-gun-internal-messages-show-dem-megafunder-actblue-lied-to-congress-covered-up-shady-foreign-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/smoking-gun-internal-messages-show-dem-megafunder-actblue-lied-to-congress-covered-up-shady-foreign-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking-Gun Internal Messages Show Dem Megafunder ActBlue Lied to Congress, Covered Up Shady Foreign Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsmoking-gun-internal-messages-show-dem-megafunder-actblue-lied-to-congress-covered-up-shady-foreign-donations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2664194&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article reports that ActBlue, the primary fundraising platform for Democrats, has been accused by the House Judiciary Committee of failing to prevent illegal overseas political donations. Investigations revealed that ActBlue&#8217;s staff allegedly lied to Congress about its security measures and intentionally loosened fraud prevention policies for 2024, despite internal assessments indicating an increase in fraudulent contributions. The committee found that ActBlue weakened its fraud safeguards at least twice and directed staff to look for reasons to accept contributions rather than scrutinize them properly, even though significant foreign-origin fraud campaigns had been detected.The platform also attempted to hide security issues,falsely claimed passport verification was sufficient for foreign donations,and continued accepting foreign contributions despite knowing their illegality.Several ActBlue executives have invoked the Fifth Amendment during congressional testimonies. Previously, ActBlue claimed there was no evidence of foreign donations impacting U.S. elections, but internal memos and investigations suggest otherwise.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The major political fundraising platform used by Democrats has been accused by the House Judiciary Committee of failing to stop illegal political donations from overseas.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation about ActBlue, first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/dem-fundraising-giant-actblue-accused-fraudulent-donation-cover-up-explosive-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> by Fox News on Wednesday, means that staffers for the platform allegedly lied to Congress about security protocol.<\/p>\n<p>The report from the House Judiciary Committee \u2014 which was joined by the House Administration Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee \u2014 found that \u201cActBlue, in its own words, decided to take \u2018a more lenient approach\u2019 to fraud prevention in 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The platform weakened \u201cits fraud-prevention policies at least twice even though internal assessments showed that these changes would result in a measurable increase in fraudulent contributions.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 BREAKING: Our investigation found that ActBlue weakened fraud safeguards despite detecting significant fraud campaigns, including several from foreign sources.<\/p>\n<p>Internal training even told staff to \u201clook for reasons to accept contributions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Learn more below \ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffb <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iGuqIOuzHP\">pic.twitter.com\/iGuqIOuzHP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GOPoversight\/status\/2100247932985389213?\">September 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimilarly, internal trainings directed ActBlue\u2019s fraud prevention team to \u2018look for reasons to accept contributions\u2019 rather than to examine them closely for indicators of fraud \u2014 as required by federal regulation,\u201d the report continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActBlue took this lax approach to fraud prevention even though it had detected at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyt-ignores-actblues-suspect-behavior-to-run-cover-for-dems\/\" title=\"NYT Ignores ...&#039;s Suspect Behavior To Run Cover For Dems\">22 significant fraud campaigns<\/a> on the platform in recent years, including several from foreign sources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ActBlue is widely used by Democratic candidates and progressive organizations to solicit donations as they run for office.<\/p>\n<p>The report also claimed ActBlue tried to cover up the security issues.<\/p>\n<p>In one instance, ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones claimed in a letter to House Administration Committee Chair Bryan Steil, a Republican from Wisconsin, that a passport number is required for a foreigner to make a donation on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>But the report alleged that the verification process \u201conly ensures that the entered passport number contains a certain number of characters, not that it is a valid U.S. passport number.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">MORE FRAUD AT ACTBLUE: New information produced to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JudiciaryGOP?\">@JudiciaryGOP<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HouseAdmin?\">@HouseAdmin<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GOPoversight?\">@GOPOversight<\/a> shows just how unserious ActBlue\u2019s fraud-prevention practices are.<\/p>\n<p>Accepting foreign donations in U.S. elections is ILLEGAL.<\/p>\n<p>ActBlue knows this, but repeatedly instructed its\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 House Judiciary GOP 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