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ActBlue May Have Misled Congress on Vetting Foreign Donations, Its Lawyers Warned

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ActBlue May Have Misled Congress on Vetting Foreign Donations, Its Lawyers Warned

In early 2025, a law firm working for ActBlue, the Democratic fund-raising behemoth, delivered the organization a startling warning. The firm concluded that ActBlue's chief executive had given a potentially misleading response to congressional Republican investigators in a 2023 letter explaining how the organization vetted donations to ensure that they were not illegally coming from foreign citizens.

The Justice Department investigation that Mr. Trump ordered last April - which is in part examining the organization's systems to prevent contributions from foreign nationals - remains ongoing.

The letter from the chief executive, Regina Wallace-Jones, said ActBlue carried out 'multilayered' screenings of contributions that helped 'root out' those from overseas. In fact, the law firm found, some of the steps she had described were not always followed.

'This presents a substantial risk for ActBlue,' the law firm, Covington & Burling, wrote in one of two memos expressing legal concerns.

'Let's be clear: Donald Trump and his accomplices in the Republican Party are targeting ActBlue as part of their brazen attack on democracy in America,' says a fact sheet on ActBlue's website.

The platform has processed nearly $19 billion in contributions since its founding in 2004, raising almost $1.8 billion from 52 million contributions, some of which recur every month.