President Donald Trump is setting his sights on one of the Democrats’ biggest weapons: their money machine. On Thursday, Trump was expected to sign a presidential memorandum aimed at cracking down on foreign contributions to political campaigns. That move would put ActBlue—the Democrats’ favorite online donation funnel—directly in the crosshairs of a long-brewing federal investigation.
For years, Republicans have raised alarm bells that ActBlue is less of a grassroots fundraising platform and more of a laundering operation for shady money. Now, with Trump back in the Oval Office and Attorney General Pam Bondi reportedly taking point on the investigation, it appears Democrats’ dirty donation pipeline is finally getting the scrutiny it deserves.
As word of Trump’s imminent crackdown spread Wednesday, ActBlue scrambled. Its CEO, Regina Wallace-Jones, fired off a panicked email to Democrats, claiming the platform’s legal team had “sprung into action” and dismissed the looming probe as just another version of what she called “the big lie.” But that’s par for the course—whenever the left gets caught with their hands in the cookie jar, they cry conspiracy and accuse everyone else of “undermining democracy.”
Here’s the problem for ActBlue: Republicans aren’t just shouting into the wind. There are facts, subpoenas, and mounting state-level investigations to back them up. Rep. Bryan Steil, chairman of the Committee on House Administration, issued a subpoena last fall accusing ActBlue of operating as a front for laundering foreign cash into Democratic campaigns. His committee uncovered signs that money might be flowing in from the likes of Iran, China, Venezuela, and Russia. Let that sink in—America’s adversaries potentially bankrolling the American Left.
The situation only got worse when ActBlue admitted in December that it hadn’t been blocking donations made with foreign-purchased gift cards until late 2024. That means for years, the Democrats’ main donation platform was essentially wide open to foreign meddling. Remember all that liberal hysteria about “foreign interference”? Turns out, they were projecting.
Thanks to this lapse, investigators have flagged thousands of suspicious donations and passed them to state attorneys general in at least five states. Nineteen states have now opened additional investigations. This isn’t just smoke—it’s a raging fire that Democrats are desperately trying to put out with PR spin and lawyered-up denials.
And it’s not just the feds digging into this. The Fair Election Fund, a Republican watchdog group, found over 60,000 potential donation discrepancies tied to the Biden-Harris campaign. They contacted tens of thousands of Americans who appeared as small-dollar donors in FEC records—most of whom had no memory of ever giving a dime. That’s not just a data glitch; that’s a red flag waving in a storm of Democrat corruption.
Of course, ActBlue insists it’s the victim of political targeting, telling Politico on Thursday that it “strictly abides by all federal and state laws.” That’s a hard sell when you’re only now cleaning up gift card abuse in an election year and your donor base includes mysterious repeat donations from people who swear they never clicked “donate.”
This scandal touches on more than just campaign finance—it strikes at the heart of election integrity. If foreign money is helping to shape U.S. elections through a platform like ActBlue, then it’s not just a political problem—it’s a national security crisis. President Trump is right to go after it, and Republicans in Congress must follow through by rooting out every trace of foreign infiltration in our election system.
Conservatives have long argued that Big Tech and Big Donors were gaming the system for the Left. Now we may have proof that foreign powers were in on the game, too. It’s time to clean house—and ActBlue should be first on the chopping block.
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