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For a non-profit organization raising money, honesty lies in truthfully revealing its focus. Such honesty does not compensate, however, for subsequent dishonesty about how those funds are raised.<\/p>

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From its name, the fundraising focus of ActBlue was readily apparent. The first syllable signified its political activism while the second signified it was acting on behalf of the Democrat party, associated with the color blue.<\/p>\n

Started in 2004 to facilitate funding for progressive causes, ActBlue claimed to be \u201cthe complete campaign kit\u201d and that \u201cthousands of Democratic campaigns and organizations use ActBlue to fundraise, organize, and win. Join them with a platform you can trust.\u201d But it was that same trust that became the subject of the House Oversight and Reform Committee on June 10.<\/p>\n

As is often the wont of Democrats seeking to undermine the credibility of a hearing called by Republicans to investigate potential wrongdoing by left-leaning entities, they condemned this one too as being politically motivated. The hearing had called ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones as a witness, who initially indicated she would be willing to testify.<\/p>\n

However, committee member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) quickly dispelled the myth of political motivation by Republicans. He pointed out the hearing was being held due to an allegation made by a former White House counsel for President Joe Biden and Covington & Burling\u2019s legal counsel to ActBlue\u2014Dana Remus. The communication between Remus and Wallace-Jones (apparently obtained by the committee) triggered the hearing based on a suggestion the latter may have willfully and knowingly misled the Congress of the United States.<\/p>\n

There was no basis in fact for Democrats to accuse Republicans of political motivation. It appears that all justification for the hearing was provided independently by ActBlue\u2019s own documentation.<\/p>\n

In a 2023 letter to Congress, Wallace-Jones claimed ActBlue conducted \u201c\u2018multilayered\u2019 screenings of donations\u2014a practice that supposedly \u201chelped \u2018root out\u2019 those from overseas.\u201d She also claimed donations from foreign mailing addresses were only accepted if a U.S. passport number was provided.<\/p>\n

It was ActBlue\u2019s Covington & Burling law firm that determined \u201csome of the steps [Wallace-Jones] had described were not always followed.\u201d As reported by the New York Times, citing a law firm memo to ActBlue, donors using Apple Pay, PayPal, or Venmo were not asked to provide passport data.<\/p>

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The law firm forewarned there was \u201ca substantial risk that some of the funds received were impermissible contributions from foreign nationals\u201d and, as such, \u201cThis presents a substantial risk for ActBlue.\u201d It also warned this could trigger a potential criminal investigation should prosecutors determine that ActBlue deliberately tried to hide the truth about not blocking foreign donations.<\/p>\n

Covington advised ActBlue to \u201cexplicitly correct the record\u201d with Congress lest it \u201cbe alleged that ActBlue accepted and\/or facilitated the acceptance of foreign-national contributions into American elections.\u201d It was not until 2025 that ActBlue finally did so, sending a new letter to Congress reporting it \u201chas recently implemented additional restrictions that will automatically reject contributions with indicators that they come from abroad, including contributions made through third-party payment processors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Accordingly, however, the hearing was no Republican witch hunt; it was a hearing clearly motivated as a result of communications involving non-Republican sources. Unfortunately for Jordan, every question he then put to Wallace-Jones met with the same non-response. Upon the advice of legal counsel\u2014which she now suddenly accepted\u2014she asserted her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself.<\/p>\n

Jordan\u2019s first question noted the acknowledgement by ActBlue\u2019s board chairman that the organization had \u201caccepted up to 38 million contributions in 2024 that had the signs of foreign origin.\u201d Following up with the query \u201cHow much fraud is too much fraud,\u201d Jordan received the same reply from Wallace-Jones.<\/p>\n

Despite this, Jordan continued with a litany of additional questions including: \u201cHow many foreign contributions did ActBlue accept?…How much money did ActBlue accept from Russia?…Why did your entire legal team quit\u2014your in-house legal team?…Did your legal team quit because of reduced fraud standards?\u201d Realizing his effort was futile and will mandate a different approach, Jordan concluded with \u201cWe won\u2019t keep you here all day but\u2026just one more, Did you weaken fraud standards to help Democrats?\u201d\u2014a question triggering the same witness response.<\/p>\n

The day she testified\u2014or did not testify\u2014before the committee, Wallace-Jones published an opinion piece in the Washington Post. She wrote that she intended to plead the Fifth as \u201cSilence in response to bad-faith action is not retreat \u2014 it is a bedrock American right.\u201d Unshared by her op-ed was that it is also a right exercised by those guilty of a crime but obviously not wishing to acknowledge the same by answering questions that would prove such if answered truthfully.<\/p>\n

Based on ActBlue communications that include evidence provided by the organization\u2019s own legal counsel and board chairman, the hearing Republicans called is not a \u201cbad-faith action\u201d\u2014it is one demanded in order to determine the truth about whether ActBlue willfully and knowingly lied to Congress by accepting illegal contributions.<\/p>

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