ActBlue just spent years telling Congress its foreign donor screening was airtight.
But their own internal memos say the opposite.
ActBlue supervisors approved donations flagged with Hong Kong IP addresses – and what those supervisors told their fraud team is something Democrats desperately hoped you'd never see.
ActBlue's Fraud Team Was Told to Root for the Donations, Not Against Them
The congressional report, led by House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil, Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, and Oversight Chairman James Comer, obtained internal ActBlue training materials.
Those materials instructed the fraud prevention team to "look for reasons to accept contributions" rather than flag them for review.
Read that again.
The people ActBlue hired to stop fraud were being trained to approve donations, not catch them.
https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/2100247932985389213?s=20
The report documents at least 22 significant fraud campaigns detected on the platform in recent years.
Several of those campaigns came from foreign sources.
And yet – ActBlue weakened its fraud prevention policies at least twice during the 2024 election cycle.
Their own internal assessments warned that those changes would measurably increase fraudulent contributions.
They did it anyway.
The Hong Kong Memo They Cannot Explain
Here is the document that ends ActBlue's "we had no idea" defense.
An internal ActBlue communication – obtained by congressional investigators – shows a supervisor reviewing a flagged donation from a donor whose IP address was in Hong Kong.
The supervisor's ruling: approve it.
The memo called the transaction a "great accept."
Buried in the memo was the detail that the donor "sometimes has an IP in Hong Kong."
That was not a disqualifier.
That was a footnote.
https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2100255090250596721?s=20
Another internal memo shows a supervisor overruling a denied contribution, arguing it "should have been accepted" – and then acknowledging directly that it was a foreign contribution – before approving it anyway because the name, email, and billing information matched.
"The donor uses an Arkansas state code, which isn't great," the memo stated, "but the system can be wonky with requiring state codes for foreign donors."
Wonky.
The CEO Pleaded the Fifth 22 Times
Regina Wallace-Jones, the CEO of ActBlue, sat before Congress in June.
She declined to answer questions 22 times.
Including when Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia asked her whether she went by Wallace-Jones or Jones.
She wouldn't even confirm her own name.
That same CEO had sent a letter to Chairman Steil in 2023 assuring Congress that passport numbers were required to verify international donors.
What she didn't mention: the system only checked whether a passport number contained the right number of characters – not whether it was a real U.S. passport.
Her own outside law firm, Covington & Burling, warned her that those claims to Congress were not accurate.
ActBlue severed ties with Covington & Burling.
By March 2025, ActBlue's entire legal and compliance operation had collapsed – attorneys and compliance staff out the door through resignations, terminations, and extended leave.
ActBlue's co-founder Matt DeBergalis also pleaded the Fifth during a congressional deposition in August 2026.
The deposition lasted less than 30 minutes.
The Lawyers Fled, the Founder Pled the Fifth, and the Memos Remained
Democrats have called this investigation a partisan attack on their fundraising infrastructure.
That is exactly what a guilty party says.
https://twitter.com/RepBryanSteil/status/2100241806080286843?s=20
ActBlue processed $586 million for Democrat candidates, causes, and groups in the second quarter of 2026 alone.
One percent of ActBlue's 2024 haul – which Capital Research Center president Scott Walter pegged at roughly $38 million – came from donors with addresses outside the United States.
Thirty-eight million dollars.
Foreign intelligence agencies funneling even a fraction of that into Democrat campaigns would represent the largest election interference operation in modern American history.
Chairman Steil said it plainly: his biggest concern is that "foreign individuals, foreign actors, foreign intelligence agencies could be funneling money into U.S. elections" through ActBlue.
Democrats screamed about Russian Facebook ads buying $150,000 worth of political content in 2016.
They want you to forget about ActBlue's $38 million foreign donor problem in 2024.
Sources:
- Elizabeth Elkind, "Dem fundraising giant ActBlue accused of fraudulent donation 'cover-up' in explosive report," Fox News, September 16, 2026.
- House Committee on Administration, "New Report Details Illicit Foreign Donations and Mass Resignations at ActBlue," cha.house.gov, April 2026.
- House Committee on Administration, "ActBlue CEO Invited to Testify in Public Hearing," cha.house.gov, April 2026.
- Washington Examiner, "ActBlue cofounder pleads the Fifth during House deposition," August 20, 2026.
- Fox 11 Online, "ActBlue CEO pleads the Fifth: Rep. Bryan Steil says investigation will move forward," June 2026.