Democrats have longed railed against the scourge of “dark money” and foreign influence on elections and spent the entire 2024 election promising to “save democracy” from the dastardly Republicans, but it turns out the call was coming from inside the house.
Last week, three House committees released a report after a months-long probe showing that progressive money-making machine ActBlue lowered its standards for fraud twice during the 2024 election cycle.
The result: Hundreds of fraudulent donations poured in — some from countries like Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Colombia.
Worse, the nonprofit knew mass fraud was likely happening and increased the risk.
An ActBlue Fraud Prevention Specialist flagged that the outfit’s “likelihood of fraudulence” score with its fraud-prevention company, Sift, was “the highest it [had] ever been and appear[ed] to be climbing further” in July 2024, yet the bosses chose to weaken the guardrails for the second time in a year just two months later.
All making it easier to get illegal donations through ActBlue’s swiss-cheese screening system.
From the report: “Internal communications explain that ‘if someone could coordinate a big attack where each individual donation fell below the [fraud review] threshold, they would go through.’”
Yet ActBlue told fraud-prevention staff to “look for reasons to accept contributions.”
The report follows a racketeering lawsuit filed by a Wisconsin Republican strategist who claims his identity was stolen and used to make 385 fake donations to various lefty causes via ActBlue.
In short, ActBlue looks so eager to help Democrats that it basically whitewashed illegal giving.
Cue a mass rush for the doors — seven ActBlue senior officials have resigned, and a top lawyer in its general counsel office went on leave after suggesting he was retaliated against for whistleblowing.
Democrats routinely pretend that Republicans are funded by special interests and “the 1%,” while their candidates are backed by small, grassroots donors — “real Americans.”
All while they’re raking in cash from billionaires like George Soros, Reid Hoffman, Pierre Omidyar, Peter Buffett and Hansjorg Wyss, with vast dark-money giving laundered through outfits like the Tides Foundation and shady foreign donors.
The “democracy is in danger” party has been pointing its finger in the wrong direction.
