(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) A 112-page report released by three Republican-led congressional committees raised shocking allegations against ActBlue, the Democratic Party’s fundraising giant, over its reported unlawful efforts to accept foreign donations.
Released Wednesday, the lengthy interim report alleged that ActBlue’s policies designed to block what the House Judiciary Committee described as “illegal” and “fraudulent” contributions could be bypassed by foreign nationals with ease.
The report also described ActBlue’s process for verifying the passports of potentially foreign donors as an “ineffective security method that does not actually require a valid U.S. passport number.”
Additionally, ActBlue leadership allegedly ordered fraud-prevention analysts to “give the donor the benefit of the doubt” to donors with red flags or “foreign indicators.”
In one instance, an ActBlue employee raised questions about a donor whose IP address originated in Hong Kong. A supervisor instead approved the donations because the donor used a Missouri billing address. The same donor appeared to be based in Canada, but rather than verify his identity through a formal process, ActBlue allegedly checked his social media account.
The report, titled “Fraud on ActBlue, Part III: ActBlue’s Failure to Prevent Illegal Foreign Political Contributions,” was produced by the House Judiciary Committee, the House Administration Committee and the House Oversight Committee.
The report’s findings come less than two years after House Republicans began investigating ActBlue’s apparent failures to prevent foreign nationals from donating to Democratic-aligned causes and campaigns.
It's obvious that ActBlue has no meaningful fraud prevention efforts.
Even its own board chairwoman admitted the platform accepted up to $38 MILLION in illegal foreign election donations. https://t.co/wZPTNlVnKp
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) September 17, 2026
Federal law prohibits foreign nationals, except for lawful permanent residents, from making contributions or donations in connection with U.S. elections.
The report’s publication also comes more than five months after the New York Times cited former ActBlue attorneys accusing CEO Regina Wallace-Jones of misleading Congress about the company’s process for identifying and preventing unlawful foreign donations.
The Times specifically quoted Covington & Burling, which ActBlue had retained, as saying Wallace-Jones may have opened herself to criminal liability after making misleading affirmations in a 2023 letter to Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wis., the chairman of the House Administration Committee.
According to the House Judiciary Committee, ActBlue failed to provide Congress with the documents cited in the Times report.
The newly released report is the culmination of a congressional investigation that dates to December 2024, when House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, subpoenaed Sift, a company that provided fraud-detection services to ActBlue.
Four months later, the House Judiciary Committee, alongside the two other committees, released an interim staff report accusing ActBlue of implementing “more lenient” fraud-prevention rules in 2024.
Subsequent subpoenas were issued to current and former ActBlue employees after they reportedly failed to comply with voluntary requests for transcribed interviews, according to the House Judiciary Committee.
Wallace-Jones herself was subpoenaed on July 22, 2025.
In a statement to The Washington Post, Wallace-Jones appeared to dismiss the report’s allegations, implying that the probe was politically motivated.
“We must continue to stand against all efforts to undermine the grassroots infrastructure that powers the Democratic Party,” she said.
In addition to the congressional investigation, ActBlue is also facing a DOJ probe after President Donald Trump signed a memorandum ordering then-Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the fundraising platform over potential “straw donors.”
