House Republicans just released the third installment of their ActBlue investigation, and the internal messages are worse than the Democrats’ money machine has admitted.
On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee, House Administration Committee, and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee published a joint interim staff report titled “Fraud on ActBlue, Part III: ActBlue’s Failure to Prevent Illegal Foreign Political Contributions.”
The report includes internal communications, including Slack-style staff traffic and supervisor notes, showing ActBlue analysts were trained to look for reasons to accept money, not block it, even when the donation screamed foreign origin.
The “verification” Congress was sold
ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones previously told House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI) that donations tied to addresses outside the United States required a U.S. passport number.
Internal ActBlue procedure documents produced to the committees tell a different story, according to the report.
The so-called verification “uses very basic validation, number of characters, to ensure that the number entered is a valid passport number, but we do not verify the information in any other way.”
Staff did not check the number against any government database. They stored whatever string of digits the donor typed and kept the money moving.
If a donor had no passport, an employee could invent an “alternative method” of confirming citizenship and drop a placeholder into the account: ACTBLUEXX. After that, future donations from the same account skipped the passport prompt entirely.
One supervisor overruled a rejection with this logic: the donor is foreign, but they entered a billing address, “so they would be prompted for a passport number.”
Another wrote that a foreign contribution to a political organization was “okay” because the donor used the correct country code and therefore “would need to enter a passport number.” The number itself never had to be real.
That is the security theater Democrats have been waving around as proof foreign money cannot enter American elections.
Slack culture: “Give the donor the benefit of the doubt”