🚨NEW REPORT: ACTBLUE EMPLOYEES TAKE THE FIFTH WHEN ASKED ABOUT FOREIGN FRAUD AND WHISTLEBLOWER RETALIATION AT THE DEMOCRAT DONATION PLATFORM
🧵THREAD:
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 20, 2026
New reporting has confirmed our findings: ActBlue accepts illegal foreign donations en masse.
ActBlue tried to cover this up by misleading and withholding documents from Congress.
But it didn’t work. pic.twitter.com/4xKRVCWpo5
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 20, 2026
The Committees deposed five ActBlue employees, including top staff responsible for fraud prevention, to learn more about the platform’s acceptance of illegal donations—and the subsequent cover-up.
In total, we asked them 146 questions.
They refused to answer a single one, invoking their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination every time.
The Committees deposed five ActBlue employees, including top staff responsible for fraud prevention, to learn more about the platform’s acceptance of illegal donations—and the subsequent cover-up.
In total, we asked them 146 questions.
They refused to answer a single one,… pic.twitter.com/aIpoJvvfuZ
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 20, 2026
The Committees sought testimony from ActBlue employees to ensure that American elections are free, fair, and decided by Americans alone.
Instead, they all refused to answer basic questions.
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 20, 2026
It started in November 2024, when ActBlue fired General Counsel Darrin Hurwitz. He received a generous severance package and promised that he would “cooperate with ActBlue . . . in connection with any current or future investigation”—including ours. pic.twitter.com/ODTkUWZurB
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 20, 2026
Ting’s resignation letter—which ActBlue continues to improperly withhold from the Committees—stated that he was leaving because ActBlue leadership refused to address grave “concerns” about its “past practices for screening political donations from abroad and its past…
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 20, 2026
Later that day, Ahmad went on a suspicious leave of absence and was locked out of his email in violation of company policy.
In an internal message that has been withheld from the Committees, Ahmad alleged that he was being retaliated against for making a whistleblower claim. pic.twitter.com/c33KkIVDOD
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 20, 2026
With no lawyers on staff, ActBlue’s compliance team would have to pick up the slack.
Instead, the day after Ahmad went on leave, Director of Compliance Eric Hoke “either quit . . . or was fired” after more than 12 years at the company.
One staffer said Hoke’s departure was… pic.twitter.com/CMXyfMZL0V
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 20, 2026
Add it all up, and the story is simple:
ActBlue accepted illegal foreign donations, misrepresented its fraud-prevention practices to Congress, and withheld documents responsive to the Committees’ subpoenas.
All three of those are federal crimes.
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 20, 2026
We sought answers from the ActBlue compliance and legal team employees. But these employees took the fifth a grand total of 146 times.
We’ll continue to work to for Americans to protect the integrity of our elections.
Read our full interim staff report here:… pic.twitter.com/ns4QwZvyzn
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 20, 2026