The congressional investigation into the Democratic Party’s scandal-plagued fundraising platform kicked up another notch on Tuesday. 

House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis., joined Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chair of Oversight and Government Reform, in issuing a subpoena to ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones. The subpoena gives the executive until Aug. 12 to turn over the documents the committees have requested. 

‘Suspended its Cooperation’

ActBlue officials called by the committees to answer questions and provide documents have been less than cooperative with investigators looking into allegations that the fundraising powerhouse accepted fraudulent donations from domestic and foreign sources. 

“To further our oversight and legislative reform efforts, on April 2, 2025, the Committees requested documents and communications related to internal misconduct and whistleblower retaliation at ActBlue,” the congressmen wrote Tuesday in an advisory letter to Wallace-Jones. 

“Although ActBlue initially provided documents voluntarily, it has since suspended its cooperation with the Committees. Therefore, the Judiciary Committee must resort to compulsory process to obtain the requested materials.”

The letter notes that the committees have been patient with ActBlue officials, which had been cooperating with investigators. But on June 9, the organization “abruptly changed course” and its legal team notified the committees that ActBlue would not turn over records until the committees provide “more information” about their oversight efforts.

“ActBlue did not provide a legitimate legal basis for refusing future cooperation with the Committees, and instead made baseless and untrue allegations about the Committees’ motives,” the advisory letter states. 

The committees experienced a similar shutdown of cooperation from ActBlue’s former Vice President of Customer Service Alyssa Twomey and an unidentified ActBlue Senior Workflow Specialist. Those individuals, too, have been subpoenaed. Documents obtained in the investigation show Twomey managed ActBlue’s fraud-prevention team. The specialist, according to the documents, has been the “top fraud-prevention employee at ActBlue.”

“The Committees have found significant evidence that ActBlue had ‘a fundamentally unserious approach to fraud prevention” during this period,’” the committees wrote in letters informing the ActBlue employees of the subpoena.

‘A Legislative Interest’

ActBlue officials continue to contend that the House oversight investigations are for an “improper purpose of fact-finding” to assist a similar probe by President Trump’s Department of Justice. Incorrect, the lawmakers explain in the letter to Wallace-Jones. 

“As we have explained, the Committees have a legislative interest in protecting the integrity of federal elections and upholding fundamental civil liberties by ensuring that online fundraising platforms are not vulnerable to bad actors, including foreign actors,” the letter states. 

And documents obtained to date suggest good reason to be concerned about unlawful activity. The committees assert that ActBlue weakened fraud-prevention standards twice in 2024, even as officials were aware of significant attempted fraud on the platform, including from foreign actors. The organization’s training guide instructed new fraud-prevention staff to “look for reasons to accept contributions” rather than scrutinize “potentially fraudulent donations with a skeptical eye,” the committees have previously reported. 

As The Federalist has reported, records obtained through previous subpoenas confirmed suspicions that ActBlue had accepted unverified payments during record-smashing fundraising totals for the Democrat Party’s presidential replacement candidate, then-Vice President Kamala Harris. 

In the 24-hour period last July after President Joe Biden announced he was ending his re-election bid, Harris’ campaign said it hauled in an eye-popping $81 million. 

“In August, the campaign said it raised $361 million, bringing the total to more than $615 million in fundraising since Harris had entered the race,” CBS News reported at the time. 

The congressional investigation to date has found donations poured through the platform from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Colombia, and other countries.

“In total, between September 2022 and November 2024, ActBlue internally tagged donations as potentially fraudulent at least 1,900 times,” states the committees’ interim report, released in December.  Committee members believe the problem is even more widespread. 

Blue Money

ActBlue claims the congressional investigations violate the organization’s First Amendment and due process rights, according to the committees’ letter. The lawmakers inform the platform’s CEO that Congress has every right — and the authority — to conduct oversight. In this case, they say, Congress has a “specific interest in ensuring that bad actors, including foreign actors, cannot make fraudulent or illegal political donations through online fundraising platforms.”

The cash continues to roll in. 

CNN earlier this month celebrated ActBlue’s continued fundraising success despite investigations hanging over the platform’s head. The corporate news outlet and mouthpiece for the Democratic Party reported that ActBlue hauled in nearly $400 million in the second quarter this year. 

“April-to-June haul marks a roughly 36% jump from its second-quarter receipts of $289 million in 2021, at the start of Democrat Joe Biden’s term,” CNN beamed. 

That’s a lot of money. Understandably, given ActBlue’s previously reported problems with fraud and identifying it, the booming donation totals a year-plus out from the 2026 midterms are raising unanswered questions. 

ActBlue has yet to answer The Federalist’s request for comments, but it did release a statement in May claiming the allegations it is facing are “completely baseless.” 

“Let’s be clear about what this is: Donald Trump and his accomplices in the Republican party are targeting ActBlue as part of their brazen attack on democracy in America,” the embattled platform claimed. “We will continue our work undeterred and uninterrupted, providing a safe, secure fundraising platform for the millions of grassroots donors who rely on us.”

The organization insists it takes fraud prevention “extremely seriously,” and that its processes are effective in preventing foreign nationals from contributing to U.S. political campaigns.

But House committee investigators still have a lot of questions that ActBlue is refusing to answer. 

“Our campaign finance system must be secure. As Chairman of the Committee on House Administration, I am working to accomplish that goal. ActBlue must comply with our subpoena so we can get the answers the American people deserve,” Steil said in a statement to The Federalist.