Ken Paxton Just Sued ActBlue and What His Investigators Found Inside Will Infuriate You

Democrats spent years telling you their grassroots fundraising machine was clean.

Now their own lawyers are saying otherwise.

Ken Paxton just filed a landmark lawsuit against ActBlue – and the evidence his investigators uncovered proves the Left was using your elections as a money laundromat.

The Gift Cards Were Still Running

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed suit against ActBlue in Tarrant County district court on April 20, 2026, charging the platform with violating the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act by lying about its anti-fraud safeguards.

Here's the specific lie Paxton caught.

ActBlue told Congress it stopped accepting gift card and prepaid debit card donations – the methods that allow anyone, including foreign nationals, to funnel money into American elections without showing ID.

Paxton's investigators tested it themselves.

The gift cards still worked.¹

"ActBlue lied to Congress and to the American people, and I will ensure justice is served," Paxton said.¹

The lawsuit seeks a permanent injunction blocking ActBlue from processing gift card and prepaid debit card donations, plus civil penalties of $10,000 per violation of Texas law.

Their Own Lawyers Warned Them

ActBlue didn't just lie to Congress.

Their own outside legal team at Covington & Burling warned company executives in early 2025 that the fraud-screening safeguards were not working as represented.

The memo warned that ActBlue could face allegations it had accepted foreign-national contributions in a "knowing and willful" manner – language that opens the door to criminal charges, not just civil fines.²

The warning landed and the lawyers got gone.

By March 2025, every single member of ActBlue's legal and compliance team had resigned, been fired, or gone on extended leave.³

One departing lawyer, former interim General Counsel Aaron Ting, wrote a resignation letter stating grave "concerns" about the company's "past practices for screening political donations from abroad and its past representations to Congress."³

ActBlue is still withholding that letter from House investigators.

Five Staffers. 146 Questions. Zero Answers.

When Congress deposed five key ActBlue fraud-prevention and legal personnel under oath, the results told you everything.

The five witnesses – including former VP of Customer Service Alyssa Twomey and former General Counsel Darrin Hurwitz – invoked the Fifth Amendment 146 times.

They refused to answer a single substantive question.³

Not one.

Committee Chairmen Bryan Steil, James Comer, and Jim Jordan said the silence "only amplifies the Committees' concerns."³

These were not questions about classified national security programs.

They were questions like: "Did members of ActBlue's legal team leave after the 2024 election because of the platform's inability to prevent fraud?"

One hundred and forty-six times, the answer was: I refuse to speak.

The Platform Democrats Built to Win Elections

ActBlue has processed more than $16 billion in donations since its founding in 2004 – almost exclusively to left-wing candidates and causes.¹

That $16 billion funded the campaigns of every Democrat who has screamed about election integrity while their own fundraising machine was quietly lowering fraud-prevention standards.

Twice in 2024, ActBlue made its fraud vetting rules "more lenient" – even as its own internal systems were detecting at least 22 significant fraud campaigns running on the platform.

Nine of those fraud campaigns had direct ties to foreign countries including Brazil, India, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia.⁴

Internal training documents directed ActBlue's fraud-prevention team to "look for reasons to accept contributions" rather than flag suspicious ones.³

That was the policy during an election year.

Paxton started investigating this in 2023.

He sent the FEC a formal petition in 2024 warning that foreign actors were using ActBlue to run straw donation schemes.

The platform kept running.

The fraud campaigns kept coming.

Regina Wallace-Jones, ActBlue's CEO, is still fighting congressional subpoenas.

She is going to have to answer to Paxton in a Texas courtroom now instead.

Sources:

• Ken Paxton, "Attorney General Paxton Files Landmark Lawsuit Against ActBlue for Deceiving Americans," Office of the Texas Attorney General, April 20, 2026.
• House Judiciary Committee, "New Report Reveals Illicit Foreign Donations and Mass Resignations at ActBlue," judiciary.house.gov, April 20, 2026.
• M.D. Kittle, "Report Details ActBlue's 'Illicit Foreign Donations' And A 'Coverup,'" The Federalist, April 20, 2026.
• Fox News, "Texas AG Paxton Sues Dem Fundraising Platform ActBlue, Alleging 'Fraudulent and Foreign Donations,'" April 20, 2026.