New Acting AG Blanche Told Jesse Watters the ActBlue Investigation Is Personal

Democrats spent years screaming about foreign money in elections.

Now their own fundraising machine is accused of running exactly that scheme.

And the new top cop in America just told the country this one is personal.

ActBlue Told Congress One Story While Its Lawyers Told a Very Different One

ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones sent a letter to congressional investigators in November 2023 swearing the platform used "multilayered" screenings to block illegal foreign donations.

It was a claim her own lawyers couldn't stand behind.

In early 2025, the D.C. law firm Covington & Burling – representing ActBlue at the time – delivered two internal memos that detonated inside Democratic Party headquarters.

"It can be alleged that ActBlue accepted and/or facilitated the acceptance of foreign-national contributions into American elections," one memo warned.

The memos found that Wallace-Jones' letter described safeguards that were never consistently applied.

Foreign donors paying through PayPal, Apple Pay, or Venmo were never asked for passport information – even though Wallace-Jones told Congress they were.

Covington didn't sugarcoat the legal exposure.

"Because ActBlue's staff was aware that its system was not as robust as necessary, it could be alleged that these violations were 'knowing and willful'" – the threshold that triggers not just FEC fines but criminal prosecution by the Justice Department.

The firm also warned Wallace-Jones directly, in a video call with her leadership team, that she faced personal legal liability and needed to hire her own attorney.

Senior officials started bolting.

ActBlue's general counsel resigned.

The vice president for customer service resigned.

A technology staffer who had been with the organization for 14 years resigned.

Covington separated from ActBlue entirely in the weeks after the memos were issued.

The Numbers That Should Have Democrats Worried About 2026

ActBlue processed $3.8 billion in contributions during the 2024 election cycle.

The platform's own chairwoman told the New York Times that "less than 1 percent" of that total showed signs of coming from foreign countries.

One percent of $3.8 billion is $38 million.

Thirty-eight million dollars in potentially illegal foreign money flowing into Democratic campaigns – and that's the number ActBlue itself is willing to acknowledge.

Congressional investigators found it was worse than that.

A joint House Judiciary Committee report released in April 2025 revealed that inside a single 30-day window during the 2024 campaign, ActBlue detected 237 separate donations from foreign IP addresses using domestic prepaid cards.

The same report found that ActBlue made its fraud-prevention rules "more lenient" twice during the 2024 campaign, even as foreign exploitation of the platform was accelerating.

Internal documents showed that new fraud-prevention employees were trained to find reasons to approve contributions rather than flag suspicious ones.

The platform's chief fraud official reportedly accepted 10 percent more fraud on the books – while redirecting attention to DEI.

New Acting AG Todd Blanche Made It Personal

Then came Thursday night.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche – freshly installed at the head of the Justice Department after Pam Bondi's departure – went on Jesse Watters Primetime and left nothing ambiguous.

"That is a priority of this administration and this Department of Justice," Blanche said of the ActBlue investigation.

"It's something that a lot of people have been worried about for a very long time. You can rest assured that it includes the Department of Justice, and it includes me."

Not "the department will look into it."

Not "it's one of many priorities."

It includes me.

Blanche knows what he's dealing with.

ActBlue has processed $16 billion for Democratic candidates and causes since its founding in 2004.

It is the financial spine of the entire Democratic Party.

Prosecutors who prove it knowingly accepted foreign money and lied to Congress about it don't just take down a fundraising platform – they take down the machine that funded every major Democrat who ran for office in the last decade.

That's the stakes Blanche just claimed as his own.

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Sources:

• Scott McClallen, "Todd Blanche: ActBlue Allegations a 'Priority' of New DOJ," Townhall, April 2, 2026.
• Andrew Kerr, "Substantial Risk: Democratic Fundraising Juggernaut ActBlue May Have Misled Congress About Vetting Foreign Donations, Its Own Attorneys Warned," Washington Free Beacon, April 2, 2026.
• Tyler O'Neil, "ActBlue Lawyers Raised Alarm About Potential Misstatements to Congress on Foreign Donations: Report," The Daily Signal, April 3, 2026.
• "Fraud on ActBlue: How the Democrats' Top Fundraising Platform Opens the Door for Illegal Election Contributions," House Judiciary Committee Republicans, April 2, 2025.
• "Investigation Into Unlawful Straw Donor and Foreign Contributions in American Elections," The White House, April 2025.
• Hans von Spakovsky, "What Is 'Smurfing'? What Every American Needs to Know About Illegal Money in Elections," Fox News, August 17, 2024.