In a significant triumph for the GOP, the leadership of the prominent Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue is being called to testify before House Republicans regarding evidence of fraudulent donations occurring under their oversight, as indicated by a revealing press release from the House Judiciary Committee. This release disclosed that new hires at the organization were encouraged to accept donations while minimizing inquiries as much as possible.
For context, the House Committee on the Judiciary confirmed that Representatives James Comer (R-KY), Bryan Steil (R-WI), and Jim Jordan (R-OH) had issued subpoenas to both a current and a former ActBlue employee after they declined to voluntarily testify about the platform’s anti-fraud measures. In response, ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones characterized the subpoenas as “political theater.”
In a press release dated June 25, 2025, the House Committee on the Judiciary announced that it had issued subpoenas to ActBlue’s Former Vice President of Customer Service, Alyssa Twomey, along with another key official within the organization, “for depositions regarding allegations that online fundraising platforms, including ActBlue, have accepted fraudulent donations from both domestic and foreign sources.”
Moreover, the press release confirmed that the two ActBlue officials had “failed to comply with the Committees’ voluntary processes, thus necessitating a subpoena,” further stating, “The Committees have uncovered substantial evidence that ActBlue had ‘a fundamentally unserious approach to fraud prevention’” during the time Alyssa Twomey oversaw ActBlue’s fraud-prevention initiative, and it noted that the platform “weakened its fraud-prevention standards on two occasions in 2024.”
Compounding the questionable portrayal of Twomey’s leadership during her time at ActBlue, the press release specified that the former vice president of customer service had lowered the platform’s fraud prevention standards “despite being aware of significant attempted fraud on the platform, including from foreign entities.”
Furthermore, it was even more alarming that the House Judiciary Committee uncovered that ActBlue’s training resources for new fraud-prevention personnel “directed staff to ‘seek reasons to accept contributions’ instead of evaluating potentially fraudulent donations with skepticism.” The committee also found that there were “multiple mechanisms” within ActBlue’s donation system that allowed “malicious actors to bypass ActBlue’s fraud-prevention measures and make unlawful contributions.”
Significantly, the inquiry into ActBlue was initiated by President Trump through a presidential memorandum dated April 24, 2025, in which he requested the DOJ to investigate “evidence indicating that foreign nationals are attempting to exploit online fundraising platforms to inappropriately influence American elections.” The president instructed Attorney General Pam Bondi to provide a report “within 180 days from the date of this memorandum regarding the findings of the investigation.”
In reaction to the subpoenas, ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones remarked that the actions of the House Judiciary Committee were “legal theater,” further stating, “The Republican-led committees have also failed to address ActBlue’s valid concerns regarding the partisan and parallel investigations being conducted by different branches of the government against President Trump’s and MAGA Republicans’ political adversaries.”