Established Fact
ActBlue is registered with the FEC as a qualified non-connected committee (C00401224) and operates as a conduit fundraising platform, collecting and transmitting contributions to Democratic candidates while retaining a 3.95% processing fee per transaction.
Citations
FEC Committee Profile, ActBlue (C00401224), FEC.gov, https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00401224/
Presidential Memorandum, Investigation into Unlawful “Straw Donor” and Foreign Contributions in American Elections (April 24, 2025): “[P]ress reports and investigations by congressional committees have generated extremely troubling evidence that online fundraising platforms have been willing participants in schemes to launder excessive and prohibited contributions to political candidates and committees. Specifically, these reports raise concerns that malign actors are seeking to evade Federal source and amount limitations on political contributions by breaking down large contributions from one source into many smaller contributions, nominally attributed to numerous other individuals, potentially without the consent or even knowledge of the putative contributors.” The memorandum directed the Attorney General and Secretary of the Treasury to investigate under 52 U.S.C. §§ 30121 (foreign contributions) and 30122 (contributions in the name of another). White House, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/investigation-into-unlawful-straw-donor-and-foreign-contributions-in-american-elections/
House Committee on Administration, House Committee on the Judiciary, and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Fraud on ActBlue: How the Democrats’ Top Fundraising Platform Opens the Door for Illegal Election Contributions (Joint Interim Staff Report, April 2, 2025). Report findings include: ActBlue relaxed fraud-prevention rules twice in 2024 (April and September); internal training guide directed new employees to “look for reasons to accept contributions”; chief fraud-prevention official willing to accept “10 percent more fraud”; ActBlue detected 237 donations from foreign IP addresses using prepaid cards in a 30-day window (Sept.–Oct. 2024); internal communications document awareness of fraud without remedial action. See Committee on House Administration press release, https://republicans-cha.house.gov/2025/4/new-staff-report-details-actblue-s-unserious-approach-to-fraud-prevention.