Kamala Harris raised $81 million in 24 hours through ActBlue in July 2024.
ActBlue's CEO wrote Congress a letter in 2023 claiming her platform blocked every dollar of foreign cash.
Last week Congress finally dragged Regina Wallace-Jones in to answer for that letter.
The Letter That Could Put Her in Prison
Regina Wallace-Jones wrote Chairman Bryan Steil a four-page letter in 2023.
She told the House Administration Committee that ActBlue ran a "robust" vetting system that kept every dollar of foreign cash out of American elections.
Her own lawyers told her that letter was a problem.
Covington & Burling – ActBlue's outside legal counsel – reviewed that letter and sent internal memos warning it posed a "substantial risk" for the organization.
The firm warned the letter may have been "false or misleading" and that an aggressive prosecutor could pursue criminal charges for what it described as "knowing and willful" violations.
The penalty for that standard of offense is five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
ActBlue's response to this warning was to fire Covington & Burling.
ActBlue's unions responded with a letter describing the sudden attorney departures as "alarming" and demanding outside counsel be hired to investigate.
By March 2025 the entire department was gone.
House investigators documented all of it in a joint staff report released in April 2026 – and they used the word "cover-up" to describe what they found.
Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Colombia Were Already Inside
Congress didn't go looking for a problem.
Congressional subpoenas had already confirmed donations flowing into ActBlue from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Colombia, and other countries before Wallace-Jones ever sat down at the witness table.
Records showed ActBlue loosened its fraud-prevention rules twice during the 2024 election cycle – the busiest fundraising period in its history.
Anonymous gift cards purchased with cash were supposed to be banned from the platform.
Researcher Parker Thayer proved they cleared the system without any resistance.
Donations made through Venmo, PayPal, and Apple Pay bypassed the passport verification that ActBlue claimed was its backstop against unidentified foreign donors.
ActBlue's nonprofit arms – ActBlue Civics and ActBlue Charities – routed $8.6 million through a tax-reporting structure in 2024 alone that made the money nearly impossible to trace back to its source.
Five current and former employees had already invoked the Fifth Amendment in depositions, collectively refusing to answer substantive questions 146 times.
Then Wallace-Jones arrived at the June 10 hearing.
That morning she ran an op-ed in The Washington Post warning she would invoke her constitutional rights.
Her reason: the hearing was designed to build what she called an "illegitimate criminal case" against her.
Then she took her seat.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk asked her to confirm her own name for the record.
She invoked the Fifth Amendment.
Twenty times in one hour she sat flanked by her legal team and gave Congress nothing but silence.
The woman running a platform that raised nearly $19 billion for Democrat candidates and left-wing causes since 2004 would not tell Congress who she was.
The Democrats who screamed about Russian interference in 2016 for four straight years built a machine that let Saudi Arabia and Iraq move money into American elections undetected – and ActBlue's CEO just sat in front of Congress and proved it.
Her lawyers warned her she was facing criminal exposure.
She fired the lawyers.
Texas AG Ken Paxton has seen enough – ActBlue "lied to Congress and to the American people," he said, and promised justice would follow.
Three House chairmen – Jim Jordan, Bryan Steil, and James Comer – have spent three years building the case that proves it.
Trump directed the Justice Department to investigate in April 2025.
Regina Wallace-Jones showed up to Congress with nothing but the Fifth Amendment because that is all she has left.
The only questions now are what do you call the inverse of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and when will the indictment come.
Sources:
- Parker Thayer, "ActBlue Refuses To Answer Congress's Questions About Its Foreign Donation Pipeline," The Federalist, June 17, 2026.
- Darlene McCormick Sanchez, "ActBlue CEO Pleads the Fifth During House Panel Hearing," The Epoch Times, June 10, 2026.
- Jordan Conradson, "ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones Invokes Fifth Amendment OVER 20 Times in House Admin Committee Hearing," The Gateway Pundit, June 10, 2026.
- "ActBlue CEO Invokes Fifth Amendment During House Probe Into Alleged Foreign Donations," American Greatness, June 11, 2026.
- "New Report Reveals Illicit Foreign Donations and Mass Resignations at ActBlue," House Judiciary Committee Republicans, April 20, 2026.
- "ActBlue Fired Lawyers After They Warned About Foreign Donations," The Daily Signal, April 3, 2026.
