Democrats are scrambling after years of cooking the books finally caught up with them.
The numbers don't lie and investigators are closing in.
And an investigative reporter just blew the lid off a massive Democrat money laundering scheme that makes Watergate look like child's play.
Trump Administration Launched Investigation After Years of Suspicious Activity
President Trump ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi in April to investigate ActBlue for potentially illegal fundraising methods.¹
The Democrat fundraising platform has processed over $16 billion since 2004, but the source of those donations is now under intense scrutiny.²
Congressional investigators discovered that during a 30-day window in the 2024 election cycle, ActBlue detected 237 separate donations made from foreign IP addresses using domestic prepaid cards despite federal law prohibiting foreign nationals from contributing to U.S. elections.³
Internal ActBlue training documents revealed the company instructed employees to "look for reasons to accept contributions" rather than flag suspicious donations.⁴
Get this — ActBlue's chief fraud-prevention official was willing to accept 10% more fraud while focusing on DEI initiatives instead of securing the platform.⁵
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sent a petition to the Federal Election Commission in December detailing how suspicious actors appear to be using ActBlue's platform to make large numbers of straw political donations through false identities and untraceable payment methods.⁶
Eight Senators Received Millions From Elderly "Smurfs" Making Thousands of Donations
Investigative journalist Bob Cushman analyzed Federal Election Commission data and uncovered what he describes as one of the largest money laundering operations in American history.
Cushman identified 42 elderly individuals — averaging 77 years old — who "allegedly" donated over $7.4 million through more than 32,000 separate donations to Democrat campaigns.⁷
The recipients read like a who's who of Democrat leadership: Senators Cory Booker, Mark Kelly, Jon Ossoff, Raphael Warnock, Adam Schiff, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar and failed Senate candidate Elissa Slotkin.⁸
One 80-year-old Pennsylvania man, Michael Berger, supposedly donated $1,324,205 through 24,680 separate contributions.⁹
Does anyone actually believe a retired senior made nearly 25,000 donations?
Susan Law of Indiana supposedly contributed $1,045.83 in 73 separate donations averaging just $14.33 each to more than 75 different political entities.¹⁰
Wendy Zorn of New Jersey allegedly made over $8,000 in 1,335 separate donations averaging only $6.36 per transaction — including 390 donations under $2.¹¹
Campaign strategist Jason Roe confirmed in an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff that people working within political campaigns have been aware of money laundering enabled by ActBlue for years.¹²
Roe explained that easy-to-obtain "soft money" gets converted into hard-to-obtain "hard money" because candidates can use campaign hard money to make television advertising buys at 40% of the rate that soft money manipulators can.¹³
If you're running a campaign, you'd give your bottom dollar to be holding hard dollars when it comes to winning.
Whitmer's Donations Exploded 100-Fold After Hiring Democrat Consultants
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer's fundraising tells an even more suspicious story.
After Whitmer contracted with GMMB — perhaps the largest and most successful Democrat consultants — her donation dollars increased by 100-fold and the number of donations per year increased by 265-fold.¹⁴
Whitmer received $18.5 million from 185,556 donations in her 2022 campaign, averaging about $100 per donation.¹⁵
The pattern suggests someone "facilitated" an increased flow of straw donors through the platform.
Congressman Darrell Issa formally requested the Trump administration investigate ActBlue for potentially accepting payments from terror organizations and engaging in money laundering crimes.¹⁶
House Republicans issued subpoenas to ActBlue executives amid allegations of widespread fraud involving stolen identities, foreign money laundering, and deliberate misuse of taxpayer dollars.¹⁷
Multiple state attorneys general including Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Florida, and Missouri have opened investigations into ActBlue over suspicious donations made through obscured identities and untraceable means.¹⁸
The Biden administration stonewalled congressional requests for Suspicious Activity Reports relevant to ActBlue probes for months before finally allowing limited document review just two days before Biden left office.¹⁹
Arizona State Senator Mark Finchem and former police officer Jason Taylor uncovered what they call the "Magic Mortgage" money laundering scheme tied directly to ActBlue's donor channels.²⁰
They found suspicious property transactions totaling billions of dollars where properties were sold at market value and within the same day transferred again for 100 times the amount.²¹
These real estate transactions included multi-million dollar deals across California and Texas made with private cash lenders — major red flags for money laundering — that coincided with election cycles.²²
Seven senior ActBlue staff members including the company's highest-ranking legal officer resigned since February as investigations intensified.²³
The platform's union told company leadership that "those of us who work with our legal team in our day-to-day do not have clear direction on how to proceed with our work in their absence."²⁴
Democrats built an empire on laundered money from foreign adversaries, criminal cartels, and stolen identities of elderly Americans who had no idea their names were being used for hundreds or thousands of illegal donations.
The curtain is finally being pulled back on a system that exploited trust, laundered money, and manipulated elections for one political party's benefit.
¹ "Trump to Order Investigation Into ActBlue for Potentially Illegal Fundraising Methods," The Daily Signal, April 29, 2025.
² Ibid.
³ "Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Investigates Unlawful 'Straw Donor' and Foreign Contributions in American Elections," The White House, April 24, 2025.
⁴ "Fraud on ActBlue: New Report Details Potential Illegal Activity on the Democrat Platform," House Judiciary Committee Republicans, April 2, 2025.
⁵ Ibid.
⁶ "Investigation Into ActBlue By Attorney General Ken Paxton Uncovers Large Number of Suspicious Donations," Office of the Attorney General of Texas, December 5, 2025.
⁷ Bob Cushman, "Massive Democrat Money Laundering Discovered," The Gateway Pundit, December 15, 2025.
⁸ Ibid.
⁹ Ibid.
¹⁰ Ibid.
¹¹ Ibid.
¹² Ibid.
¹³ Ibid.
¹⁴ Ibid.
¹⁵ "The Democrat Party Reportedly Received Half Its Donations from Unemployed Americans," The Gateway Pundit, April 12, 2023.
¹⁶ "Dem's ActBlue Under Fire for Alleged Money Laundering Ties to Terror Groups," RVM News, March 13, 2025.
¹⁷ "ActBlue under fire: Congressional subpoenas reveal pervasive fraud," Natural News, July 3, 2025.
¹⁸ "Chairman Steil Demands Information from ActBlue on Potential Foreign Influence," House Administration Committee, October 29, 2024.
¹⁹ "Contractors for Dem fundraising platform ActBlue summoned to Congress," House Judiciary Committee Republicans, April 30, 2025.
²⁰ "Arizona: possible historic money laundering scheme by DNC fundraiser ActBlue uncovered," Law Enforcement Today, August 7, 2025.
²¹ Ibid.
²² Ibid.
²³ "Fraud on ActBlue: New Report Details Potential Illegal Activity," House Judiciary Committee Republicans, April 2, 2025.
²⁴ Ibid.
