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ActBlue has been, for much better or for much worse, a change agent in the landscape of American politics. It turns out it may have accomplished that by allowing non-Americans to interfere with our elections via direct donations to Democratic candidates — something that is, in case you’re unfamiliar with federal law, very, very illegal.

But now that legislators and law enforcement have turned their attention to whether or not ActBlue cared whether people were using its platform to break the law, employees for the donation platform are staying mum, invoking the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination no less than 146 times when testifying before the House Judiciary Committee.

In a news release Monday about their investigation into the fundraising platform, the Judiciary Committee described the “mass exodus of the Democrat fundraising platform’s legal and compliance teams in the months following the 2024 election” and how “ActBlue made its fraud-prevention rules ‘more lenient’ twice in 2024 — even though there is extensive fraud on the platform, including from foreign sources.”

The platform, which was founded in 2004, is nominally a political action committee. In reality, it’s basically like PayPal for campaign donations — and it’s been wildly successful. According to CNN, in a little over 20 years, it had raised $16 billion for Democratic candidates. While Republicans have caught up in terms of online campaign infrastructure, ActBlue’s early success in the field of small online donations gave Democrats a big boost for a long while.

However, starting in the aftermath of the 2024 election, questions began to be raised about ActBlue’s compliance with basic campaign finance laws. Then, 142 individuals who were ex-employees, campaign staff, consultants, and others close to or who had studied the platform signed a........

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