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Many progressive 2026 candidates continue to accept campaign funds through ActBlue despite ongoing congressional inquiries and allegations from Democratic donors that something suspicious is happening on the mega-fundraising platform.
Recipients of the funds include not only Democratic national figures such as New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, but also more than 9,000 candidates in state, county and school district elections. (RELATED: How Do You Beat The Rising Left Populists? Republicans Have To Learn On The Fly)
However, a late-July video sheds new light on investigations and Republican complaints of corruption after ActBlue cited an 88-year-old woman living in a Michigan mobile home as having donated more than $150,000 in 1,500 donations over the last five years, according to a video by Michigan Enjoyer.
“Hell no. I don’t have that kind of money,” Elizabeth Waffle said, later adding that she is living in the trailer as her house had burned down two years ago, and even accepted money from the reporter who offered to pay for her to get her overgrown lawn mowed after she complained she wouldn’t have the money to do so.
Waffle said that she had used ActBlue on several occasions, but that “$150,000 is very abnormal, I think it’s wrong, there’s something in there that’s off.”
VIDEOSince 2004, ActBlue has raised more than $19 billion in donations for almost exclusively Democratic and progressive candidates, but over the last two years has faced joint House committee investigations alleging illicit foreign donations and the failure to prevent fraud in the company.
A joint interim staff report from the Committee on House Administration, the House Judiciary Committee and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform determined that ActBlue had become “more lenient” on fraud despite allegedly being rife with it.
The committees reached that conclusion after finding internal documents suggesting that ActBlue executives and staff were exploiting the platform and had taken steps to hide those changes, with staff instructed to “look for reasons to accept contributions.”
In only a month, ActBlue detected 237 donations made from foreign IP addresses using domestic prepaid cards, the joint committees said.
In 2026, the same committees released a second part of the joint interim staff report that revealed the legal and compliance teams had left the company after the 2024 election and that the five current or former ActBlue employees pleaded the Fifth a total of 146 times during their depositions.
“Put simply: every member of ActBlue’s legal and compliance team appears to have left the platform after the 2024 election because of its ‘knowing and willful’ acceptance of illegal foreign contributions, and the subsequent cover-up,” the committee’s report said.
In response, ActBlue released a statement denying allegations that the donation platform had obstructed the committee’s inquiry and claimed it had gone above what was legally required to cooperate with the House.
“ActBlue is a safe and secure fundraising platform that enables millions of Americans to participate at a grassroots level in the most fundamental pillar of our society: elections,” the statement read. “For 21 years, we’ve been a vital part of the infrastructure of our democracy.”
Despite these allegations, no major Democrat had stepped back from ActBlue, continuing to fund their campaigns, with some Democratic lawmakers suggesting the criticism of the fundraising giant was hypocritical while suggesting that the Right is ignoring fraud found in Republican fundraising, while others argued that targeting ActBlue was just an act of racism targeting the group’s Black founder and CEO. (RELATED: ActBlue CEO Refuses To Answer Congress’ Easiest Questions)
ActBlue did not respond to the Daily Caller’s request for comment.
