House Republicans Demand ActBlue Documents on Donor Verification

Republican chairs of three House committees ordered ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones on Monday to deliver hundreds of pages of internal documents related to donor verification and staff departures. The chairs of the Oversight and Government Reform, Judiciary, and Administration committees cited a subpoena issued nearly a year earlier that the organization has not fully answered.

They said the withheld records include a resignation letter from former interim general counsel Aaron Ting and an internal memo alleging retaliation against an employee who raised concerns about misconduct.

ActBlue raised $3.5 billion during the 2024 campaign cycle, more than twice the amount collected by the Republican-aligned WinRed platform. The average donation was $50 or less, and officials said fewer than 1 percent of contributions originated abroad, including those from U.S. citizens living overseas.

Republicans opened their review of ActBlue’s donor verification policies in 2023. A New York Times report earlier this year stated that the group’s outside legal advisers had warned it was not consistently following protocols to block fraudulent foreign donations and may have misled Congress on the issue. ActBlue has asserted attorney-client privilege over the requested materials.

Wallace-Jones appeared before the House Administration Committee on June 10 and declined to answer questions, citing her Fifth Amendment right to remain silent. The committee chairs said the documents contain evidence that ActBlue accepted foreign donations, misled Congress, and retaliated against a whistleblower.