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Is ActBlue a Criminal Enterprise?
American Thinker ^ | 13 Mar, 2025 | Steve McCann

Posted on 03/13/2025 4:42:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber

ActBlue was founded in 2004 as a Democrat Party political action committee (PAC) ostensibly to organize and raise campaign funds from “small donors.” On its website, ActBlue describes itself as “the home for small dollar donors” that “operates as a conduit, which means donations made through ActBlue to a campaign or organization are considered individual donations.” As such they are subject to considerably less legal scrutiny than large dollar donations.

In 2008, essentially the first presidential election in which ActBlue participated, they raised and spent $54.6 million on behalf of Democrat candidates. In 2012, they increased the amount raised and spent to $151.1 million. In 2016, as the political era of Donald Trump commenced, ActBlue’s fundraising dramatically increased to $653.6 Million. While a massive increase in fundraising, this was somewhat plausible considering the onset of Trump Derangement Syndrome among the Democrats and so-called progressives.

In the 2016 election cycle, the Democrat Party and its affiliates spent $4.6 Billion on the presidential and congressional races. Four years later in the 2020 cycle, they more than doubled the 2016 expenditures by spending $10.8 Billion. In 2016, ActBlue fundraising accounted for 14% of all Democrat spending whereas, in 2020, it accounted for 40%, or nearly all the increase in spending between the two election cycles.

In 2020, the fundraising by ActBlue took a leap from $653.6 Million in 2016 to a staggering $4.32 Billion, a nearly sevenfold increase. That was followed by an equally staggering $2.4 Billion raised in the 2022 mid-term elections. In 2024, ActBlue continued this streak as their fundraising topped $3.8 Billion.

Is it remotely possible that these dramatic increases are solely due to an implausible tsunami of small-dollar donors flooding the ActBlue website, or are there other, potentially criminal explanations?

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: actblue; crime; fraud; leftism; racketeering; ripoff; scam; stevemccann; yes
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1 posted on 03/13/2025 4:42:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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There is likely foreign money funneled through ActBlue to influence our elections. There is no transparency.


2 posted on 03/13/2025 4:42:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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ACTBLUE should have been investigated as a RICO operation.

They are an organized crime , money laundering operation.


3 posted on 03/13/2025 4:51:22 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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The entire left is a criminal enterprise, as is the entire Establishment GOP.


4 posted on 03/13/2025 4:53:36 AM PDT by Farcesensitive (K is coming)
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pretty obvious, since Dem agenda is in ways criminal toward people (gender confusion and mutilation of kids, abortion, release of criminals, stupid science things they are for that harms the population, etc) and ACT Blue supports Dems.

“Aidin’ and abettin’’” crimes.


5 posted on 03/13/2025 4:57:31 AM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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Sure looks that way.


6 posted on 03/13/2025 4:58:10 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: MtnClimber

Yes, now can we move on to harder questions like is water wet?


7 posted on 03/13/2025 5:03:13 AM PDT by rigelkentaurus
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To: MtnClimber
Is ActBlue a Criminal Enterprise?

Does a cat have whiskers?
8 posted on 03/13/2025 5:10:30 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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A criminal enterprise.
If it acts like a duck, quacks like a duck…
It will also likely qualify as a domestic terrorist organisation if FBI and DOJ do their homework.


9 posted on 03/13/2025 5:10:59 AM PDT by grumpygresh ( Civil disobedience by non-compliance; jury and state nullification.)
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bkmk


10 posted on 03/13/2025 5:16:35 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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YES


11 posted on 03/13/2025 5:17:16 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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James O’Keefe has several investigative videos on ActBlue. It’s interesting that there are so many “donors” out there that according to the FEC website, make dozens and dozens of small amount donations a day, every day for a year. He interviewed some of these people, mostly elderly, and some had heard of ActBlue but were surprised to hear that thousands and thousands of dollars were recorded as having been donated by them. Some said they lived on a fixed income and couldn’t donate that much if they wanted to. Taking James’s instructions on how to look for this, I myself found a local neighbor out here in rural Virginia in her 80’s that the FEC had shown donated like this.. I went to her house to chat with her and found that she was in no shape mentally or physically to be making donations like this. Something needs to happen with ActBlue, it is for sure money laundering operation for big donors and foreign donors. Those running it need to be prosecuted.


12 posted on 03/13/2025 5:20:06 AM PDT by Dubya-M-Dees
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It should be apparent to all that US Taxpayers’ monies were purloined into this fraudulent criminal enterprise. So many criminal sociopaths...so little time.


13 posted on 03/13/2025 5:29:00 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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DEFINITELY!!


14 posted on 03/13/2025 5:30:17 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Looking at USAID ‘paths’...I would guess...you float a charity front in South Africa to save elephants (in the range of $25-million). Of that the fake charity takes a cut of 25-percent. They float the remainder into some Cyprus account...buying crypto currency, and then some US guy cashes the crypto in (taking a cut), and gives some Act-Blue distributor $15-million....which is carved up into 100,000 donations over a 30 day period. It’s all fed-money, with people taking cuts along the way.


15 posted on 03/13/2025 5:42:09 AM PDT by pepsionice
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Near as I can tell, the entire Democrat political Party is criminal organization..


16 posted on 03/13/2025 5:44:14 AM PDT by unread (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
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Why bother following the law if you know neither party will prosecute you?

Let’s see if anything changes.


17 posted on 03/13/2025 5:52:19 AM PDT by BobL (The people who hate Trump demand that you hate Russia)
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18 posted on 03/13/2025 5:56:14 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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Anything connected with the Democrat Party is a Criminal Enterprise


19 posted on 03/13/2025 6:15:11 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Dan in Wichita

Nice answer.

But my grandmother’s sister had one she would have used here instead:

“Has a goat got an @_$?”


20 posted on 03/13/2025 7:00:00 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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