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Mark Block has been consulting for Republicans for years. So when he discovered an old email account he used for the 2012 Herman Cain presidential campaign was receiving receipts for donations to Democrat candidates like Kamala Harris, he became alarmed. The discovery led Block -- a stalwart Republican -- and his lawyers on a journey that escalated Monday evening when he filed a groundbreaking lawsuit in the Wisconsin state courts under civil racketeering laws, alleging he is a victim of identity theft in a conspiracy to abuse the massive ActBlue fundraising platform. That platform is designed to benefit Democrats with...

A sprawling investigation into the online fundraising platform ActBlue has expanded into 19 states, as attorneys general across the country press the company on its security practices and whether Democrats might be using the platform to cheat on election donations. An investigation that began with a few states and a House committee has now spread across nearly half the country as chief state investigators are endeavoring to determine whether Democrats have used the ActBlue to launder foreign money or craft donations in people’s names without their permission, a practice known as "straw donations." In a letter sent last week to...

The husband of one of the two moderators in next week’s CBS News debate featuring vice presidential candidates J.D. Vance and Tim Walz appears to have made two donations of $250 apiece to the controversial Lincoln Project during the 2020 election. Records from the Federal Election Commission show that Ali “Yado” Yakub, the husband of Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan, contributed on July 2 and Sept. 26 of that year to the anti-Trump super-PAC.Screenshot of Ali ‘Yado’ Yakub’s donations in 2020 to the Lincoln Project / IMAGE: FEC.gov Voting records confirmed that the address listed was the residence of...

ActBlue, the Democratic fundraising platform that has collected millions of dollars for Kamala Harris, is facing potential criminal charges in five states over allegations that it fraudulently exploited unwitting donors to get around campaign finance laws. The GOP-led Committee on House Administration has been investigating claims that fraudulent donations are being laundered to ActBlue in the form of gift cards and prepaid credit cards. Chairman Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) on Wednesday referred his committee’s findings of “potential criminal activity” to the Republican attorneys general of Arkansas, Florida, Missouri, Texas and Virginia for further investigation. Money laundering experts working for the committee...

Ryan Wesley Routh, the man named as the suspect in a possible assassination attempt near Donald Trump's Florida golf club, was calm and emotionless when he was arrested Sunday. Routh, 58 is in custody after the terrifying incident at Trump International Club almost exactly two months after a separate assassination attempt against Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The suspect was found unarmed, as a backpack, GoPro camera and AK-47 style rifle that a gunman left behind when fleeing the scene have already been located. Martin County Sherriff William D. Snyder said Routh 'was not displaying a lot of...

Martin County Sheriff's Office via AP ========================================================= Fox News has reported that the alleged suspect in the second Trump assassination attempt is Ryan Wesley Routh, as we reported earlier. He allegedly aimed a rifle through the fence on the golf course where Trump was. He was about 300-500 yards away. Law enforcement claimed he had an AK-47 with a scope and a Go-Pro camera at the fence. He also had a bag with ceramic plates. The Secret Service fired at him and he fled in a black SUV. A citizen saw him and took a picture of his license which...

The Hawaii man suspected in former President Donald Trump’s assassination attempt on Sunday is a long-time Democrat, donating exclusively to the party’s candidates 19 times since 2019, records show.

I have been briefed by my team regarding what federal law enforcement is investigating as a possible assassination attempt of former President Trump today. A suspect is in custody, and I commend the work of the Secret Service and their law enforcement partners for their vigilance and their efforts to keep the former President and those around him safe. I am relieved that the former President is unharmed. There is an active investigation into this incident as law enforcement gathers more details about what happened. As I have said many times, there is no place for political violence or for...

Trump’s would-be assassin has been identified as Ryan Wesley Routh, 58.@zelensky_official I am an American coming to fight with you in Ukraine; I am flying into Krakow and will take any transport to Kyiv to meet you and fight to the death. We must get every civilian in the world to come and join the fight; I will be the example. Attack moscow now— Ryan Routh (@RyanRouth) March 14, 2022Shots were fired at Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach on Sunday afternoon at 1:30 pm as the former president was playing a round of golf with real estate investor...

A Florida state representative has posted the suspect arrested in the apparent attempted assassination on President Trump in West Palm Beach Sunday afternoon is a “white male, in his 60s” (UPDATE: Alleged photo of suspect at end of article.) Rep. John Snyder (R), 37, is the son of Martin County Sheriff William Snyder whose department helped stop the alleged getaway vehicle and detain the suspect. John Snyder posted several reports, “Shots fired at/near @realDonaldTrump. Can confirm alleged shooter is in the custody of @MartinFLSheriff after deputies took the vehicle down on I-95.” “The suspect in custody related to the #Trump...

During the 2020 election, the DNC announced a partnership with the Action Network, a leftist nonprofit, aimed at raising money to “elect Democrats up and down the ballot”. Now the Action Network is boasting that “in the first 24 hours after President Biden endorsed Vice President Harris, organizations raised over $70 million using Action Network.” “Action Network has been foundational to the DNC’s fundraising and organizing success over the years,” a DNC official gushed. Action Network was also crucial to the fundraising of Antifa. Going by the International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund on the Action Network, the mostly peaceful but also...

BREAKING: Donors Across the U.S. Deny Massive ActBlue Donations Amid Attorney General Investigations "He did not do $300,000 worth of anything in three years," exclaims Pam Fridrich, wife to Heinz Fridrich, when presented with FEC data by an @OKeefeMedia Citizen Journalist in Fernandina Beach, Florida, claiming the Fridrichs donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to ActBlue. When asked if they had made the contributions, Pam responds, "Not to my knowledge." The Fridrich family, overwhelmed by the allegations, remains perplexed by how such large sums could be attributed to them. Across the country, in Las Vegas, Nevada, Elaina Bulow, a devout...

The chairman of the powerful House Administration Committee says his investigation into one of the Democrats' most successful political action committees has pivoted to whether foreigners may be laundering money into the 2024 election. Rep. Bryan Steil, W-Wis., said his committee has identified individuals who claim they did not make the donations attributed to them in Federal Election Commission (FEC) reports filed by ActBlue. His committee, which oversees election integrity issues, has “activated a full investigation.” “My concern is that individuals are outside the jurisdiction in the United States who may be engaged in this,” Steil told the "Just the...

North Virginia doctor Siavash Sobhani stated he was in “shock” after a State Department official allegedly told him his U.S. citizenship was stripped over a bureaucratic reason, according to The Washington Post. Sobhani, 61, who specializes in internal medicine, received a letter from a State Department official after applying for a new passport in February, according to the outlet. What the north Virginia doctor received, however, was not what he expected as he had gone through the passport renewal process several times previously without any issues. Sobhani was informed he should have never been granted citizenship in the first place...

ActBlue is hit with a DEMAND letter from @JasonMiyaresVA regarding accusations of campaign money laundering that is interfering in the U.S. election. "My office has become aware of multiple serious allegations that ActBlue... [has] engaged in fraudulent, deceptive, and/or otherwise illegal activities in the Commonwealth of Cirginia and/or have aided and abetted others in doing so." "This includes hundreds of thousands of dollars of contributions through individual donors in the Commonwealth in volumes that are facially implausible and appear suspicious." "Taken together, these circumstances appear to indicate that contributions via ActBlue are being made from fictional donors or dummy accounts,...

The Attorneys General of Virginia and Missouri, along with the Secretary of State of Wyoming, have announced simultaneous investigations into ActBlue over allegations of a money laundering scheme.Investigative journalist James O’Keefe III broke his first major investigation in March 2023 since the launch of O’Keefe Media Group.The legendary journalist released a video from his investigation of the Democrat’s VAST network of donation harvesters. The investigation involved: MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN DONATION HARVESTINGHUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ILLEGAL DROPSCROSSING NUMEROUS STATES!The Gateway Pundit has previously reported on the vast far-left network of donation harvesters that James discusses in the video.The information was...

O’keefe Media uncovered suspicious contributions listed on @actblue's website as small donations, which were then reported as tens of thousands more to the FEC. Retirees across the nation were unaware of these massive contributions allegedly coming from them. An ActBlue insider disclosed a secret ActBlue conference held at a hotel in Boston. Inside the hotel, James O'Keefe questioned ActBlue about the FEC money laundering allegations.

During a recent segment on Newsmax, Carl Higbie exposed a troubling pattern of suspicious donations to Democratic campaigns, suggesting a potential large-scale operation funneling untraceable money. Higbie’s investigation, fueled by data from Election Watch and the Federal Election Commission (FEC), uncovered thousands of small donations that raise serious questions about their legitimacy. “The measure in politics, unfortunately, is how much money you have raised,” Higbie began. “Ironically, it’s also the easiest thing to track. So we did, and holy rusted metal Batman, did a bunch of people find a bunch of stuff that appears to not add up on where...

𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: @actblue is matching donations for the@KamalaHQ campaign by up to 900 PERCENT! The Harris campaign has revealed that donations have topped $100M since Biden's exit from the race… They also announced that in this record 24-hour period of fundraising, $81M… https://t.co/Ipq0F1Qaod pic.twitter.com/tzCHXf8Cwt— legislation (@legislationpage) July 23, 2024

Harris campaign is already using ActBlue money laundering scheme, $20 million from Johann Georg Wyss known as Hansjörg Wyss, born 19 September 1935, a Swiss billionaire, and was broken down into over 1,600,000 donations across 400,000 donors. Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!