Lawyer's warning vanished instantly

ActBlue's IT director deleted a staff lawyer's message five seconds after he warned her to stop removing his requests and accused her of violating company policies.

“Please stop deleting my requests. You are violating the laws and policies of our company.”

Congressional report details deletion

The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee released screenshots of Slack records showing IT director Hanna Bonin deleted lawyer Zain Ahmad's messages on February 26, 2025.

Whistleblower raised campaign finance concerns

Ahmad had alerted ActBlue's board and executive leadership to alleged campaign finance violations and false statements to Congress before his access was revoked.

Passport check was basically useless

ActBlue's passport verification system only checked if entries had the correct number of characters, not whether numbers matched government databases.

Red flags were routinely ignored

Review logs show supervisors told analysts to give donors the benefit of the doubt on transactions flagged for fraud, including those with foreign IP addresses and mismatched billing information.

ActBlue auto-approved nearly all donations

The platform automatically accepted 99.8 percent of transactions and rejected significantly less than 0.1 percent for suspected fraud.

ActBlue disputes the allegations

ActBlue published a response saying 99.87 percent of nearly 990 million dollars in 2023 political contributions came from donors with domestic addresses.

“The results completely debunk the claims made against us.”

Texas attorney general already sued

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued ActBlue on April 20, 2026, alleging the platform misled Americans about donation screening and allowed fraudulent and foreign contributions.

Committees plan further investigation

The three House committees said they will continue investigating ActBlue and use their findings to consider potential changes to federal election law.