WASHINGTON, D.C. – Democrat candidates across the country continue to raise money through the dark-money fundraising machine ActBlue. Abdul El-Sayed, Roy Cooper, Sherrod Brown, James Talarico, Dan Osborn, Jon Ossoff, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez are all fundraising through the scandal-plagued platform while remaining silent amid growing controversy.
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Where Do
Democrats Draw the Line on Fraud — If They Do at All?
Townhall
August
13, 2026
"ActBlue,
the Democrat fundraising platform, has been in the news for a while amid a DOJ
investigation into allegations that ActBlue not only took foreign donations but
lied about it. Attorney General Todd Blanche said back in April that this was a
"top priority" for his office, and it appeared ActBlue lied to
Congress about vetting foreign donations.
A few
weeks after that, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced he was suing
ActBlue for deceiving Americans and lying about its donation process. An April
House Judiciary Committee report slammed ActBlue's "illicit foreign
donations" and the related cover-up.
Even more
questions are being raised about ActBlue and its fundraising practices now,
including how it's being used in major midterm races, where numerous Democrats
in toss-up races are taking money from the possibly fraudulent website.
Abdul
El-Sayed, who is running for the U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, has claimed
throughout his campaign that he opposes special interests, but continues to
raise money on ActBlue despite the Congressional investigations, shady donation
schemes, and glaring failures to stop fraud.
His
campaign came under fire when a viral video showed his campaign might be funded
by fake elderly donors.
[...]
Despite
these serious questions, El-Sayed continues to fundraise through ActBlue and
has not spoken out against the potential fraud. He's not alone, either. At
least a half dozen other Democrats in toss-up U.S. Senate races are taking
money from the potentially fraudulent website.
This
includes Roy Cooper in North Carolina; Sherrod Brown in Ohio; James Talarico in
Texas; Dan Osborn in Nebraska; and Jon Ossoff in Georgia.
Marie
Gluesenkamp Perez, running for the House in Washington's 3rd Congressional
District, is also fundraising through ActBlue.
In fact, the top five ActBlue fundraisers are all in toss-up races. In addition to El-Sayed, Ossoff, Talarico, and Brown, Michigan's Troy Jackson is fundraising through ActBlue.
All of
them refuse to comment on the fraud. That's nothing new, of course. As we've
learned over the last several months, Democrats ignored more than $9 billion in
fraud in Minnesota's welfare programs and continue to turn a blind eye to the
countless illegal aliens fraudulently voting in our elections.
While
Democrats circle the wagons, Republicans are working to fight fraud and expose
the truth about ActBlue.
All of this begs this question: Where do the Democrats draw the line on fraud? Do they have a line at all?"
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