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Jewels Jones ®@JewelsJonesLive · Sep 27, 2026

1.) ActBlue hired the lawyers. The lawyers concluded the company may have been breaking the law. So ActBlue fired the…

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ActBlue, a major Democratic fundraising platform that moved $1.8 billion in 2024, hired lawyers who discovered potential lawbreaking, then fired them after the lawyers' findings were reported. Missouri's Attorney General is investigating under consumer fraud law, seeking records by October 8 about whether foreign money and fraudulent donations were processed, with evidence suggesting the company deliberately weakened fraud detection and retaliated against whistleblowers.

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    1.) ActBlue hired the lawyers. The lawyers concluded the company may have been breaking the law. So ActBlue fired the lawyers. Missouri wants every record it has by 10 AM on October 8. 💎🧵

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    2.) The firm was Covington and Burling. Hired to defend ActBlue, terminated in March 2025 after their own outside counsel raised concerns about lawbreaking.

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    3.) That outside counsel was Dana Remus. Biden's former White House Counsel. Her memos concluded ActBlue's CEO may have misled Congress about how the company screened foreign money. That is the New York Times reporting it. Not us.

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    4.) Asked about the donations in front of a House committee, the CEO would not answer the questions.

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    5.) Size of the thing, from ActBlue's own announcement: nearly $1.8 billion moved in 2025, for more than 22,700 campaigns and committees. That is not a website. That is the plumbing under one side of American politics.

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    6.) Missouri did not open an election case. Attorney General Catherine Hanaway opened it under the Merchandising Practices Act. Consumer fraud. The same law that protects you from a crooked contractor.

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    7.) She wants to know whether money raised fraudulently landed in Missouri campaigns, and whether prepaid and gift cards were used to hide where it came from. Records due 10 AM, October 8.

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    8.) Here is the mechanism. Type a foreign address into ActBlue. A box asks for your passport number. House investigators found the box does not check it. Any number with the right count of digits walks straight through.

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    9.) Until January 2024 they did not ask for the CVV either. The three digits on the back of your card. The thing every online store on earth asks for.

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    10.) They added it, then loosened the rules twice that same year to trigger fewer manual reviews. In July 2024 ActBlue confirmed the looser rules let through more fraud than the CVV requirement had stopped.

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    11.) The fraud team was told to look for reasons to ACCEPT contributions. Not to examine them. To accept them. At least 22 significant fraud campaigns were caught on the platform anyway. Several of them foreign.

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    12.) Then the lawyers left. At least seven senior staff, including the highest ranking legal officer, went out the door after the 2024 election. The report says CEO Regina Wallace-Jones and others in leadership retaliated against the attorneys who raised it.

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    13.) So when Missouri asks for the whistleblower files, that is not a fishing trip. Somebody already told them where to look.

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    14.) I went through all of it on Saturday's show. Here is the clip. Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=UlNUdY… October 8, 10 AM. Watch what shows up, and watch what does not. 💎🇺🇸