Overview
- ActBlue announced a passport verification program that requires passport images, identity details, and a live photo check using a third-party service to resume vetted donations from Americans abroad.
- Republican investigators say the move confirms earlier findings that ActBlue’s old passport field only checked character count rather than validating real U.S. passport numbers.
- Ten senior ActBlue figures, including executives and founders, invoked the Fifth Amendment in GOP-led hearings, and some in-house lawyers have left the company while scrutiny has intensified.
- ActBlue disputes GOP conclusions and points to independent forensic reviews that it says undermine the central Republican claims about illegal foreign contributions.
- The change keeps oversight, subpoenas, depositions, litigation and potential new rules on online donation verification active, and it restores access for eligible overseas donors after ActBlue paused foreign-location contributions in 2025.