Overview

• Chairs of the House Oversight, Judiciary and Administration committees issued subpoenas on June 25 for a current senior workflow specialist and former vice president Alyssa Twomey to appear for testimony on July 14 and July 23.
• President Trump’s April 24 executive order directs the Department of Justice to investigate alleged straw and dummy contributions through online fundraising platforms and deliver a report within 180 days.
• A March report from the House Oversight and Administration Committee found 1,900 fraudulent transactions on ActBlue between September 2022 and November 2024, including 237 prepaid cards tied to foreign IP addresses.
• Internal documents reveal ActBlue did not enforce card verification values until January 2024 and maintained guidelines instructing staff to seek reasons to accept contributions, prompting criticism of lenient fraud safeguards.
• ActBlue has labeled the congressional probe partisan and unconstitutional and has requested that lawmakers postpone interviews until the DOJ completes its investigation.