House Republicans just released the third installment of their ActBlue investigation, and the internal messages are worse than the Democrats’ money machine has admitted.On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee, House Administration Committee, and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee published a joint interim staff report titled “Fraud on ActBlue, Part III: ActBlue’s Failure to Prevent Illegal Foreign Political Contributions.”The report includes internal communications, including Slack-style staff traffic and supervisor notes, showing ActBlue analysts were trained to look for reasons to accept money, not block it, even when the donation screamed foreign origin.The “verification” Congress was soldActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones previously told House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI) that donations tied to addresses outside the United States required a U.S. passport number.Internal ActBlue procedure documents produced to the committees tell a different story, according to the report.The so-called verification “uses very basic validation, number of characters, to ensure that the number entered is a valid passport number, but we do not verify the information in any other way.”Staff did not check the number against any government database. They stored whatever string of digits the donor typed and kept the money moving.If a donor had no passport, an employee could invent an “alternative method” of confirming citizenship and drop a placeholder into the account: ACTBLUEXX. After that, future donations from the same account skipped the passport prompt entirely.One supervisor overruled a rejection with this logic: the donor is foreign, but they entered a billing address, “so they would be prompted for a passport number.”Another wrote that a foreign contribution to a political organization was “okay” because the donor used the correct country code and therefore “would need to enter a passport number.” The number itself never had to be real.That is the security theater Democrats have been waving around as proof foreign money cannot enter American elections.Slack culture: “Give the donor the benefit of the doubt”The committees obtained logs of manual reviews from 2022 through 2024. Supervisors repeatedly coached analysts to accept flagged donations.One note lists a donor with an IP/billing mismatch, a concerning IP provider, a foreign credit card, an odd email domain, and a browser fingerprint tied to other rejected users. The supervisor’s conclusion: “as we have said, we give the benefit of the doubt to the donor… I can’t say for sure that this is fraud, so I am good with the accept.”Another: a contribution “set off a lot of Sift’s alarms” — still accept.A donor with several foreign IPs? “Great accept. Donor has a few foreign IPs but they are all consistently in the same place.”Hong Kong IP? “Great accept. Donor sometimes has an IP in Hong Kong but none of their other signals raise any eyebrows.”Signs pointing to Canada plus a Missouri billing address? Accept it anyway — “Twitter seems to confirm that they are a real person.”IP/billing mismatches? Accept — “reinforced by them having a LinkedIn.”Prepaid card? “Nothing suspicious… that alone isn’t reason for us to reject.” An analyst flagged an “odd pattern of small donations to the [Kamala] Harris campaign using prepaid cards.” A colleague said those were “good to accept.”ActBlue later claimed it banned foreign prepaid and gift cards shortly before the 2024 election. The review logs show the culture that existed while the money was still flowing.The platform auto-accepted 99.8 percent of donations. Of the sliver that hit manual review, only about 5 percent were rejected.The committees note ActBlue rejected “significantly less than 0.1 percent of all contributions” for suspected fraud, after already detecting at least 22 significant fraud campaigns, several with a foreign nexus.ActBlue’s answer: nothing to see hereActBlue denied the latest report in a statement Wednesday, calling it a “political stunt” and pointing to a third-party analysis it says shows nearly every 2023 dollar came from someone who gave a U.S. address or a passport number.Regina Wallace-Jones, Chief Executive Officer of ActBlue, said in a statement:“For years, President Trump and his allies have gone to unprecedented lengths to target ActBlue and other organizations they believe threaten their agenda. House Republicans have falsely claimed that ActBlue misled them and facilitated illegal foreign donations being raised on our platform. Republicans based these accusations on a flawed media report without doing a credible investigation into the underlying facts. We conducted a third party forensic analysis to put these unfounded accusations to rest once and for all.“Now, as the first ballots are going out the door for the mid-term elections, we must continue to stand against all efforts to undermine the grassroots infrastructure that powers the Democratic Party.”In December 2024, TGP reported that ActBlue did not automatically block foreign prepaid and gift cards until September 9, 2024, three days after Steil introduced the SHIELD Act.This is Part III. Part II, released in April, documented the collapse of ActBlue’s legal and compliance shop after the 2024 election.By March 2025, every member of that team had resigned, been fired, or gone on extended leave. Five current or former employees sat for depositions and invoked the Fifth Amendment 146 times. The New York Times reported on April 2 that Covington & Burling, including former Biden White House Counsel Dana Remus, warned ActBlue that Wallace-Jones may have misled Congress and that acceptance of illegal foreign contributions could be alleged as “knowing and willful.” ActBlue then parted ways with that firm.As The Gateway Pundit reported at the time, that Times story landed after ActBlue had already told the committees it had produced all relevant non-privileged documents.The Times quoted materials ActBlue had not turned over, including a resignation letter from former interim general counsel Aaron Ting and Slack traffic from former legal counsel Zain Ahmad after his network access was cut.Ahmad wrote that the company had anti-retaliation and whistleblower policies “for a reason.” Those messages were deleted.In June, Wallace-Jones sat before the House Administration Committee and invoked the Fifth Amendment 22 times rather than answer whether her 2023 letter was true.The same month, Jordan, Steil, and Comer put ActBlue on notice: produce the withheld documents or face contempt. ActBlue answered with a privilege log covering 422 documents, including the Ting letter and Ahmad’s message.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has already sued the platform for deceiving the public about donation processes that allow fraudulent and foreign money. (The Gateway Pundit)President Trump in April 2025 directed the Justice Department to investigate straw-donor and foreign-contribution schemes on online platforms, citing ActBlue’s own detection of those 22 fraud campaigns.Read the full report below:View FullscreenSkip to PDF contentThe post House Report Drops ActBlue Slack Messages Showing Staff Knowingly Waved Through Foreign Donations — “Passport Verification” Was Just Counting Characters appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.