‘These Weren’t Hard Questions’: ActBlue Employees Plead The Fifth 146 TIMES In A Row

It might not come as much of a surprise to hear that a Democrat-aligned organization has been accused of fraud.

But when House Republicans actually managed to round up a few representatives from the leftist fundraising committee ActBlue, the hearing produced literally zero answers.

The group has faced accusations that it accepted illegal donations and then conspired to cover up those acts.

As the Judiciary Committee reported, all five ActBlue employees provided conspicuously consistent testimony … that is, none at all:

In total, we asked them 146 questions.

They refused to answer a single one, invoking their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination every time.

These weren’t hard questions. Just take a look:

The Committees sought testimony from ActBlue employees to ensure that American elections are free, fair, and decided by Americans alone.

Instead, they all refused to answer basic questions.

But that’s not all.

New internal ActBlue documents, disclosed for the first time, show that after these allegations of fraud and misconduct rocked the platform in early 2025, every member of ActBlue’s legal and compliance team quit, was fired, or went on extended leave.

It started in November 2024, when ActBlue fired General Counsel Darrin Hurwitz. He received a generous severance package and promised that he would “cooperate with ActBlue . . . in connection with any current or future investigation”—including ours.

Here are some of the questions posed to the silent witnesses:

The Committees deposed five ActBlue employees, including top staff responsible for fraud prevention, to learn more about the platform’s acceptance of illegal donations—and the subsequent cover-up.

In total, we asked them 146 questions.

They refused to answer a single one,… pic.twitter.com/aIpoJvvfuZ

— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 20, 2026

But even without the testimony of the ActBlue employees called to Capitol Hill, the GOP-led House panel had plenty of evidence to share, including these damning findings:

Add it all up, and the story is simple:

ActBlue accepted illegal foreign donations, misrepresented its fraud-prevention practices to Congress, and withheld documents responsive to the Committees’ subpoenas.

All three of those are federal crimes.

— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 20, 2026

ActBlue admitted that this change led to between 14 and 28 additional fraudulent contributions in the first month alone—potentially totaling thousands of dollars in fraudulent contributions to Democrat campaigns and causes.

— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 2, 2025

Internal performance reviews of ActBlue’s fraud-prevention staff tell the same story. In these reviews, ActBlue staff were told that they should have accepted donations with clear signs of fraudulence like the ones below. pic.twitter.com/XpmruMNBJv

— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 2, 2025

Here’s what the New York Post added to the coverage:

The Post previously exposed other internal documents from the committee’s probe, showing the donation standards were made “more lenient” twice in the 2024 election year, in addition to previously lax card verification value rules for accepting contributions from credit, prepaid debit, or gift cards.

Steil, Comer and Jordan have since accused ActBlue of having “withheld materials responsive to the Committees’ subpoenas” for some records that were cited in the Times’ report.

On Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued ActBlue, alleging “rampant donor fraud” based on the committees’ findings, New York Times report and determinations from investigators in his office who were able to make donations under fake identities.

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“Not a single employee offered testimony that could help ensure that American elections are free, fair, and decided by Americans alone,” the committee’s report underscored.

“The crux of this misconduct is simple: ActBlue appears to have accepted illegal foreign donations en masse and tried to cover it up, lying to and withholding information from Congress in the process,” it added.

“It is not only the Committees that allege this—it is what ActBlue’s own outside lawyers found during a legal review of the platform’s fraud-prevention practices and statements to Congress.”

The National Desk provided this overview of the developing story:

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