House Committees Threaten ActBlue With Contempt Charge to Gain 400 Documents on Potential Misconduct - đ The Liberty Daily

(The Daily Signal)âThree House committees have threatened to hold the Democrat fundraising platform ActBlue in contempt of Congress for withholding hundreds of subpoenaed documents.
The three committees have investigated ActBlue for more than a year, primarily focusing on whether the organization that solicits and accepts online campaign donations screens for potential foreign donors.
ADVERTISEMENTâFor more than a year, the committees have conducted oversight regarding ActBlueâs âfundamentally unserious approach to fraud prevention,â which may allow bad actorsâincluding foreign nationalsâto make large-scale fraudulent donations on Democratsâ top fundraising platform,â stated the letter signed by House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wis.
âActBlue continues to obstruct this inquiry by making expansive assertions of attorney-client privilege in an attempt to improperly shield documents that are responsive to the committeesâ subpoenas and essential to our oversight,â the letter to ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones continued. The letter says ActBlue has withheld 422 requested documents under the claim of attorney-client privilege.
Wallace-Jones invoked her 5th Amendment rights when she was called to appear before the House Administration Committee on June 10. The organization has denied any wrongdoing.
The House Administration Committee has called our President and CEO, Regina Wallace-Jones, to testify. Not because ActBlue has done anything wrong, but because we are the backbone of small-dollar Democratic fundraising in America.
â ActBlue (@actblue) June 10, 2026
An ActBlue spokesperson didnât respond to an inquiry from the Daily Signal by publication time.
Last October, ActBlue counsel Vincent Cohen responded that the organization produced âall non-privileged documents with responsive, relevant information.â
This was in response to congressional subpoenas last July for communications referring to alleged misconduct and whistleblower retaliation at ActBlue, and mass departures in the organizationâs legal department.
In April, The New York Times reported on documents that included ActBlueâs former interim general counsel Aaron Tingâs resignation letter, as well as an internal message in which former legal counsel Zain Ahmad alleged that he faced retaliation for blowing the whistle on internal misconduct at ActBlue.
âOn June 5, ActBlue belatedly produced a log of responsive materials that it deemed privileged, but refused to produce Mr. Tingâs resignation letter or Mr. Ahmadâs message,â the chairmenâs letter says. âInstead, ActBlue claimed attorney-client privilege over the entirety of these and 420 other documents.â
The chairs say it is âimplausible that all 422 documents listed in ActBlueâs privilege log are âentirely privileged.ââ The letter concludes by calling for the production of records no later than June 26 and adds, âThe Committees remain prepared to enforce our subpoenas through all available mechanisms.â