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ACT BLUE : THE MOST SIGNIFICANT POLITICAL STORY OF THE DECADE

1. Fullgoldcrown says:

   April 3, 2026 - 11:47 am at 11:47 am

   I told you to keep an eye on this story as the midterms got closer. It’s playing out just as I suspected. (Hey— my “rightness ratio” is stabilizing!) Yesterday, the New York Times ran a remarkable, long-form, 4,000-word exclusive exposé headlined, “ActBlue May Have Misled Congress on Vetting Foreign Donations, Its Lawyers Warned.” Oh, no!

   To remind Portland readers, ActBlue is essentially the Democrats’ main online money machine: a nonprofit payment platform that launders, I mean processes individual donations for Democratic candidates and left-leaning causes, similar to how WinRed serves Republicans. Since its founding in 2004, ActBlue has processed nearly $19 billion in donations, some of which have come from actual donors.

   Last year, James O’Keefe’s viral videos showed elderly Democrats supposedly making hundreds of daily donations they furiously denied making. The DOJ and three House committees opened investigations. Seven senior ActBlue officials resigned like rats fleeing a Celebrity cruise after a norovirus outbreak at the soft-serve station. Then, frustratingly, the story went dark.

   It hibernated for the rest of the year.

   ? Yesterday, all the lights suddenly switched back on, and the story roared into life. The soft-serve station has reopened for business! And it revived in the most unexpected place— the New York Times, which is practically the official spokesperson for the DNC.

   The Times claimed credit for breaking the story. “The legal warnings about potentially misleading Congress over vetting foreign donations,” the story said, “is being reported here for the first time.”

   The only legitimate way to characterize the Times’s story is as a hit piece. Oh, it was delicate. It showed reserve. It pulled several punches. But in 4,000 words, it methodically —albeit gingerly— deconstructed ActBlue. For instance, under the header “A Potential Criminal Investigation,” the story explained, “ActBlue is under the most intense scrutiny it has ever faced.”

   Intense and unprecedented scrutiny in the Times.

   This time, the heart of the wide-ranging story was not sources to anonymous gossipers. It was attributed to ActBlue’s own former lawyers— the Democrat-darling firm Covington & Burling. In other words, the Times quoted confidential legal memos between ActBlue and its own lawyers. ActBlue’s lawyers warned the board members that ActBlue’s conduct could be considered criminal.

   

   Don’t miss the reference to “knowing and willful.” It said, “because ActBlue’s staff was aware that its system was not as robust as necessary.” That one sentence forever foreclosed ActBlue’s ability to claim it didn’t know. One damning sentence from ActBlue’s own lawyer.

   It’s one thing when Republicans accuse ActBlue of committing election crimes. It’s a completely different thing when ActBlue’s own lawyers say it. In confidential memos. That got leaked. To the most widely circulated paper in America.

   The Times clearly had access to remarkable levels of inside information. “In a tense video conference days after the memos were delivered,” the story recounted, “Dana Remus, a Covington lawyer who served as White House counsel in the Biden administration, warned ActBlue’s CEO Ms. Wallace-Jones that she needed her own personal lawyer.”

   CEO Wallace-Jones responded professionally and thoughtfully by firing Covington and accusing them of malpractice. “Within weeks, ActBlue and Covington parted ways,” as the Times put it. I guess she didn’t like their advice.

   Covington “transitioned” from being outside counsel to being former counsel. But the damage was done; the legal genie was out of the criminal-liability bottle. That’s when all the board members started quitting. One of ActBlue’s remaining in-house lawyers, Aaron Ting, resigned. The last lawyer in the organization’s in-house legal department sent copies of the Covington memo to the entire board, and then his computer access was cut off. An HR staffer warned about whistleblower and anti-retaliation laws— and then announced her resignation 30 minutes later.

   It was pure chaos.

   They can’t afford any more chaos. With only seven months remaining before midterm elections, the stakes are massive, and the timing is excruciating. “Democrats,” the Times reported, “are nervous that any additional upheaval at ActBlue could destabilize the party’s critical fund-raising apparatus ahead of the midterm elections.” You don’t say.

   In contrast to yesterday’s anonymously-sourced Bondi story, consider how the Times obviously knows how to source its stories when it wants to. Here’s how the Times carefully documented its sources for this potentially explosive story:

   

   The reporter left no wiggle room for plausible denials. Legal memos, resignation letters, lawyer correspondence, internal Slack messages, and interviews with six former ActBlue employees, senior officials, and the chairwoman, plus a ‘timeline of events’ produced by ActBlue itself.

   Now consider this: legal memos and correspondence are strongly protected by attorney-client privilege, and would have been very hard (if not impossible) for the DOJ or Congress to get. Somehow, the Times got them. And under the law, since the Times has them and published them in a newspaper, they’re almost certainly no longer confidential or privileged, and may be subpoenaed.

   The Covington memo isn’t news. It’s over a year old. The Times didn’t claim it just got all this evidence. But the Times published these damning memos from ActBlue’s own lawyers right before the midterm campaigns begin in earnest.

   On the same day the Times ran this remarkable exclusive exposé, Todd Blanche began taking over as interim Attorney General. It’s not controversial to suggest that Blanche —Trump’s former defense lawyer from the Biden lawfare era— will be aggressively interested in ActBlue.

   In technical terms, the Times just handed Todd Blanche his first case file on Day One. You’re welcome. How could he not investigate this story?

   It was also terrible timing because the last thing Democrats need is a legal spanner flung into their fundraising apparatus. Despite corporate media’s relentless narrative about how “fired up” Democrats are, the DNC faces an eye-watering funding gap.

   ? The latest publicly disclosed figures show the RNC has roughly a $109 million cash reserve, versus about $17 million for the DNC, leaving Democrats with a nearly $100 million gap (not counting $18 million in DNC debt left over from the Cabbage/Cackler campaign; a throbbing Biden hangover.)

   When you add in Trump’s main super PAC, MAGA Inc., flush with over $300 million on hand, Republicans’ combined war chest is more than half a billion dollars ahead of Democrats.

   And that’s not even counting the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, or a separate Crypto Bros PAC loaded with another $200 million, or outside groups like Turnout for America, with $50 million. Consider this NOTUS headline, published yesterday:

   

   “I don’t think it has broken through, the level of money that Donald Trump and Republicans are sitting on as it compares to Democrats,” said Mike Smith, president of a Democrat super PAC aligned with minority leader Hakeem Jeffries. “It’s a real concern,” Smith said. “I do think there’s a real chance we may not be able to swing the election, at the end of the day.”

   Corporate media is losing its mind because nobody is leaking the Republicans’ midterm financial strategy. “MAGA Inc is committed to retaining and building the GOP majorities in the House and Senate,” Alex Pfeiffer, a spokesman for MAGA Inc., told NOTUS, “but we are not in the habit of sharing our battle plans with the opposition through their co-conspirators in the legacy media.”

   It’s the exact opposite of the situation the GOP faced during the Trump 1.0 midterms in 2018. Then, Democrats held the financial advantage, and Republicans lost 41 seats in the House. This time it’s the other way around. “Trump’s money advantage is one of the biggest differences from 2018,” said Jesse Ferguson, a veteran Democratic strategist. “And one of the biggest things that should be keeping Democrats up at night.”

   If you only got your news from corporate media, you wouldn’t know about any of this encouraging news. Trad-media is monofocused on a handful of special elections where Democrats won, and on Trump’s popularity polling during a war.

   But, as they always say, money talks, and glutinous reporters file fake stories.

   ? Amidst the angst over the Democrats’ terrifying fundraising gap, why would the Times investigate ActBlue and run a damning story exposing internal attorney memos about potentially criminal conduct and lying to Congress?

   There is certainly some reason. Equally certainly, we don’t (yet) know what that reason is.

   But there is one thing we can count on. All the hype about Democrats being super confident about the midterms is bluster and fake propaganda. They’re short of cash. And the Times just made the legal problems for the DNC’s biggest fundraising platform about 1,000 times worse. Right as Trump’s most loyal legal deputy, Todd Blanche, is walking into the AG’s office.

   Add it up: Republicans have over half a billion dollars. Democrats have a fundraising platform under federal investigation, an IOU from the Biden campaign, and a worst-nightmare Acting Attorney General. Place your bets.

   Under the law, Blanche can continue as unconfirmed Acting Attorney General for 210 days. If Trump proposes a nominee who’s rejected by the Senate or withdrawn, the clock resets, and Blanche gets another 210 days. All of that to say, he’s sitting pretty for the rest of the year, right through the elections. Next year, Trump will have a new Congress, including a new Senate.

   Democrats are not even counting chickens. They are sweating like an OnlyFans influencer attending Easter services. They don’t know —nobody knows— Trump’s plan. But they do know something wicked this way comes. Prepare to see something we’ve never seen before.

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