The main Democrat fundraising platform remains a financial powerhouse despite being targeted for investigation by President Donald Trump.
ActBlue raised nearly $400 million in each of the year’s first two quarters, CNN reported.
Donations totaling more than $393 million for the April-to-June period marked roughly a 36% increase from ActBlue’s second-quarter receipts of $289 million in 2021, at the start of former President Joe Biden’s term, the outlet added.
The platform said it benefited from 400,000 more unique donors than four years ago.
In April, Trump issued a memorandum ordering the Justice and Treasury departments to probe ActBlue for allegedly receiving foreign and other illicit payments.
Democrats accused the president of weaponizing the government against his political opponents.
“Even amid the coordinated and rigged effort from the GOP to attack ActBlue and Democratic infrastructure, small-dollar donors aren’t backing down and it’s adding up,” ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones told CNN in a statement.
She added the second-quarter results make clear that “grassroots supporters are leaning in, giving in record numbers, and our platform is powering that momentum.”
“ActBlue continues to be the trusted home for Democratic donors who are ready to meet this moment — and win,” Wallace-Jones added.
The DOJ has not announced any actions against ActBlue, though Trump’s directive gave Attorney General Pam Bondi until late October to provide results of the investigation.
Last month, ActBlue sent a letter to three House GOP chairs to say it was reevaluating whether to cooperate with the congressional investigation into fraud on its platform in light of Trump’s order to investigate potential foreign contributions.
Just the News reported in December that ActBlue informed Congress it had not automatically blocked donations made with foreign-purchased gift cards until September 2024, a disclosure that could play a key role in an investigation into potential illicit contributions to Democrat candidates from countries such as China, Russia, Iran, and Venezuela.
ActBlue has collected more than $17 billion since its founding in 2004.
In a battle between small-donor platforms, ActBlue ($3.8 billion) outraised Republican competitor WinRed ($1.7 billion) by more than double in the 2024 cycle.
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