Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued ActBlue on Monday, alleging “rampant donor fraud” on the Democratic fundraising platform.
The lawsuit, filed in Tarrant County Court, is seeking more than $1 million in monetary relief and points to a bombshell New York Times report on ActBlue that led Republican committee chairmen to claim the platform provided misleading statements about its fraud vetting.
“Among other misrepresentations, despite knowing—and representing to regulators—that resuming its acceptance of gift cards would open the door to election influence ‘from high-risk/sanctioned countries’ and enable foreign nationals and other ineligible persons to make unlawful contributions to federal and state candidates, ActBlue went back to accepting them,” the 30-page filing stated.
“This was not an oversight,” wrote Paxton investigator Rock Robinson. “It was a continuation of ActBlue’s long-standing pattern and practice of tolerating rampant donor fraud on its platform so long as the fraud stayed below the radar of regulators.”
“Indeed, despite further knowing that domestic prepaid debit cards, like gift cards, present even a greater risk of unlawful contributions than cash, ActBlue continued to accept their use as well,” Robinson noted in the filing.
The suit cites more than $1.78 billion that ActBlue processed for Democratic campaigns and causes in 2025.
Reps for ActBlue did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
