Re: Who profits when cities burn? ActBlue, that's who

On 6/30/2025 1:02 PM, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote:
> https://mynbc15.com/news/armstrong-army-strong/who-profits-when-cities-
> burn-actblue-thats-who
> 
> What would you call an organization that collects money from the public
> and distributes it to organizations that fund riots that result in
> billions of dollars in damages, that transfer the money to bail out
> criminals who ultimately kill and victimize innocent Americans, that
> support terrorist organizations, and that pay for people that engage in
> domestic terrorism within the United States?
> 
> Certainly, you would refer to them by a variety of names. Yet, you would
> at the very least call them criminals.
> 
> What I have described is a mainstream organization that is presently
> operating in the open in the United States and has not experienced any
> consequences for its actions in the decades that it has been in operation.
> It is not a fictitious organization that has been pulled from the page of
> a comic book. No, it's real. It's ActBlue, the primary Democratic Party
> fundraising juggernaut that collects billions of dollars in donations
> annually from the public, distributes the funds, and retains a 4%
> processing fee.
> 
> Contributing to a candidate, PAC, or other advocacy or not-for-profit
> organization is a relatively simple process. Just provide your payment
> information and address, and you can donate immediately. However, this
> presents a problem for which ActBlue has been subjected to considerable
> scrutiny.
> 
> Is ActBlue vetting and verifying the accuracy of the information?
> 
> Donations to political campaigns by foreign nationals (individuals who are
> either not U.S. citizens or who have not been lawfully permitted to reside
> in the United States) are explicitly prohibited by federal law. ActBlue's
> seemingly only defense against this is the requirement of an address and a
> text section below the payment information section that outlines the
> rules, including the requirement that the individual be a U.S. citizen or
> lawful permanent resident. Thus, the only requirement for donating is to
> provide the amount, payment information, and address.
> 
> This has led to the attorneys general of numerous states submitting a
> letter to the Federal Election Commission and ActBlue, requesting
> information regarding the platform's verification of donors’ information.
> ActBlue's systems may very well facilitate straw donations by foreign
> nationals, in addition to the fact that it may be effortless to add a
> fictitious address, which is not yet known.
> 
> Donations have been made to organizations that have engaged in activities
> that are legally questionable through ActBlue. For example, Black Lives
> Matter, which decimated Minneapolis in 2020, various Palestinian groups
> that have supported Hamas — a designated terrorist organization — and the
> current Tesla protests, where the organizations being funded through
> ActBlue have paid for protestors to not only engage in widespread protests
> against Tesla but also to instigate domestic terrorism by firebombing
> Tesla's in an attempt to influence the government.
> 
> In 2020, the George Floyd Riots, for instance, resulted in approximately
> $2 billion in damages and the destruction of Minneapolis. ActBlue was
> responsible for a large part of the funding for the organization which
> organized the riots. In the past few years, ActBlue donations have been
> utilized to finance pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas encampments on major
> college campuses. They have also been responsible for raising money for
> organizations that bailed out hundreds, or potentially thousands, of
> violent criminals from prison. In a recent incident, for example, a
> violent man in Texas was released by an organization that was funded by
> ActBlue. The man subsequently engaged in a shooting spree across the state
> that resulted in the deaths of six individuals and the injury of three.
> 
> Meanwhile, ActBlue reaped and is reaping substantial profits from the
> financing of terrorist-supporting organizations, the killing and looting
> of innocent Americans, and the destruction of cities and small businesses.
> 
> Who else could get away with that?
> 
> Top officials at ActBlue seem to think that not even they can get away
> with it for longer. At least seven top ActBlue officials resigned
> recently, following accusations that its fundraising platform is
> permitting unlawful financial contributions.
> 
> Democratic organizations are notorious for engaging in unlawful and
> harmful political activities. Greenpeace, an organization that maintains a
> voter action page on ActBlue, successfully advocated to stop the
> production of Golden Rice, a genetically modified rice rich in Vitamin A.
> This rice was created to be distributed to African and Asian nations,
> whose populations notoriously suffer from vitamin A deficiency. In Africa
> alone, thousands of children die per year as a result of their blindness
> caused by vitamin A deficiency.
> 
> A win for the environment.
> 
> To continue the pain, a CNN investigation conducted last year revealed
> that ActBlue and WinRed (the Republican equivalent) have been exploiting
> the information provided by elderly donors to send misleading unsolicited
> text messages and emails, purportedly from the candidates themselves. This
> has resulted in the deception of elderly persons who are lonely or have
> dementia into donating more and more to their causes.
> 
> In one case, an elderly man innocently contributed over $400,000 to then-
> candidate Donald Trump and other Republicans, citing the "nice" messages
> that the president's son sent to him (the messages were automated,
> targeted, sent to thousands simultaneously, and likely written by a
> campaign staffer).
> 
> Studies have demonstrated that the elderly are more susceptible to
> personalized requests for donations, particularly when they receive text
> messages that appear to originate from candidates and request additional
> contributions.
> 
> So, how many foreign nationals have contributed to democratic
> organizations that disrupt and cause internal division in the United
> States. How much foreign influence is being directly caused by ActBlue and
> other similar online platforms within the United States, right under our
> noses? We might never know. But what we do know is that it can happen –
> and likely is – and ActBlue is seemingly doing nothing to stop it.
> 
> And that is the most frightening prospect of all.

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