ActBlue's own CEO sat before Congress in June and invoked the Fifth Amendment 22 times.
The platform – the financial backbone of every major Democrat campaign in America – just got caught with a new donor who says her name was used for more than 16,000 contributions she didn't make.
And AOC, Bernie Sanders, and Ilhan Omar are still cashing the checks from ActBlue.
An 88-Year-Old Woman Living in a Trailer Has 16,000 Donations in Her Name
Elizabeth Waffle is 88 years old.
She lives in a trailer down a dirt road in Milan, Michigan, after her house burned down two years ago.
She has no computer.
She has spotty internet service.
Federal Election Commission records say she has made more than 16,000 political contributions totaling nearly $150,000 through ActBlue since 2020.
That's eight donations a day, every day, for five years straight – averaging $9.18 a pop.
"One hundred and fifty thousand? Hell no, I don't have that kind of money," Waffle told reporter Charlie LeDuff of the Michigan Enjoyer in a now-viral video.
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She acknowledged making small donations through ActBlue – she disputed the $150,000.
"I don't see $150,000," she said. "That's very abnormal and I think it's wrong. I think there's something in there that's off."
ActBlue responded by saying it had "zero tolerance for fraud."
Then it kept processing donations for AOC, Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar, and the Democratic National Committee.
The CEO Took the Fifth 22 Times and They Still Won't Stop
This is not a new story for ActBlue.
Congress has been investigating this platform since 2023.
An April 2025 interim staff report revealed something remarkable: ActBlue actually made its fraud-prevention rules more lenient twice during the 2024 election cycle, even as investigators were finding extensive evidence of fraud.
Internal documents showed ActBlue's fraud-prevention training guide instructed employees to "look for reasons to accept contributions" – not to flag suspicious ones.
The platform's own records, obtained through congressional subpoena, showed 237 donations made from foreign IP addresses using domestic prepaid cards in a single 30-day window during the fall 2024 campaign.
Investigators found donations flowing from Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Colombia, and other countries.
Every single member of ActBlue's legal and compliance team resigned, was fired, or went on extended leave between November 2024 and March 2025.
The Director of Compliance quit explicitly because ActBlue refused to address the legal risks.
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Then ActBlue's CEO Regina Wallace-Jones showed up to Congress on June 10, 2026, and invoked the Fifth Amendment 22 times.
She wouldn't even confirm her own name when asked by Rep. Barry Loudermilk of Georgia.
House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil put it plainly: "ActBlue employees have repeatedly refused to answer questions under oath about fraud and illegal foreign donations on their platform."
Progressive Campaigns Don't Care
AOC is still on ActBlue.
Bernie Sanders is still on ActBlue – and his website directs supporters there to donate to Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed's campaign.
El-Sayed has made "no corporate PAC money" a centerpiece of his campaign.
Elizabeth Waffle's name shows up in FEC records for 47 contributions totaling $518 to his campaign between October 2025 and July 2026.
El-Sayed's campaign did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Ilhan Omar is still on ActBlue.
The Democratic National Committee is still on ActBlue.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is still on ActBlue.
They Stole an Old Lady's Name and Called It Grassroots
Investigators and researchers use the word "smurfing" for what they believe is happening.
Unknown actors use the real names, real addresses, and real identities of ordinary Americans – often elderly, often on fixed incomes – to fabricate hundreds or thousands of small-dollar donations.
Those donations look like grassroots energy.
They look like the $50-average-donation platform ActBlue claims to be.
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But the money isn't coming from Elizabeth Waffle.
Parker Thayer, an investigative researcher at the Capital Research Center, said what investigators have long suspected is now confirmed: certain unknown people are using ActBlue to push large amounts of money into political campaigns under the stolen names of real Americans.
"What the Michigan Enjoyer investigated," he said, "is exactly what people have thought for a long time was going on."
Congress still hasn't forced accountability.
AOC and Bernie Sanders are still cashing the checks.
And Elizabeth Waffle is still living in a trailer wondering how her name ended up on $150,000 worth of donations she says she never made.
Sources:
- Michael Dorgan, "Far-left politicians still using ActBlue as 88-year-old disputes donating nearly $150,000 to fundraising giant," Fox News Digital, August 17, 2026.
- "Fraud on ActBlue, Part II: Illicit Foreign Donations and a Cover-up," House Judiciary Committee, April 20, 2026.
- "Fraud on ActBlue: New Report Details Potential Illegal Activity on the Democrat Platform," House Judiciary Committee Republicans, April 2, 2025.
- Charlie LeDuff, "Is El-Sayed's Campaign Funded by Elderly Fake Donors?" Michigan Enjoyer, July 2026.
- "Investigation into Unlawful 'Straw Donor' and Foreign Contributions in American Elections," White House, April 24, 2025.
- Bryan Steil, "ActBlue Investigation Timeline," House Administration Committee, 2025–2026.
