EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Darrell Issa wants answers from the FBI on "troubling reports of a juxtaposition” with ActBlue's “terror financing"

Mar 18, 2025

THE LOWDOWN:

For years, Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) has demanded answers about the “fundraising platform ActBlue, its advocacy fundraising arm ActBlue Charities, and troubling reports of a juxtaposition with terror financing.”
Despite Issa’s efforts to get answers from then-FBI Director Christopher Wray, “the Bureau dodged my questions, many of which referred to potentially closed investigations,” Issa wrote in a letter, obtained exclusively by the Washington Reporter, to Wray’s successor, Kash Patel.
Issa, one of Congress’s top watchdogs, noted to Patel that in the 18 months since one of his letters to Wray about ActBlue that “ActBlue Charities has also been exposed as providing services to the Alliance for Global Justice, which is tied to U.S.-designated terrorist organization the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, as well as the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights.”
Issa’s latest investigation into ActBlue comes as Republicans in Congress, like Reps. Bryan Steil (R., Wis.), James Comer (R., Ky.), and Nick Langworthy (R., N.Y.) have started investigating the platform that almost every Democratic Party candidate uses to raise money.

For years, Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) has demanded answers about the “fundraising platform ActBlue, its advocacy fundraising arm ActBlue Charities, and troubling reports of a juxtaposition with terror financing.”

Now, he wants the new FBI Director to brief Congress about possible violations of anti-money laundering and terror financing laws.

“For years, we investigated ActBlue and what we’ve found is again and again, the Democrat fundraising platform has advanced the financial interests of terror,” Issa told the Reporter. “ActBlue claims otherwise, but its credibility is at an all-time low. It’s time for the FBI to do its work.”

Despite Issa’s efforts to get answers from then-FBI Director Christopher Wray, “the Bureau dodged my questions, many of which referred to potentially closed investigations,” Issa wrote in a letter, obtained exclusively by the Washington Reporter, to Wray’s successor, Kash Patel.

“I believe that if the Bureau ever conducted an investigation [into ActBlue], it was not allowed to come to fruition under the Biden-Harris Administration,” Issa wrote.

Issa’s letter follows years of reporting on ActBlue’s less-than-savory activities, including facilitating payments for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel since at least 2021, according to Issa.

Issa, one of Congress’s top watchdogs, noted to Patel that in the 18 months since one of his letters to Wray about ActBlue that “ActBlue Charities has also been exposed as providing services to the Alliance for Global Justice, which is tied to U.S.-designated terrorist organization the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, as well as the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights.”

This kind of “established and continued collaboration between ActBlue Charities and terror-tied entities amounts to the enabling of terrorism and may also constitute money-laundering crimes,” Issa cautioned.

Finally, Issa noted to Patel that “the flagrant inability of supposedly mainstream progressive groups to distance themselves from explicitly pro-Hamas interests, raises critical questions whether the activities and coalition building of ActBlue and ActBlue Charities are in reality part of a wider commitment to financing and facilitating attacks on Israel and Jewish people in America and around the globe.”

“This is made all the more disturbing by widespread lawbreaking by pro-Hamas individuals and entities since October 7,” Issa added.

Issa’s latest investigation into ActBlue comes as Republicans in Congress, like Reps. Bryan Steil (R., Wis.), James Comer (R., Ky.), and Nick Langworthy (R., N.Y.) have started investigating the platform that almost every Democratic Party candidate uses to raise money.