ActBlue finally under investigation

ActBlue, the small-donation powerhouse that James O’Keefe has long suspected of money laundering, now has come under investigation. The Attorneys General of two States, and a third State’s Secretary of State, are now investigating allegations of “donor harvesting.” O’Keefe first broke this story in March of last year, and The Gateway Pundit opened its own investigation in May. Nothing came of either investigation – until now.

The ActBlue investigations

This afternoon, Jim Hoft, head of The Gateway Pundit (TGP), broke the story. Attorneys General Jason Miyares of Virginia and Andrew Bailey of Missouri, and Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray, now are each investigating ActBlue. At issue are thousands of small donations, that together add up to big bucks, from each of several not-very-well-off persons. Typically they are unemployed or retired, and live in very modest houses. Yet the Federal Elections Commission llsts them as giving tens, or hundreds, of thousands of dollars.

But these donors don’t even realize that they are giving away all this money. Cindy Nowe, of Annapolis, Maryland, is typical. FEC records show that she gave to ActBlue more than a thousand times, for contributions totaling $18,849.77 in 2022. Yet she knew nothing about it, until James O’Keefe asked her about it!

The O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) first broke this story in March 28, 2023, as CNAV reported.

In this premiere video, James O’Keefe visited four homes of senior citizens in various States. These homes are modest – perhaps too modest for the owner to be giving away such vast sums. One senior citizen encouraged James O’Keefe to “talk to Donald Trump,” and even to launch a violent attack on him. No other senior citizen expressed his political leanings with anything approaching such violence. But – without exception – all disavowed any knowledge of making contributions more than, say, five dollars once or twice.

Investigations by OMG and TGP

ActBlue first came on CNAV’s radar in July 5, 2022. On that day, they boasted of massive donations following the Supreme Court’s “Roe overturn” decision. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. At the time, even some activists found the flow of money a little strange. Why, as The Washington Post reported,was it going to national organizations, and not to State and local organizations? A New York State Senator told Axios thatthis money should be going to down-ticket campaigns, not to the Democratic National Committee or some such place.

No one thought much about it at the time, though perhaps someone should have. In December 2022, TGP first noticed the pattern of thousands of donations, adding up to big bucks, from modest-living people. The recipient then was Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.). But the money came, not from Georgia alone, but from all over the country. TGP’s source, engineer Chris Gleason, first saw the pattern in April 2022. He noticed it first in Washington State.

No one is suggesting, by the way, that these small donors, who would have had to stuff three envelopes a day in some cases, are getting their bank accounts drained. Instead, someone is using their names to stay under the FEC’s donation limits. This is happening without the knowledge or consent of the persons involved. Chris Gleason had these persons tell him that – as would James O’Keefe in March of 2023.

The next stage

TGP and OMG seem to have run parallel investigations, and in May 2023, TGP published a follow-up story. As Chris Gleason and James O’Keefe had done, influencers Tim Cramer and Adam Sharp went knocking on doors of identified small donors. They all disavowed any knowledge of these donations.

TGP released another video to X nine days later. In it, Adam Sharp asks another small donor about donations she knows nothing about. This happened in St. Louis, Missouri.

(Note: the short link in this post does not point to their article about the investigation of ActBlue. It points instead to a different article about coronavirus vaccinations putting selection pressure on coronavirus without meaningfully containing it.)

Parker Thayer, investigator for Capital Research, did his own investigating. Here is a thread showing similar results:

Here are the announcements from the three officials, of their own investigations, in chronological order:

Reactions to these announcements varied, from:

• Appreciation that someone was investigating the “leftist money machine” at last, to
• Asking why other Attorneys General were not running similar investigations, to
• A suggestion that one of them (Bailey of Missouri) get rid of electronic voting machines in his State, to:
• Open skepticism.

The skepticism greeted Attorney General Miyares of Virginia. Users suggested he could get much further by serving a subpoena. Then again, perhaps they didn’t read the letter, which lists every allegation Gleason, O’Keefe, Cramer, Sharp, and Thayer have made.

Will anyone bring ActBlue to justice?

Four points are worth making here. First, various Republican Attorneys General could have found out about this about twenty months ago. Second, James O’Keefe and TGP could and should have coordinated their investigations long ago. Third, this pattern of crime is federal in scope, though of course the Democrats own the U.S. Justice Department.

But fourth, at least two of the three investigators might have hidden motives. Andrew Bailey inherited his position from Eric Schmitt, who originally filed the Missouri v. Biden case. When Schmitt became a Senator, Bailey took over. Bailey has a challenger, one Will Scharf. Scharf has repeatedly accused Bailey of trying to impress Missouri voters by acting more dedicated than he actually might be.

And Jason Miyares? Certain activists, members of the John Birch Society of South Central Virginia, have been trying to persuade General Miyares to investigate electronic voting machines in Virginia since at least the Election of 2020. In point of fact, those machines rely on proprietary software to produce their counts. That’s a direct violation of the Constitution and Code of Virginia, which specify that votes are to be counted in the open, never in secret. A count depending on a proprietary routine is a secret count.

How is this relevant? It suggests that General Miyares, like Bailey, might be less dedicated to the truth than he would have people believe.

Further analysis

Nevertheless, three officials have at least taken public notice of ActBlue and its activities. That’s a promising start. An Attorney General that President Trump can appoint next year, will have to answer the sixty-four silver-talent question. Which is: where is that money coming from? It cannot be coming from those small donors; they can’t afford it and didn’t even know about it anyway. Obviously it’s coming from a big donor, or donors, who want to hide their involvement and the money’s origin. It could be anyone from the Chinese Communist Party to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the Tides and/or Open Society Foundations (George Soros) to the World Economic Forum. It could even be Mark Zuckerberg, even as he pretends to stand in awe of Trump these days.

Whoever it is, one must assume they have power to match their tremendous purse. Furthermore, that much money could buy ads that are merely for window dressing. The real action will take the form of mail-in ballot manipulation – and hacks of the top-level reporting of election returns. That is where those Attorneys General and Secretaries of State need to look, in addition to ActBlue. Indeed, ActBlue could be the shiny object, to distract us from looking at the real dirty work.