House Republicans Subpoena ActBlue Records Over Alleged Foreign Election Interference Activities
They want documents related to ActBlue's donor verification policies.They want documents related to ActBlue's donor verification policies.CNN tries to pass off liberal prof from central casting as 'undecided voter'
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris participated in a CNN town hall event on Wednesday evening in Pennsylvania, where she took questions from so-called undecided voters.
One of those individuals was Carol Nackenoff, a political science professor at Swarthmore College, whom Anderson Cooper introduced as “a registered Democrat, who says she’s leaning towards voting for you [Harris].”
Cooper noted that Nackenoff “has yet to make her final decision.”
'If you could accomplish only one mayor policy goal that required congressional action, what would it be and why?'
However, Federal Election Commission reports revealed that Nackenoff has donated more than 50 times since 2009 to Democratic political action committees, including ActBlue, the Hillary Victory Fund, Hillary for America, and Bernie 2020.
Of the more than $2,552 the professor has reportedly donated over that period of time, only $25 — one donation in 2023 — went to WinRed, a fundraising platform for the Republican Party.
Since June 2024, Nackenoff has made six donations totaling $215 to ActBlue, a PAC collecting funds for the Harris-Walz ticket and other Democratic candidates.
One of those donations was earmarked for Bob Casey for Senate, a Democrat seeking re-election in Pennsylvania. Casey spoke at Harris’ Wilkes-Barre campaign rally in mid-September.
Another ActBlue donation was allotted to Gen-Democracy, a group that pledges to “defeat Trump” and “win back Gen-Z voters,” according to its website.
The remainder of Nackenoff’s ActBlue donations from this year were earmarked for the Democratic National Committee or general contributions to ActBlue.
During the CNN town hall event, Nackenoff asked Harris, “If you could accomplish only one mayor policy goal that required congressional action, what would it be and why?”
Harris responded, “Well, there’s not just one. I have to be honest with you, Carol. There’s a lot of work that needs to happen.”
The vice president seemed to briefly stumble through her answer.
“But, let’s, let’s — I think that, maybe, part of this point, that I — how I think about it, is we’ve got to get past this era of politics and partisan politics, slowing down what we need to do in terms of progress in our country,” Harris continued. “And that means working across the aisle. I’ve done that before; we did it around — whether it be what we were able to accomplish with the bipartisan infrastructure deal or some of the work that we have done in terms of dealing with gun safety.”
Harris repeated her commitment to reaching across the political aisle to “deal with a number of issues.”
“Whether it be what we need to do in terms of housing and creating legislation that creates incentives for that. What we need to do to reinstate the freedom of the woman to make decisions about her own body and not have her government tell her what to do,” Harris said. “Whether it be what we need to do to actually invest in a substantial way in the industries of the future, in American-based manufacturing in American-based industries where American workers and union workers have those jobs in a way that is good-paying jobs that gives people the dignity they deserve.”
She added, “All those areas I plan on working across the aisle and with Congress, including the issue of immigration, which we’ve got to fix.”
Jordan Gehrke, a political consultant, posted a photo on X from the town hall of Nackenoff asking Harris her question.
Gehrke wrote, “CNN would have you believe that the Poli-Sci Professor on the left wearing those glasses is undecided.”
Donald Trump Jr. responded to the post, “That person is more decided than me. Lol.”
Another individual noted that none of CNN’s so-called undecided voters stated they were leaning toward former President Donald Trump.
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Lawmakers To Issue Subpoenas Over Alleged ActBlue Foreign Election Interference Scheme
Sen. Ron Johnson says the FBI director seems 'clueless' about allegations of campaign finance crimes tied to the Democrat fundraising platform.ActBlue donor arrested for allegedly threatening to torture and slaughter 6 Supreme Court justices
An ActBlue donor shot President Donald Trump on July 13. Another ActBlue donor allegedly attempted to assassinate him on Sunday.
It turns out the Alaska man who was arrested Wednesday for allegedly threatening to torture and slaughter six U.S. Supreme Court justices and some of their family members was also an ActBlue donor with over 80 contributions to the Democratic fundraising outfit to his name.
The Department of Justice announced Thursday that Panos Anastasiou, 76, has been charged with nine counts of making threats against a federal judge and 13 counts of making threats in interstate commerce.
The DOJ refrained from indicating which six justices on the high court — which has a 6-3 conservative majority — were targeted.
"We allege that the defendant made repeated, heinous threats to murder and torture Supreme Court Justices and their families to retaliate against them for decisions he disagreed with," Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. "Our justice system depends on the ability of judges to make their decisions based on the law, and not on fear."
According to the indictment filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska, Anastasiou sent over 465 messages to the Supreme Court through a public website between March 10, 2023, and July 16.
These messages allegedly "contained violent, racist, and homophobic rhetoric coupled with threats of assassination by torture, hanging, and firearms, and encouraged others to participate in the acts of violence."
Six justices on the court certainly angered a great many radicals with their June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.
The indictment noted that some of the threats were intended to intimidate the six unnamed justices and retaliate against them for actions they had taken in their official capacity as federal justices.
Anastasiou allegedly threatened to hang a specific justice from an oak tree, to lynch another, and to kill a third by "putting a bullet in his ... head." He is also accused of threatening to behead, strangle, and/or drown all six, as well as gun down their family members.
Although it's unclear what six justices may have done to draw the ire of the Democratic donor, six justices on the court certainly angered a great many radicals with their June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.
Numerous pro-abortion extremists engaged in hate crimes and terror attacks after the ruling, targeting pro-life pregnancy centers, churches, and individuals.
After a draft of the Dobbs opinion was leaked, Nicholas John Roske of California — who goes on trial next year — was apparently caught near Justice Brett Kavanaugh's house with a gun and a knife and charged with attempted murder.
Roske allegedly claimed he was going to give his life a purpose by killing the justice, reported the Washington Post.
During part of the period that Anastasiou was allegedly making the threats, Democrats in Washington, D.C., were actively attacking those conservative Supreme Court justices who appeared unwilling to give them their desired results in cases related to the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 protests as well as regarding the question of former President Donald Trump's immunity in U.S. v. Donald Trump.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said in June, "[Justice Samuel] Alito is an extremist who is out of touch with mainstream America. His rising power on the Supreme Court is a threat to our democracy," reported The Hill.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) tweeted, "Alito answered like a movement activist. Movement activists have their role but it's not on the Supreme Court."
Blaze News previously reported that on the basis of a misleading New York Times story, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) accused Justice Samuel Alito in May of "sympathizing with right-wing violent insurrectionists."
House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) was among the Democrats happy to demonize Alito.
Clark — whose adult son was arrested and charged in January 2023 with assault and battery on a Boston police officer — said in May 23 statement, "Justice Alito has displayed flags at his homes that support insurrection against our government, promote religious nationalism, and attack free and fair elections."
"This is not just another example of extremism that has overtaken conservatism. This is a threat to the rule of law and a serious breach of ethics, integrity, and Justice Alito's oath of office," continued Clark.
This would not be the first time in recent memory that heated Democratic rhetoric resonated with an extremist.
Blaze News previously highlighted that the suspected would-be Trump assassin arrested Sunday directly quoted Democratic rhetoric. Prior to his arrest, Ryan Routh posted about how "DEMOCRACY is on the ballot" this election. This is one of Kamala Harris' go-to lines.
If convicted, then Anastasiou faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison for each of the nine counts of threatening the justices and a maximum penalty of five years in prison for each of the latter 13 counts.
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Records Fail To Verify That Second Alleged Would-Be Assassin Ever Voted For Trump
Although Routh claimed that he voted for Trump in 2016, there is no record of him voting that year in his then-home state.Democrats’ Fundraising Machine Draws Accusations Of ‘Potentially Illegal’ Schemes
Attorneys general and House committees are investigating Act Blue's activities, including allegations of 'smurfing.'How dark-money elites ANOINTED Kamala Harris to CONTROL the election
If there’s anything Americans have figured out the past four years, it’s that Joe Biden definitely hasn’t been running the country.
And Glenn Beck has a pretty good idea of who actually is.
“We are all seeing policies being driven by an elite class within global institutions. The global institutions hold the power. They are doing everything right now to solidify it. We’re at the end stage right now,” Glenn says, noting that Kamala’s VP pick is one example of evidence that “the charade is over.”
“Why did she pick another socialist to be her running mate, when you should have picked somebody either from Arizona or Pennsylvania where that would have helped you win?” Glenn says, adding, “The globalist elite cabals are showing everything.”
And they truly are. Not only was there a failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, but there was a coup led on a sitting U.S. president right before our eyes.
“Biden, despite millions of votes in the primary, just disregarded. Kicked out. Does it kind of feel like this might have been the design all along?” Glenn comments, noting that CNN drastically changed the debate rules to give Biden time to speak without interruption.
“Was it so the entire country could see him bury himself?” Glenn asks. “One thing's for sure. After the debate, Joe Biden as the candidate, Joe Biden receiving legitimately 80 plus million votes, it wasn’t believable any longer. The charade was over.”
But this isn’t just all about “democracy.” It’s about “an endless supply of dark money,” and the cabal lording over us controls a lot of it.
Glenn points out that ActBlue, the left’s main small-donor fundraiser platform, reported $27.5 million in donations within the first five hours for Kamala Harris. Just hours later, that number nearly doubled to $46.7 million. And after 24 hours, it was reported they had raised over $90 million for the vice president.
“Kamala Harris was so bad during the 2020 primary, maybe a dozen people voted for her. She was last. But now she’s igniting passion and shattering fundraising records,” Glenn says, unbelieving.
The former Federal Election Commission chair has also said that “it’s quite clear” that Kamala Harris can just be gifted all of Joe Biden’s campaign funds — however, the current FEC Chair Sean Cooksey told Glenn in an interview on “The Glenn Beck Program” that this is “unprecedented,” and he hopes legal challenges follow soon, because the window is closing fast.
“And why are they fighting so hard against Donald Trump?” Glenn asks. “Because he’s not playing this game. Over here, the clerics are replaced with radical billionaires.”
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GOP requests new donor verification rules amid allegedly fraudulent donations to Democrats' ActBlue
Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) sent a letter to the Federal Election Commission on Monday requesting it adopt new rules to curb potential donation fraud, the New York Post reported.
The request comes amid allegations that ActBlue Charities Inc., a Democratic fundraising platform, has accepted at least hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent donations, prompting some to question whether the platform is involved in a money-laundering scheme, Blaze News previously reported.
'Illegal and malicious conduct have no place in our elections.'
Independent journalists uncovered a long list of questionable and suspicious donations, including one individual who donated more than 20,000 times since 2019, according to FEC records. James O'Keefe interviewed some individuals listed as having donated "thousands of times per year."
O'Keefe shared the findings in a post on X, stating, "Cindy Nowe of Annapolis, Maryland, allegedly contributed over 1,000 times to ActBlue in 2022, totaling $18,849.77. That means Cindy would have had to donate three times a day, every day, for the whole year. When asked if she donated $18,850 to ActBlue, Nowe tells [O'Keefe Media Group], 'No, I don't think so.'"
ActBlue is gathering campaign donations on behalf of Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris. According to recent reports, she raised more than $200 million in one week.
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares was the first AG to announce that his office plans to look into the allegations against ActBlue. Attorneys general in Missouri and Wyoming have also opened inquiries in light of the accusations.
Steil wrote to the FEC, "Following widespread allegations of fraudulent donations being reported to the FEC by ActBlue, one of the largest fundraising platforms in the country, this emergency rule-making is necessary to reassure the American people that ActBlue is taking the necessary steps to protect its donors."
He called for the FEC to enact a new rule that would require fundraising platforms to verify the Card Verification Value of credit cards and address information. Additionally, Steil is pushing for the FEC to put an end to gift-card donations, which he said could be used to facilitate foreign straw donations.
"Illegal and malicious conduct have no place in our elections. Ensuring all parties are complying with federal election law as we approach a presidential election is of utmost importance," Steil continued. "Allowing political committees to accept donations from gift cards or other prepaid credit cards promote the appearance and the very real possibility that straw donors are making campaign donations with funds provided by another person or an unlawful donor including a foreign national."
He noted that the issues pose "a serious loophole to the transparency and integrity of the campaign donation process."
ActBlue recently told Newsweek, "This investigation is nothing more than a partisan political attack and scare tactic to undermine the power of Democratic and progressive small-dollar donors. We welcome the opportunity to respond to these frivolous claims."
The fundraising platform did not respond to a request for comment from the Post.
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