The Democrat Party’s biggest fundraising machine is in serious trouble.

Key figures tied to ActBlue are now refusing to answer questions from Congress under oath.

And Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) says the Fifth Amendment pleas are exactly what you’d expect from people who know they got caught.

Co-Founder and Board Member Both Go Silent

The Committee on House Administration, the House Judiciary Committee, and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform launched a joint investigation into ActBlue’s fraud-prevention practices and allegations involving illegal foreign donations. What they’ve turned up is raising serious questions about whether the Democrat Party’s primary online fundraising engine was knowingly allowing foreign cash to flow into American elections.

According to sources familiar with the matter, ActBlue co-founder Matt DeBergalis invoked the Fifth Amendment during a closed-door House deposition. That alone would be enough to raise eyebrows. But DeBergalis wasn’t the only one.

ActBlue board member Kimberly Peeler-Allen also invoked the Fifth Amendment during a separate deposition. And ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones invoked her Fifth Amendment privilege during a June 2026 hearing before the Committee on House Administration titled “Preventing Fraudulent Donations: Transparency, Verification, and Accountability.”

Three senior figures at the same organization, all refusing to answer questions from elected lawmakers. That’s not a coincidence. That’s a pattern.

Speaking on the Fox News Rundown podcast, US Representative Pat Fallon (R-TX) didn’t mince words about what he believes is happening. “Well, [it’s clear] ActBlue had become a money laundering operation for the Democratic Party. And that’s very unfortunate,” Fallon told Fox News’ Jessica Rosenthal.

He went further on the question of internal compliance. “Their compliance and fraud prevention was severely lacking, and they actually were training their employees to do almost no verifications,” he added.

Fallon also zeroed in on the platform’s past practice of not requiring card verification value, or CVV, codes for certain credit card donations, calling it a “huge red flag.” That’s the three-digit security code on the back of a credit card. Skipping that requirement makes it dramatically easier for anyone, anywhere in the world, to run a donation through the platform without meaningful verification. ActBlue has since updated its donation requirements to include a CVV mandate, but the committees’ oversight found, according to their own reporting, that those changes came only after the platform ensured they wouldn’t negatively impact Democrat donations.

Fallon Puts a Number on the Alleged Foreign Cash

The congressman didn’t shy away from estimating the scale of the alleged problem. Fallon told the Fox News Rundown that he believes ActBlue accepted millions of dollars in foreign contributions. “It’s into the millions. It’s hard to say right now. It is vast. And it’s definitely game-changing. You can see it reflected in their fundraising numbers now. They’re far down from where they were in previous election cycles,” Fallon said, adding that he would welcome an investigation by the FBI or other federal agencies.

That last part is significant. Fallon isn’t just calling for more congressional hearings. He’s saying the evidence warrants a federal criminal investigation. When a sitting congressman starts talking about the FBI getting involved, the story has moved well beyond a routine oversight dispute.

The question Fallon keeps coming back to is the obvious one. “If they were on the up and up, then why is everyone that used to work for ActBlue taking the Fifth Amendment?” he asked.

It’s a fair question. Invoking the Fifth Amendment is a constitutional right, and doing so is not itself evidence of wrongdoing. But when a co-founder, a board member, and a CEO of the same organization all refuse to answer congressional questions about the same alleged conduct, the silence starts to speak for itself.

Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI) has expressed his own frustration. “I’ve been frustrated, that individuals [in] ActBlue haven’t answered our questions on the record,” Steil told Fox News’ Mark Meredith. “We’ve had individuals come, in public testimony, and plead the Fifth. They have a right to do that. And I understand why they did that.”

Steil has also raised the broader question of what the platform owes the public. “We have an entity here with ActBlue, that has raised roughly $20 billion since its creation,” he told Fox News. “We want to make sure that they have the fraud prevention protocols in place to make sure that foreign funds are not coming into U.S. elections.”

ActBlue Calls It Political Retaliation. The Committees Call It Oversight.

ActBlue’s response has been to frame the entire investigation as a partisan hit job. ActBlue spokesperson De’Andra Roberts LaBoo pushed back against the GOP allegations in a statement to Fox News Digital, saying the investigation is part of a broader political attack. “President Trump and his allies are engaged in a coordinated campaign of political retaliation and retribution against organizations that they believe threaten them — from universities and law firms to civil rights groups and philanthropies. Now, they’re working to target Democratic fundraising ahead of the midterms,” Roberts LaBoo said.

The platform also issued a broader statement to the congressional committees. “For three years, ActBlue has been targeted by MAGA Republicans because of who we are and what we stand for, not because of any unlawful conduct. They want to undermine one of democracy’s most powerful tools because they are desperate to hold onto power,” the platform said.

That’s a talking point, not an answer. Claiming political motivation doesn’t explain why three senior officials of the same organization refused to answer questions about their own fraud-prevention practices. It doesn’t explain why the platform was operating for years without requiring CVV codes on donations. And it doesn’t explain why the committees found, according to their own report, that ActBlue executives and staff were aware that both foreign and domestic fraudulent actors were exploiting the platform but were not taking the threat seriously.

ActBlue has spent more than $17 million on legal consulting in roughly a 17-month period, according to FEC records cited by CNN. That’s a staggering number for a nonprofit fundraising platform. It suggests an organization that knows it has serious legal exposure and is spending heavily to manage it.

The probe began back in 2023, when Chairman Steil’s committee first opened the investigation after raising concerns that ActBlue could be accepting foreign or fraudulent donations by not requiring CVV codes. What started as a question about sloppy compliance has, three years later, produced three Fifth Amendment invocations from the platform’s top figures and a congressional referral push to federal law enforcement.

Voter integrity is not a fringe concern. Foreign money in American elections is illegal. The SAVE Act and other election-integrity measures are built on the commonsense principle that only American citizens should decide American elections. If ActBlue was functioning as a conduit for foreign cash flowing into Democrat campaigns, that’s not a procedural footnote — it’s a direct attack on the integrity of the ballot.

And the people who know the most about what happened at ActBlue are now refusing to say a word about it under oath.

That tells you something.

Sources: Fox News, “GOP lawmaker warns ActBlue ‘got caught’ as foreign cash probe triggers Fifth Amendment pleas”; Fox News, “ActBlue co-founder pleads Fifth Amendment in closed-door House GOP grilling”; Fox News, “ActBlue board member Kimberly Peeler-Allen pleads Fifth in House probe”; Fox News Rundown podcast; CNN, “Inside the drama at ActBlue”; One America News Network, “ActBlue co-founder invokes Fifth Amendment in House GOP foreign donation probe”