Paxton Goes After Dem Fundraising Platform ActBlue

The Hill reports:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday called on federal regulators to make it more difficult for donors to use ActBlue, a popular progressive fundraising platform that has collected record donations for the Harris campaign. In a letter to the Federal Election Commission, Paxton accused the platform of failing to keep off “straw donors,” people who use another person’s money to make a donation in their own name.

The Paxton investigation has followed a similar trajectory to his parallel dive into widely discredited reports of voting by undocumented immigrants, which originated with unverified social media posts by right-wing media personalities. The first accusations against ActBlue back to a March post by the right-wing Virginia Project, which describes itself as “a strategic political operations plan to eliminate the Democrat Party.”

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BREAKING: Our investigation into ActBlue has uncovered facts indicating that bad actors can illegally interfere in American elections by disguising political donations.

It is imperative that the FEC close off the avenues we have identified by which foreign contributions or… pic.twitter.com/8E5vfaYxDL

— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) October 21, 2024

John Oliver debunks another story from Maria Bartiromo about illegals registering to vote at a DMV in Weatherford., Texas becuse, wait for it, they don’t even have a DMV.

My fav is him calling her ‘Your Drunkest Aunt’ pic.twitter.com/ljedvUQT13

— Blue Georgia (@BlueATLGeorgia) October 15, 2024