Well, we don't know yet. But things look pretty bad for them according to The New York Times. 

The rats are leaving the sinking ship, all the lawyers are gone, as are most of the top leadership in a flurry of sudden resignations or suspensions, and the ActBlue union (Yes!, they have a union!) is writing alarmed letters to the Board of Directors. 

There is a lot happening inside ActBlue. @reidepstein and I report on the “alarming pattern” of senior-level departures and an internal message from a lawyer — posted and deleted — saying they have “whistleblower protections for a reason.”https://t.co/awokfdyAbU

— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) March 5, 2025

We can't be certain what is happening behind the scenes, for two decades there have been credible accusations of a pattern of wrongdoing and skirting the law, and the Republicans have finally opened an investigation into the group and as a consequence--or as a mighty coincidence--the top dogs at ActBlue are bailing. 

ActBlue, the online fund-raising organization that powers Democratic candidates, has plunged into turmoil, with at least seven senior officials resigning late last month and a remaining lawyer suggesting he faced internal retaliation.

The departures from ActBlue, which helps raise money for Democrats running for office at all levels of government, come as the group is under investigation by congressional Republicans. They have advanced legislation that some Democrats warn could be used to debilitate what is the party’s leading fund-raising operation.

The exodus has set off deep concerns about ActBlue’s future. Last week, two unions representing the group’s workers sent a blistering letter to ActBlue’s board of directors that listed the seven officials who had left. The letter described an “alarming pattern” of departures that was “eroding our confidence in the stability of the organization.”

Now you may think that shakeups at political organizations after election losses are nothing new, and you would be right. Except for the fact that ActBlue was the ONLY truly successful arm of the Democratic Party over the past few years, raising unprecedented amounts of money. Kamala Harris didn't lose for lack of money--she had more than any candidate could reasonably spend, setting records. 

ActBlue is the goose that lays the golden eggs, and it is collapsing, likely because the way those gold eggs were laid is likely very, very illegal and the geese are coming home to roost. 

According to the letter from the ActBlue unions, which has not been previously reported and was confirmed as authentic by three people briefed on its contents, the senior staff departures began on Feb. 21. That day, ActBlue’s customer service and partnerships directors, who had both worked at the group for more than a decade, left, according to the unions’ letter.

“Now, my primary mission is rest,” Alyssa Twomey, ActBlue’s departing vice president for customer service, wrote on social media. “After 14+ years of living and breathing all things ActBlue, it’s time for a reset. I’m taking an intentional pause before setting course for my next adventure.”

The next week, several other senior officials left, including the associate general counsel — who was the highest-ranking legal officer at ActBlue — the assistant research director, a human resources official, the chief revenue officer and an engineer who had spent 16 years building and maintaining the electronic pipes through which the group’s donations flow.

As these people left, Zain Ahmad, who was the last remaining lawyer in the ActBlue general counsel’s office, wrote in an internal Slack message on Feb. 26 that his access to email and other internal platforms had been cut off and that other messages he had posted in Slack had been deleted, according to a screenshot obtained by The New York Times. Mr. Ahmad is now on leave from ActBlue, according to a person briefed on the group’s staffing.

“Please be advised that we have Anti-Retaliation and Whistleblower Policies for a reason,” Mr. Ahmad wrote.

"Whistleblower" is not something Boards of Directors and fellow workers want to hear. 

It is widely--universally, actually--understood among people who have paid attention to ActBlue that it facilitates illegal campaign contributions by helping fraudsters funnel money through a technique called "smurfing."

USAID: Grant Laundering

ActBlue: Donation Laundering

Popup NGOs: Federal Program Laundering https://t.co/PyD2DNqdh1

— Jeff Carlson (@themarketswork) March 7, 2025

Smurfming is a scheme in which anonymous sources of big--huge--money funnels donations through straw donors using untraceable sources of funds--generally gift cards that have no identity attached to them. The donations are assigned to small dollar donors who have given a few tens of dollars in the past.

Suddenly these "donors" on fixed incomes--usually lower-middle class elderly people--are "giving" tens of thousands of dollars, often in hundreds of donations a week--to candidates nationwide. When these "donors" are tracked down they had no idea that their identity had been stolen to funnel money through ActBlue. 

The rats can flee the sinking ship, but the investigations won’t end. If ActBlue goes down, the Democrat Party goes with it, they won’t survive without the $ they take in. https://t.co/wZEXd4NupO

— Savannah (@BasedSavannah) March 7, 2025

This scheme has been going on for years, but was never prosecuted. The federal officials in charge of enforcing the law chose to look the other way. 

Democrats have for years credited ActBlue with giving them an edge over Republicans by creating a universal and trusted platform for donating. ActBlue, which is based in Somerville, Mass., says it has raised more than $16 billion for Democratic candidates and causes since its founding in 2004.

In recent weeks, congressional Republicans have demanded answers from ActBlue about its security and fraud-prevention measures, as well as how the group prevents certain foreign donors from illegally contributing to candidates. The letter from the ActBlue unions warned that the group was “under increasing scrutiny” and “the target of bad-faith political attacks at the hands of ill-intentioned operators.”

On Feb. 6, ActBlue responded to Republican congressional inquiries with a three-page letter, sent from the law firm Covington & Burling, to “provide an update regarding ActBlue’s security, fraud prevention measures and related procedures.”

The Trump administration is not looking the other way, and the rats are fleeing before the ship goes under. 

This is rats leaving a dirty and sinking ship that should be being investigated for money laundering and fraud‼️ Millions of smurfs ⁦@JamesOKeefeIII⁩
Lawyers Flee Dem Fundraising Giant 'ActBlue' | Frontpage Mag https://t.co/ddm4InYZ9O

— Sidney Powell 🇺🇸 Attorney, Author, Gladiator (@SidneyPowell1) March 6, 2025

No doubt the Democrats will scream loudly about how this is a purely political investigation, and no doubt there is some truth to the accusation. 

Soliciting illegal donations from anonymous and likely foreign donors is a very political act, and the non-investigation and non-prosecution of those acts was also political. I would wager a million dollars that almost every person who chose not to investigate was very familiar with the illegal nature of the scheme and the likelihood that massive fraud was taking place at ActBlue, but that they chose to look the other way because...Democrats. 

Done some reporting on ActBlue and here’s almost no doubt in my mind they’ve been willfully enabling illegal donations for almost their entire existence and have gotten away with it. https://t.co/2RzFp3oVke

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) March 7, 2025

So yes, Republicans have to hold the Democrats accountable, just as Democrats are supposed to hold the Republicans accountable. That is the system of checks and balances, and if you haven't noticed the Democrats have been...excessively enthusiastic about going after Republicans even when the so-called "illegal" activities are purely notional. 

The likelihood that ActBlue has been systematically and knowingly breaking campaign finance laws is asymptotically close to 100%. There is massive evidence to show it, and all that is left is to have a prosecutor put together a case and put it in front of a jury to say it is proven. 

Who didn't see this coming? #ActBlue has been laundering billions in illegal foreign funds to the DNC for years. Now that USAID and Ukraine is cut off, there is no more money!#ActBlue should be audited and investigated and these executives prosecuted!

Get on this Pam Bondi… https://t.co/dwXu1ZnFz6

— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) March 7, 2025

And everybody knows it, which is why the top conspirators are fleeing. 

As with USAID, which itself was a massive money laundering scheme (and I suspect an indirect source of money for ActBlue through cutouts), the collapse of these Democrat funding organizations will cripple the party. 

Good. 

We need opposition parties to fight each other because corruption is inherent in politics and monopolies in anything, especially political power, are toxic. 

But the Democratic Party is fundamentally and irredeemably corrupt. It has to be destroyed and either rebuilt or replaced. Let's hope that we are speeding down the road where that happens quickly.