ActBlue is a Democratic fundraising juggernaut—and now conservatives are coming for it

As election day nears, high-ranking Republicans are targeting the fundraising platform with flimsy allegations of donor fraud.

Since becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for President—and as of this month, the actual Democratic nominee for president—Vice President Kamala Harris has blasted past fundraising records. Within 24 hours of President Joe Biden’s endorsement in July, her campaign raised $81 million. By the end of that month, that number shot up to $200 million, bringing the campaign’s July fundraising total to $310 million. But this unprecedented outpouring of grassroots donations has also sparked a simultaneous uptick in donor fraud accusations—many of them flimsy—against ActBlue, the donation platform that underpins Democrats’ online fundraising apparatus.