2026-05-03 09:47 EDT / 福克斯新闻网
ActBlue：帕克斯顿的诉状充斥“虚假、煽动性指控”
作者：埃里克·麦克 福克斯新闻网
发布时间：2026年5月3日 上午9:47 EDT
特朗普指示司法部调查民主党顶级筹款平台
福克斯新闻记者马克·梅雷迪思详解唐纳德·特朗普总统指示司法部长调查ActBlue，怀疑其存在外国捐款行为。前众议院议长凯文·麦卡锡就此发表评论。
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民主党筹款平台ActBlue已起诉得克萨斯州总检察长肯·帕克斯顿，指控这位共和党人利用其公职“实施报复”，以惩罚该组织的政治活动，并请求联邦法官叫停其针对该组织的调查与诉讼。
“ActBlue正试图扳倒我，”正在得州竞选联邦参议员的帕克斯顿在X平台上写道，“我起诉这家筹款平台，因其谎称捐款流程，实则允许欺诈性和外国捐款，欺骗美国民众。”
“我将追究违法者的责任。”
ActBlue于周五在波士顿联邦法院提起诉讼，旨在回击帕克斯顿上月在得州州法院提起的诉讼。帕克斯顿在州法院诉状中指控ActBlue就其筹款做法误导国会和公众。ActBlue表示，帕克斯顿的行为是针对美国领先的小额捐款民主党筹款平台发起的非法报复行动。
得州总检察长帕克斯顿起诉民主党筹款平台ActBlue，指控其存在“欺诈性和外国捐款”
“肯·帕克斯顿两年多来一直利用公职权力调查、骚扰并起诉ActBlue，”ActBlue首席法律顾问劳伦斯·奥利弗在一份声明中表示。
“帕克斯顿正在为自己的参议员竞选拼死一搏，此时他却利用总检察长办公室攻击ActBlue，所有人都应看清这一点。他正在浪费纳税人的钱，以满足自己的政治野心。
“这根本不是执法。这是对受宪法保护的言论和结社自由的报复，这正是第一修正案所禁止的行为。”
民主党筹款巨头ActBlue遭指控就外国捐款问题误导国会
ActBlue还指控帕克斯顿存在选择性起诉，指出帕克斯顿从未调查过ActBlue的共和党 counterpart WinRed，并在诉讼中称“帕克斯顿有针对性打击民主党关联实体的历史”。
“在担任得州总检察长期间，帕克斯顿明确表示，会重点打击那些他认为与民主党一致的、助力投票和政治言论的实体，”诉讼文件写道，“他一直在试图压制自己不同意的言论，并通过滥用公职权力削弱政治对手。”
ActBlue援引《纽约时报》的报道称，塔拉里科“2026年第一季度筹款成绩亮眼”，这可能是帕克斯顿启动调查的导火索。
“开放边境、仇视特朗普的激进分子”：共和党对得州民主党人塔拉里科展开早期闪电式攻击
ActBlue的诉讼指出，此次调查的时机显示出政治动机。该组织称，帕克斯顿的调查人员于2月18日首次尝试在ActBlue平台上使用美国运通礼品卡进行交易，而就在前一天，塔拉里科宣布其在24小时内筹款250万美元，其中超过220万美元通过ActBlue筹集。
诉讼文件显示，在全国媒体报道塔拉里科是重大筹款威胁、已通过该平台筹款超3600万美元后的五天，帕克斯顿便在得州提起诉讼。
此次诉讼标志着共和党支持的针对ActBlue及其他在线筹款平台的 broader 运动升级。唐纳德·特朗普总统去年指示司法部调查此类组织，而帕克斯顿自2023年12月起就通过一系列调查针对ActBlue。
“天平倾斜”：众议院共和党领袖谴责ActBlue，此前该民主党筹款巨头遭传票
据联邦选举委员会数据，此次争议爆发之际，民主党全国委员会今年冬季负债超1750万美元。
众议院行政委员会、司法委员会和监督委员会已对ActBlue展开调查超过一年，并于2025年发布题为《ActBlue的欺诈行为》的报告。
“我们一直以诚意配合各方调查，”ActBlue在上周致国会委员会的信件后、起诉帕克斯顿前发表的声明中写道。
众议院顶级委员会在重磅司法部信函中指控民主党筹款巨头为“不良行为者”提供便利
“我们呼吁国会委员会同样如此：在发布指责性公开信函前先与我们直接沟通，并解答他们的监督工作与总统下令的司法部调查之间关系的悬而未决问题——这位总统对ActBlue的敌意早已众所周知。
“我们清楚这背后的意图，”声明补充道，“我们将继续发声，持续纠正不实记录——因为这才是透明的真正含义。不是作为宣传口号，而是作为一种实践。”
帕克斯顿于4月20日提起的得州诉讼要求处以经济罚款，并请求州法院禁止ActBlue通过礼品卡和预付费借记卡接受捐款。帕克斯顿称，这些支付方式可能会掩盖捐赠者身份，助长包括外国国民在内的非法捐款。他的诉讼还指控ActBlue在2024年表示将停止礼品卡捐款后，仍继续处理此类交易。
民主党平台ActBlue遭众议院委员会传票，因担忧外国 donors 利用安全漏洞
ActBlue否认了所有指控。
“这显然是为了转移人们对帕克斯顿在下月 runoff 选举前面临的众多法律和伦理问题的注意力，”ActBlue发言人迪安德拉·罗伯茨-拉布在4月20日通过电子邮件向福克斯新闻发表的声明中表示，“如果他和他的共和党盟友真的关心捐款欺诈问题，他们会努力全面加强安全标准，包括在他们自己的运营中，而不是针对ActBlue。
“无论党派如何，我们的平台在阻止不当捐款、保护捐赠者方面做得比其他任何平台都多。仅此而已。”
独家报道：民主党筹款巨头ActBlue遭众议院顶级委员会传票
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根据诉讼文件，帕克斯顿办公室的调查人员曾三次尝试在ActBlue平台使用美国运通礼品卡，均被该平台的自动反欺诈工具拒绝。
尽管如此，帕克斯顿仍提起诉讼，指控ActBlue“秘密恢复”接受礼品卡，且未向得州法院披露这些失败的测试交易，称这些指控“虚假且具有煽动性”。
“帕克斯顿利用政府公职对ActBlue施加法律制裁，作为对其受保护的言论和政治结社的报复，这是对宪法的公然冒犯，绝不能容忍，”ActBlue的律师在联邦诉讼中写道。
ActBlue成立于2004年，称其已帮助民主党竞选活动和进步组织筹款190亿美元，其中2026年第一季度筹款超过5.68亿美元，作为个人捐赠者的支付渠道。
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此次诉讼请求联邦法官宣布帕克斯顿的调查和得州民事案违反宪法，侵犯了ActBlue的第一和第十四修正案权利，并禁止他继续推进相关程序。
本文由路透社撰稿。
埃里克·麦克是福克斯新闻数字频道记者，报道突发新闻。
ActBlue sues Texas AG Ken Paxton, alleging political retaliation over Democrats’ fundraising
2026-05-03 09:47 EDT / Fox News
ActBlue: Paxton’s case rife with ‘false, inflammatory allegations’
By Eric Mack Fox News
Published May 3, 2026 9:47am EDT
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Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue is suing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, accusing the Republican of using his office for “retaliation” to punish the group for its political work and asking a federal judge to block his investigations and litigation against the organization.
“ActBlue is trying to take me down,” Paxton, who is running for Senate in Texas, wrote on X. “I sued the fundraising platform for deceiving Americans by lying about its donation processes that allow fraudulent and foreign donations.
“I will hold those who break the law accountable.”
The ActBlue lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court in Boston, seeks to counter the case Paxton brought last month in Texas state court accusing ActBlue of misleading Congress and the public about its donation practices. ActBlue said Paxton’s actions are part of an unlawful retaliation campaign targeting the nation’s leading small-dollar Democratic fundraising platform.
TEXAS AG PAXTON SUES DEM FUNDRAISING PLATFORM ACTBLUE, ALLEGING ‘FRAUDULENT AND FOREIGN DONATIONS’
An election countdown calendar hangs at the ActBlue fundraising office in Somerville, Mass.(Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
“Ken Paxton has spent more than two years using the power of his office to investigate, harass, and sue ActBlue,” Lawrence Oliver, ActBlue’s chief legal officer, said in a statement.
“The timing of Paxton fighting for his political life in his run for U.S. Senate and his use of the Attorney General’s office to attack ActBlue, should not be lost on anyone. He is wasting taxpayer dollars to benefit his political ambitions.
“That is not law enforcement. It is retaliation against constitutionally protected speech and association, and it is exactly what the First Amendment forbids.”
DEM FUNDRAISING GIANT ACTBLUE ROCKED BY ALLEGATIONS IT MISLED CONGRESS ABOUT FOREIGN DONATIONS
ActBlue alleges Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, is investigating its Democrat fundraising platform to target his potential November election opponent James Talarico.(Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
ActBlue also argues selective prosecution, noting Paxton has never investigated WinRed — the Republican fundraising counterpart to ActBlue — alleging in the lawsuit that “Paxton has a history of targeting Democratic-aligned entities.”
“During his tenure as Texas Attorney General, Paxton has signaled an emphasis on enforcement against entities enabling voting and political speech that he perceives as aligned with the Democratic Party,” the lawsuit reads. “He has consistently sought to suppress speech with which he disagrees and hobble his political opponents by abusing the powers of his Office.”
ActBlue cited a New York Times report that Talarico “had posted strong fundraising numbers for the first quarter of 2026,” in potentially being the nexus for Paxton’s opening his investigation.
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The timing of his investigation shows a political motive, ActBlue’s lawsuit argues. The group says Paxton’s investigators began conducting undercover transactions on ActBlue’s platform Feb. 18, one day after Talarico announced he had raised $2.5 million in 24 hours, including more than $2.2 million through ActBlue.
The lawsuit said Paxton filed his Texas case five days after national reporting described Talarico as a major fundraising threat who had raised more than $36 million through the platform.
The lawsuit marks an escalation in a broader Republican-backed campaign targeting ActBlue and other online fundraising platforms. President Donald Trump last year directed his Department of Justice to investigate the groups, and Paxton has pursued ActBlue through a series of inquiries dating back to December 2023.
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The issue comes as the Democratic National Committee reportedly carried more than $17.5 million in debt this winter, according to the FEC.
The House Administration, Judiciary and Oversight committees have been investigating ActBlue for more than a year and issued a 2025 report titled “Fraud on ActBlue.”
“ActBlue has engaged in good faith at every turn,” the group wrote in a statement after sending a letter to the committees last week before filing the Paxton lawsuit.
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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan are leading investigations into ActBlue.(AP)
“We are asking the Committees to do the same: engage with us directly before sending accusatory public correspondence, and answer unresolved questions about the relationship between their oversight work and a DOJ investigation ordered by a President who has made no secret of his hostility towards ActBlue.
“We see what this is,” the statement added. “And we’re going to keep showing up, keep correcting the record — because that’s what transparency actually looks like. Not as a talking point. As a practice.”
Paxton’s Texas lawsuit, filed April 20, seeks financial penalties and asks a state court to stop ActBlue from allowing donations through gift cards and prepaid debit cards. Paxton alleged those payment methods could obscure a donor’s identity and enable illegal contributions, including from foreign nationals. His suit also claimed ActBlue continued to process gift card donations after saying in 2024 that it would stop doing so.
DEMOCRAT PLATFORM ACTBLUE SUBPOENAED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE AMID CONCERNS FOREIGN DONORS EXPLOITED SECURITY FLAWS
ActBlue denied the allegations.
“This is a thinly veiled attempt to distract from Ken Paxton’s numerous legal and ethical issues ahead of next month’s runoff,” ActBlue spokeswoman De’Andra Roberts-LaBoo told Fox News in an April 20 statement via email. “If he and his Republican allies actually cared about donor fraud, they would work to strengthen security standards across the board, including within their own operations, rather than targeting ActBlue.
“Our platform has done more than any other, regardless of party,to prevent improper donations and protect donors. Full stop.”
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Investigators from Paxton’s office attempted three times to use an American Express gift card on ActBlue’s platform, and all three attempts were rejected by the platform’s automated fraud-prevention tools, according to the complaint.
ActBlue said Paxton nevertheless filed a lawsuit accusing the group of having “secretly resumed” accepting gift cards and failed to disclose the failed test transactions to the Texas court, calling the allegations “false and inflammatory.”
“Paxton’s decision to use his government office to target ActBlue with legal sanctions as retribution for its protected speech and political association is an affront to the Constitution and must not be tolerated,” ActBlue’s lawyers wrote in the federal lawsuit.
Since its founding in 2004, ActBlue said it has helped raise $19 billion for Democratic campaigns and progressive organizations, including more than $568 million in the first quarter of 2026, acting as a conduit for individual donors.
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The lawsuit asks a federal judge to declare Paxton’s investigation and Texas civil case unconstitutional violations of ActBlue’s First and 14th Amendment rights and to bar him from continuing to pursue them.
Reuters contributed to this report.
Eric Mack is a writer for Fox News Digital covering breaking news.
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