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Trump Plans to Target ActBlue, Democrats’ Cash Engine

The president plans to direct the Justice Department to investigate ActBlue, the main Democratic fund-raising platform, in his latest move using the government to target political opponents.

President Trump’s targeting of ActBlue could threaten Democrats’ ability to compete in elections.

April 24, 2025, 2:53 p.m. ET1/2

President Trump on Thursday plans to direct the Justice Department to investigate ActBlue, the fund-raising platform that powers virtually every Democratic candidate and cause, according to a person briefed on the preparations.The move steps up Republicans’ effort to cripple their opponents’ political infrastructure.

It will be the third time in three weeks that Mr. Trump has directed the government to target a perceived political enemy, a drastic expansion of his use of his powers to try to damage domestic opponents.

Mr. Trump plans to call for an investigation by Attorney General Pam Bondi into ActBlue, which is used across the Democratic Party’s ecosystem to collect donations online. The inquiry is ostensibly meant to look into possible illegal donations made by people in someone else’s name, known as straw donations, as well as hard-dollar contributions from foreign donors.

Mr. Trump’s impending action represents a threat to one of the key financial cogs of the left, potentially hindering Democrats’ ability to compete in elections. It is likely to please elements of his base, for whom ActBlue has become a top target. Congressional Republicans have separately been investigating what they claim are the platform’s insufficient security provisions. (How much from ActBlue do they donate to the NYTs)

For days, Democratic groups have been worried that the White House was planning executive orders ormemorandums that would target an array of nonprofit organizations. White House officials insisted no such orders were being drafted and maintained that stance for days.

On Thursday, Politico and other news outlets reported that Mr. Trump planned to sign an ActBlue memorandum later in the day. The person briefed on the preparations insisted thatthe memorandum was different from the type of order that Democrats had speculated might be in the offing, because it related to foreign donations.

Just over two weeks ago, Mr. Trump signed memorandums targeting two officials from his first term for investigation by his current government. One, Miles Taylor, has been deeply critical of the president. The other, Chris Krebs, was targeted for rejecting Mr. Trump’s false claims of widespread election fraud involving voting machines.

The Republican scrutiny of ActBlue has focused on claims — thus far unsubstantiated —that it allows straw and foreign donations. Federal election law bars straw donations, and it prohibits foreign citizens without permanent residency from donating directly to federal political candidates or political action committees.

A Justice Department investigation into ActBlue is likely to create vulnerabilities for the entire Democratic fund-raising apparatus. Party consultants have relied on ActBlue to bring in donations. Candidates, committees for federal and state legislative chambers, and liberal caucuses use the platform as their primary mechanism to process donations.

“ActBlue plays a vital role in enabling all Americans to participate in our democracy and the organization strictly abides by all federal and state laws governing its activities,” said Megan Hughes, an ActBlue spokeswoman. “We will always stand steadfast in defending the rights of all Americans to participate in our democracy and ActBlue will continue its mission undeterred and uninterrupted, providing a safe, secure fund-raising platform for the millions of grassroots donors who rely on us.”…

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There is great fear across the Democratic Party that any of the entities that have used ActBlue could soon find themselves enmeshed in an investigation into foreign contributions from a hostile Justice Department with direction from Mr. Trump.As word of the impending Trump memorandum circulated among Democrats,panicked Democrats blasted fund-raising appeals. (It’s just an investigation, why is there “great fear”?)

“Please, while we still can, make a donation to my campaign’s emergency fund through ActBlue,” Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona wrote to supporters on Thursday afternoon. “Any amount at all. We’ve got to be ready for any outcome, and we’ve got to start preparing now.”

ActBlue itself got into the fund-raising game. Regina Wallace-Jones, the platform’s chief executive, wrote to Democratic partners late Wednesday asking for money to help “fight against the creeping despotism of the right, and to win back power in Washington, D.C., and the halls of government across the country.” (So, they are fundraising to spread lies and fear, dem voters must be crazy to buy in to this, it’s just an investigation)

She wrote that the looming threat of an executive order or memorandum from Mr. Trumphad already damaged ActBlue and its allies.“The current strategy of distraction and exhaustion is effective,” she wrote. “We see this across the country and are not immune to this ourselves. The flow-on effect from the initialinnuendo of the E.O. caused many in the ecosystem anxiety and distress.”(If they weren’t cheating what are they afraid of? Republicans fundraiser Win Red has been investigated to.

ActBlue has faced internal turmoil since Mr. Trump won the presidential election in November. At least seven senior officials quit the organization in late February, prompting two employee unions to warn of an “alarming pattern” of departures that was “eroding our confidence in the stability of the organization.” (They resigned because all of them were caught cheating.)

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>>22952137

All of this sounds likePANICin DC

Piers Morgan Uncensored

@PiersUncensored

"It's kind of insulting to six million dead Jews…"

Bill Maher responds to Larry David's essay skewering his dinner with Trump - only on Uncensored.

Full interview going live in 15 minutes on the link below 👇

📺 https://youtu.be/cDTQkJVc7_s

@piersmorgan

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new Trump Time article and transcript out

Apr 25, 2025 6:00 AM ET

Exclusive: Inside Trump’s First 100 Days

President Donald Trump emerges through a pair of handsome wooden doors on the third floor of the White House. On his way down the wide, carpeted staircase, he passes portraits of his predecessors. Nixon is opposite the landing outside the residence. Two flights down, he has swapped the placement of Clinton and Lincoln, moving a massive painting of the latter into the main entrance hall of the mansion. “Lincoln is Lincoln, in all fairness,” he explains. “And I gave Clinton a good space.” But it’s the portrait around the corner that Trump wants to show off.

It’s a giant painting of a photograph—that photograph, the famous image of Trump, his fist raised, blood trickling down his face, after the attempt on his life last July at a rally in Butler, Pa. It hangs across the foyer from a portrait of Obama, in tacit competition. When they bring tours in, everyone wants to look at this one, Trump says, gesturing to the painting of himself, in technicolor defiance. “100 to 1, they prefer that,” he says. “It’s incredible.”

Making his way out to the Rose Garden, he walks up the inclined colonnade toward the Oval Office, describing the other alterations to the decor, both inside and out. His imprint on his workspace is apparent. The molding and mantels have gold accents now, and he has filled the walls with portraits of other presidents in gilded frames. He has hung an early copy of the Declaration of Independence behind a set of blue curtains. The box with a red button that allows Trump to summon Diet Cokes is back in its place on the Resolute desk, behind which stands a new battalion of flags, including one for the U.S. Space Force, the military branch he established. A map of the “Gulf of America,” as Trump has rechristened the Gulf of Mexico, was propped on a stand nearby.

If Trump is making cosmetic changes to the White House, his effect on the presidency goes much deeper. The first 100 days of his second term have been among the most destabilizing in American history, a blitz of power grabs, strategic shifts, and direct attacks that have left opponents, global counterparts, and even many supporters stunned. Trump has launched a battery of orders and memoranda that have hobbled entire government agencies and departments. He has threatened to take Greenland by force, seize control of the Panama Canal, and annex Canada. Weaponizing his control of the Justice Department, he has ordered investigations of political enemies. He has gutted much of the civil service, removing more than a hundred thousand federal workers. He has gone to war with institutions across American life: universities, media outlets, law firms, museums. He pardoned or gave a commutation to every single defendant charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attacks, including those convicted of violent acts and seditious conspiracy. Seeking to remake the global economy, he triggered a trade war by unleashing a sweeping array of tariffs that sent markets plummeting. Embarking on his promised program of mass deportation, he has mobilized agencies across government, from the IRS to the Postal Service, as part of the effort to find, detain, and expel immigrants. He has shipped some of them to foreign countries without due process, citing a wartime provision from the 18th century. His Administration has snatched foreign students off the streets and stripped their visas for engaging in speech he dislikes. He has threatened to send Americans to a notorious prison in El Salvador.Says one senior Administration official: “Our success depends on his ability to shock you.”…

Article link:

https://time.com/7280106/trump-interview-100-days-2025/

Link to Transcript:

https://time.com/7280114/donald-trump-2025-interview-transcript/

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notablebecause it's so true, have we ever see Actblue and radical dems in breakdown and chaos in the party, no because they have never been investigated before; for money laundering.

WinRed the Republicans fundraiser has been investigated before, they didn't lose their minds.

FBI Director Kash Patel

@FBIDirectorKash

A great segment worth your time from Governor Youngkin

@GovernorVA on the Virginia Homeland Security Task Force and how it makes America safer.

The FBI joined @TheJusticeDept,@AGPamBondi and Virginia partners to launch this effort in March.

It’s an interagency task force built to help Virginia’s local officials better coordinate with federal agencies on immigration enforcement and fighting transnational organized crime.

They’ve been fantastic partners — and in a month they’ve made over 500 arrests. 130+ of those are gang affiliated.

This should be a model for states across the country on how to tackle organized crime and break violent gangs like MS-13.

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KEK!

2WAY

@2waytvapp

Who would be the toughest Democrat to beat in the 2028 presidential race? “Andy Beshear if he ran as a populist?” wonders Charlie Kirk. “Not Tim Walz … AOC? Are you kidding me? Not Bernie Sanders, not Cory Booker. There's really not much.” What about Josh Shapiro? “No,” says Charlie. “He comes across remarkably dorky.” #AOC @charliekirk11

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US scraps Unrwa’s legal immunity in major reversal of Biden-era policy

The decision could see theUN agency, which has been accused of employing Hamas operatives, hit with significant claims from the relatives of terror victims

April 25, 2025 10:50 By Jacob Jaffa

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced the reversal of a

Biden-era policy that gave legal immunity to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa).

In a letter to Analisa Torres, the judge presiding over a case in New York against Unrwa,the DOJ withdrew its provision for legal immunity and even suggested that the agency had been founded unlawfully.

Under the Biden administration, the US had adopted the position that Unrwa was protected from lawsuits in federal courts from US citizens regarding its operations in Gaza.

The organisation has long faced allegations that it has been infiltrated by Hamas, including claims that some of its workers participated in the October 7, 2023 terror attacksand that some of the hostages taken that day were subsequently held in its facilities.

However, Trump administration’s about turn opens the way for relatives of terror victims to sue Unrwa in the US court system if they can prove that the agency was linked a particular attack.

Not only could this potentially result in sizeable damages claim against Unrwa,but successful suits would also establish its alleged links with Hamas as a matter of legal record.

In its filing, the DOJ wrote: “Previously, the government expressed the view that certain immunities shielded Unrwa from having to answer those allegations in American courts.

"The government has since reevaluated that position and now concludes Unraw is not immune from this litigation.

"The Constitution does not grant immunity to foreign sovereigns or organisations.”

Elsewhere in the letter, the department also indicated thatUnrwa may, in its opinion, have been founded unlawfully when it was established in 1949.

It added:“It is highly doubtful that the UN Charter even authorises the General Assembly to create a subsidiary organ such as Unrwa, because its functions are not the type of functions performed by the General Assembly.”

The change in policy isparticularly noteworthy given its relation to one of the cases set to be decided by the US Supreme Court in the coming weeks.

In its judgement on Fuld v PLO, the court will decide whether the US has the jurisdiction to hear similar lawsuits regarding the Palestinian Authority (PA).

Specifically, it will determine whether American relatives of terror victims can sue the PA for providing financial assistance to their loved ones’ attackers through its so-called ‘pay for slay’ scheme,which sees Palestinians convicted of violent crimes given a monthly allowance while in prison.

According to analysis of oral arguments from SCOTUSblog, the majority-conservativecourt appears inclined to rule in favour of allowing such suits to be brought. The decision is expected to be announced before the end of the court’s current session on June 26.

https://www.thejc.com/news/usa/us-scraps-unrwas-legal-immunity-in-major-reversal-of-biden-era-policy-vx4zqi80

(The SC should judge the UN is illegal so the US can take it down)

Press Release

USDA Ensures Illegal Aliens Do Not Receive Federal Benefits

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Published: April 24, 2025

(Washington, D.C., April 24, 2025) – Today, at the direction of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins, Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services John Walkissued guidance to all State agencies directing them to enhance identity and immigration verification practices when determining eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). This guidance is one of many steps toward fulfilling President Trump’s Executive Order 14218, which directs USDA and other federal agencies to “enhance eligibility verification systems, to the maximum extent possible, to ensure that taxpayer funded benefits exclude any ineligible alien.”

“President Trump has made it clearthat American taxpayers will no longer subsidize illegal aliens,” said Secretary Rollins. “We are stewards of taxpayer dollars, and it is our duty to ensure states confirm the identity and verify the immigration status of SNAP applicants. USDA’s nutrition programs are intended to support the most vulnerable Americans. To allow those who broke our laws by entering the United States illegally to receive these benefits is outrageous.”

On February 25, 2025, Secretary Rollins directed USDA-FNS to review the administration of SNAP benefits to make necessary changes to align with Executive Order 14128. As discussed in a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, astaggering $10.5 billion in improper SNAP payments were made in FY 2023 alone—about 12% of total SNAP payments that year. The inadequate verification of an applicant’s identity and citizenship by states is specifically highlighted as contributing to the improper payments of SNAP funds.

Today’s guidance requires states to obtain more reliable documents to prove identity, take additional measures todeter fraudulent use of social security numbers, and better use the Department ofHomeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system. Important to note that last week, Secretary Noem advised Governors that SAVE is now available to States for free, making it easier to verify immigration status.

The guidance also encourages best practices including adoption of an identification proofing process and requiring more in-person interviews. To learn more, please view the issued guidance (PDF, 134 KB).

Press Release

Release No.:

0081.25

Contact:USDA Press

Email:press@usda.gov

https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/04/24/usda-ensures-illegal-aliens-do-not-receive-federal-benefits

Guidance Letter attached.

Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸

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Barron Trump, the 19-year-old son of US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump,is reportedly taking an unconventional route to maintain his social life at NYU — through gaming platforms. Amid tight security and constant Secret Service presence on campus, Barron has turned to Xbox as his preferred method of communication with close friends. According to reports, he avoids sharing his phone number for security reasons, fearing potential leaks and privacy issues. Instead, he uses voice and text chats through Xbox, only sharing his gamer tag with people he knows personally. This digital workaround has become his go-to social tool as he navigates college life under public scrutiny. Watch the video to know more.

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>>22952696

At least there is one democrat willing to work across the isle. The Leftists spent $20 million dollars to primary him and get him out of his district in TX. A very honest and appreciative democrat for Trump's successes.

It's a good listen.

A New State Department to Meet the Challenges of a New Era

(First Substack article and communication by SOS)

StateDept Apr 22, 2025 Author: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio1/2

Today America confronts a new era of great power competition and the rise of a multipolar order with a State Departmentthat stifles creativity, lacks accountability, and occasionally veers into outright hostility to American interests. The Department has long struggled to perform basic diplomatic functions, even as both its size and cost to the American taxpayer has ballooned over the past fifteen years. The problem is not a lack of money, or even dedicated talent, but rather a system where everything takes too much time, costs too much money, involves too many individuals, and all too often ends up failing the American people.

Bureaus and offices fight to be included on the approval chains for the most mundane of memos, only then to reach agreement on drafts that are bloated in length while stripped of all meaning. Motivated and creative State Department employees see their ideas watered down by turf battles until they give up, disillusioned, while the inboxes of senior officials are inundated with hundreds of requests for approval. While the talented and loyal are driven into indifference,radical ideologues and bureaucratic infighters have learned to play on this exhaustion to push through their own agendasthat are often at odds with those of the President and undermine the interests of the United States.

An example of an out-of-control Departmentis the Global Engagement Center (GEC) that I shuttered last week. The office engaged with media outlets and platforms to censor speech it disagreed with, including that of the President of the United States, who its director in 2019 accused of employing “the same techniques of disinformation as the Russians.” Despite Congress voting to shutter it, the GEC simply renamed itself and continued operating as if nothing had changed.

Unless we confront the underlying bureaucratic culturethat prevents the State Department from carrying out an effective foreign policy, while allowing offices like GEC to flourish in the shadows,nothing will change. That is whyI am initiating a broad reorganizationof the Department to address the steady growth of bureaucracy, duplication of functions, and capture by special interests that have crippled American Foreign Policy.

We will drain the bloated, bureaucratic swamp, empowering the Department from the ground up. That means regional bureaus and our embassies will now have the tools necessary to advance America’s interests abroad because region-specific functions will be streamlined to increase functionality.Redundant offices will also be removed, and non-statutory programs misalignedwith America’s core national interests will cease to exist. All non-security foreign assistance will be consolidated in regional bureaus charged with implementing U.S. foreign policy in specific geographic areas.

This will ensure every bureau and officein the Department of Statehas clear responsibility and mission. If something concerns Africa, the bureau of African Affairs will handle it. Economic policy will be consolidated under the Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and Environment, while the responsibilities for security assistance and arms control will be united under the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security.

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Until now, overlapping mandates paired with conflicting responsibilities created an environment ripe for ideological capture and meaningless turf wars. With a bloated budget and unclear mandate, the expansive domain of the former Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Human Rights, and Democracy (known internally as the “J Family”), provided a fertile environmentfor activists to redefine “human rights” and “democracy” and to pursue their projects at the taxpayer expense, even when they were in direct conflict with the goals of the Secretary, the President, and the American people.

The Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Laborbecame a platform for left-wing activiststo wage vendettas against “anti-woke” leaders in nations such as Poland, Hungary, and Brazil, and to transform their hatred of Israel into concrete policies such as arms embargoes.

The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migrationfunneled millions of taxpayer dollars to international organizations and NGOsthat facilitated mass migration around the world,including the invasion on our southern border.

To transfer the remaining functions of USAID to such a monstrosity of bureaus would be to undo DOGE’s work to build a more efficient and accountable government.Consequently, the bureaus and offices in the J Family will be placed under the new Coordinatorfor Foreign Assistance and Humanitarian Affairs charged with returning them to their original mission of advancing human rights and religious freedom, not promoting radical causes at taxpayer expense.

The American people deserve a State Department willing and able to advance their safety, security, and prosperity around the world, one respectful of their tax dollars and the sacred trust of government service, and one prepared to meet the immense challenges of the 21st Century. Starting this week, they will have one.

Marco Rubio is the 72nd Secretary of State serving under the leadership of President Trump. (SOS Rubio is an excellent communicator)

https://statedept.substack.com/p/a-new-state-department-to-meet-the

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Why President Trump Is NOT "Negotiating" with Global Elites | First 100 DaysGlenn TV | Ep 429

Full Interview Video40:19

In just his first 100 days in office, President Trump has moved faster to fix America than anyone expected. He created the DOGE, shut the border down, dismantled USAID and its wasteful spending, and put the world on notice that it can’t take advantage of America any more. But there’s still much more to do, and Americans have questions about what’s next. Glenn sits down with the president in the Roosevelt Room of the White House for his first one-on-one interview about his first 100 days. Glenn asks Trump what the real goal of his tariffs is, whether Elon Musk is really stepping back from the DOGE, whether Mexico is a failed narco-state, what his plans are for the cartels, and how he may react to the “judicial insurrection” of judges blocking his deportation orders. Trump also reveals his game-changing plans for AI and American energy, why he’s not “negotiating” with Europe or the world, whether Putin or Zelenskyy has been easier to deal with, and why he believes Glenn will “be surprised” by congressional Republicans soon.

https://youtu.be/jfYgS4iCNW0