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Dark Money Group Targets Democratic Donors (www.motherjones.com)

submitted 5 months ago by TokenBoomer to c/progressivepolitics

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The “somewhat threatening” messages sent to ActBlue users are part of a campaign of baseless allegations against the fundraising platform.

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[–] Linkerbaan 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

Is this the same ActBlue that tricked the Trump shooter into 'donating'?

he was a registered Republican who had previously donated $15 to a Democratic organization via ActBlue.

Progressive Turnout Project, the organization Crooks donated to, racks up millions in small-dollar donations, but The Washington Post reported in 2019 on criticism of the group for its aggressive and at times misleading fundraising tactics. The group's executive director acknowledged that the fundraising emails can be "provocative or alarming" but defended the approach to The Post because "we are in a frightening time in our country."

[–] Gumbyyy 1 points 5 months ago

ActBlue is just the middleman. It's basically PayPal for political donations.

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