In Part 1, we demonstrated how Donald Trump is weaponizing the federal government against ActBlue despite a complete absence of evidence. Predictably, the investigation excludes WinRed, the ActBlue counterpart which Trump himself helped create. Fascists love law and order, because when they control it, they can break the law in any order they choose.
And that’s likely what WinRed is doing. It’s bad enough they deceive their own donors with an automatic opt-in for recurring donations resulting in millions of dollars in unintended contributions, but it somehow gets worse. To run a business, a company needs to spend money on office space, wages for employees, insurance, marketing, and other expenses known as operating expenditures, or OpEx. According to a complaint the Campaign Legal Center submitted to the FEC, ActBlue processed over $5.5 billion in contributions and reported over $85 million in operating expenditures. During the same time period, WinRed collected over $2.8 billion in contributions and reported less than $2,700 in operating expenditures. Yes, you read that right. No, WinRed is not being investigated.
Speaking of the FEC, Donald Trump has recently tried to (illegally) fire a Democrat member and issued an executive order (illegally) granting him power over that and all other independent agencies, continuing the implementation of Project 2025. He wants authority over the agencies designed to hold him accountable, which is why they’re independent and established by Congress and protected by the Constitution in the first place. Presidents of democracies don’t seek to control every facet of government by attacking the checks and balances that uphold the law, but fascists like Donald Trump do.
