Summer 2026
Full time Intern
Posted on 4/18/2026
ActBlue
201-500 employees
Online fundraising platform for Democratic causes
Compensation Overview
$20/hr
No H1B Sponsorship
Remote in USA
Remote
Remote for residents of CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, MD, MA, MI, MN, MO, NH, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, RI, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, DC, WI.
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- Must be enrolled in an undergraduate program with at least one full academic year remaining after the internship period.
- ActBlue Tech Interns: Assist senior staff members in developing applications.
- ActBlue Tech Interns: Document and test new applications and features.
- ActBlue Tech Interns: Research and investigate a wide range of technical issues.
- ActBlue Tech Interns: Proactively learn about new technologies.
- ActBlue Business Interns: Provide administrative support to staff under the direction of the intern supervisor for their assigned department.
- ActBlue Business Interns: Participate in projects and programs designed to develop the intern’s professional skills and benefit the organization.
- ActBlue Business Interns: Join and contribute to department meetings.
- ActBlue Business Interns: As needed, conduct original research and prepare findings.
- ActBlue Business Interns: Build a strong cohort with other ActBlue interns and meet regularly to network and collaborate.
- ActBlue Business Interns: Interact directly with colleagues, clients, and/or other external constituencies as needed for planning or problem-resolution.
- ActBlue Business Interns: Work on other job-related tasks as needed.
- Tech Interns: Computer science, or other STEM majors, or folks with exposure to and interest in technology, preferred.
ActBlue provides online fundraising tools for Democratic candidates, progressive organizations, and nonprofits. Its platform is mobile-optimized and makes it easy for supporters to give—processing payments, routing funds to the chosen campaign or nonprofit, and charging a small fee per transaction. The service is specialized for political and nonprofit fundraising, relying on its scale, trust, and focus to support grassroots donors. Its goal is to help grassroots fundraising grow by offering straightforward donation tools and a sustainable, transaction-based revenue model.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Early VC
Total Funding
$10M
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Founded
2001
Your Connections
People at ActBlue who can refer or advise you
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Candidate growth surged 51% since 2022, with local candidates up nearly 68% across underserved states like Utah and Kansas.
- ActBlue secured a June 2026 injunction blocking Texas AG's lawsuit, citing First Amendment retaliation against political speech.
- New compliance features automate FEC reporting and streamline donor outreach, reducing operational burden and improving campaign conversion rates.
What critics are saying
- Congressional contempt citation and potential DOJ criminal referral for knowingly accepting foreign donations and misleading Congress within 6–12 months.
- Texas AG lawsuit may escalate to block nonprofit regranting operations, exposing $8.6M in escrow liabilities within 3–6 months.
- Internal legal team exodus and whistleblower claims could trigger donor class-action fraud suits over undisclosed straw donor schemes within 6–18 months.
What makes ActBlue unique
- ActBlue's candidate base grew 51% since 2022 via new tools like Federal Compliance and Call Time launched August 2025.
- ActBlue expanded beyond donations in August 2025 to offer website building, field tools, and volunteer platforms for down-ballot campaigns.
- ActBlue serves over 6 million grassroots donors with $40 average donations, maintaining its identity as a low-friction small-dollar fundraising tool.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Life Insurance
Disability Insurance
Unlimited Paid Time Off
Flexible Work Hours
401(k) Retirement Plan
401(k) Company Match
Parental Leave
Home Office Stipend
Employee Assistance Program
Growth & Insights and Company News
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↑ 0%ActBlue refusing to comply with congressional subpoenas, House GOP says. 'ActBlue continues to obstruct this inquiry...' June 23, 2026 (Ken Silva, Headline USA) House Republicans said Monday that they're planning to hold the pro-Democrat political action committee ActBlue in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply fully with their subpoenas. "For more than a year, the Committees have conducted oversight regarding ActBlue's fundamentally unserious approach to fraud prevention, which may allow foreign nationals and bad actors to make large-scale fraudulent donations on Democrats' top fundraising platform," the House Judiciary Committee said in a press release. "ActBlue continues to obstruct this inquiry by making expansive assertions of attorney-client privilege in an attempt to improperly shield documents that are responsive to the Committees' subpoenas and essential to its oversight." The House committee didn't say when it would move on contempt proceedings. In an open letter to ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones, GOP leaders said they're "prepared to enforce our subpoenas through all available mechanisms." The contempt threats from the House follow Wallace-Jones testifying to Congress earlier this month - exercising her 5th Amendment right to remain silent more than 20 times throughout the process. Wallace-Jones published an op-ed in the Washington Post the morning before the hearing, explaining her decision to plead the 5th. "Invoking the Fifth Amendment is not an admission, or even an insinuation, of guilt. It is not a retreat," she said. "It is the only reasonable response to a proceeding that from the beginning has been about harassing a political opponent's fundraising platform, not genuine oversight. Now it has become something far more dangerous." House Republicans first opened an investigation into ActBlue after Wallace-Jones took over in 2023. By 2025, ActBlue's own attorneys reportedly urged her to seek personal counsel after concerns she appeared to have misrepresented the group's safeguards to lawmakers regarding foreign donations. Along with allegations of receiving illegal donations, a Wall Street Journal report from May detailed the spending and raised fresh questions about Wallace-Jones's leadership and potential legal exposure. For example, onths after President Donald Trump defeated then-Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, ActBlue spent roughly $700,000 on a retreat at the InterContinental San Francisco. The event included hundreds of hotel rooms, while Wallace-Jones stayed in a two-story presidential suite under heavy security. Security costs have surged to at least $2.8 million since 2023, compared to less than $16,000 between 2020 and 2022, according to The Journal. Travel expenses also spiked, with ActBlue plowing through $4.9 million in travel costs since 2023, including $2.7 million in 2025 alone. That's up from less than $400,000 in 2022. New policies allow executives and board members to book first-class flights and receive largely uncapped accommodations. Operating costs followed the same trajectory. ActBlue spent $87 million during the 2024 presidential cycle, up from the $42 million spent in 2020. ActBlue has already spent $72 million ahead of the 2026 midterms. Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.
Three House committees escalate ActBlue probe, contempt now on the table. Three House committee chairmen threatened the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue with a contempt citation on Monday, escalating a yearlong congressional investigation into allegations that the organization failed to prevent fraudulent and potentially foreign political donations from flowing through its system. In a four-page letter to ActBlue CEO Regina Wallace-Jones, the Republican chairmen accused the platform of improperly withholding subpoenaed records through what they characterized as "baseless privilege claims," according to reporting from the Washington Examiner and the Daily Caller. The letter was signed by the chairmen of three House committees whose jurisdictions cover campaign finance, election integrity, and the relevant regulatory oversight. The contempt threat is the most significant escalation of the probe to date. Congressional committees have the authority to vote a contempt citation when a subpoenaed party refuses to comply with document production requests. A formal contempt vote by the full House can result in a criminal referral to the Department of Justice or civil enforcement action through the federal courts - though the path from citation to legal consequence typically involves significant litigation and can extend over months or years. Background The investigation, which has been active for more than a year, centers on allegations that ActBlue's donation processing infrastructure did not take adequate steps to verify the identity and eligibility of contributors. Federal election law prohibits foreign nationals from contributing to U.S. political campaigns or party committees. Critics of ActBlue's donation system have argued for several years that the platform's streamlined, low-friction interface - designed to minimize barriers for small-dollar contributors - may also reduce the safeguards that could catch illegal or fraudulent transactions. Among the concerns flagged in previous reporting: the use of prepaid cards and certain payment methods that do not reliably verify a donor's nationality or residency status. ActBlue is the dominant online fundraising platform for Democratic candidates and progressive causes. The organization has processed billions of dollars in political contributions across multiple federal election cycles and serves as foundational infrastructure for Democratic fundraising at the federal, state, and local levels. The dispute over documents Congressional investigators requested documents related to ActBlue's donor verification processes, internal communications about the alleged vulnerabilities in the system, and records pertaining to specific transactions flagged in the investigation. According to the committee letter, ActBlue has declined to produce those materials, asserting privilege claims that the chairmen describe as legally unfounded. The term "baseless privilege claims" refers to legal protections - such as attorney-client privilege or work-product doctrine - that an organization can assert to resist producing certain documents in response to a subpoena. Investigators dispute that those protections apply to the records at issue. In practice, disputes over privilege assertions in congressional investigations often proceed through a sequence of negotiation, formal legal challenge, and - if neither produces compliance - escalation to contempt proceedings. The committees' letter signals a move toward the final stage of that sequence. What comes next ActBlue did not respond to press inquiries before publication, according to the Washington Examiner. The committee chairmen did not announce a specific deadline for compliance or set a date for a potential contempt vote. The Federal Election Commission has separate regulatory authority over campaign finance violations, but congressional contempt proceedings operate independently of FEC enforcement. If the House moves forward with a formal contempt vote and the matter is referred to the Department of Justice, the DOJ retains discretion over whether to prosecute. The investigation's findings, if made public, could have implications for how online political fundraising platforms are regulated and whether FEC rulemaking on donor verification procedures - a topic that has been under discussion for years without resolution - advances in the current Congress. A follow-up hearing has not been announced. Follow Washington Exclusive.
ActBlue CEO pleads the 5th over 20 times during congressional hearing. 'Wallace-Jones is here today because there is significant concern that ActBlue may have allowed foreign donations on their platform, lied to Congress, and withheld responsive documents...' June 11, 2026 (Ken Silva, Headline USA) Democratic fundraising giant ActBlue's CEO, Regina Wallace-Jones, exercised her 5th Amendment right to remain silent more than 20 times during a contentious congressional hearing Wednesday. The Committee on House Administration comes as lawmakers investigate corruption allegations surrounding ActBlue, including the possible 'knowing and willful' acceptance of foreign donations. Wallace-Jones published an op-ed in the Washington Post the morning before the hearing, explaining her decision to plead the 5th. "Invoking the Fifth Amendment is not an admission, or even an insinuation, of guilt. It is not a retreat," she said. "It is the only reasonable response to a proceeding that from the beginning has been about harassing a political opponent's fundraising platform, not genuine oversight. Now it has become something far more dangerous." Wallace-Jones's decision didn't save her from the scathing remarks made by committee members, including Chairman Bryan Steil, R-Wisc. "Ms. Wallace-Jones is here today because there is significant concern that ActBlue may have allowed foreign donations on their platform, lied to Congress, and withheld responsive documents from a Congressional subpoena," Steil said. "All three of those actions are illegal." Steil's committee is continuing to probe the matter. The committee sent letters on June 2 five members of ActBlue's Board of Directors, seeking interviews from them and asking for documents. The committee demanded answers by Tuesday. Steil first opened an investigation into ActBlue after Wallace-Jones took over in 2023. By 2025, ActBlue's own attorneys reportedly urged her to seek personal counsel after concerns she appeared to have misrepresented the group's safeguards to lawmakers regarding foreign donations. Along with allegations of receiving illegal donations, a Wall Street Journal report from May detailed the spending and raised fresh questions about Wallace-Jones's leadership and potential legal exposure. For example, onths after President Donald Trump defeated then-Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024, ActBlue spent roughly $700,000 on a retreat at the InterContinental San Francisco. The event included hundreds of hotel rooms, while Wallace-Jones stayed in a two-story presidential suite under heavy security. Security costs have surged to at least $2.8 million since 2023, compared to less than $16,000 between 2020 and 2022, according to The Journal. Travel expenses also spiked, with ActBlue plowing through $4.9 million in travel costs since 2023, including $2.7 million in 2025 alone. That's up from less than $400,000 in 2022. New policies allow executives and board members to book first-class flights and receive largely uncapped accommodations. Operating costs followed the same trajectory. ActBlue spent $87 million during the 2024 presidential cycle, up from the $42 million spent in 2020. ActBlue has already spent $72 million ahead of the 2026 midterms. Ken Silva is the editor of Headline USA. Follow him at x.com/jd_cashless.
ActBlue sues to block Ken Paxton lawsuit - and he fires back defiant response. May 01, 2026 The online donation portal is accused of breaking campaign finance laws. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fired back at the ActBlue Democratic donation organization after it filed a lawsuit Friday accusing him of violating the Constitution. Paxton filed a lawsuit last month accusing ActBlue of illegally accepting donations forbidden by campaign laws. The portal has faced similar allegations from Republicans for years. 'It is retaliation against constitutionally protected political speech and association, and it is exactly what the First Amendment forbids.' The ActBlue lawsuit accused Paxton of violating the organization's First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the Constitution. "ActBlue is trying to take me down," Paxton responded on social media. "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." ActBlue's chief legal officer, Lawrence Oliver, made the case against Paxton. "Ken Paxton has spent more than two years using the power of his office to investigate, harass, and sue ActBlue," Oliver wrote in a statement. "The timing of Paxton fighting for his political life in his run for a U.S. Senate seat 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," he added. "That is not law enforcement," Oliver concluded. "It is retaliation against constitutionally protected political speech and association, and it is exactly what the First Amendment forbids." Among the claims made against Paxton was that his investigators tried to use an American Express gift card on ActBlue in an attempt to show the ease with which illegal donations could be made. Although they failed three times, ActBlue alleges that Paxton hid these facts from the Texas court. "Let's be clear about something: the only reason Republicans are targeting ActBlue is that they want to destroy the Democratic Party's ability to raise money from small-dollar donors," the post reads. "It's a completely bulls**t attack, and people in glass houses should not throw stones." Staff Writer Carlos Garcia is a staff writer for Blaze News.
Judicial Watch sues FEC for records on ActBlue donor fraud allegations. (Washington, DC) - Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission (FEC) for records related to alleged fraudulent donor activities by the Democrat fundraising platform ActBlue (Judicial Watch Inc. v Federal Election Commission (No. 1:26-cv-00149)). Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the Federal Election Commission failed to respond to a September 2025 FOIA request for: 1. Records, including reports, audits, or investigations of ActBlue's donor verification processes, donor irregularities or potential donor fraud. 2. Communications between the [Federal Election Commission's] Office of Compliance and any state attorney general's office or the U.S. Department of Justice, about any alleged irregularities in ActBlue's donor verification policies and procedures, donor irregularities, or potential donor fraudulent activity. ActBlue is the primary online fundraising platform for Democrat candidates, political action committees (PACs), and progressive causes. It processes billions in small-dollar donations. According to an April 2025 congressional joint interim staff report, "Fraud on ActBlue: How the Democrats' Top Fundraising Platform Opens the Door for Illegal Election Contributions:" Internal documents... show that ActBlue staff and executives fail to take the threat of fraud seriously. ActBlue employees regularly demonstrated an unfounded belief that bad actors were not seeking to fraudulently contribute to Democrat campaigns and causes. For example, ActBlue's training guide for new fraud-prevention employees instructed them to "look for reasons to accept contributions," rather than err on the side of flagging a suspicious donation. Altogether, ActBlue's internal documents and communications paint a damning picture: despite repeated instances of fraudulent donations to Democrat campaigns and causes from domestic and foreign sources, ActBlue is not demonstrating a serious effort to deter fraud on its platform. [Emphasis in original] At best, ActBlue's conduct displays a profound disrespect for the principle that only Americans should decide American elections. At worst, it may violate the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (FECA), which states that persons who "knowingly accept a contribution made by one person in the name of another person" may face criminal liability. "There are legitimate, grave concerns that ActBlue has enabled illegal fundraising," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "By failing to prevent widespread straw-donor schemes and other tactics, it is likely that fraudulent and even foreign-sourced contributions have crept into Democrat campaign coffers." Judicial Watch is a national leader in election integrity and voting rights litigation, with a record of successful lawsuits enforcing constitutional redistricting standards and cleaning voter rolls nationwide.