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White smoke has been seen above the Sistine Chapel, indicating that the 133 voting cardinals of the Catholic Church, meeting at the Vatican have chosen a new pope.
He is Robert Francis Prevost, 69, the first American to serve as leader of the Catholic Church, who is taking the name Pope Leo XIV. Originally from Chicago, until now Prevost was the head of the church's Dicastery for Bishops.
According to CBS News, Prevost is seen overall as a centrist, though on some key social issues he's viewed as progressive. He holds dual citizenship with Peru, where he spent many years of his career.
The church officials spent two days selecting a new church chief, meaning that the new pope took little time to impress his peers in the secretive process.
Francis and Benedict XVI were both revealed in the evening of the conclave's second day, while John Paul II, the longest-reigning pope of modern times, was selected on the third day in 1978.
Francis' tenure was celebrated during a funeral only two weeks ago, an event that drew 250,000 people including President Donald Trump.
He was buried in the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome.
Cardinal Re lauded the "mercy and the joys of the gospel" that were Francis' priorities, "in contrast to the culture of waste."
"He often reminded us… that we all belong to the same human family and that no one is saved alone," Re said.
Prevost is the first-ever American pope and the College of Cardinals made the announcement with the statement, "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum; habemus papam!" — in English, "I announce to you a great joy: We have a pope!"
Prevost was born in Chicago, graduated from Villanova, and spent years as a missionary and then archbishop in Peru.
He opened his conversation with Catholics, and the rest of the world, with, "Peace be with you."
The Washington Examiner reported early favorites had included Luis Tagle from the Philippines and Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, and the final choice likely was an accommodation among the lobbying groups.
President Donald Trump said, "Congratulations to Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was just named Pope. It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American Pope. What excitement, and what a Great Honor for our Country. I look forward to meeting Pope Leo XIV. It will be a very meaningful moment!"
Francis had been pope for some 12 years.
Eric Scheidler, executive director of the Pro-Life Action League, said, "As a Catholic, as a pro-life advocate, and as a Chicagoan, I joyfully celebrate the election of Pope Leo XIV. Prior to his elevation to the papacy, Cardinal Prevost spent much of his life and ministry in my hometown and the Pro-Life Action League's headquarter city of Chicago, so I feel a special closeness to him in that regard. As a pro-life activist, I am also deeply heartened to know that our new pope holds strong pro-life convictions as evidenced by his words in a recent homily: 'God's mercy calls us to protect every life, especially those society overlooks—the child yet to be born and the elderly nearing their journey's end—because each bears Christ's face.' I look forward to serving the Church under Pope Leo's leadership for many years to come."
Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, said, "The pro-life movement would not have the strong presence it has today if it were not for the Catholic faithful. We have been blessed over the years with popes who have been fundamental in creating a Culture of Life.
"St. John Paul II issued the Evangelium Vitae, an encyclical which reaffirmed the universal right to life for all people. Pope Benedict XVI was an advocate of the right to life and followed the footsteps of his predecessor in keeping the right to life at the forefront of Catholic teaching. Pope Francis, like his predecessors, was a strong advocate for the value and dignity of every human life, from conception to natural death. We look forward to Pope Leo XIV continuing the work of his predecessors in his dedication to the right to life and championing the most vulnerable among us."
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President Donald Trump wants Fox News host Jeanine Pirro to be the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C.
Interim U.S. attorney Ed Martin had been nominated, but his named was pulled after a single senator announced his opposition.
"I am pleased to announce that Judge Jeanine Pirro will be appointed interim United States Attorney for the District of Columbia," Trump wrote. "Jeanine is incredibly well qualified for this position, and is considered one of the Top District Attorneys in the History of the State of New York. She is in a class by herself."
Martin's progress had been blocked by opposition from Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., who objected to Martin's work with, and in defense of, some of the J6 protesters who trespassed at the Capitol four years ago.
Tillis has explained he wants someone in that role "who believes that every single person who came into this building illegally should've suffered some consequences."
They were pardoned by Trump, of course.
But with Tillis holding a key vote on a Senate committee that must approve the nomination, reports appeared Thursday with Pirro's name.
A commentary at RedState explained, "'Be careful what you wish for' is something I routinely think when mulling over political strategy. Whenever you want a certain politician or appointee removed, you have to be sure that the replacement won't be worse."
It continued this is "something Sen. Thom Tillis (R-RINO) should have thought about when obstinately and publicly dissing President Trump's selection for U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ed Martin. While taking questions from reporters Thursday, Trump signaled that he would be naming someone else for that office since Martin's nomination wouldn't be able to get out of the Senate Judiciary Committee due to Tillis' opposition, which seemed to be a Tillis victory."
Pirro is a former judge and prosecutor.
"Pirro is on the same page as Martin regarding January 6 defendants, so Tillis is likely to oppose this nomination too, but given Pirro's decades of legal experience and her experience as both a prosecutor and a judge (Martin did not have that experience) and the fact that Pirro did not represent January 6 defendants in court, Tillis will have a hard time outright opposing the nomination," it explained.
The Washington Examiner said significantly, Tillis now is up for re-election in a possibly competitive primary, and "has yet to secure a Trump endorsement."
Trump has said Tillis is "disappointing.,"
Martin is serving in an interim capacity now but that can last only another two weeks.
If a replacement isn't in place, anti-Trump Judge James Boasberg would play a role in picking a temporary for the post.
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'It is one of those election crimes we are told does not happen, despite so many opportunities'
Democrats for years have insisted that theft of mail-in ballots and subsequent election fraud, from those ballots being submitted with forged signatures, doesn't happen.
Or at least so rarely that it's not really worth addressing.
A Colorado guilty plan now confirms that it has happened, and does happen.
The Federalist report explains Vicki Stuart, 64, a former postal worker in Mesa County, Colorado, is awaiting sentencing after she pleaded guilty to stealing – and casting – mail-in ballots in the state's 2024 general election.
"It is one of those election crimes we are told does not happen, despite so many opportunities for fraud in the ballot chain of custody," the report said.
Colorado, in fact, some years ago went to all mail-in ballots, over which there have been multiple accusations of theft and fraud.
The report explained Stuart and an alleged accomplice, Sally Jane Maxedon, 60, were accused of identity theft, attempt to influence a public servant, and forgery.
Maxedon has yet to enter a plea but is scheduled to appear in court this week.
Prosecutors in the county said the case developed when elections workers started getting telephone calls from people who said they'd been told their ballot was rejected because of a signature conflict.
However, they hadn't yet gotten their ballots.
Investigators noted the complaints came from people in proximity to one another, and they noted some of the ballots were mailed to locked boxes used by the USPS. Stuart was a mail carrier in the area at the time.
She confirmed delivering some ballots, but also revealed she inappropriately marked "return to sender" on some because their names weren't on the mail boxes.
There's no requirement that all people living at an address have their names listed on those boxes.
Eventually investigators found and identified a fingerprint from Maxedon on at least one ballot and she admitted casting ballots that did not belong to her but said she had been given them by an unknown man who wanted to "test" the system.
She eventually confirmed she knew Stuart, and said the two wanted to "test" the signature verification system.
The report warned, "The more hands on a ballot, the more opportunity for fraud. Mail-in ballots take voting outside election offices and trusts the USPS with bags of ballots. From election worker, to postal sorter, to postal carrier, to voter, to postal carrier, to county election envelope opener, to ballot counter — each time a new hand touches a ballot, there is an opportunity for fraud."
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'You came here today to defeat women in their own sport'
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Wednesday chaired a hearing of the House DOGE subcommittee lambasted the chairman of USA Fencing, Damien Lehfeldt, one of the witnesses who testified.
Lehfeldt was there to justify his organization's inclusion of biological males in female categories of fencing competition. Quoting from a blog post of Lehfeldt's, Greene noted his feelings on his daughter hypothetically competing against a man.
"You came here today to defeat women in their own sport," Greene told Lehfeldt. "You are a man who would tell his daughter to lose to a biological man and enjoy it!"
Greene's hearing was in response to a female fencer who recently refused to compete against a male fencer who "identifies" as a woman.
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Political party has added 'incarceration' to the 'four stages of the confession'
Majority Democrats in the autocracy in the state of Washington now have declared open war on Christianity, and the Catholic Church has responded with a volley that includes its commitment to defy a new law.
At issue, according to a report from constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, who has not only testified before Congress on constitutional disputes, but represented members in court in those fights, is the state's decision to alter the confessional requirements of the church.
"The Democrats have added to the four stages of the confession. Examination, confession, absolution, and penance may now be followed by incarceration," he explained.
It's because Democrat lawmakers in the state have decided to require Catholic priests, and other ministers as well, to tattle to law enforcement about anything they hear in a confessional.
He explained the "blatantly unconstitutional" law was signed recently by Democrat Gov. Bob Ferguson after Democrats in the legislature created it. Its problem is that it eviscerates the right to the free exercise of religion.
"The state is moving to create an effective system of sacramental snitches and the Catholic Church is declaring 'enough.' It has announced that any priest who complies with the law will be promptly excommunicated," Turley noted.
The Democrats want to demand that any priest or minister who learns "of any 'reasonable' basis to believe that a child 'has suffered abuse or neglect,'" must call police.
The law applies to any "ordained minister, priest, rabbi, imam, elder, or similarly situated religious or spiritual leader of any church, religious denomination, religious body, spiritual community, or sect, or person performing official duties that are recognized as the duties of a member of the clergy," he explained.
Despite church law that absolutely forbids such tattling, the state now demands it.
Courts previously have ruled that's forbidden for states to require.
Under Washington state's ideologies, "The state would be using the church as an agent to compel confessions on the threat of damnation and then turn over the evidence to the police. Worse yet, if the priest does not give a type of ministerial Miranda, the confessant may not realize the danger. However, it is rather hard for a priest to say that a person must confess their sin while reminding them of the right to remain silent."
The Catholic church said, "Catholic clergy may not violate the seal of confession — or they will be excommunicated from the Church. All Catholics must know and be assured that their confessions remain sacred, secure, confidential and protected by the law of the Church."
Turley's comment? "The Democrats effectively declared war on religion, and particularly the Catholic faith, with this abusive law. The matter is now set for a showdown in the federal courts and, hopefully, an expedited process for judicial review and appeals."
He noted in the gospels, Jesus said, "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's."
"This is not one of those things to be rendered to the modern demigods of Olympia," he said.
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Was belittling Christians who don't adopt his LGBT ideologies
Colorado Democrats already have moved aggressively into dictating what people believe.
Twice they've tried to demand that Christian business operators believe and promote the party's LGBT ideology in order to do business in the state.
First it was with a baker who declined state orders to violate his faith and promote same-sex duos getting married. Then it was a software designer who declined to violate her faith by promoting same-sex duos getting married.
Both times the U.S. Supreme Court slapped them down, although the Democrats have yet to relinquish their agenda.
And yet another case is pending before that same court involving the state's demand for counselors that they promote LGBT ideologies, but are banned for simply telling clients that they can have discussions about unwanted feelings and work through them.
But even with that, the all-leftist regime in the state, a homosexual Democrat governor, Democrat majorities in the state House and Senate and an all-Democrat state Supreme Court that wildly tried to bar President Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot, is not done.
Now they're telling God what they want Him to be.
That would be "trans."
It was Democrat state Sen. Chris Kolker, who has sponsored an extremist bill that critics charge would set up the state as a nuclear bomb against parental rights and families, who might have unveiled their real agenda.
He was belittling the faith of critics of his bill, which was amended radically overnight Monday.
He ranted to the Senate, "This email says, basically, 'I'm accountable to almighty God, because I'm standing up for equality, that my decisions, one day, I will stand before him and be accountable.' Well, this is what I believe: Have you ever seen that movie 'Talladega Nights'? You see that section where they're talking around the dinner table, and they're talking about what their favorite version of Jesus is? Baby Jesus, I love baby Jesus. I love Lynyrd Skynyrd Jesus when angels are behind him and the choir is singing and he's playing 'Free Bird.'
"Well, on my day of judgment, I might be standing in front of trans Jesus, I don't know."
His bill, HB 25-1312, originally was set up to punish parents who don't adopt and promote transgender ideologies fully.
The Democrats want to order courts to consider "deadnaming" and "misgendering" as forms of "coercive control" in custody disputes.
Courts then would be instructed to use those factors to destroy parental rights and assign custody based on their political ideology.
Deadnaming is simply using a child's legal name, after they've been counseled to claim to be transgender and have picked another name. Misgendering is simply referring to a child as "he" or "she" based on the sex they are.
The bill first attracted attention when a Democrat in the body described parents who don't align with the ideology as like the KKK.
A report at the Daily Signal noted that Rep. Brandi Bradley, a Republican, confirmed that the House sponsor no longer knows what the bill does.
But Bradley warned it still remains a massive "attack on parental rights."
The new version apparently, the report said, allows minors to change their names on a birth certificate, cutting out parents.
Kristen Christensen, state director for Heritage Action, told the Signal, "Colorado's HB 1312 remains an open assault on parent's rights and free speech.
"This legislation still includes school dress code language, adds to the anti-discrimination act, and muddies up legal documents with 'sex' changes. Heritage Action will continue the fight against this awful legislation."
Bradley warned, too, that the Democrats' bill could allow changing sex designation on identification documents multiple times: "How do we know that we're not giving a job to a sex offender? This is horrific for the health care industry, for the mortgage industry, for the gun industry, for public safety. … How many sex offenders are going to be working with children as teachers? How many health care workers will be going into senior living?"
Social media reacted to Kolker with:
"I seriously doubt his final destination is in an upward trajectory."
"Judgment Day is not going to go well for this guy."
"I suggest you go read the Bible, God is a jealous God and he doesn't like it when you mock him or claim to worship a God besides him. I think you and Trans Jesus will not go over well with the big guy, just saying."
Amid the jokes about Kolker being greeted by Satan, there was one simple testimony: "Your knee will bow just like the rest of us. The difference is I have the blood of Christ to cover my sins sir."
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Colorado's voting population was a largely Republican majority from 1880 to the early 2000s, with the party sometimes winning with a majority of 65%.
Then, history shows, several leftist billionaires donated heavily to state-level political races, for the state House and state Senate, and even the governor's office. The candidates they funded became the majority.
Since then, leftists have been running the state, with the current Democrat majority in the state House, Senate, governor's office and even the all-Democrat state Supreme Court, which radically even tried – and failed – to bar President Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot.
The result has seen officials in Denver try repeatedly to control and mandate the thoughts and beliefs of business owners, with mandates supporting the LGBT ideology.
After all, Gov. Jared Polis is homosexual and brought his "first husband" to the governor's mansion. But they've been slapped down, hard, twice by the Supreme Court already even as a third similar case is pending at the high court.
What also has happened is that Democrats in charge of state offices and coffers have turned their taxpayer-funded machinery into a weapon against Trump.
They've used tax revenues from the now-majority Democrats, as well as from the 43% minority Republicans, to sue the Trump administration 15 times.
The state's political divisions are common to many states: Tens of thousands of square miles of rangeland and mountains are staunchly Republican. City centers, like Boulder, Denver and Fort Collins, are dominated by Democrats.
It is a report in Westword that documented how Phil Weiser, the far-left Democrat attorney general, "has joined or filed over a dozen lawsuits against the Trump administration.
So far in 2025.
Actually, the report confirms, "Weiser has filed 15 lawsuits against the Trump administration in partnership with other attorneys general across the country. Weiser's lawsuits focus on maintaining Colorado's federal funding and protecting the rights of Colorado citizens."
Westword confirms, from April 29 was one in which Weiser opposes a Trump administration order under his program to save taxpayer money to cut back spending on AmeriCorps, a fed-funded program that in Colorado uses staff members to work in wildfire mitigation and trail restoration.
Weiser's 2025 attacks on Trump began the day after the president took office.
On Jan. 21, Weiser sued, with other states, over Trump's birthright citizenship order, a dispute that now has been taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court.
A week later, Weiser was suing over the Trump administration's freeze on federal cash handouts to research groups and nonprofits.
On Feb. 5, Weiser opposed a decision to allowing members of the Department of Government Efficiency to access Treasury's payment system, access that was needed to evaluation possible fraud and other criminal activity in the federal government's disbursement of payments.
On Feb. 10, he opposed Trump's decision to reduce reimbursements at research institutes across the country.
On Feb. 19, Weiser sued to keep federal taxpayer cash flowing to organizations that provided transgender chemicals and body mutilating surgeries to transgender patients, including children.
On March 6 he and others sued to continue handing out taxpayer money to grants that were to address the "shortage" of teachers in the nation.
He also, on the same day, joined an action against the Trump administration for laying off probationary federal employees.
On March 13, Weiser and others sued to keep the U.S. Department of Education, which has been targeted by the Trump administration for shutdown, with plans to give much of its authority to local and state education boards.
Weiser, on April 1, sued Health and Human Services chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over $11 billion in grant funding cuts to various "public health" programs.
On April 3, Weiser demanded in court that President Trump was not allowed to require documentation of citizenship for people to vote in U.S. elections.
On April 4, Weiser and others sued various administration components for delaying cash handouts for various medical research projects.
On that same day, Weiser was in court to keep open federal operations like the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Minority Business Development Agency.
Then on April 23, he sued over the president's tariffs, which are aimed at making the world trade economy fair to U.S. manufacturers, consumers and taxpayers.
And on April 27 there was Weiser's claim that Colorado can keep pushing "diversity, equity and inclusion" social agendas despite the president's ban, because the ban isn't "fully explained," the report said.
Many of the administration's moves would end up reducing funding for special interest programs in Colorado.
The report noted, "It seems Weiser will be going to court a lot in the coming months."
Some of Trump's moves have been blocked by judges at the entry level of the federal court system. And they are on appeal. Some have been affirmed, including a decision by the Supreme Court to allow Trump's ban on transgender patients in the military, for health and deployment reasons, to stand.
The actual results of many of Trump's agenda points will become clear as the Supreme Court weighs in on more and more of the plans.
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President Donald Trump expressed outrage Wednesday at CBS News and its "60 Minutes" program being nominated for an Emmy award for its deceptively edited interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 White House race.
"In a total slap in the face to anyone who believes in TRUTH and Honest Journalism, this Fake News Puff Piece has now been nominated for an award by the totally discredited Emmys," Trump posted on Truth Social.
"Did 60 Minutes and its Corporate Parents apply to get an Emmy for an illegally falsified interview, or did other Fake Outlets nominate them for this dubious 'honor'?
"These antics are why the American People have no trust in the Press, and demand that the Media, very much including 60 Minutes, CBS, and its owners, be held responsible for their corruption and lies, which is exactly what we are doing in Court!"
The president also noted: "The Election Interfering 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris, which aired on CBS just before Election Day and deep into Early Voting, turned out to be much worse than expected, with her answers being unlawfully fixed, manipulated, and doctored throughout by CBS, in order to try and make Kamala appear at least somewhat coherent."
Trump has already sued the network, seeking $20 billion for what he alleged was election interference, and as WorldNetDaily reported, mediation talks to settle the suit were said to begin last week.
A source familiar with the inner workings of CBS News told Fox News Digital: "The irony is, some folks at '60 Minutes' are popping champagne over an Emmy nomination – for the same interview that landed them in legal hot water. It's a reminder that these awards are voted on by other journalists, not the public, not their bosses – and certainly not lawyers."
CBS' parent company, Paramount Global, is hoping to complete a planned multibillion-dollar merger with Skydance Media.
Meanwhile, Bill Owens, "60 Minutes" executive producer, left the news program last month, complaining about the show's editorial independence.
"Our parent company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger," said "60 Minutes" anchor Scott Pelley, discussing the departure of Owens on the air.
"The Trump administration must approve it. Paramount began to supervise our content in new ways. None of our stories have been blocked, but Bill felt he lost the independence that honest journalism required."
CBS News released a statement at the time Trump filed suit, indicating: "Former President Donald Trump is accusing '60 Minutes' of deceitful editing of our Oct. 7 interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false."
"'60 Minutes' gave an excerpt of our interview to 'Face the Nation' that used a longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes. Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response. When we edit any interview, whether a politician, an athlete, or movie star, we strive to be clear, accurate and on point. The portion of her answer on '60 Minutes' was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide ranging 21-minute-long segment."
Howard Kurtz, the former Washington Post media writer who left CNN to join Fox News in 2013, blasted "60 Minutes" as "blatantly unethical" for its "pathetic response."
"This is a pathetic response by '60 Minutes' after a week of silence," Kurtz told Martha MacCallum of Fox News.
"It basically says, 'Yeah, we did it. So what?' They talk about making Kamala Harris sound more succinct, in other words, making her look better by switching up the answers as you just saw. You can't have a different part of an answer to the same question."
"It's blatantly unethical, and if someone on my staff did that, they'd be looking for a new job," he continued.
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Despite Senate confirmation hearings set to begin this week on President Trump's first surgeon general nominee, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, he has now replaced her with a new nominee: Dr. Casey Means, an adviser to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who is well-known in the MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) movement.
"Casey has impeccable 'MAHA' credentials, and will work closely with our wonderful Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to ensure a successful implementation of our Agenda in order to reverse the Chronic Disease Epidemic, and ensure Great Health, in the future, for ALL Americans," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
"Her academic achievements, together with her life's work, are absolutely outstanding. Dr. Casey Means has the potential to be one of the finest Surgeon Generals in United States History."
Referencing his first nominee, Trump wrote, "Congratulations to Casey! Secretary Kennedy looks forward to working with Dr. Janette Nesheiwat in another capacity at HHS."
Nesheiwat recently came under fire for past remarks about the COVID vaccine and DEI initiatives.
CNN notes that both Means and her brother, White House health adviser Calley Means, have made frequent public appearances at MAHA events and on podcasts, arguing that Americans are sick with chronic disease because the health care system and federal agencies are prioritizing medication and financial incentives over nutrition and holistic health.
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A U.S. House committee has written a letter to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi explaining that its investigation shows that the security measures used by ActBlue, a massive Democrat cash collecting scheme, are weak, and the organization "overlooks bad actors."
WorldNetDaily recently reported the investigation was begun into fundraising giant ActBlue, which reportedly has directed some $16 billion to Democrat politicians in recent years.
Earlier, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the chief of the House Oversight Committee, said, "We're investigating ActBlue the same way we investigated the Bidens. … We're starting with the suspicious activity reports — bank violations that flag financial crimes. And let me tell you, the evidence is overwhelming."
There have been claims of money-laundering, massive piles of cash being funneled from overseas into Democrat campaigns, and more.
It was President Donald Trump who signed a memo calling for a crackdown on "straw donors" and foreign money in American campaigns. That instructed Bondi to take appropriate action on the issues, and offenders.
A report at Center Square said the memo cited documentation of "significant fraud schemes" involving ActBlue and donations made through the organization just ahead of the 2024 election that came "from foreign internet protocol addresses using prepaid cards" that could involve illegal behavior.
The new letter is from the House Committee on House Administration, and its chief, Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wis.
"The oversight has uncovered that ActBlue has weak fraud-prevention practices and overlooks bad actors, including foreign actors, who take advantage of the platform to make illicit political donations," the letter said. "ActBlue's concerning activities may have a direct effect on U.S. political campaigns and elections."
Actually, various Republican groups have been investigating ActBlue since 2023, when Steil launched a probe into the way the group verified donors, or didn't.
Documentation already has shown that some donors have made thousands of donations, amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars, even though the donors are retirees on fixed incomes.
The organization abruptly fell into disarray this year, after the New York Times "reported on March 5 that at least seven senior staffers resigned in late February, including its top legal officer. The reason for the exodus is not yet known."
Several attorneys general from states also have begun investigating.