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The Crimes of ActBlue + The "Kirkiversary" Cake

The Charlie Kirk Show

September 17, 2026

The Democrats' top fundraising entity just got caught looking the other way to enable a raft of foreign money into U.S. politics. The show displays the damning emails.

Speakers Charlie Kirk, Blake Neff, James O'Keefe, Arch Manning, Riley Barnes, Tom Fitton, Bill Aseley, Maria Elvira Salazar, Riley Beasley, Luke Rosiak

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Charlie Kirk (1:17)

All right. Welcome, everybody. It's September 17th, 2026 We're here in Phoenix, Arizona at the Y-Refi Studio. Honored to be with you all as always. Lots of news going on and a big, big bombshell, outatownhall.com. Let's give credit where it's due.

This is something that was near and dear to my heart because, you know what? We covered a lot with Charlie, a lot. And that was what we believe to be the criminal enterprise that is known as ActBlue. Yes, ActBlue, the mega behemoth, fundraising juggernaut of the left. It was so big, so powerful, so effective that we came up with something called WinRed just to counter it. It was that effective. Now, through the years, ActBlue has raised billions and billions of dollars that it has farmed out to candidates all across the country, giving them a massive political and financial advantage in many cases.

But, come to find out that internal Slack messages from ActBlue have now been made known, and they show staff knowingly waved through foreign donations. Now, Blake, I'm not a political scientist, but I sometimes play one on TV. Is that legal?

Well, you're not the lawyer who often plays one on TV. No, you're not allowed to take foreign money. Now, so this is a really big story, but this is what Democrats have been doing for a long time. Now, this is, when you get into it, it actually has proof that people in ActBlue were saying, hey, we can't do this.

Blake Neff (2:55)

It's really remarkable. And as you said, about $16 billion raised over about the last 20 years. This is the engine of the Obama political machine.

And it was that the way they worked was they really mastered getting lots of small donations, the ones who would get really passionate about Obama, for example, and channeling that into all their other races. That was the secret weapon of ActBlue, was to make it so the people who get really fired up about your president end up having their money diverted to those other races that don't fire up people as much, your random House race, Senate race, and so on. And people have been pointing out for years. It was political genius. And people have pointed out for years, there's shady parts of this. But most of the time, the left controlled, either literally controlled the White House, or they at least controlled the federal enforcement apparatus. And we weren't as good at exposing what was going on. But this report from Congress, the details of it are really remarkable. And you can find all of this on X. There's a town hall thread that lays out the best parts of it. So for example, ActBlue has told Congress that they're able to stop foreign donors because they have passport verification.

And then their policy, which they have the exact line available, all it does is check whether their passport number has the right number of characters in it. So the right number of numbers. That's all they check. They don't go to a database and make sure it's a real number. All they do is check that it has the right number of characters.

Charlie Kirk (4:22)

It has the air of an organization that is finding the loosest way to enable fraud.

Basically, that's what it is. So what actually gets a foreign donation approved at ActBlue? Supervisor's own words, quote, the donor is foreign but correctly entered the billing address.

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