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Secretary of State Jena Griswold announced a run for Attorney General on Monday, and urged people to donate to ActBlue to ensure her campaign gets "off to a strong start."

"I’m Jena Griswold and I am running to be Colorado’s next Attorney General. As AG, I will stand up to Trump, prioritize common sense gun safety reforms, and safeguard our land, air, and water. Help our campaign get off to a strong start!"

ActBlue is currently under investigation. Jena should be too, but she passed ruled that she can only investigate herself, so it is what it is.

Jena originally launched a run for governor, but was immediately hit with campaign finance violations, which her campaign lied about until they were caught in a lie. From Colorado Politics in March:

According to the complaint, when asked about the website, Chris Griswold, brother and campaign manager for Colorado's top election official, “initially lied, stating it was 'definitely' not their domain.” The complaint said the Griswold campaign revealed it purchased the website only after learning that his email address was tied to the campaign’s email subscription. Chris Griswold told Colorado Politics in January the complaint is "baseless."

This time Jena wants to get off to a strong start, instead of another scandal, but ActBlue is a synonym for corruption these days.

What's the Big Deal with ActBlue?

The House Judiciary released their report on ActBlue fraud on Wednesday, showing the relaxation of fraud prevention measures by Democrats during the primaries and before the general presidential election is like a Hunter Biden suspicious activity report – alarming and illegal but buried and forgotten. Also, they’re looking at Democrat SARs again:

“This staff report is not the end of our investigation. We’re also asking for transcribed interviews with current ActBlue employees—including the ones responsible for ActBlue’s fraud-prevention operation—and reviewing suspicious activity reports (SARs) of fraud on ActBlue.”

The relaxation of standards is important, because it enables smurfing. From the House Judiciary X thread on the report. “Even before these policy changes, ActBlue staff were told to accept as much fraud as possible.” Yikes.

CannCon and I have been talking about smurfing for more than a year on Why We Vote, but election integrity activists have been investigating and exposing smurfing since before Why We Vote was a show. Here is Robin Sachs from Maryland talking about their smurfing findings in March 2023.

The practice was perfected by Obama. The New York Times debunked Obama’s "small donor" claims in 2008.

The debunk was carried by all the major outlets to publish pieces about “Obama’s Small Donor Myth.” But in 2012, the story was different:

They even had a new study correcting the old study from above while ignoring the 2008 scandal.

“Nearly half of the donors to Obama’s reelection campaign in 2011 gave $200 or less, more than double the proportion seen in 2007, according to the analysis from the Campaign Finance Institute, which tracks money in politics.”

Don’t forget that ActBlue launched in 2004 as a new endeavor to harness the power of grassroots small donors. And boy did they harness that power.

They harnessed it through a meeting of the minds to engage in a highly coordinated portfolio of crime. The Federal Statutes they potentially violated (h/t: Peter Bernegger) include:

1. 18 U.S.C. § 1956 – Money Laundering
2. 18 U.S.C. § 1957 – Monetary Transactions in Property Derived from Unlawful Activity
3. 18 U.S.C. § 1001 – False Statements to Federal Agencies
4. 52 U.S.C. § 30122 – Contributions in the Name of Another
5. 18 U.S.C. § 1343 – Wire Fraud
6. 18 U.S.C. § 1341 – Mail Fraud
7. 18 U.S.C. § 371 – Conspiracy to Defraud the United States
8. 18 U.S.C. § 1028 – Identity Theft
9. 18 U.S.C. § 1030 – Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
10. 15 U.S.C. § 6801–6809 – Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
11. 31 U.S.C. 5311 et seq - Bank Secrecy Act (12 CFR 21.11, 12 CFR 21.21)
12. 52 U.S.C. § 30122 – Contributions in the Name of Another (FECA)
13. 18 U.S.C. § 1028 – Identity Fraud and Document Fraud

There’s definitely more. At a minimum, there are state versions of these charges that can be applied in the states where the payments originated. (And potentially where they pass through as well as their final destination.)

In the more philosophical sense, according to Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, no one actually knows how much law exists (Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law). 

The people whose identities were stolen should press ALL possible charges. The people who relaxed the fraud-prevention measures should go to prison. The devs in the ActBlue ecosystem probably have some liability, and then there are the people calling the shots…

Who are they?

According to The New York Times, “ActBlue, the online fund-raising organization that powers Democratic candidates, has plunged into turmoil, with at least seven senior officials resigning [in late February] and a remaining lawyer suggesting he faced internal retaliation.”

That article, published on March 5th, cites whistleblower retaliation as part of the internal turmoil. Interesting. Are we finally going to get action from Jim Jordan’s clown rodeo? He’s been building that record for literal years.

Regina Wallace-Jones is still in charge at ActBlue, at least on paper. According to the NYT piece from March, “a letter from the ActBlue unions warned that the group was ‘under increasing scrutiny’ and ‘the target of bad-faith political attacks at the hands of ill-intentioned operators.’”

That was a month ago. Now we know they relaxed their fraud prevention measures in the middle of the election cycle. Who made that call?

It’s all very exciting. And I actually mean that. Scroll up and read that crime list again and get excited with me. 

CDoS is Undergoing Transformation

Jena is now running for AG, meaning she won't really be running CDoS. Of course, she wasn't really running things anyway. Deputy Secretary of State Chris Beall ran the office since 2021, but as we reported last week, with the DOJ investigating weaponized government and Tina Peters, Beall decided to jump ship.

Beall is replaced by Perkins Coie alum Andrew Kline. Kline was also:

• Chief of Staff/Sr Adv. under Exec Office of Pres Obama
• Lead Advance, Clinton for President
• Senior Counsel to Senator Biden
• Policy Advisor to VP Biden

Lot's of change, and with the 2026 race fully underway, Colorado Democrats are rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

Looking forward to the inevitable Rocky Mountain Showdown.

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