One of Congress’s loudest progressive voices is now facing serious scrutiny — not for a fiery floor speech or a viral Twitter spat, but for potential campaign finance violations.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), a freshman Democrat who’s made a name for herself as a rising progressive firebrand, is now the subject of a Federal Election Commission investigation. On April 2, the FEC confirmed that it had opened a probe following a complaint from the conservative watchdog group Coolidge-Reagan Foundation. The issue? Suspicious donations made through ActBlue, the Democrats’ go-to fundraising machine.
According to the complaint, filed on March 26, Crockett’s campaign may have received donations that were either unauthorized or outright fraudulent. A specific case involves 73-year-old Texas resident Randy Best, who supposedly made 53 individual contributions totaling $595 to Crockett’s re-election campaign. The problem? Best’s wife, when questioned in a video shared by Crockett’s potential Republican opponent Sholdon Daniels, claimed to have no idea these donations were ever made.
Jasmine Crockett received $16,000 in political contributions from an elderly retired couple..
Sholdon Daniels, who’s running against Jasmine Crockett, went to their house to confirm the contributions AND “THEY HAD NO IDEA WHAT THESE CHARGES WERE” ‼️
INSANE!!! 👇🏼 @SholdonDaniels pic.twitter.com/DVkuZfCj9s
— TONY™ (@TONYxTWO) March 12, 2025
If that sounds familiar, it should. Republicans have been sounding the alarm for months about elderly Americans being used as donation conduits through ActBlue — with some reporting thousands of contributions in their names that they deny ever making.
The broader complaint alleges Crockett’s campaign has taken in over $870,000 through ActBlue, and now there’s growing concern that many of those donations may share a similar pattern. Whether Crockett herself was aware or not may soon become irrelevant. As Dan Backer, the attorney representing the Coolidge-Reagan Foundation, told The Daily Signal, the law holds campaign treasurers responsible for due diligence.
“It could be a reasonable defense for Rep. Crockett and other Democrats to say, ‘We didn’t solicit those donations,’” Backer said. “But that would be willful blindness.”
ActBlue, for its part, insists it follows all federal laws and dismisses the allegations as partisan noise. But this isn’t just smoke anymore — it’s a federally sanctioned investigation. And given that ActBlue has already been the subject of state-level probes, this case could become a turning point.
As of now, Crockett has 15 days to respond, though extensions are typical in these matters. Still, silence from her office and campaign staff isn’t helping.
One thing’s certain: this investigation could turn a rising Democrat star into yet another cautionary tale in the swamp of campaign finance corruption.
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