«Elon Musk, the president’s billionaire adviser who poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the 2024 election, has criticized ActBlue for weeks, claiming without evidence that the organization was funded by Democratic megadonors including Herb Sandler, who died in 2019. On Thursday, Mr. Musk wrote on his social media platform, “ActBlue is guilty of widespread criminal identity theft.”»

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/us/politics/trump-actblue-democrats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CU8.WQGF.gIidzSoPlhsb&smid=url-share (gift)

Here we go, I guess.

I would imagine the P25 people will want lists of donors’ names and addresses so they can “verify their citizenship” or something. Don’t worry, though; the DOGE boys will treat that data with the utmost care to maintain confidentiality, and will definitely not sell it to Meta or Palantir or China.

I wonder how much this will push political donations to crypto-currencies. That’ll be greeeeaat.

«The National Republican Congressional Committee, the first major national party committee to accept cryptocurrency donations, uses both WinRed and BitPay — the latter is a service that converts crypto contributions into dollars before they land in a political committee’s campaign account.»

https://www.businessinsider.com/altcoins-bitcoin-crypto-cryptocurrency-candidates-politics-donations-congress-elections-2021-10

(Article from 2021.) Of course they do.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trumps-campaign-says-it-will-begin-accepting-contributions-through-cryptocurrency#:~:text=A%20representative%20from%20President%20Joe,Support%20PBS%20News%20Hour%20now.

No investigations, though. Huh.