ActBlue, the principal small-dollar fundraising platform for Democratic candidates and progressive causes, filed a federal lawsuit in Boston on May 1 seeking to stop Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from pursuing what it calls a retaliatory campaign against the group for its political work.
The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, asks a federal judge to declare Paxton’s ongoing investigation and his April 20 Texas state court case against ActBlue unconstitutional violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendments and to block him from continuing to pursue them.
ActBlue alleges Paxton, a Republican who faces a May 26 GOP Senate primary runoff against Sen. John Cornyn, escalated his more-than-two-year investigation of the platform in direct response to fundraising surges by his potential general election opponent, Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico….
Democratic Fundraising Platform ActBlue Sues Texas AG Paxton, Alleges Retaliation
