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Exhibit 738

The Facts the NYT Ignored

Exhibit 738 ยท Organization statement

The Facts the NYT Ignored

the use of which ActBlue pioneered years ago, and continues to promote today

WinRed's same-day response to the New York Times report. Says ActBlue pioneered recurring and pre-checked boxes, and that pre-checked boxes appeared on DCCC and DSCC ActBlue pages. Partisan self-description; use for WinRed's position only.

Source
WinRed
Date
3 April 2021
Quoted from
Second paragraph
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://winred.com/blog/the-facts-the-nyt-ignored
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Finding POL-3.13
Primary record On 29 April 2021 the attorneys general of New York, Connecticut, Maryland and Minnesota wrote to WinRed about pre-checked recurring boxes, and on 6 May 2021 the FEC asked Congress to require affirmative consent for recurring contributions and to bar implied consent through pre-checked boxes. In 2023 the Eighth Circuit held in WinRed v. Ellison that federal election law did not block the Minnesota investigation.
Finding POL-3.16
Reported WinRed's published account states that ActBlue pioneered recurring and pre-checked boxes and that pre-checked boxes appeared on ActBlue pages for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. One press account reports that ActBlue began phasing them out in July 2021.