ActBlue’s first filing of the year with the Federal Election Commission is due at the end of the month. Over 3 million donors contributed $420 million through ActBlue in the first six months of the year. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images campaign finance ActBlue's 'green wave' continues with $246 million second quarter haul

Democratic campaigns and organizations are riding high off support from small donors.

ActBlue, the online fundraising platform used by most Democratic candidates and outside groups, announced that 3.3 million donors contributed $420 million through the platform in the first six months of the year. ActBlue’s first filing of the year with the Federal Election Commission, which covers the same time period, is due at the end of the month.


The group said $246 million came through ActBlue during the second quarter of 2019. Nearly 8,700 campaigns, committees and organizations use the platform, and 1.1 million donors gave via ActBlue in the final 10 days of the second quarter alone.

The numbers demonstrate the incredible growth of online fundraising in recent years, especially among Democrats. The party broke fundraising records in 2017 in response to President Donald Trump's inauguration, but this year's numbers far outstrip that pace: Donors gave $249 million through ActBlue in the first six months of 2017.

“These numbers show that there is incredible energy among the grassroots already, and we’re still more than a year out from Election Day,” ActBlue Executive Director Erin Hill said in a statement. “We’re seeing millions of donors, record-breaking totals every quarter, and a rapidly-growing small-dollar army that is ready to help Democrats take back everything from school boards to the White House next year.”

Roughly 589,000 users signed up for ActBlue Express in the second quarter, saving their personal information so they can make one-click donations in the future without reentering data. More than 7 million people are signed up with ActBlue Express.

Mobile contributions are also on the rise: 56 percent of contributions given in the second quarter were given over mobile platforms, the second time ever a majority of contributions came in through mobile devices.

Republicans have been trying to play catch-up to ActBlue for years, with party officials and Trump’s campaign all backing one centralized platform, WinRed, that launched late last month . The Republican National Committee and the party’s Senate and gubernatorial arms threatened legal action against a WinRed competitor and have been trying to muscle the competition out of the potentially lucrative market.