From Pleading the Fifth to Missing Kids—Democrats Show their True Selves
The Ben Ferguson Podcast
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🗓️ 12 June 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
1. ActBlue Investigation Allegations
- ActBlue is a major Democratic fundraising platform.
- The CEO pleaded the Fifth Amendment repeatedly during congressional testimony.
- There are allegations of illegal foreign donations, including possible contributions from foreign nationals.
- Congressional Republicans are investigating whether ActBlue:
- Allowed foreign donations
- Misled Congress
- Failed to implement fraud safeguards
2. Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Controversy
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- Being investigated for funding extremist groups (including the KKK) via informants.
- Allowing funds to allegedly support activities like cross-burning (as claimed in DOJ allegations).
- The CEO is described as evasive during testimony, deferring to legal proceedings.
- Includes a segment about questioning the CEO on a politician with a Nazi tattoo.
3. Missing Migrant Children & Immigration Policy
- the Biden administration:
- Lost track of hundreds of thousands of migrant children.
- Failed to vet sponsors receiving children.
- Many children were subjected to abuse, forced labor, or trafficking.
- The Trump administration has allegedly recovered 146,000+ children.
- Democratic immigration policies are enabling harm.
- Lists votes where Democrats allegedly opposed deportation policies for certain offenders.
- Used to argue Democrats are:
- Soft on immigration enforcement
- Prioritizing undocumented immigrants over public safety
4. “Green New Deal” / Government Funding Criticism
- Discusses Department of the Interior actions to cut funding to:
- Environmental groups
- DEI-related programs
- Claims:
- Democrats funnel taxpayer money to allied nonprofits
- These groups then advance political agendas
- Describes this as corruption or misuse of funds
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Welcome, it is the Ben Ferguson show. |
| 0:06.2 | It is nice to have you with us. |
| 0:07.4 | As I am wrapping up family vacation, I still am doing the show with Center Cruz, the show we do verdict with Ted Cruz, wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:16.7 | And we have a lot to talk about on today's show as we did a dual show together talking about |
| 0:21.8 | not only the Southern Poverty Law Center having a very bad week on Capitol Hill, but also |
| 0:26.2 | Act Blue as well. And we've got some other problems with the Obama administration slash |
| 0:32.9 | then Biden administration losing kids in America. We're now fighting these kids literally by the |
| 0:38.6 | 100,000. It's sad story, but an important one as the administration's fighting back and getting |
| 0:44.6 | these kids back that are being enslaved and sex trafficked as well. But before we get to that, |
| 0:50.0 | I want to take a moment and talk to you about what's happening right now in this country. |
| 0:54.0 | And it really feels like our country is finally getting the momentum we needed again. |
| 0:58.5 | Our leaders are fighting to restore common sense at America first, but we've also seen this |
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