How do you stop ActBlue from spamming your phone?
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Anonymous
I suppose if you have nothing better to do with your time you could spin your wheels about that. Or you could just learn how to unsubscribe. |
Anonymous
Ask a 12 year old to show you how to unsubscribe from unwanted texts. I have found it to be easy to stop fundraising emails and texts. |
Anonymous
This is false. The unsubscribe doesn't work. I've been collecting proof. I'm hoping that either the Republicans or Attorney General will see this as harassment and take action. If ActBlue is shut down, my guess is the spam will stop. |
Anonymous
I don't like any Spam, and it's not just "act blue." I get a LOT of trump emails/texts. But when I ask them to stop or unsubscribe, they have done so. Take 5 seconds and do that. |
Anonymous
Unsubscribe worked for me (for all sorts of political solicitations, including act blue). Sooo, Maybe it's you. Maybe their targeting you. Stalking you. You should be afraid. It's obv a huge conspiracy. |
Anonymous
Go ahead then! Don't let reality stop you 
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Anonymous
Harassment is harassment. How many have you received? Just one? I've got proof for way more than that. Today's was Takesha Martinez. As long as ActBlue keeps sending them, I'll keep registering them and collecting data. I'm thinking that if a Republican Attorney General, Judge or a jury agrees that X number of messages is excessive or not what Congress intended, that ActBlue will get slapped with a massive fine. I'm a registered Democrat who contributed before, but when I wanted to go off their list, yet it kept coming. For two years now, it's kept coming. But I think it's really stupid to not put someone on the do-not-contact list and Democrats risk alienating potential donors. But if you think it's a smart thing to do, just don't be in shock if Democratic donations start tanking and you sit around scratching your heads wondering why it happened. |
Anonymous
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Texting your phone is not harassment.
No one is shutting down Act Blue because you are a baby. |
Anonymous
I guess the LA Times is too? The politicians supporting it are too hooked on the sugar rush, but this will backfire on them. Give it time. "Political spam has become too cheap and easy to send out. Billions of political messages are dispatched by the candidates’ campaigns each year in email, text and robocalls. For us recipients, it’s none too easy to opt out. While commercial solicitations by email and text are subject to certain basic rules — they must have clear opt-out mechanisms and must identify who is sending the message, for instance — political email is less tightly regulated. “The politicians who write the rules have exempted themselves from a lot of the rules that could apply,” Ellen Weintraub, a member of the Federal Election Commission, told the Washington Post. That was in October when Google was launching a pilot program to allow campaign emails to bypass the spam filters that protect Gmail users from junk mail." https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-02-09/nancy-pelosi-political-donations-fundraising-republican-democratic-campaign-finance-actblue-winred |
Anonymous
Republicans will not act. Generally the parties protect each other on things like this. An ethics committee might act against an individual member, if they are way out of line, but they will not go after each other for breaking rules. Instead they get together and pass a law that broadcast networks have to give them ads at the cheapest possible rate. |
Anonymous
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STOP usually works for everything.
Delete and Report Spam is an option on my iPhone. You have to be vigilant because they keep cropping back up as your number get sold over and over again. This spam comes from Republican candidates, too, FWIW. |
Anonymous
| It's ActBLUE. You're lucky they are spamming and there's not a mandatory deduction from your paycheck. |
Anonymous
I never subscribed in the first time. I have reached out and emailed over 50 times and they still message me daily. All they did was change the name. Time to outlaw text campaigns and fine anyone who does it. |
Anonymous
| I get multiple texts a day from these people. It’s for some dude named Darren and that’s not me. Unsubscribing or hitting STOP doesn’t do shit. I report them all as junk and delete. It’d annoying af |
Anonymous
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I brought it on myself. But there's nothing more annoying than getting an "Urgent Alert" about a fundraising deadline.
A fundraising deadline is not a thing. There is no point where someone says "gosh, you came in $5000 short. I guess you're not a candidate anymore" |