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Not to mention Adam has been researching this for way longer than this election cycle and been public about it.

Dude, you literally made them mutually exclusive in the first half of your post and then ended by saying they're not mutual exclusive. I guess you don't know what mutually exclusive means?

And @marcelias.bsky.social helps enable this diseased ecosystem, sending cease and desist letters to probing journalists

An old problem: washingtonmonthly.com/2005/01/12/f...

I should note that the begging is coming from dozens of campaigns all over the country, not just the ones I donated to.

also cf @rtraister.bsky.social👇🏼 bsky.app/profile/dcei...

I purposefully never donate based off the damn spam txts. It makes me not want to donate at all, to see that's the majority of what im funding when i do donate. What an absolute disaster on budgeting for how to use funds.

I block & delete every single text that comes my way. How does ActBlue fare? I've only used that for direct (I hope?) donations to specific candidates.

I get 10-20 texts/day from candidates all over the country. I never donate thru any of them. I delete them and report as spam. Annoying. If someone were to donate to a candidate for the 1st time and then be bombarded like this, I could easily see it turning them off from ever donating again.

A truly underrated topic!

Never ever donate from an email or text. I always go directly to the candidate's site and give, bypassing the fundraising fee. People like @samwang.bsky.social have set up a system to easily donate to the candidates who need the money the most.

Replying stop removes you from that individual mailing list but marks your number as being live and responsive which makes it more valuable and they will sell it to more people. Don't respond. Block is spam

And a lot of them sound like scams. I just delete, block and report, unread. Honestly, I hope those are scams, because if someone is paying for genuine communication and the product is indistinguishable from a scam and gets tossed out unopened, they are really throwing that money away.

I don't need a single advertisement, text message, phone call, billboard, social campaign, etc to decide who to vote for. None of those things by the alternatives is likely to impact my vote.