@dangillmor

Not just email but text messages. Fortunately that, too, can be blocked.

@dangillmor Did you say Act Blue?

Argh!!!!

@dangillmor Yeah, I get a lot of that junk - and it is junk. It is not quite as hyperbolic as the right-wing spam, but it also devoid of any message other than "send money".

There's no educational content to inform voters and the emails do not suggest courses of action (other than sending a credit card number).

Basically if the D's are paying for that junk they are throwing their money away (and at the same time causing potential voters to get numb and to erect spam filters.)

@dangillmor @glennf I ran away from my previous phone number for largely that reason.

In the last election cycle the spam SMS messages were approaching hourly.

Please, progressive causes, make it SUSTAINABLY viable to support you.

@dangillmor I signed up for Trump’s fundraising emails so I could keep an eye on the sleazy bastard. I used to think, “omg, his followers are complete idiots if they believe this bullshit in these emails”

Then I donated to MJ Hegar’s campaign and soon after started receiving an onslaught of those same emails laden with similar bullshit.

They really think we’re fools.

@dangillmor this happens all the time, no matter who you donate to.

i hate it.

@dangillmor thankfully, my email provider allows the creation of ad-hoc email addresses that I use for stuff like this.

E.g. a Gmail account you can add "+anything" to the end of your email and it still arrives in your inbox.

So if I made a donation to CharityA I'd sign up with [email protected]

Then I can triage/filter/ based on the To address.

Also let's you see which organisation has been passing your details around.

@dangillmor > Having donated even once to a Democratic candidate or progressive cause, you are punished with a lifetime of incessant spam.

I suspect that it happens because it works. People who have donated once are more likely to donate again. Or maybe it is just so cheap to spam that the spammers don't care. I can't quite decide. I wonder if anyone has conducted a real study on the effectiveness of political spam fundraising.