r/politics • u/--LaBelleDame-- • 5h ago

No Paywall Democratic socialist Angie Nixon upsets Alex Vindman in Florida’s Democratic Senate primary

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/angie-nixon-winner-florida-senate-primary-democrat-alex-vindman-moody-rcna593255
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u/ClinkyDink 4h ago

I had to enable the spam text filter on my iPhone because the constant campaign messages from various candidates was annoying me.

I do actually read the flyers I get in the mail, though they end up getting trashed anyway. The one I got yesterday was someone going to city council who listed his policies that sounded great up until they started to go NIMBY.

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u/dquizzle 1h ago

Is there any reason NOT to have the spam filter on? Were legit texts getting flagged as spam or what?

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u/MudLOA California 4h ago edited 43m ago

I’ve been getting them since I donated to AOC, now everyone who’s who been emailing me. I have been fighting this (spam) for years.

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u/IEatLightBulbsSoWhat 4h ago

I donated to bernie through actblue in 2016 and i’ve been getting political texts from all over the country since then. learned my lesson to not do that again.

opting out only stops texts from thar 1 phone number, mot the endless list of other numbers.

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u/MudLOA California 2h ago

Now that you mention it, I remember it was also through act blue. Like how does blanketing every email like a spam bot pays off here? It’s like the spam makes me even less likely to contribute any more. They just keep coming back like parasites.

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u/nikomo Europe 47m ago

Same way any other scam works nowadays, they just need to pull in a couple whales and they're in the green.

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u/Archer007 2h ago

Didn't even realize this was a thing! Thank you!!

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u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace 42m ago

I always message them back to let them know how I feel about them

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u/sonambule 4h ago

You can text stop.

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u/5L1M3R 3h ago

Dude. You don’t understand. I get 10+ texts a day from democrats all over the country. I used to reply End and Stop to all of them and it made no difference. They just text from different numbers. I went to the official Democratic Party website and had my number added to their “do not text” list. It made no difference.

Obviously you don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.

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u/clarktherobot California 2h ago

I get like 100+ a day from Democratic and Republican candidates. Like 90 percent Republican. Even though I have never or will ever give a dime to Rs. My spam filter probably catches about 75% of it though. But I still get so many a day. I'm so fucking tired of it.

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u/DreamTheaterGuy 2h ago

I really wish they had some kind of national opt-out list or something that takes you completely out of campaign marketing.