I sent $25 to Warnock and another $25 to Ossoff. I will never do that again.

Every day since, I get emails begging for more money. They started at 6-8 emails per day and have now crested 3-4 emails per hour. Seriously.

I wound up blocking the emails. A real nuisance.

You just unsubscribe. Don’t blame them, every time they blast the list, some money comes in. So they do it lots. Imagine if you could push a little “send” button and watch your account grow.


I stuck with Biden/Harris emails through the election out of curiosity. I gave at the end of September and got 1 email a day at first. By a few days before the election I counted 9-10 a day.


I’ve since unsubscribed.

Do this:

1. Create a new email account with Google or Yahoo! or any other service that lets you create free email accounts.

2. Make your donations using that new email account.

3. Get your confirmation/receipts, save them somewhere else.

4. Delete (or just ignore) that new email account, never have to think about it again.

Yeah, I donated to many different Senate campaigns, and got outlandish emails. Senate campaigns that raised more money than any in history sent me sad emails about how they were running out of money.

Ax’s answer is the right one, but sadly I used my real email for ActBlue. I have to fix that.

Started unsubscribing before Nov. 3rd. Did it again for the Georgia race last week.
A few still slip through.
Now I label them spam.

I find it is the same with concerts online. You pay for a single event and, via e-mail, the venue keeps sending you fundraising emails. Must follow Ax's advice.

I used one of my real email addys, and just unsubscribed immediately. Worked fine.

I was at a juggling festival once and attending a workshop on street performing. The fellow teaching the workshop said that in over 20 years of performing in public he has consistently found that someone who has given you some money is more likely to give you more than someone who hasn't given you any giving you some.

Early on, I was very keen on Elizabeth Warren. I think I gave her a few bucks; I don't really remember. Then the e-mails started. And the text messages. There was a page on her website to select how often you wanted to receive communications and pleas. I checked "weekly". They slowed down to a couple a week. Then they started increasing to several a week... then to daily... then to three or four a day. I finally called them and told them that while I still support her candidacy, they had overstayed their welcome in my head. I unsubscribed from the e-mails (which, surprisingly, worked) and changed my phone number on their site to a bogus number (I hope).

If her campaign had just stayed with one or maybe two contacts a week, I would probably given her more money and stuck with her to the primary.


And then, they sell or at least share your name with every other cause and candidate they think you will support.

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... they sell or at least share your name with every other cause and candidate they think you will support.

That’s the whole point of ActBlue (D) and WinRed (R) — centralize all donor data such that the entire party can leverage the database. It's designed into the platform, individual politicians don't have much control over it. its costlier if individual campaign tries to use a different fundraising platform, and the party gives them flack for not using the party's preferred platform.

Yeah, same here during the presidential campaign. Not to mention that ActBlue plain stole contributions from me in several ways (changed biweekly contribution to twice that, and refused to allow me to change it Cost me LOTS of wasted time dealing with credit card and more.)

Also turned me so completely off Nancy Pelosi I was tempted to change parties. Have you all been getting pretend personal texts, beginning with such phrases as:

"My heart is broken"
"Sickened more than ever before"
"Amanda, your immediate help is needed before midnight"
"Begging you on my knees..."

And many more.

Don't even know how to block texts. I'm also disgusted by all her promises to double, triple, quadruple (quintuple?) my contribution.

Just WHO is providing these multipliers anyhow? I asked once, suggesting that informing the person being solicited of who alleged these backers are might be more credible - and effective. (Did you ever wonder?)

Considered contributing 1$ to a GOP campaign so as to get some perspective on what it looks like on the other side (ie., to elicit their symmetrical solicitations) . Then perhaps I won't end up so wholly disgusted by what my party is pulling.

Nancy Pelosi above all.

I'm a big fan of the burner email. I have one on yahoo.

I actually have 3 emails - professional (from my employer), personal (through my ISP), and burner.