Unfortunately political messages have an exception in the laws involved here.

Also, my understanding is that this isn’t even a case of the politicians making an exception for themselves but for this being protected speech, so there are legal issues with blocking it without the kind of majorities American congress is not capable of anymore.

Which is why i just report (to Verizon) every piece of shit political spam text as junk as I delete it.

The “do not call” registry had a purpose, and it’d have been so easy to add an additional “and also no political anything” to it. Let them burn.