Political spam is incredibly shady in the US, but I don't get the volume you're describing. Maybe at one point I did, though, maybe 10 years back. I do get a

Political spam is incredibly shady in the US, but I don't get the volume you're describing. Maybe at one point I did, though, maybe 10 years back. I do get a good amount from both major parties. It beggars belief, but sometimes one party will be sending mails carefully tailored to make you think they are from the other party - stealing not just the overall design and color schemes, but even trying to use turns of phrases common to the other party. The mails will link back to a similarly carefully crafted website which never says which party the candidate is from. If you sniff around, you can find their other site which is designed to appeal to their usual voters, which clearly identifies which party they are from. I've seen a half dozen state level politicians pull this in the last 15 years or so. Crazy stuff. Additionally, I get political spam (and a few other politics adjacent topics) meant for my father (addressed to him by name). This is because AOL sells subscriber lists to spammers, and I still have an AOL address from my teenage years and I'm a techno-packrat who never willingly throws anything away. How do I know they sold their subscriber lists? Because my father had the master account, and my siblings and I all had sub-accounts from the main one. Obviously, in the AOL records which got sold his name was on all the email addresses as the account owner. But of course, AOL has been a shady company for decades so this is no surprise. I get a lot of spam from various meetup groups too. One which I can't shake, which I find very amusing, is "Women in Tech" meetups. My IRL name is male, but not that common anymore, and people are tempted to read it as feminine. Try as I might, I cannot convince them that I should not be showing up to "Women in Tech" meetups and unsubscribing doesn't seem to do anything. I have taken to just forwarding those emails to my wife, who actually is a woman in tech, but strangely doesn't get these emails. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯