Political speech in the US has the least restriction possible. It’s exempt from the laws around unsolicited calls, political ads can be complete fabrications wi

Political speech in the US has the least restriction possible. It’s exempt from the laws around unsolicited calls, political ads can be complete fabrications without consequence (you might say, “but what about news coverage?” forgetting that in many ways, the most consequential elections are small local affairs where even if there is a local press, the press may not have the ability to fact check abuses or respond in a timely fashion—in my childhood hometown, an attorney in the next town over made an attempt to take over the library board by (a) getting the candidates that weren’t his delegates removed from the ballot and (2) doing door-to-door flyers the weekend before the election which included a number of completely fabricated charges against the current members of the library board. With the latter, because the local paper comes out weekly and on Wednesday, they were unable to cover this before the election.) So, other than trying to respond to the texts with STOP, you’re mostly out of luck. I know with an iPhone and iMessage, it’s possible to block texts from junk callers, but that doesn’t help with the profusion of numbers nor does responding with STOP.