| Dear Friend, Google has a new plan to allow federal campaigns, party committees, and leadership PACs to send email to you -- whether you signed up for it or not.(1) If Google gets its way, your email box will be inundated with every email Donald Trump wants to send, no matter how many times you click spam, delete, or unsubscribe. No one wants email from Donald Trump that they didn't sign up for. No one. Sign the petition to Google and demand that they dump the political spam plan now.
Republicans claim they’re being treated unfairly by spam filters that are biased against conservatives, a charge Google denies and for which Republicans have no proof. But Google is giving into the pressure anyway. This is a scenario ripe for allowing potential donor scams, conspiracy lies, and disinformation campaigns to flourish. Republicans could play by the rules, like everyone else does. But that’s not how Trump’s Republican party works. After all, the January 6 committee revealed that after the 2020 election, the Trump campaign scammed supporters with the “Big Lie rip-off,” raising more than $250 million for an “Official Election Defense Fund” that never existed.(2) It wasn’t the first time, either. The Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign issued more than 530,000 separate refunds worth a total of $64.3 million to online donors after tricking supporters into monthly donations all the way back to March 2021.(3) These are the real reasons Republicans are finding their campaign emails blocked from inboxes. But instead of earning the trust of members, they’ve pressured Google into considering a program that will flood our inboxes with undesired email. The bottom line is, if Google implements this program, the more email a candidate or campaign can afford to send, the more they’ll clog up inboxes at the expense of the people you want to hear from, like family, friends, and organizations like ours. Yours in the fight for digital privacy, Irene, along with Amber, Angela, Annie, Isidra, Jay, Lindsay, LisaMarie, Mai, Mai, Raquel, and Scottie (the Courage team)
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