How many others feel the same?
My wife (77) and I (78) are at our breaking point. Yesterday I wrote: “As we all watch, seemingly helpless, as DJT tears down our country as we know it.” That post received 210 recommendations — proof that others feel this same weight.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220592451
We already contribute more than $100 a month to causes and groups fighting for a better cause. Still, my inbox is buried under 18–25 of these requests every single day.
And here’s the real cost: we’ve missed messages from friends. We’ve missed healthcare notices we need to respond to. Our personal lifelines are getting lost in the noise of pleas that never stop.
I regret letting my email become overrun like this. What started as a genuine desire to stay engaged and support our country has turned into an overwhelming assault on daily life.
Does anyone else feel trapped in this same cycle?
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I am glad to see people are smarter than me saying the same thing, lately. Malcolm Nance had a pod cast discussion w/ Steve Schmidt, where they were critical of the consultants. Schmidt oughta know.
If you take hits on the topic, I'll back you up.
The stake are too high right now to hold back.
I love this place and feel fortunate to have my DU family. I learn a lot, share a lot and have felt at home here with the many people who love democracy and want to support and help grow support for the Democratic Party. There are always going to be disagreements in families about topics at times. But the one rule that I think is important is respect and agreeing to disagree at times. Not attacking and insulting. Unfortunately every family has the family member or two that doesn’t respect and attacks. Cognitive dissonance is a sad thing to witness.
Move to spam/junk file.
Block them. pretty soon many of them go away.
Just stop giving them money.
When you donate they pass your info along to 'The List".
Then you start hearing from all of them.
.... just two things. OCCUPING a SEAT and using it to enrich themselves. Those who will not leave when their time comes because it's the best-paying, cushy job a person can have. HE RIGHTFULLY wanted to find new, younger challengers to occupy those seats.
So, depending on your point of view, he was pushed out, he got tired of 
Or he quit to continue his work from the outside of their sandbox, so he at least doesn't start his day by having to .
He is still finding and supporting challengers to the do-nothings. We still help with his activity by sending him a check every month.
A check with no names, addresses, or other IDing info. Just the necessary stuff to make it work. IS he the answer? Who knows, but he's doing something by kicking sand in the faces of those doing nothing.
At 78, you know when it is time to hire younger help.
If you go to the top of the email and click on the name of the sender, you will get on option to block the sender. That will send them to your trash from now on when that sender tries sending you another political request for money.
What I found out after doing this a few times, a lot of those different emails actually have the same sender. So the number of emails started dropping rapidly as they were all automatically going to the trash folder as I kept blocking new senders until I had just about all of them nailed. There actually were only relatively few senders I needed to block to clear them all out of my in box.
Soon, I could see my email in box much more clearly because most of the political emails were all gone to the trash folder. 
Every now and then you can click on your trash folder and clear it out with a couple of clicks using a “select all” command.
I use iPhones and iPads but I expect that Android phones must have similar capabilities.
Hope this helps.
(Worse than a pandemic... )
How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.
https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mothership-vortex-an-investigation
The digital deluge is a familiar annoyance for anyone on a Democratic fundraising list. It's a relentless cacophony of bizarre texts and emails, each one more urgent than the last, promising that your immediate $15 donation is the only thing standing between democracy and the abyss.
The main rationale offered for this fundraising frenzy is that it's a necessary evil—that the tactics, while unpleasant, are brutally effective at raising the money needed to win. But an analysis of the official FEC filings tells a very different story. The fundraising model is not a brutally effective tool for the party; it is a financial vortex that consumes the vast majority of every dollar it raises.
We all have that one obscure skill we’ve inadvertently maxed out. Mine happens to be navigating the labyrinth of campaign finance data. So, after documenting the spam tactics in a previous article, I told myself I’d just take a quick look to see who was behind them and where the money was going.
That "quick look" immediately pulled me in. The illusion of a sprawling grassroots movement, with its dozens of different PAC names, quickly gave way to a much simpler and more alarming reality. It only required pulling on a single thread—tracing who a few of the most aggressive PACs were paying—to watch their entire manufactured world unravel. What emerged was not a diverse network of activists, but a concentrated ecosystem built to serve the firm at its center: Mothership Strategies.
From Party Insiders to Extraction Engineers................
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You can generate unlimited free anonymous email addresses that never expire, and that you can disable at any time. I create a new address every time I sign up for anything. By far the easiest and most efficient system I have found to date.
I recommend you check it out, you will love it!
Don’t worry — the ones you want to help will still find you (unfortunately, so will the ones you don’t want, but that’s another story)
Thank you for a lifetime of service, which I see runs in the family.
Be well 
And I'd love to hear the story of the jungle LP
and multiply over night. It’s like I’ve lost use of my email.
