TCPA, 10DLC, consent, opt-outs, quiet hours, and state texting laws, the compliance rules every political campaign has to follow.
Campaign Verify is the nonpartisan vetting that confirms a political sender is a real committee. This complete guide covers what it is, who needs it, how it fits with 10DLC, how to get it, and why it unlocks the political texting lane.
Every political text program has to process STOP and HELP instantly, automatically, and permanently, across every campaign. Here's how opt-out handling works, the human-worded opt-out most tools miss, and why it's a hard requirement.
The treasurer signs off on the risk, so the treasurer should understand what a texting program can expose the campaign to. Here's the plain-language version.
It's the highest consent standard under the TCPA: a clear, written agreement, a checked box or signed form, to receive autodialed marketing texts, with specific disclosures, obtained before you send. Fundraising and promotional political texts generally need it.
When a voter gives you their number, they gave it to you, not to whoever you sell, lease, or share it with. The carrier standard on list transfer, and why buying a list is buying a problem.
The federal TCPA is no longer the whole story. A wave of state mini-TCPA laws now adds consent, quiet-hour, and identification rules that vary by state. Here's what's changing and how campaigns keep up across a multi-state list.
A wave of new state and federal texting rules sounds alarming. But if you run a compliance-first program, you're probably already ahead of most of them. Here's how to check.
The most comforting sentence in political texting is also the most dangerous: my vendor handles compliance. When the demand letter comes, it has the candidate's committee on it, not the vendor's.
Carriers and regulators filter political texts on content, not just consent. Here's what campaigns can't say, the categories that get flagged, and how to keep a message from getting blocked before it lands.
Campaigns can text from a 10DLC long code, a toll-free number, or a short code. Here's how the three differ on cost, throughput, registration, and use case, and which one fits a political program.
Your compliance records are your defense. Here's exactly what a campaign has to keep, opt-ins, sends, and opt-outs, how long to keep it, and why the record matters more than how careful you actually were.
How do Do Not Call rules apply to political texts? Here's the relationship between the DNC registry, state restrictions, and your own opt-out list, and why your suppression list is the one that matters most.