TCPA, 10DLC, consent, opt-outs, quiet hours, and state texting laws, the compliance rules every political campaign has to follow.
A rejected 10DLC registration stalls your whole texting program. Here are the common reasons campaigns get rejected and how to get approved.
You don't need a lawyer to catch most compliance problems before they become claims. Here's a plain self-audit any campaign can run on its own texting program.
Every message you send after someone replies STOP is a separate violation, the clearest, most expensive kind in TCPA litigation, and it tanks your sender reputation with the carriers at the same time.
Federal rules and a growing patchwork of state mini-TCPA laws set the hours you can text voters. This complete guide covers how quiet hours work, why recipient local time governs, the state variations, and how to stay compliant across a multi-state list.
Election night isn't the end of your data obligations. Here's how to handle a texting list after a campaign, what you can keep, what you must honor, and what you owe.
Campaigns often ask whether the National Do Not Call Registry blocks political texting. The answer is nuanced, and getting it wrong in either direction causes problems.
A statewide or multi-state text program can violate quiet hours in one place while it's still afternoon in another. Here's how to get send timing right across time zones.
10DLC is the carrier registration that decides whether your political texts land or get filtered. This complete guide covers what it is, the Political Special Use Case, Campaign Verify, how to register, throughput, and what happens if you skip it.
Quiet hours are the rule beneath every compliant send, and the thing most programs get wrong. The window is measured by the recipient's local time, which is why enforcement has to happen per person.
Only if the donation form captured text consent and the donor agreed. A contribution is a financial transaction, not a texting opt-in, so the checkbox has to have been there and checked.
Yes, campaigns need consent to text voters, but not the signed written consent that binds commercial marketers. This complete guide covers the consent standard campaigns must meet, what counts, what doesn't, and how to build a defensible consented list.
No, not compliantly. A purchased list is a list of people who consented to someone else, or to no one, which makes your texts to them unsolicited. Buying numbers buys you liability, not consent.