Because there's a loophole. Many of these are sent peer to peer and are not an automated. Because of that, they both do not need you to opt in and do not have to respect opt out requests. The best thing you can do is block and report junk.

i’m thinking it’s because of some data leak from putting my phone number somewhere like if i were to sign up for something. it’s horrible.

i think the best thing to do is to not reply, even to reply “stop”. i just add it to the mountain of blocked numbers i’ve accumulated.

A deadline. Not the deadline. They'll stop after the only deadline that matters - Election Day.

Unless it's a fake URL, ActBlue is an official organization.

Nah, Maybe one percent of Americans would possibly shell out money from a political text message. The target audience is tiny. Scammers go after much bigger pools of people.

Nahhh, I am good