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Just give me a UI button to add my own spam filter rule.

There is- you can add filters that will route emails directly to spam based on the criteria you define

I agree, but I'm hard pressed to come up with the appropriate criteria at least in advance of getting any real life examples. At the moment, I can't think of anything better than 'republican|democrat' but I bet that will generate both false positives and false negatives.

That said, I doubt that I have to be concerned about it as I'm pretty unknown in political circles, other than having signed up for vote.org years ago.

> I'm hard pressed to come up with the appropriate criteria at least in advance of getting any real life examples

A wide filter would be “ActBlue” and “WinRed.” Otherwise, every jurisdiction has copypasta boilerplate in its political emails. Find yours and filter.

I setup a filter to archive any email with the phrase "paid for by" this has been pretty good at filtering all political spam. Although it may generate some false positives.

That's not one button. Google can provide the button.

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