Hm. I’m skeptical that an industry-provided solution is going to solve spam; I’ll believe it when I see it.
For serious the last Election Day resulted in me getting a shit ton of BS text messages, all structurally the same, and all without any valid contact information.
I got daily spam texts from the republican party telling me how John Fetterman was going to doom Pennsylvania to communism. I live in Massachusetts, assholes!
I got essentially the same thing for both parties - stylistically:
identical hyperventilating, identical style, identical badly cropped photos, and url to a path inside an otherwise empty godaddy domain, redirecting to act blue fundraising in some cases similar republican ones in others.
It was very clear that one organization was doing both sides
I responded to a Democrat text that I would never ever vote democrat again if this didn’t stop. It stopped.
Keeping in mind that "Joe jobs" are not exactly unheard-of in politics, of course.