Republican fundraising platform WinRed has accused Google’s Gmail of blocking its emails, while allegedly failing to stop messages from the Democratic equivalent ActBlue.
Gmail has been accused of disproportionately flagging messages from WinRed and sending them to spam folders.
But observers claim that WinRed’s methods of blasting messages are more “spammy” than those of ActBlue, and the platform is getting blocked more as a result.
An email intelligence company in Estonia found WinRed emails hit its spam traps in .com, .net and .org space far more frequently than ActBlue messages.
The CEO of a widely used blocklist said their data mirrored that finding, and WinRed has consistently been far more aggressive in sending emails than ActBlue.
In June, a family in Utah filed a lawsuit against the RNC for allegedly bombarding their mobile phones with text messages seeking donations, even after they had tried to unsubscribe.