Political campaigns get a small amount of wiggle room when making calls or sending texts using an Automatic Telephone Dialing System (ATDS). Calls to landlines numbers do not require consent and it is not required to suppress numbers against the National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry. However, calls or texts to wireless numbers require prior express consent.
Further Reading
If a for-profit organization is making calls or texts on behalf of a non-profit or political campaign and the calls or texts are not substantially related, they would be subject to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). Additionally, if there is a commercial message as any part of the communication, even if it also contains a charitable or political purpose, it is considered a “telephone solicitation” under the TCPA.
No. While there are exemptions to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) that may apply to some non-profit organizations depending on the content of the messages, there is no blanket exemption. Non-profits are still required to abide by the strictures of the TCPA.