🧠Personal Productivity · Step-by-step guide

Clear election and campaign spam from your email, texts and calls

A ready-made Grok Bot template clears political and election emails out of your inbox, unsubscribes you from campaign mailing lists, can reply STOP to campaign texts and walks you through blocking campaign calls. You add it with one tap, answer a few set-up questions, and it sweeps your inbox from then on.

Created bySawyer Merritt · @SawyerMerritt on X
📰 Read the original: Sawyer Merritt: Political Spam Blocker Grok Bot template (X post) ↗
⏱️ About 30 minutes🎯 Easy💵 The template is free; Grok Bot is included in The X Subscription Premium (USD 30/month)📋 7 steps
🤖 Grok Bot📘 How-to
🎯 What you'll have at the endYou'll have a bot that clears campaign and election spam from your inbox, gets you off the mailing lists and keeps it clear every morning.

👀 What you'll get

Example

Here's the kind of thing you'll have at the end:

📊 ReportMorning sweep · Wed 4 Nov

Cleared overnight

  • 23 campaign emails moved to 'Political spam'
  • Unsubscribed from 6 new mailing lists (list below)
  • 2 texts: replied STOP to both senders

Kept for you

  • Election office: your polling station and opening hours (labelled 'Election info')
  • Councillor Tan Mei Ling: road repairs newsletter (on your keep list)

Not sure

  • 'Residents for Green Park' asks for a donation. Clear it, or keep this sender?

🧪 Made-up sample to show the kind of result. Your output will vary.

💸 What will this really cost me?

Prices checked 22 Oct 2026
🧪 To try it once
The template itself is free. Free trial credit for new Grok Bot accounts (it runs out by how much work the bot does, within 7 days). After that you need The X Subscription Premium at USD 30 (MYR 122) a month.
🔁 To keep it running
Included in Premium: USD 30 (MYR 122) a month, or USD 25 (MYR 102) a month paid yearly. Super (USD 100 / MYR 408) and Ultra (USD 200 / MYR 816) give bigger weekly allowances.
⚠️ Watch out for
A first sweep through months of email uses more allowance than the daily sweeps that follow. Bots share one weekly allowance; past it, extra work is paid from prepaid credit, so set a monthly limit. The Plus plan (USD 8 / MYR 33) doesn't include Grok Bot.

🔗 Official pricing: The X Subscription pricing · Grok Bot plans & usage

Prices change often, so check the links before you pay. Amounts exclude tax. MYR at USD 1 = MYR 4.08 (Bank Negara Malaysia, 19 Oct 2026).

🧾 Which plan do I need?

🪙 Small upgrade · MYR 122/mo

Grok Bot runs in The X Subscription Premium (the trial credit lasts up to 7 days).

Tick what you already pay for:

🪙 Small = up to MYR 250 a month more · 💎 Big = over MYR 250 a month more · prices from each provider's pricing page, checked 21 Oct 2026.
ℹ️ How we work this outPrices come from each provider's own pricing page (checked 21 Oct 2026; amounts exclude tax; USD 1 = MYR 4.08, Bank Negara Malaysia 19 Oct 2026). Small upgrade = up to MYR 250 a month more than you pay now. Big upgrade = more than MYR 250 a month more. Check pricing = the provider doesn't publish a price we could confirm. Each guide's needs come from its own "What will this really cost me?" box. Your ticks stay in this browser only (no account, nothing sent to us).
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⚡ One-click install

Checked install pages (app stores, official sites and template pages): tap to get it straight away.

⬇️ Add Political Spam BlockerGrok Bot (Add to Grok Bot)⬇️ Get Grok Bot on iPhoneApp Store⬇️ Get Grok Bot on AndroidGoogle Play⬇️ Download for desktopOfficial download page

🧰 Before you start

⏱️ Time neededAbout 30 minutes
💵 Rough costThe template is free; Grok Bot is included in The X Subscription Premium (USD 30/month)

🪜 Step by step

🐣 Beginner mode: showing the 6 essential steps only. Extra steps are hidden; tap 🚀 Advanced at the top to see all 7.
✅ 0 of 7 steps done 📄 Printable page
  1. 1
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    Get Grok Bot

    Install Grok Bot (buttons below) and sign in.

  2. 2
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    Add the template

    Tap 'Add Political Spam Blocker' below. It opens the template page on x.ai: tap Add to Grok Bot. It's made by a user (Sawyer Merritt), not by the company, so read what it does before you add it.

  3. 3
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    Connect your email

    When it asks, connect Gmail or Outlook so it can read and sort your mail.

  4. 4
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    Answer its questions

    Tell it which country you live in, whether it may unsubscribe for you, and which political senders you still want (for example your local councillor). Paste the 'My exceptions' prompt below to give all of this at once.

  5. 5
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    Check the first sweep

    It looks back over recent mail and shows you what it plans to clear and unsubscribe from. Look through the list and tell it what to keep before you say yes.

  6. 6
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    Sort out texts and calls

    Follow its steps for texts and calls. Replying STOP to campaign texts usually ends them; your phone's settings can filter unknown senders and silence unknown callers.

  7. 7
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    Optional: let it sweep each morning

    Say yes to a daily morning sweep so new campaign mail is cleared before you wake up.

    ➕ Extra step: hidden in 🐣 Beginner mode

💬 Copy-paste prompts

Tap Copy prompt, paste it into your AI (Grok, ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini), then replace the [yellow bits] with your own details.

💬 My exceptions
Before you clear or unsubscribe anything, here are my rules:
- I live in [country, state or region].
- Keep anything from: [e.g. my local councillor, my union, a charity I support].
- Never clear official messages from government or election offices (where and when to vote); label them 'Election info' instead.
- You may unsubscribe me from campaign and party mailing lists. Show me the list first.
- Move cleared emails to a folder called 'Political spam' instead of deleting them, so I can check for 2 weeks.
- Each morning, tell me in one line how many you cleared and anything you weren't sure about.

⚠️ Tips & common mistakes

🌟 Why it's worth it

💡 Why it mattersAround elections, campaign email and texts can bury the messages that matter. Unsubscribing by hand from dozens of lists takes hours; a bot does it once and keeps the inbox clear every morning.
🏷️ Real exampleSawyer Merritt published the 'Political Spam Blocker' template on 19 Oct 2026 ahead of the US midterms and says he designed it to work outside the US too, including the EU. A user quoted by Michael Gannotti said it took about 30 minutes to set up, scanned a month of his email, built filters and now sweeps his inbox every morning.
🔌 Connects to:Gmail or OutlookYour phone's messages (for STOP replies, where supported)Your phone's call-blocking settings
📘 Proof level: How-toA how-to guide, template or new feature from the maker or a guide site. It shows what you can set up and claims no particular results.
📰 Found via X (Twitter): Sawyer Merritt: Political Spam Blocker Grok Bot template (X post) ↗

🔗 Helpful links

🔗 Sawyer Merritt's post about the template (source) ↗🔗 Political Spam Blocker template page (x.ai) ↗🔗 Michael Gannotti: a user's 30-minute set-up (X) ↗

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