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🧠 Personal Productivity · Printable checklist · USE CASy

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

⏱️ About 30 minutes · 🎯 Easy · 💵 The template is free; Grok Bot is included in The X Subscription Premium (USD 30/month)
✍️ Created by Sawyer Merritt · @SawyerMerritt on X · Original: https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2112292722274922522

🧰 Before you start

🪜 Steps (tick as you go)

  1. ☐
    1. Get Grok Bot

    Install Grok Bot (buttons below) and sign in.

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    2. 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.

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    3. Connect your email

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

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    4. 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.

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    5. 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.

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    6. 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.

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    7. Optional: let it sweep each morningOptional extra

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

💬 Prompts to copy

💬 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.

🔗 Links

From https://usecasy.com/use-case/grokbot-political-spam-blocker/ · Guide checked 22 October 2026 · Prices are rough and shown in USD unless stated (MYR where relevant).