Thank you to everyone who has already signed and shared this petition. What is happening here reaches far beyond text messaging compliance or carrier policy and strikes at something much more fundamental: liberty itself.

The Campaign Registry, along with the broader A2P 10DLC regime built around it, represents a dangerous and unacceptable shift in the relationship between citizens, businesses, private infrastructure gatekeepers, and our right to communicate. What has been presented as a neutral anti fraud measure has in reality become a system of compelled registration, disclosure, classification, and payment as a condition of lawful speech, and that should alarm every American.

In a free society, speech is not supposed to require prior permission from a private registry acting as the enforcement arm of a communications bureaucracy. Lawful communication is not supposed to be treated as suspect by default and forced through a validation process just to prove it is legitimate. That is guilty until proven innocent, and that is not how a free people are supposed to live. Businesses and individuals should not be forced to submit their identity, their purpose, their message category, and their ongoing payments into a centralized approval structure simply to reach willing recipients through an ordinary and common channel of communication. If we truly have freedom, then we cannot also accept a permission based system imposed on our right to free speech.

The First Amendment was written to protect freedom itself, including speech that others may ignore, dislike, reject, or find annoying. Our rights do not disappear just because someone else is bothered by what is said. In a free country, unwanted speech is handled through choice, opt out, and personal judgment in the marketplace, not through prior restraint, forced registration, private toll collection, and institutional gatekeeping by some higher authority deciding what may be said and how it may be said.

A free people do not lose their right to communicate simply because someone else finds the communication inconvenient, and that is where the moral and constitutional premise behind this entire campaign registration system begins to collapse.

...but let's shift for a moment to the TCPA.  The original legal framework behind many of these restrictions, including major provisions of the TCPA, arose in a very different communications environment. At that time, consumers were often charged directly for incoming calls and text messages. Unwanted automated contact could impose an immediate financial burden on the recipient. That was a real and concrete harm to the recipient. It is one thing to regulate conduct that directly takes money from someone’s pocket without their consent, especially at scale. It is something else entirely to preserve and expand that same framework decades later after the technological and economic realities have fundamentally changed.

Today, most consumers no longer pay per incoming call or per incoming text in the way they once did, and in the rare circumstances where billing concerns may still exist, the technology already exists to address those situations with precision rather than broad suppression. Carriers have the ability to filter traffic, apply plan specific controls, and block or restrict automated messaging where a legitimate billing issue remains. Yet instead of revisiting these laws and asking whether their original justification still holds, regulators, carriers, and private compliance entities have doubled down. They have extended outdated assumptions into a modern era of unlimited plans, digital commerce, AI assisted communication, and targeted business messaging. What has been created is policy inertia weaponized against modern communication and disguised as a legitimate constitutional progression. In the process, what may once have been a narrow protection against direct economic harm has been expanded into a sweeping system of speech restriction justified largely by perceived societal annoyance, administrative convenience, and institutional control.

Look, we all know fraud is real. Scams are real. Phishing, and spoofing too, and that those things need to be stopped.  Deception should be punished aggressively, and bad actors should be identified and removed from the network with speed and force.

None of that justifies forcing lawful speakers into a pay to speak registry. None of it justifies allowing private entities to stand between Americans and a basic channel of communication. None of it justifies turning ordinary business outreach into a monitored, categorized, fee based privilege.

When systems like The Campaign Registry are allowed to operate this way, they do more than burden commerce. They erode civil liberty itself. They normalize the idea that speech must be approved before it is delivered. They normalize the idea that private gatekeepers may regulate lawful expression in the name of safety. They normalize the idea that outdated legal frameworks may be stretched endlessly into new technologies without meaningful constitutional review.

...and that should NEVER be accepted.

If a law or regulatory structure no longer fits the real world, it should be reviewed. If its original rationale has decayed, it should be challenged. If its modern enforcement burdens lawful speech more than it stops actual wrongdoing, it should be reformed or dismantled. And if a private registry now functions as a de facto enforcement mechanism for outdated assumptions about communication, then that registry should not be protected. It should be disbanded, at once.

I don't put out this petition to say sign here if you want to allow fraud, scams, or deception. But rather if you think we should defend constitutional liberty. What I'm petitioning for is a defense of free speech. It is a defense of the principle that lawful communication in America should not require prior permission, recurring payment, and bureaucratic classification before it is allowed to exist.

The Campaign Registry should be disbanded at once. The relevance and constitutionality of these modern enforcement structures should be reviewed, and the American people should not remain silent while fundamental communication rights are slowly converted into licensed privileges.

Thank you for your support and please, continue signing, sharing, and speaking out.