THE “TROUTMAN EFFECT”?: Robocalls Continue to Plummet– Have Been Down Every Month Since Eric Troutman Announced His Run For Congress– Will The Voters Pay It Off?

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Renowned telecom attorney Eric Troutman announced his bid for office in October, 2025 with a promise to end illegal and unwanted robocalls once and for all.

The effect was immediate.

Although robocalls had been growing for months before Troutman’s announcement, as soon as he confirmed he would run for Congress in California’s 47th  district robocalls fell massively.

The campaign now calls this the “Troutman Effect” and claims the drop in robocalls is a direct response to Troutman’s promise to end calls if elected.

“The bad guys don’t want to see Troutman in office.” Troutman’s campaign says. “They know he knows how to stop illegal and unwanted robocalls and he has dedicated his career to stopping billions of these calls already.”

Troutman has previously published a three-part plan to stop unwanted robocalls focusing on i) requiring the use of the reassigned numbers database; ii) cracking down on online data sales that result in marketing calls; and iii) preventing illegal foreign-originated calls from reaching U.S. soil.

“The folks in Congress are well meaning but they just don’t understand telecom the way I do.” Troutman says. “But the bad guys know what I am capable of– and they know I’m right. So they’ve taken their foot off the gas hoping I won’t come out on top.”

The numbers certainly back up Troutman’s thesis.

Since Troutman announced his bid in October, 2025 Americans have endured BILLIONS fewer robocalls than in comparable periods the previous year.

Per YouMail’s Robocall Index, consumers have received far FEWER robocalls every month since Troutman announced his bid:

October, 2025: 1,170,000,000 fewer calls than year before

November, 2025: 867,000,000 fewer calls than year before

December, 2025: 248,000,000 fewer calls than year before

January, 2026: 856,000,000 fewer calls than year before

February, 2026: 621,000,000 fewer calls than year before

March, 2026: 598,000,000 fewer calls than year before

April, 2026: 746,000,000 fewer calls than the year before.

That’s 5.1BB fewer calls Americans have endured since Troutman launched his anti-robocall Congressional campaign. An amazing accomplishment to the extent the “Troutman Effect” is really behind the drop in calls.

“I’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of my own money travelling the nation trying to stop the robocall epidemic.” Troutman said. “I didn’t wait for the government to do it form me. I saw a problem and I went out there and tried to solve it. As a result I’ve stopped more robocalls than any human being alive. But now I am trying to finish the job.”

California’s primary for Congressional District 47 is June 2, 2026.

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The Czar of TCPAWorld Eric Troutman is one of the country’s prominent class action defense lawyers and is nationally recognized in Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigation and compliance. He has served as lead defense counsel in more than 70 national TCPA class actions and has litigated nearly a thousand individual TCPA cases in his role as national strategic litigation counsel for major banks and finance companies. He also helps industry participants build TCPA-compliant processes, policies, and systems. Eric has built a national litigation practice based upon deep experience, rigorous analysis and extraordinary responsiveness. Eric and his team feel equally at home litigating multibillion dollar telecommunications class actions in federal court as they do developing and executing national litigation strategies for institutions facing an onslaught of individual TCPA matters. They thrive in each of these roles – delivering consistently excellent results – while never losing sight of the client experience. While many firms now tout TCPA expertise, Eric has been there from the beginning. He built one of the country’s first TCPA-only defense teams and began serving as national TCPA counsel for his clients nearly a decade ago. This perspective allows him to swiftly develop the right litigation strategies for dealing with recurring problems, without wasting time on tactics that are bound to fail. Eric’s rich historical perspective and encyclopedic knowledge of the TCPA landscape also make him an invaluable resource to institutional compliance teams struggling to comply with the shifting regulatory landscape. No task is too small – or too big. Indeed, Eric and his team have helped build TCPA-compliant systems and processes for some of the largest and most complex corporate entities in the country. He commonly works with in-house compliance counsel to build and implement enterprise and business-line specific TCPA solutions, performs TCPA audits and drafts and reviews proposed TCPA policies and procedures. He and his team also have the technical expertise necessary to assist call centers seeking to develop TCPA-resistant call path architecture or to modify existing telephony and software integration to better insulate from potential TCPA exposure. Eric has built a reputation for thought leadership. An avid blogger and speaker, he has been at the forefront of the industry’s effort to push for clarity and a return to sanity for the TCPA for years. He was selected to advocate for the financial services industry on important TCPA issues before the Federal Communications Commission and co-authored the nation’s only comprehensive practice guide on TCPA defense. In his spare time, Eric leads defense teams representing banks and other financial services companies in consumer finance litigation matters. He has experience representing clients in UCC, TILA, RESPA FCRA, CCRA, CLRA, FDCPA, RFDCPA and FCCPA claims, as well as in fraud and bank operations issues.

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