I live in a lefty state, NJ. It's actually more purple than you've been led to believe. My friend started a GOP Executive Committee in the town over. The town went from Dems running unopposed to almost half the town government being Republican. I asked him how I could do it my town in his Facebook group. I was immediately contacted by the county GOP. I created a town GOP page and have over 60 members in a week. Our first meeting is next week.
Take action! We can take over at the local level. Then we worry about state and national seats. Let's build a solid base they can't knock us off of. Good luck pedes!
Android is basically Google.
If you really want a secure phone gotta get something totally separate, but that's pricey.
In my semi-professional opinion, there isn't anything wrong with using these devices as long as you are not lulled into a false sense of security.
The GOLDEN RULE of tech is this: If it connects to the internet, it CAN be be hacked
If you truly want secure communications, the best way would probably be to communicate in some kind of code. Said code should be carefully designed to appear as normal speech, so as to avoid detection entirely.
Signal seems to be pretty rock solid where it provides coverage. If your phone or device is stolen, however, it will become a weak link to those communications. Similarly, if your device is being tapped (display watched or keys tracked) Signal's encryption will not help you.
Using things like signal will help you avoid the blanket automatic trackers. This is probably the most overall valuable application of secure systems. Know that any hacker (or otherwise...) will be able to track you down and compromise you if they are directly targeting you. There is very little you can do to avoid that.
Just some things to keep in mind.
This is completely true and i am a professional in this... have been for the last 6 years. EVERYTHING is hackable.. it just depends on time and resources and if the target is worth the time and money. End to end encryption using 256 bit encryption would take more time to decrypt just one message than humans have been around. Open source software is probably the most secure dev environment which is why security experts are saying voting Software must be open source. There are lots of things to be paranoid about. End to end Encryption open source chat apps should be down the list.
I built my own phone, but it's not sophistacted enough to use a messaging app like Signal :P