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Alaska Brief

This page ran 685 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 4 May 2026 and 25 October 2026. Meta reports $241.8–355K of spend, which makes it the 248th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Candidate. Most of its spend was on the Democrats’ side. Race: Federal. Paid for by ALASKANS FOR MARY. It belongs to Mary Peltola, whose page gathers all of their pages.

Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026. · Every ad of this page in Meta’s Ad Library ↗

On the FEC record

ALASKANS FOR MARY, a Senate candidate’s committee. FEC committee C00933978 ↗

A candidate’s own committee: Mary Peltola, Democrat, running for the Senate in Alaska. The side above is the candidate’s party on the FEC record.

685

ads

$298.4K

reported spend, range $241.8–355K

100%

of spend on federal races

$50

median spend per ad

Meta and Google side by side

On MetaFacebook · Instagram

$298.4K

685 ads on 1 page, midpoint of Meta’s ranges, 4 May 2026 to 31 October 2026

Largest page
Alaska Brief · $298.4K
Federal races
100%
Median spend per ad
$50
Attack ads, of text ads
74%

Ad Library

On Google and YouTubeSearch · YouTube · Display

$4.4–5.8M

544 ads from 2 verified advertiser accounts, Google’s ranges, 4 May 2026 to 4 November 2026

Against Meta spend
17.1×
Formats
513 video · 30 text · 1 image
Impressions
80.1M–93.4M
Targeting declared
age on 365 ads · gender on 365 ads
States named
Alaska
Last ad shown
4 Nov

Google Ads Transparency Center

Google advertiser accounts

AdvertiserAdsFormatsStatesFirst adLast adSpend
Alaskans for Mary512485 video · 27 textAK19 May4 Nov$3–3.7M
Alaskans for Mary3228 video · 3 text · 1 imagenational only12 Jan3 Nov$1.5–2.1M

Google publishes no ad text; the link on each account opens its ads in Google’s Ads Transparency Center. An account is tied to this page by its FEC committee; a party page lists its 2 largest.

Spend by week the ad started

4 May
1 Jun
6 Jul
3 Aug
7 Sep
5 Oct
 Spend still counting
2 Nov

Tone

Attack
74%
Promotional
25%
Defensive
1.5%

Share of the 669 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • Dan Sullivan$184K
  • Sullivan$10.4K
  • Trump and Dan Sullivan$10.2K
  • US Sen. Dan Sullivan$8.3K
  • crooked politicians and an elite class$4.9K

Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.

Topics

Corruption & governance
57%
Infrastructure & energy
28%
Economy & cost of living
23%
Agriculture & food
12%
Candidate profile
12%
Education
8.4%
Social protection
7.3%
Security, crime & immigration
6.7%

Spend by race: Federal 100%.

Spend by ad language: English 99%.

The costliest ads

The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.

  • "Alaska Republican US Sen. Dan Sullivan received more than $10,000 in campaign donations from Epstein associates just months after voting to block the release of the Epstein Files." Read more: https://tinyurl.com/epstie

    17 August 2026 · Alaska Brief · $15–20K · 400K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • In Washington, Senator Dan Sullivan has offered reliable support for President Trump’s tariffs, even as they have roiled the economy and angered consumers. But back home in Alaska, as he campaigns for re-election, he has stayed largely silent on the issue."

    7 October 2026 · Alaska Brief · $15–20K · 700K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Mary Peltola — the 53-year-old former Democratic congresswoman and judge who is running for Senate in Alaska — is trying to win over Republicans another way. She is warm, practical and relentlessly focused on economic and cost-of-living issues. And she is breaking with Democratic messaging on a crucial topic: She wants to expand (and even subsidize) fossil-fuel production and refining in Alaska. Learn more at https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/opinion/mary-peltola-oil-alaska-climate-change.ht

    7 October 2026 · Alaska Brief · $10–15K · 400K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • "A new Alaska Current review of financial disclosure records finds that Republican US Sen. Dan Sullivan’s stock trades haven’t just helped triple his personal wealth while in office, but include several suspiciously timed trades." Learn more at https://thealaskacurrent.com/2026/08/27/dan-sullivans-time-in-the-us-senate-has-been-marked-by-well-timed-stock-trades/

    31 August 2026 · Alaska Brief · $10–15K · 1M+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Republican Dan Sullivan missed several meetings for a Senate subcommittee that deals with issues critical to Alaskans. He also ranks among the top 25% of most frequently absent senators in general. Learn more at https://americanjournalnews.com/dan-sullivan-skipped-half-of-fisheries-hearings/

    15 September 2026 · Alaska Brief · $10–15K · 700K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • “Peltola’s plan continues a delicate balance she sought to strike while in the House. She was one of vanishingly few outspoken Democratic supporters of oil and gas and helped convince then-President Joe Biden to approve the massive Willow oil and gas project in Alaska.” Learn more: https://www.eenews.net/articles/peltola-backs-gas-project-more-refining-in-senate-bid/

    7 October 2026 · Alaska Brief · $4–4.5K · 150K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

Figures cover domestic political ads paid in dollars, from 4 May 2026. Spend is the sum of Meta’s range midpoints; impressions above one million are reported as “1M+”, so impression figures are floors. Each ad counts in the week its delivery started, with its lifetime spend at our last pull; ads still running before the vote are counted as of 31 October 2026.

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