Brett Smiley

This page ran 87 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 14 May 2026 and 2 September 2026. Meta reports $9.7–18.3K of spend, which makes it the 3,394th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Candidate. Most of its spend was on the Democrats’ side. Race: Local. Paid for by Brett Smiley for Mayor .

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 ↗

ads

$14K

reported spend, range $9.7–18.3K

0.0%

of spend on federal races

$50

median spend per ad

Spend by week the ad started

1 Jun

6 Jul

3 Aug

7 Sep

5 Oct

Spend still counting

2 Nov

Tone

Attack

63%

Promotional

37%

Share of the 83 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

David Morales$7.5K
My opponent$1.4K
my opponent’s allies in the City Council$449

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

Topics

Security, crime & immigration

66%

Candidate profile

30%

Corruption & governance

25%

Education

24%

Infrastructure & energy

6.0%

Social protection

6.0%

Other

6.0%

Health

4.8%

Spend by race: Local 100%.

Spend by ad language: English 94%, Spanish 5.0%.

The costliest ads

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

David Morales wants to experiment and defund the police. I think it’s the wrong approach and it’s not going to make our families feel safer.
3 August 2026 · Brett Smiley · $700 – $799 · 90K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
I ran for Mayor to build a better Providence and we’ve made progress. My opponent doesn’t have the experience for this moment.
28 August 2026 · Brett Smiley · $600 – $699 · 100K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Providence ha avanzado mucho durante los últimos cuatro años, pero esta elección se trata del futuro. Hemos recuperado el control de nuestras escuelas, defendido a nuestras familias y comenzado a transformar nuestros vecindarios. Ahora debemos seguir construyendo viviendas, renovando nuestras escuelas y mejorando nuestras calles, parques e infraestructura. Providence está avanzando, y con experiencia, compromiso y las prioridades correctas, podemos llegar aún más lejos. ¡Sigamos avanzando juntos
2 September 2026 · Brett Smiley · $500 – $599 · 80K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad LibrarySpanish
Under Mayor Smiley violent crime is at a 35 year low. David Morales wants to slash police funding and will make us less safe. Providence can’t afford to turn back the clock on crime.
14 July 2026 · Brett Smiley · $500 – $599 · 100K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Providence is a safer city since Mayor Smiley has been in office. David Morales wants to experiment and defund the police which will set our city back.
6 August 2026 · Brett Smiley · $500 – $599 · 70K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
It’s Pride Month and I’m proud to have helped lead the successful fight for marriage equality. And as Mayor, I sued Trump to restore SNAP benefits and Stopped ICE from operating on city property. I’ll always fight for the rights of everyone in Providence.
10 June 2026 · Brett Smiley · $500 – $599 · 80K+ 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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