United States 2026 · Every advertiser
Brian Bengs for South Dakota
This page ran 143 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 5 May 2026 and 22 October 2026. Meta reports $7.7–22.3K of spend, which makes it the 3,250th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Candidate. Most of its spend was on the Democrats’ side. Race: Federal.
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 ↗
143
ads
$15K
reported spend, range $7.7–22.3K
99%
of spend on federal races
$50
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 143 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- Mike Rounds$6.8K
- Thune and his party leadership$1.1K
- Congress$597
- your party$547
- Washington$449
- Corrupt politicians$347
Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.
Topics
Spend by race: Federal 99%, State 1.0%.
Spend by ad language: English 100%.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
Mike Rounds is headed home to Pierre for a two week paid vacation while the Iran war passes the 60 day mark. I’m calling on him to stay in Washington and do his damn job by honoring the constitutional system of checks and balances.
5 May 2026 · Brian Bengs for South Dakota · $1–1.5K · 100K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Brian Bengs is a retired Lt. Colonel who spent 26 years in the Air Force and Navy. Brian grew up in a town of 400. Brian is running for Senate as an Independent, to clean up the mess in Washington. Vote Nov. 3.
2 September 2026 · Brian Bengs for South Dakota · $700 – $799 · 200K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Those attack ads against Brian? Mike Rounds isn't paying for them. His billionaire backers are. One is a Wall Street billionaire whose name shows up in Jeffrey Epstein's own emails. Another is an AI-industry super PAC spending big to keep Rounds in office. Billionaires don't spend millions in South Dakota for nothing. They're protecting their investment. This seat belongs to South Dakotans. Vote November 3.
8 October 2026 · Brian Bengs for South Dakota · $500 – $599 · 40K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
AI super PACs and tech money have poured nearly $1 million into keeping Mike Rounds in office. Bengs doesn’t take corporate PAC money. Don’t want a data center in your backyard? Vote Brian Bengs.
15 October 2026 · Brian Bengs for South Dakota · $300 – $399 · 30K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Special interests have corrupted Washington. Independent Lt. Colonel (ret) Brian Bengs was a JAG and Ethics Advisor. For 20 years, he fought corruption and taught ethics in the U.S. Air Force. South Dakota doesn't need a lifetime politician under the thumb of Thune and his party leadership in Washington. Brian Bengs answers to South Dakota. Request your absentee ballot today.
22 September 2026 · Brian Bengs for South Dakota · $300 – $399 · 90K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
“Rounds has raised more from tech groups than from donors in South Dakota.” Wired News Mike Rounds has taken over $2 million in campaign contributions from special interest PACs, including $225,000 from the AI and data center industry. It is clear who he listens to. You can request an absentee ballot now from your county auditor's office. Vote early.
22 September 2026 · Brian Bengs for South Dakota · $300 – $399 · 30K+ impressions · Attack · 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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