United States 2026 · Every advertiser
Central Texas News
This page ran 7 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 26 October 2026 and 26 October 2026. Meta reports $900 – $1.6K of spend, which makes it the 12,635th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Media. Most of its spend was on the Democrats’ side. Race: Federal. Paid for by Metric Media LLC. Its funder runs one of the page networks described in the report.
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 ↗
7
ads
$1.2K
reported spend, range $900 – $1.6K
80%
of spend on federal races
$50
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 7 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- Bush family members$949
- James Talarico$298
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 80%, State 20%.
Spend by ad language: English 100%.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
Steve Cortes criticized Bush family members for supporting James Talarico in the Texas U.S. Senate race. Neil Bush said he voted for Talarico, citing character and concerns about Ken Paxton's judgment, according to the San Antonio Current.
26 October 2026 · Central Texas News · $800 – $899 · 35K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Steve Cortes praised a Ken Paxton advertisement criticizing James Talarico's energy and beef positions. According to The Texas Tribune, both candidates support making data centers cover infrastructure costs.
26 October 2026 · Central Texas News · $100 – $199 · 7K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Steve Cortes criticized James Talarico over police funding. Campaign spokesperson JT Ennis said Talarico opposes defunding the police and has voted to support law enforcement.
26 October 2026 · Central Texas News · $0 – $99 · 1K+ 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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