United States 2026 · Every advertiser

Councilmember Emmett Pepper

This page ran 3 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 12 May 2026 and 23 October 2026. Meta reports $300 – $597 of spend, which makes it the 17,066th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Candidate. Most of its spend took no side. Race: Local. Paid for by Elect Emmett.

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 ↗

3

ads

$449

reported spend, range $300 – $597

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
33%
Promotional
33%
Informational
33%

Share of the 3 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • Republican government lawyers in West Virginia$50

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

Topics

Electoral process & turnout
67%
Corruption & governance
33%
Infrastructure & energy
33%
Candidate profile
33%

Spend by race: Local 89%, No specific race 11%.

Spend by ad language: English 100%.

The costliest ads

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

  • Running citywide for Charleston City Council

    19 October 2026 · Councilmember Emmett Pepper · $300 – $399 · 25K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Republican government lawyers here in WV are conducting witch hunts against people they disagree with. This isn't just a Trump White House Press Corps thing. Acts like this are being committed or tolerated across their party's elected officials, at this point. State government lawyers here in Charleston are doing this. Honestly, it is a shocking misuse of public funds. Don't forget to vote. Early if you can. "West Virginia's Republican attorney general has launched a broad investigation into

    23 October 2026 · Councilmember Emmett Pepper · $0 – $99 · 2K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Have a great election day! Don't forget to get to the polls!

    12 May 2026 · Councilmember Emmett Pepper · $0 – $99 · 3K+ impressions · Informational · 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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Councilmember Emmett Pepper: political ads on Facebook and Instagram before the 2026 US midterms · Vipima