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Elect Colonel Craig Wilcox

This page ran 14 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 28 September 2026 and 16 October 2026. Meta reports $14.4–18.2K of spend, which makes it the 3,044th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Candidate. Most of its spend was on the Republicans’ side. Race: State. Paid for by Committee to Elect Colonel Craig Wilcox.

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 ↗

14

ads

$16.3K

reported spend, range $14.4–18.2K

26%

of spend on federal races

$750

median spend per ad

Spend by week the ad started

5 Oct
 Spend still counting
2 Nov

Tone

Attack
50%
Promotional
50%

Share of the 12 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • Karen Battaglia$6.1K

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

Topics

Economy & cost of living
58%
Health
33%
Corruption & governance
17%
Infrastructure & energy
8.3%
Security, crime & immigration
8.3%

Spend by race: Federal 26%, State 74%.

Spend by ad language: English 96%.

The costliest ads

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

  • Nobody should lose everything because they got sick.

    7 October 2026 · Elect Colonel Craig Wilcox · $3–3.5K · 350K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Scared to death. And the bills keep coming anyway. That is why Craig Wilcox is fighting to cut prescription costs.

    7 October 2026 · Elect Colonel Craig Wilcox · $3–3.5K · 200K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Ending taxes on tips would save a waitress up to $1,000 a year. Karen Battaglia dismisses it as "limited impact."

    28 September 2026 · Elect Colonel Craig Wilcox · $1.5–2K · 100K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • The Chicago machine bought Karen Battaglia's campaign. You'll get the bill.

    28 September 2026 · Elect Colonel Craig Wilcox · $1.5–2K · 175K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Colonel Craig Wilcox. Fighting to cut your property taxes.

    15 October 2026 · Elect Colonel Craig Wilcox · $1–1.5K · 175K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Craig Wilcox voted no on Springfield's new taxes. Now he's fighting to cut your property taxes and end taxes on tips.

    15 October 2026 · Elect Colonel Craig Wilcox · $1–1.5K · 100K+ 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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Elect Colonel Craig Wilcox: political ads on Facebook and Instagram before the 2026 US midterms · Vipima