United States 2026 · Every advertiser
Iowa Starting Line
This page ran 36 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 21 October 2026 and 21 October 2026. Meta reports $13.6–19.6K of spend, which makes it the 2,998th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Media. Most of its spend took no side. Race: No specific race.
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 ↗
36
ads
$16.6K
reported spend, range $13.6–19.6K
3.0%
of spend on federal races
$50
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 36 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- GOP lawmakers$3.7K
- The Republican candidate$298
- Republicans, including Ashley Hinson$198
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 3.0%, No specific race 97%.
Spend by ad language: English 100%.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
The city council voted 3-2 to confirm no moratorium is in place and separately approved an agreement for Google to cover up to $150,000 in independent reviews. Read more at KTIV and follow @iowastartingline.
21 October 2026 · Iowa Starting Line · $2.5–3K · 300K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library
As research links agricultural pollutants to cancer risks, candidates face growing pressure to protect public health—and scrutinize the industry that dominates the state. Read more at NBC and follow @iowastartingline.
21 October 2026 · Iowa Starting Line · $2–2.5K · 200K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library
Iowa has the second-highest rate of new cancer cases in the country, and research links nitrate from farm runoff to bladder and colorectal cancer. GOP lawmakers still won’t require farmers to cut that runoff. Now Alliant wants to build a gas plant near Linn County farms and wells. Farmer Tamara Krug has a message for state leaders: “You’re not looking at the health of our people.” Read the full story on our site.
21 October 2026 · Iowa Starting Line · $1.5–2K · 350K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Sean Dengler and his wife spent a long time deciding to have their first child. The Des Moines-area couple are still deciding on the second. By Dengler’s own accounting, he is fortunate. He said so multiple times over the course of an hour-long interview. At the same time, when he and his wife pay their bills, he has to seriously think about whether they’re going to be good to cover expenses. Read the full story at the link the comments. ✏️: Robert Gundran
21 October 2026 · Iowa Starting Line · $1.5–2K · 150K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library
Aaron Lehman's farm burns through 400 gallons of diesel on a busy harvest day. This fall, that's costing him about $1,000 more a day than last year. The fifth-generation Iowa farmer says tariffs and the war with Iran are squeezing families like his. And they haven't heard Iowa leaders say, "This is wrong." Read the full story at the link the comments.
21 October 2026 · Iowa Starting Line · $600 – $699 · 70K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
"Farmers are bleeding money like crazy." Watch this MS Now interview with an Iowan on how voting trends could shift.
21 October 2026 · Iowa Starting Line · $500 – $599 · 60K+ 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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