United States 2026 · Every advertiser
Joseph Trost For District 52
This page ran 8 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 15 October 2026 and 26 October 2026. Meta reports $0 – $792 of spend, which makes it the 17,758th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Candidate. Most of its spend was on the Democrats’ side. Race: State. Paid for by Friends Of Joseph Trost.
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 ↗
8
ads
$396
reported spend, range $0 – $792
0.0%
of spend on federal races
$50
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 8 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- Ben Smaltz$198
- current leadership$50
Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.
Topics
Spend by race: State 100%.
Spend by ad language: English 100%.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
When big money runs politics, working people lose. Today I spoke about class solidarity and why we win when we stand together, not when we're divided. Let's build a government that works for everyone. #elections #ElectionsMatter #ElectionDay #noblecountydems #dekalbcountydems #indianadems #trostfordistrict52 #district52rep #dems #steubencountydems #dems #trusttrost #bensmaltz #indiana #dekalb #dems #county #rep #state #for #state #trostforstaterep #StateRepresentatives #trost
26 October 2026 · Joseph Trost For District 52 · $0 – $99 · 4K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Running for office while working full-time in construction is exhausting, but I believe that more regular people need to throw their hat in the ring and try to get into positions of power to fight corruption. I strongly believe that if we get some working class folks in there that work as hard as we do, they will be less likely to turn their backs on the working people of their district. #trusttrost #trostforstaterep #district52
26 October 2026 · Joseph Trost For District 52 · $0 – $99 · 3K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Like so many of our politicians, Ben Smaltz has been bought and paid for. If you can take one thing in your life that maybe isn’t going right, there’s a connection to money in politics. Ever wonder why we can’t buy cold beer at a grocery store or a gas station? Liquor lobbyists have fought against it. Ben Smaltz has received nearly $100,000 since 2020 from liquor lobbyists. Why are our prescription costs so high? Smaltz has accepted nearly $8,000 from health insurers, hospital groups, and dr
26 October 2026 · Joseph Trost For District 52 · $0 – $99 · 3K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Ben Smaltz authored HB 1032, which redrew Indiana’s congressional map outside of a census year. This occurred after Smaltz and other Indiana Republicans travelled to Washington to meet with Trump administration officials. Smaltz acknowledged in committee that the new maps were redrawn “purely for political performance" for Republicans in the congressional races. When Democrats offered an amendment to put the new map on the ballot so Hoosiers could vote on it, Smaltz opposed it, saying he was e
25 October 2026 · Joseph Trost For District 52 · $0 – $99 · 4K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
The people of District 52 do not want AEP’s Lulu-Sorenson project ruining their land, neighborhoods, or family farms. We have to stand together as a community to fight for a route that hurts the fewest amount of people possible. I don’t trust politicians who take utility company money to do that. Vote Trost in November! #trustrost #trostforstaterep #antidatacenter #lulusorenson
21 October 2026 · Joseph Trost For District 52 · $0 – $99 · 3K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
🚨Join Kelly DeLong & I for our Butler town hall! Saturday, Oct. 24th at 9:30 in the Community Room at the Butler Library. All are welcome. 💙 After knocking on thousands of doors the last two months, there’s a few things I’ve learned while talking to voters. On both sides of the aisle, people are upset, struggling, and frustrated at our current leadership. We’re tired of the corruption. We’re tired of the bills rising higher and higher with no end in sight. We’re tired of working full time an
19 October 2026 · Joseph Trost For District 52 · $0 – $99 · 6K+ 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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