United States 2026 · Every advertiser

Noah Smith

This page ran 2 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 26 May 2026 and 31 July 2026. Meta reports $300 – $498 of spend, which makes it the 17,494th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Candidate. Most of its spend took no side. Race: State.

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 ↗

2

ads

$399

reported spend, range $300 – $498

0.0%

of spend on federal races

$200

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
100%

Share of the 2 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • my opponent and his billionaire, out-of-state PAC buddies$250
  • Dennis Powers$150

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

Topics

Corruption & governance
50%
Rallies & events
50%
Candidate profile
50%

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.

  • Aren’t you tired of opening your mailbox every day and finding another political mailer? Since May, more than 25 different mailers have been sent into District 36 and hundreds of thousands of dollars with it. Some support my opponent. Some attack me. Either way, they represent hundreds of thousands of dollars being poured into our communities by my opponent and his billionaire, out-of-state PAC buddies. Why? Because they’re worried. They’re worried that the people of District 36 are about to

    31 July 2026 · Noah Smith · $200 – $299 · 20K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Tonight, I showed up to the WLAF debate ready to answer tough questions, discuss the issues facing our district, and earn your vote. Unfortunately, my opponent Dennis Powers failed to show up yet again. Last week, he skipped the LaFollette Press debate while rolling out the red carpet for the Nashville political elite. Tonight, he skipped another opportunity to stand before the people he represents. Mr. Powers called me “youthful” and “inexperienced” in the video he sent in. But the truth is,

    26 May 2026 · Noah Smith · $100 – $199 · 9K+ 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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Noah Smith: political ads on Facebook and Instagram before the 2026 US midterms · Vipima