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Pete Karas for Wisconsin Secretary of State

This page ran 59 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 11 May 2026 and 25 October 2026. Meta reports $12.3–19.7K of spend, which makes it the 3,082nd 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 ↗

59

ads

$16K

reported spend, range $12.3–19.7K

0.0%

of spend on federal races

$150

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
24%
Promotional
68%
Informational
8.5%

Share of the 59 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • Democrats and Republicans$3.4K
  • Both parties$1.9K
  • Republicans and Democrats$849
  • the two-party system$849
  • the two corporate parties$149
  • both corporate parties$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
68%
Candidate profile
44%
Corruption & governance
19%
Infrastructure & energy
12%
Economy & cost of living
8.5%
Health
1.7%
Security, crime & immigration
1.7%
Rallies & events
1.7%

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.

  • Every politician in Wisconsin loves a photo by the lake. Ask them about the 70-year-old pipeline running underneath it and the room goes quiet. Democrats and Republicans both had the chance to stand up to Enbridge. Both passed. That's not bad luck. That's the pattern: two parties that protect each other instead of the drinking water tens of millions of us depend on. Pete's skipping the photo op. He's saying the thing nobody on either ticket will. There's a third name on this ballot, and it isn

    13 October 2026 · Pete Karas for Wisconsin Secretary of State · $3–3.5K · 800K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Wisconsin didn't always settle for two parties, and the state was better for it. In 1924, Fighting Bob La Follette ran for president on the Progressive ticket and carried Wisconsin outright. For decades, Milwaukee elected the "sewer socialists," who built public infrastructure so clean and well-run the rest of the country was jealous. Wisconsin gave the nation some of its first workers' compensation and child labor protections. None of that came from the two-party script. It came from voters he

    13 October 2026 · Pete Karas for Wisconsin Secretary of State · $1.5–2K · 500K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • Both parties use your taxes to fund war and elections. Pete Karas is running to fund healthcare, housing, and people instead.

    1 September 2026 · Pete Karas for Wisconsin Secretary of State · $1.5–2K · 125K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Had enough of both parties? November 3rd is your chance to say so. Pete Karas for Wisconsin Secretary of State. #PeteKaras #Wisconsin #ThirdParty #EndTheDuopoly #VoteDifferent

    13 October 2026 · Pete Karas for Wisconsin Secretary of State · $1–1.5K · 350K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • 67 years old. Never voted for a Republican or a Democrat for president. Not once. People have told Pete Karas he's doing it wrong for about fifty years. He still figures it's simple: your vote counts for something when it goes to someone you believe in. He's voted that way his whole life. This November, you can too. petekaras.com #ThirdPartyChoice #VoteYourValues #SecretaryOfState #PeteKaras #IndependentVoter

    13 October 2026 · Pete Karas for Wisconsin Secretary of State · $800 – $899 · 200K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • The two-party system is broken — and both sides know it. Pete Karas is running to give Wisconsin a real alternative.

    31 August 2026 · Pete Karas for Wisconsin Secretary of State · $400 – $499 · 30K+ 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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