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The Kansas City Star

This page ran 26 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 1 September 2026 and 27 October 2026. Meta reports $100 – $2.7K of spend, which makes it the 12,064th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Media. Most of its spend took no side. Race: No specific race. Paid for by McClatchy Media Company, LLC.

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 ↗

26

ads

$1.4K

reported spend, range $100 – $2.7K

29%

of spend on federal races

$50

median spend per ad

Spend by week the ad started

7 Sep
5 Oct
 Spend still counting
2 Nov

Tone

Attack
27%
Promotional
3.8%
Informational
69%

Share of the 26 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • KC fire chief and city manager$50
  • Missouri’s Eric Schmitt$50
  • Homeland Security$50
  • Roger Marshall and Ty Masterson$50
  • Roger Marshall$50
  • Republican Party$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
31%
Corruption & governance
27%
Infrastructure & energy
19%
Candidate profile
19%
Security, crime & immigration
12%
Health
12%
Rallies & events
3.8%
Education
3.8%

Spend by race: Federal 29%, State 11%, Ballot measures 7.1%, No specific race 54%.

Spend by ad language: English 100%.

The costliest ads

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

  • Videos show the men raising their arms at protesters.

    25 October 2026 · The Kansas City Star · $100 – $199 · 15K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • Missouri will soon decide whether to bolster the state’s main tool for direct democracy when voters across the state head to the polls on Nov. 3.

    27 October 2026 · The Kansas City Star · $0 – $99 · 0+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • Data centers have become one of the most polarizing issues in Kansas politics. As some communities seek to leverage projects to offset local taxes, others are preparing to vote on proposals to ban data center developments outright.

    24 October 2026 · The Kansas City Star · $0 – $99 · 0+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • The two candidates, Republican Ty Masterson and Democrat Cindy Holscher, have adopted remarkably different stances on the issue.

    23 October 2026 · The Kansas City Star · $0 – $99 · 0+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • A Republican incumbent who’s been ousted once before is aiming to fend off a Democratic challenger.

    22 October 2026 · The Kansas City Star · $0 – $99 · 0+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • "Tell your family and friends to vote. ... If everyone does that, we keep Texas," state Attorney General Ken Paxton told a Fort Worth crowd on Oct. 19, the first day of early voting in one of the most watched U.S. Senate races in years. "If we lose Texas, we lose America."

    22 October 2026 · The Kansas City Star · $0 – $99 · 0+ 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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