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Wisconsin Ideas Project

This page ran 430 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 13 August 2026 and 26 October 2026. Meta reports $856.3K – $1.1M of spend, which makes it the 63rd largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Group or campaign. Most of its spend was on the Democrats’ 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 ↗

430

ads

$969.9K

reported spend, range $856.3K – $1.1M

23%

of spend on federal races

$550

median spend per ad

Spend by week the ad started

7 Sep
5 Oct
 Spend still counting
2 Nov

Tone

Attack
83%
Promotional
17%

Share of the 349 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • Tom Tiffany$206.4K
  • Bobby Lindsey$41.2K
  • David Daniels$32.5K
  • Jim Croft$31.5K
  • Bob Donovan$29.4K
  • Patrick Snyder$27.2K

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

Topics

Economy & cost of living
53%
Health
34%
Corruption & governance
32%
Infrastructure & energy
30%
Candidate profile
16%
Jobs & youth
6.0%
Education
2.0%
Security, crime & immigration
0.9%

Spend by race: Federal 23%, State 57%, Local 9.2%, No specific race 11%.

Spend by ad language: English 89%.

The costliest ads

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

  • This content was removed because it didn't follow our Advertising Standards.

    21 August 2026 · Wisconsin Ideas Project · $20–25K · 800K+ impressions · Ad Library

  • Unless you’re a billionaire, Bobby Lindsey won’t work for you.

    23 August 2026 · Wisconsin Ideas Project · $20–25K · 700K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • David Crowley helped negotiate the bipartisan deal to keep the Brewers in Milwaukee until 2050.

    15 October 2026 · Wisconsin Ideas Project · $15–20K · 1M+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Healthcare costs are too high, and State Rep. Jenna Jacobson is doing something about it. She supports capping the cost of lifesaving drugs and wrote a bill to cover more breast cancer screenings. Call and thank her for leading on healthcare.

    25 September 2026 · Wisconsin Ideas Project · $15–20K · 450K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Ben Gruber will protect Wisconsin's way of life.

    27 August 2026 · Wisconsin Ideas Project · $15–20K · 800K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Veteran and teacher Kevin Knoke works for us.

    26 August 2026 · Wisconsin Ideas Project · $15–20K · 500K+ 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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Wisconsin Ideas Project: political ads on Facebook and Instagram before the 2026 US midterms · Vipima