United States 2026 · Parties and candidates · House, Illinois 14
James Marter
Result: Lost · 37.4% Unofficial count as of 6 November 2026.
James Marter’s FEC committees ran 22 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram from 1 page between 9 June 2026 and 22 October 2026. Meta reports $2.2–4.4K of spend. That makes James Marter the 751st largest spender of the 1181 federal candidates with ads. Running for House, Illinois 14. Party: Republicans.
Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026.
22
ads on 1 page
$3.3K
reported spend, range $2.2–4.4K
100%
of spend on federal races
$150
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 22 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- Lauren Underwood$1.9K
- Lauren Underwood; JB Pritzker$299
- Democrat Rep. Lauren Underwood$150
- @RepUnderwood$150
Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.
Topics
Spend by race: Federal 100%.
Spend by ad language: English 100%.
FEC committees
| FEC committee | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| MARTER FOR CONGRESS C00657361 | 22 | $3.3K |
The committees whose ads count for the candidate, as the FEC names them.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
That's my Opponent Rep. Lauren Underwood, She earned an "F" score with A.B.A.T.E. She's out of touch with working families in our district, Illinois 14th District. I'm honored 🎖 to be endorsed by A.B.A.T.E. and will be leading the charge for our legislative issues! Here's the Remarks from Chris Hansen leader on the ABATE PAC team: ABATE of Illinois, Inc. FEDPAC didn’t hand out grades lightly — and Congresswoman Lauren Underwood earned her F. When the DuKane Chapter of ABATE of Illinois
19 September 2026 · Marter for Congress · $400 – $499 · 25K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Miss Information, Miss Underwood, or more accurately #LyingLauren is at it again. I don't take it lightly outing her as the #Liar she is, Facts are Facts. Lies and Misinformation is all that comes out of her campaign and her Town Halls. Here are Direct outright LIES about me: *Marter wants to end Medicare >>> NEVER ever said this, or even REMOTELY implied it. SHE’s a 5 *Pinocchio on this one! *… wants to cut Social Security, and gut SNAP — taking food off families' tables right here in
8 October 2026 · Marter for Congress · $200 – $299 · 10K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
I believe the Supreme Court will rule for Women and Science. Justices that don't will be on my Impeachment list. I Stand with Riley Gaines. I Stand with real Women. Rep. Lauren Underwood stands with men and boys with makeup and dresses who can't win as men and boys so they pretend to be what they are not! Moms for America Moms for Liberty Moms for America Action Moms for America Illinois
7 October 2026 · Marter for Congress · $200 – $299 · 7K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
My Opponent, #LeftOfTheSQUAD Democrat Rep. Lauren Underwood has NO PLAN except to #HATE President Donald Trump, incite violence, and spend #TRILLIONS of your hard-earned wages! #Taxed >>> BTW read my plan below. She claims to have passed a small number of bills, about 2 per year, in nearly a decade in office, Bills she didn't write, special interest and staffers did. None of them did anything for working families, in fact she VOTED for Every Tax increase and Inflation causing budget b
22 October 2026 · Marter for Congress · $100 – $199 · 1K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
My November opponent is Democrat #LEFTofTheSQUAD Rep. Lauren Underwood. 2026 is the best chance to end her political career in Washington DC. She’s been tagged by the DNC to flip the U.S. House of Representatives from RED to BLUE. We can’t let her do it and we can send a National Shockwave by sending her packing in January 2027. My race, objectively, is the #1 opportunity in Illinois to flip a seat from dark BLUE to bright RED, it’s a race with National significance! Illinois Governor wh
19 October 2026 · Marter for Congress · $100 – $199 · 5K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Rep. Lauren Underwood is working harder for Democratic Socialists than she is for our district! Share the video - Let's get this to go viral! Voters need to know! She's traveling the USA ignoring our home Illinois 14th Congressional District. #Marter4Congress #AmericaFirst #UnseatUnderwood #Flipthe14th House Republicans House Freedom Caucus Will County Republican Central Committee Wheatland Township Republican Organization Putnam County Illinois Republicans Bureau County Republican Par
18 October 2026 · Marter for Congress · $100 – $199 · 6K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Pages that ran the ads
| Page | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| Marter for Congress | 22 | $3.3K |
Each name opens the page’s Vipima page, with its own figures and its link to Meta’s 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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