United States 2026 · Parties and candidates · House, Wisconsin 3
Rebecca Cooke
Result: Won · 52.4% Unofficial count as of 6 November 2026.
Rebecca Cooke’s FEC committees ran 157 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram from 1 page between 6 May 2026 and 21 October 2026. Meta reports $280.9–357.2K of spend. That makes Rebecca Cooke the 29th largest spender of the 1181 federal candidates with ads. Running for House, Wisconsin 3. Party: Democrats.
Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026.
157
ads on 1 page
$319.1K
reported spend, range $280.9–357.2K
100%
of spend on federal races
$750
median spend per ad
Meta and Google side by side
On MetaFacebook · Instagram
$319.1K
157 ads on 1 page, midpoint of Meta’s ranges, 4 May 2026 to 31 October 2026
- Largest page
- Cooke for Congress · $319.1K
- Federal races
- 100%
- Median spend per ad
- $750
- Attack ads, of text ads
- 51%
On Google and YouTubeSearch · YouTube · Display
$958.8K – $1.2M
220 ads from 2 verified advertiser accounts, Google’s ranges, 4 May 2026 to 4 November 2026
- Against Meta spend
- 3.3×
- Formats
- 217 video · 3 text
- Impressions
- 22.6M–26.2M
- Targeting declared
- age on 217 ads · gender on 217 ads
- States named
- Wisconsin
- Last ad shown
- 4 Nov
Google advertiser accounts
| Advertiser | Ads | Formats | States | First ad | Last ad | Spend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cooke for Congress | 219 | 217 video · 2 text | WI | 17 Jul | 4 Nov | $878.8K – $1.1M |
| Cooke for Congress | 1 | 1 text | national only | 11 Mar | 3 Nov | $80–90K |
Google publishes no ad text; the link on each account opens its ads in Google’s Ads Transparency Center. An account is tied to this page by its FEC committee; a party page lists its 2 largest.
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 157 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- Derrick Van Orden$161.3K
- Derek Van Orden$10.3K
- Derrick Van Orden and the Trump Administration$5.8K
- Van Orden$3.7K
- Trump and Van Orden$3.6K
- Donald Trump and Derrick Van Orden$2.1K
Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.
Topics
Spend by race: Federal 100%.
Spend by ad language: English 100%.
FEC committees
| FEC committee | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| COOKE FOR CONGRESS C00844993 | 157 | $319.1K |
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.
Hi, I’m Rebecca Cooke, the Democrat running to flip WI-03. My opponent Derrick Van Orden stands with extremists and corporate PACs. But we have something stronger: you. I hope you can chip in $5, $35, or $50 to help flip Western Wisconsin blue.
12 August 2026 · Cooke for Congress · $40–45K · 700K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
I'm Rebecca Cooke -- daughter of dairy farmers, a local waitress and I’m running for Congress in Wisconsin's 3rd District. Our race is one of the closest red-to-blue races in the country, but our opponent, extremist Derrick Van Orden, did not have a contested primary. He was able to build a huge warchest thanks to his special interest and far-right donors. We don’t have to out-raise him, but we have to keep close enough in this final month: Please chip in $5, $35, or even $50 to help me unseat
5 October 2026 · Cooke for Congress · $10–15K · 150K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Rebecca Cooke took the No Corporate PAC Pledge because she listens to you, not Big Tech or AI companies.
1 September 2026 · Cooke for Congress · $10–15K · 1M+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Larry has watched as his neighbors’ family farms have disappeared. Raised on a dairy farm, Rebecca Cooke gets it. She sees how D.C. has left workers and farmers behind. In Congress, she’ll fight for working families and persistently work across the aisle to deliver results for western Wisconsin.
14 August 2026 · Cooke for Congress · $10–15K · 500K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
I’m Rebecca Cooke – Democrat running for Congress in Wisconsin's 3rd District Wisconsin communities are struggling to support their families and get the healthcare, senior care, and wages they need. We deserve more than a hot-head, Trump acolyte like Derrick Van Orden. Chip in $5, $35, or even $50 to flip this district blue.
18 June 2026 · Cooke for Congress · $9–10K · 125K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
I signed the no corporate PAC pledge because I answer to you, not Big Tech companies. I will always fight to put the needs of western Wisconsin first.
27 August 2026 · Cooke for Congress · $8–9K · 500K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Pages that ran the ads
| Page | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| Cooke for Congress | 157 | $319.1K |
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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