United States 2026 · Parties and candidates · House, Massachusetts 9

Robert Macallister

Result: Lost · 39.1% Unofficial count as of 6 November 2026.

Robert Macallister’s FEC committees ran 49 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram from 1 page between 4 August 2026 and 26 October 2026. Meta reports $3.5–8.4K of spend. That makes Robert Macallister the 618th largest spender of the 1181 federal candidates with ads. Running for House, Massachusetts 9. Party: Republicans.

Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026.

49

ads on 1 page

$5.9K

reported spend, range $3.5–8.4K

100%

of spend on federal races

$50

median spend per ad

Spend by week the ad started

3 Aug
7 Sep
5 Oct
 Spend still counting
2 Nov

Tone

Attack
20%
Promotional
67%
Informational
12%

Share of the 49 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • Bill Keating$997

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

Topics

Electoral process & turnout
43%
Rallies & events
37%
Candidate profile
33%
Infrastructure & energy
16%
Agriculture & food
16%
Economy & cost of living
12%
Health
6.1%
Corruption & governance
6.1%

Spend by race: Federal 100%.

Spend by ad language: English 100%.

FEC committees

FEC committeeAdsSpend ($)
MACALLISTER FOR CONGRESS C0091083649$5.9K

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.

  • They say I'm not in favor of renewable energy. Cape Cod Community College. A solar array my company built, and I still own. No trees cut down. Solar on the roof. Solar over the parking lot. Wise use renewables, yes. Offshore wind that damages the environment, no. Early voting is open now through October 30.

    22 October 2026 · Macallister for Congress · $300 – $399 · 70K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • I am running for Congress because the people who live here keep getting handed the bill for decisions they were never asked about. Offshore wind is one of those decisions. Part of your electric bill already pays for it. The turbines have an end date. The removal money was waived until year fifteen of a twenty-year contract. If that money never shows up, these structures will remain in the water until the tax payer funds the removal. I put solar on my own roofs and installed solar farms. I am not

    26 October 2026 · Macallister for Congress · $200 – $299 · 35K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Early voting is open. Get your voting done, then get your friends out to vote. This year matters.

    26 October 2026 · Macallister for Congress · $200 – $299 · 30K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • Asked at a live debate: do you support U.S. workers first? Tyler Macallister on the offshore wind build-out out of New Bedford: billions spent, hundreds of temporary workers, and about ten people left when it was done. His answer: keep those jobs here and train the trades along the working waterfront. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3, polls open 7 AM to 8 PM. More voting info at macallister4congress.com.

    26 October 2026 · Macallister for Congress · $200 – $299 · 45K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • A live debate on Congress with one candidate missing. Bill Keating declined. Tyler Macallister took every question. GO USA's Opp Score rates the two records on a scale from −5 to +5: Keating −3.48, Tyler +4.41. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3, polls open 7 AM to 8 PM. More voting info at macallister4congress.com.

    26 October 2026 · Macallister for Congress · $200 – $299 · 45K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Asked at a live debate: do you support secure, verifiable elections, including voter ID? Tyler Macallister: "If I have to show an ID to get on an airplane, or to make a withdrawal from a bank, I need to show an ID to go vote." Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3, polls open 7 AM to 8 PM. More voting info at macallister4congress.com.

    26 October 2026 · Macallister for Congress · $200 – $299 · 45K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

Pages that ran the ads

PageAdsSpend ($)
Macallister for Congress49$5.9K

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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Robert Macallister (House, Massachusetts 9): Facebook and Instagram ads in the 2026 midterms · Vipima