United States 2026 · Parties and candidates · House, Montana 1
Samuel Forstag
Result: Won · 50.3% Unofficial count as of 6 November 2026.
Samuel Forstag’s FEC committees ran 57 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram from 1 page between 14 May 2026 and 26 October 2026. Meta reports $34.8–46.1K of spend. That makes Samuel Forstag the 207th largest spender of the 1181 federal candidates with ads. Running for House, Montana 1. Party: Democrats.
Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026.
57
ads on 1 page
$40.5K
reported spend, range $34.8–46.1K
100%
of spend on federal races
$350
median spend per ad
Meta and Google side by side
On MetaFacebook · Instagram
$40.5K
57 ads on 1 page, midpoint of Meta’s ranges, 4 May 2026 to 31 October 2026
- Largest page
- Sam Forstag · $40.5K
- Federal races
- 100%
- Median spend per ad
- $350
- Attack ads, of text ads
- 0.0%
On Google and YouTubeSearch · YouTube · Display
$290.7–364.4K
63 ads from 2 verified advertiser accounts, Google’s ranges, 4 May 2026 to 4 November 2026
- Against Meta spend
- 8.1×
- Formats
- 59 video · 4 text
- Impressions
- 9.4M–11.2M
- Targeting declared
- age on 59 ads · gender on 59 ads
- States named
- Montana
- Last ad shown
- 4 Nov
Google advertiser accounts
| Advertiser | Ads | Formats | States | First ad | Last ad | Spend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam for Montana | 60 | 58 video · 2 text | MT | 5 May | 4 Nov | $265.2–332.8K |
| Sam For Montana | 3 | 1 video · 2 text | MT | 1 Jun | 4 Nov | $25.5–31.6K |
Google publishes no ad text; the link on each account opens its ads in Google’s Ads Transparency Center. An account is tied to this page by its FEC committee; a party page lists its 2 largest.
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 9 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Topics
Spend by race: Federal 100%.
Spend by ad language: English 27%.
FEC committees
| FEC committee | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| SAM FOR MONTANA C00932822 | 57 | $40.5K |
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.
Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Montana Unions are all backing Sam Forstag for Congress because he is the voice for working people. Sam is fighting for healthcare, childcare, and housing we can actually afford. Make you plan to vote for Sam Forstag today.
22 May 2026 · Sam Forstag · $6–7K · 800K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Donate today!
2 October 2026 · Sam Forstag · $3–3.5K · 50K+ impressions · Ad Library
I'm proud to have Senator Bernie Sanders' support in this race. He knows that if we want working people to have a voice in Congress, we have to send working people to Congress. I'd be honored to earn your vote in the primary on June 2, so that we can finally get to work fixing our broken systems of housing, healthcare, and childcare. Together, we can do it.
1 June 2026 · Sam Forstag · $300 – $399 · 35K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Hear from Congressional candidate Sam Forstag!
14 September 2026 · Sam Forstag · $100 – $199 · 10K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Missoula! Join us at the Wilma on Friday, May 22, for a rally with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sara Nelson, and union leaders from across Montana. Montanans have bent the course of this country for the better before, and we can do it again! We do that by bringing people together - working people, union members, and Montanans of every age who still care about the constitution and the future of this country. It’s not too late to build a better country, and it’s not too much to have fun while
14 May 2026 · Sam Forstag · $100 – $199 · 10K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Sam Forstag’s “For All Of Us” tour is coming to Browning and former Senator Jon Tester is joining him! Come join Sam for a Get Out The Vote rally and community feed this Monday at the Stick Game Arbor at 6:00 PM, featuring live music from the Crawford Brothers Band! Sam is a smokejumper and union leader running for Congress to make sure working people have a voice in Washington. He’ll talk about the fight for affordable housing, healthcare, and childcare, and what it will take to build an eco
26 October 2026 · Sam Forstag · $0 – $99 · 4K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Pages that ran the ads
| Page | Ads | Spend ($) |
|---|---|---|
| Sam Forstag | 57 | $40.5K |
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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