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Finding House · New York Democrat

Espaillat, Adriano FINDING

Seat
H-NY-13
Party
DEM
Universe reason
contested_primary
FEC receipts
$2,104,259 FEC
Campaign site
https://adrianoespaillat.com (unverified)
Pages scanned
30 · last 2026-06-02

Posted public messaging guidance consistent with red-boxing

Detected on https://adrianoespaillat.com/media-kit  · classifier confidence 0.85 · model claude-haiku-4-5

The page contains explicit audience segmentation (Democratic primary voters age 35+, voters of color) paired with directives about what these segments 'need to hear,' combined with downloadable b-roll assets and messaging instructions. These are hallmarks of red-box guidance directing outside spenders on whom to target and what message/assets to use. The language 'particularly need to hear these messages' and 'should read and see visually' functions as instruction to a media buyer, not direct voter persuasion.

Quoted evidence — verbatim spans from the page

  • Democratic primary voters who have voted in two or more recent primaries, with particular emphasis on voters age 35 and older; and all Democratic primary voters of color — Black and Latino — who have voted in one or more recent primaries particularly need to hear these messages.
    Explicit segmentation of voter audiences paired with directive about what they 'need to hear' — a classic red-box signal pairing demographics with prescribed messaging for outside spenders.
  • Voters should read and see visually the breadth of his full labor and progressive leadership coalition.
    Instruction to show specific visual/messaging content to voters, framed as guidance on what should be communicated and how.
  • B-ROLL Download Here
    Provision of video assets (b-roll) made available for download, a signal of ad-production resource provisioning typical of red-box guidance to media buyers.
  • Paid for by Adriano Espaillat for Congress
    Disclaimer indicating paid communication context, consistent with media-buy guidance framing.
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Independent-expenditure corroboration

FEC Schedule E · 9 filings

Sequence. Messaging guidance was present on the candidate's site when detected (by us) on 2026-06-02; $1,075,000 in supporting independent expenditures is on file for this candidate, and $140,354 opposing.

Committee AmountFilingsDate range
S BOLD AMERICA $600,000 2 2026-05-18 – 2026-05-18
S LATINO VICTORY FUND $475,000 3 2026-05-08 – 2026-05-08
O JUSTICE DEMOCRATS PAC $140,354 4 2026-05-20 – 2026-05-26

S Supporting O Opposing

Schedule E is corroboration, not the trigger — a filed expenditure is late evidence, and our detection timestamp reflects when we crawled, which can lag the actual posting. Supporting IE dated on or after our detection day: $0. Dates are FEC expenditure dates.