Published July 13, 2026 · Updated with each build
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Finding House · Missouri Democrat

Bell, Wesley FINDING

Seat
H-MO-01
Party
DEM
Universe reason
contested_primary
FEC receipts
$1,903,759 FEC
Campaign site
https://bell4mo.com (unverified)
Pages scanned
19 · last 2026-07-09

Posted public messaging guidance consistent with red-boxing

Detected on https://bell4mo.com/race-update  · classifier confidence 0.85 · model fireworks/deepseek-v4-flash

The page uses directive language ('need to see and read') targeting a specific voter segment, provides attack messaging, and offers research backup. This is instructional guidance for paid media, not direct voter persuasion or internal press strategy. The intended audience appears to be outside spenders who can run ads making voters see and read the message.

Quoted evidence — verbatim spans from the page

  • Voters in Missouri's First Congressional District need to see and read that Cori Bush is only looking out for Cori Bush, not St. Louis.
    Segmented audience (voters in MO-01) paired with a directive about what they should see/read, a classic red-boxing signal.
  • Research back up here.
    Provision of supporting material (research) for ad use, suggesting asset provisioning for outside groups.
Archived screenshot of https://bell4mo.com/race-update
Archived at detectionFull-page screenshot of https://bell4mo.com/race-update · Raw HTML preserved

Independent-expenditure corroboration

FEC Schedule E · 3 filings

Sequence. Messaging guidance was present on the candidate's site when detected (by us) on 2026-07-09; $542,439 in supporting independent expenditures is on file for this candidate.

Committee AmountFilingsDate range
S UNITED DEMOCRACY PROJECT ('UDP') $542,439 3 2026-07-02 – 2026-07-02

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.