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

Levine, Jake FINDING

Seat
H-CA-32
Party
DEM
Universe reason
contested_primary
FEC receipts
$2,348,149 FEC
Campaign site
https://www.jakelevineforcongress.com/ (unverified)
Pages scanned
28 · last 2026-07-09

Posted public messaging guidance consistent with red-boxing

Detected on https://www.jakelevineforcongress.com/gallery  · classifier confidence 0.95 · model fireworks/deepseek-v4-flash

The page contains explicit directives about what messages voters should see, on which channels (on the go, cable, mail), with specific timing ('Starting in Week 4') and audience segments (women over 55, high-information voters, seniors). This language is addressed to an outside spender who will run paid advertising, not to voters or the press. The content functions as media-buy guidance, not as a standard press kit or voter persuasion page.

Quoted evidence — verbatim spans from the page

  • Primary voters need to see on the go and via mail
    Directive language specifying channel (on the go, mail) for a message, indicating media-buy instructions.
  • Starting in Week 4, voters, particularly women over 55, high-information voters and seniors, need to see on the go and on cable, hear on the go, and see in mail
    Specifies timing, segmented audience, and multiple channels (on the go, cable, mail), typical of red-box guidance.
  • Voters especially need to see on the go, on cable, and in the mail
    Repeated directive with channel mix, reinforcing media-buy instructions.
Archived screenshot of https://www.jakelevineforcongress.com/gallery
Archived at detectionFull-page screenshot of https://www.jakelevineforcongress.com/gallery · Raw HTML preserved

Independent-expenditure corroboration

FEC Schedule E · 18 filings

Sequence. Messaging guidance was present on the candidate's site when detected (by us) on 2026-07-09; $438,332 in supporting independent expenditures is on file for this candidate.

Committee AmountFilingsDate range
S NEW ERA LEADERSHIP $388,332 17 2026-05-14 – 2026-05-29
S PAF $50,000 1 2026-05-14 – 2026-05-14

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.