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Finding House · Colorado Democrat

Degette, Diana L FINDING

Seat
H-CO-01
Party
DEM
Universe reason
contested_primary
FEC receipts
$1,424,135 FEC
Campaign site
https://degette.com (unverified)
Pages scanned
64 · last 2026-07-09

Posted public messaging guidance consistent with red-boxing

Detected on https://degette.com/media/voters-need-to-know  · classifier confidence 0.95 · model fireworks/deepseek-v4-flash

The page is a media-buy guidance document addressed to outside groups ('allies', 'new allies'), specifying segmented voter targets, channels (TV, YouTube, digital, phone, text), and both positive and contrast messaging themes. It is not a press release or voter-facing content; it functions as red-boxing for independent expenditure groups.

Quoted evidence — verbatim spans from the page

  • Campaign primary targets include voters aged 40 and up who have not yet returned their ballots.
    Segmented audience with directive about who to target.
  • Regular and low propensity primary voters aged 40+ are reachable via digital and especially YouTube.
    Channel-specific media-buy instruction.
  • New allies should know that voters who have not returned their ballots need to see contrast communications on TV, YouTube, and that targeted digital ads will be most effective with voters 40+.
    Directive to outside groups ('new allies') on media channels and audience.
  • Diana’s top positive messages for voters to see on TV, OTT/CTV streaming, YouTube, Meta, and paid Google search:
    Prescribed message themes with explicit channel list for paid media.
  • Voters need to know this information about Melat Kiros:
    Instruction to use specific negative contrast messaging.
Archived screenshot of https://degette.com/media/voters-need-to-know
Archived at detectionFull-page screenshot of https://degette.com/media/voters-need-to-know · Raw HTML preserved

Independent-expenditure corroboration

FEC Schedule E · 19 filings

Sequence. Messaging guidance was present on the candidate's site when detected (by us) on 2026-07-09; $2,348,694 in supporting independent expenditures is on file for this candidate, and $213,474 opposing.

Committee AmountFilingsDate range
S PRO-CHOICE MAJORITY ACTION $1,267,653 5 2026-06-16 – 2026-06-25
S MILE HIGH ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT $1,050,000 3 2026-06-06 – 2026-06-08
O JUSTICE DEMOCRATS PAC $207,358 5 2026-06-02 – 2026-06-22
S AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AAJ PAC) $20,000 1 2026-04-29 – 2026-04-29
S NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $11,041 3 2026-06-10 – 2026-06-10
O FORWARD BLUE $6,116 2 2026-06-23 – 2026-06-29

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.