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Finding House · New Jersey Democrat

Bennett, Rebecca FINDING

Seat
H-NJ-07
Party
DEM
Universe reason
contested_primary
FEC receipts
$2,944,138 FEC
Campaign site
https://rebeccabennettforcongress.com/ (unverified)
Pages scanned
122 · last 2026-07-09

Posted public messaging guidance consistent with red-boxing

Detected on https://rebeccabennettforcongress.com/media  · classifier confidence 0.95 · model fireworks/deepseek-v4-flash

The page contains explicit instructions addressed to 'supporters' (likely outside groups) on where, when, and how to run ads and mail, targeting specific voter segments in NJ CD 7. This matches the definition of red-boxing as media-buy guidance to an outside spender, not standard campaign content or voter persuasion.

Quoted evidence — verbatim spans from the page

  • Supporters that want to assist with video communication should ensure that Likely Democratic primary voters in NJ CD 7 see ads with this message on digital and streaming platforms and OTT/CTV, especially YouTube, MS NOW, CNN, and NWNJ. Cable and Digital communication are equally important in Weeks 2 and 1.
    Directive to outside supporters specifying channels, platforms, and timing for ad placement, a key red-boxing signal.
  • In addition, supporters who send mail should ensure that Democratic primary voters in NJ CD 7 read this message in the mail through election day.
    Directive to supporters for mail targeting, another media-buy instruction.
  • In addition to the below existing messaging, voters in NJ CD 7 need to know that MAGA Dark-Money groups are lying about Rebecca Bennett because they know she’s the best Democrat to defeat Tom Kean and stop Trump.
    Prescribed message theme framed as what voters need to know, written as guidance for outside communicators.
Archived screenshot of https://rebeccabennettforcongress.com/media
Archived at detectionFull-page screenshot of https://rebeccabennettforcongress.com/media · Raw HTML preserved

Independent-expenditure corroboration

FEC Schedule E · 53 filings

Sequence. Messaging guidance was present on the candidate's site when detected (by us) on 2026-07-09; $2,540,355 in supporting independent expenditures is on file for this candidate, and $1,386,582 opposing.

Committee AmountFilingsDate range
S VOTEVETS $2,285,914 25 2026-04-20 – 2026-05-21
O REAL CHANGE PAC $1,386,582 19 2026-05-18 – 2026-05-28
S ARTICLE ONE PAC $253,656 8 2026-05-05 – 2026-05-26
S FIELD TEAM 6, INC. $784 1 2026-06-24 – 2026-06-24

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.