Published July 13, 2026 · Updated with each build
Red Box Watch

A public ledger of red‑boxing — campaign‑site signals to super PACs

← Back to the index

Finding House · Tennessee Democrat

Dixie, Vincent FINDING

Seat
H-TN-07
Party
DEM
Universe reason
contested_primary
FEC receipts
$178,357 FEC
Campaign site
https://www.dixie4tn.com/ (unverified)
Pages scanned
17 · last 2026-07-09

Posted public messaging guidance consistent with red-boxing

Detected on https://www.dixie4tn.com/media  · classifier confidence 0.95 · model fireworks/deepseek-v4-flash

The page contains explicit directives segmented by voter type and channel, instructing what ads to run, where, and in what order. This is not voter-facing persuasion but guidance to an outside spender (super PAC) on media buying. The presence of standard campaign content does not negate the red-boxing function.

Quoted evidence — verbatim spans from the page

  • All reliable Democratic voters need to see on streaming and digital that Vincent Dixie is our best choice for Congress because he will fight funding cuts to local hospitals, and protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
    Segmented audience ('reliable Democratic voters') paired with channel directive ('streaming and digital') and prescribed message themes, indicating media-buy instructions to an outside group.
  • After this message has broken through via digital, Black voters need to hear the same message on the radio.
    Further segmentation by race ('Black voters') with channel ('radio') and timing cue ('after this message has broken through'), typical of red-boxing guidance for phased ad buys.
Archived screenshot of https://www.dixie4tn.com/media
Archived at detectionFull-page screenshot of https://www.dixie4tn.com/media · Raw HTML preserved

Independent-expenditure corroboration

FEC Schedule E · 6 filings

Sequence. Messaging guidance was present on the candidate's site when detected (by us) on 2026-07-09; $200,000 in supporting independent expenditures is on file for this candidate.

Committee AmountFilingsDate range
S UNITED WE SUCCEED $200,000 6 2025-09-17 – 2025-10-04

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.