Published July 13, 2026 · Updated with each build
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Finding House · Texas Republican

Steinmann, Jessica Hart FINDING

Seat
H-TX-08
Party
REP
Universe reason
contested_primary
FEC receipts
$1,824,372 FEC
Campaign site
https://www.jessicasteinmann.com/ (unverified)
Pages scanned
19 · last 2026-07-09

Posted public messaging guidance consistent with red-boxing

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

The page is a memo to 'Interested Parties' that provides explicit media-buy instructions, including ad length, broadcast and radio channels, and segmented direct mail/text universes, along with prescribed messaging. This is classic red-box guidance intended for outside groups to run independent expenditures, not a press kit or voter-facing content.

Quoted evidence — verbatim spans from the page

  • Houston Broadcast :15 second reminding Republicans Jessica is a Trump appointed and Trusted America First fighter that’s endorsed by Ted Cruz and Gregg Abbot.
    Prescribed ad length, channel, and message theme as instructions for paid media.
  • Direct mail and text messaging targeting universes: Midterm Primary More MAGA, Midterm Primary Less MAGA, Presidential Year Primary More MAGA
    Segmented audience targeting with specific media channels, indicating media-buy guidance.
Archived screenshot of https://www.jessicasteinmann.com/memo
Archived at detectionFull-page screenshot of https://www.jessicasteinmann.com/memo · Raw HTML preserved

Independent-expenditure corroboration

FEC Schedule E · 50 filings

Sequence. Messaging guidance was present on the candidate's site when detected (by us) on 2026-07-09; $3,488,335 in supporting independent expenditures is on file for this candidate.

Committee AmountFilingsDate range
S DEFEND AMERICAN JOBS $1,543,315 10 2026-02-13 – 2026-02-28
S AMERICAN MISSION $1,022,050 2 2026-02-20 – 2026-02-20
S TRUE TEXAS VALUES PAC $462,289 20 2026-02-04 – 2026-03-03
S WFW ACTION FUND INC $441,600 12 2026-01-05 – 2026-02-20
S TURNING POINT PAC INC. $17,639 2 2026-02-19 – 2026-02-19
S MONTGOMERY COUNTY FIRST PAC $1,441 4 2026-02-09 – 2026-02-12

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.