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Finding House · Washington Republican

McKinney, Amanda FINDING

Seat
H-WA-04
Party
REP
Universe reason
contested_primary
FEC receipts
$523,892 FEC
Campaign site
https://www.mckinneyforwashington.com/ (unverified)
Pages scanned
17 · last 2026-07-09

Posted public messaging guidance consistent with red-boxing

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

The page is structured as a memo to 'Interested Parties' with explicit directives on what messages to run, on which channels (broadcast, digital, CTV, mail, text), and for which geographic segments (Yakima vs. outside market). This is not voter-facing persuasion but rather guidance for outside spenders to execute paid advertising, meeting the definition of red-boxing.

Quoted evidence — verbatim spans from the page

  • What Voters In Yakima Need To See On Broadcast
    Segments audience by geography and prescribes a specific channel (broadcast) for a message, indicating media-buy guidance.
  • Republican Primary Voters District Wide On Digital/CTV, Mail, and Text
    Segments audience by party and geography, and specifies multiple channels (digital, CTV, mail, text) for message delivery, typical of red-boxing.
  • NOTE: Voters Outside of Yakima Media Market Need More Frequent Mail, Text, and Digital.
    Directs frequency and channel adjustments based on media market, a clear media-buy instruction to outside groups.
Archived screenshot of https://www.mckinneyforwashington.com/memo
Archived at detectionFull-page screenshot of https://www.mckinneyforwashington.com/memo · Raw HTML preserved

Independent-expenditure corroboration

FEC Schedule E · 23 filings

Sequence. Messaging guidance was present on the candidate's site when detected (by us) on 2026-07-09; $1,660,365 in supporting independent expenditures is on file for this candidate.

Committee AmountFilingsDate range
S WASHINGTON RISING INC. $1,096,527 22 2026-01-05 – 2026-06-15
S AMERICAN MISSION $563,838 1 2026-06-05 – 2026-06-05

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.