Finding Senate · Alabama Republican
Moore, Felix Barry FINDING
Posted public messaging guidance consistent with red-boxing
Detected on https://barrymooreforalabama.com/press-release/what-alabama-voters-need-to-know · classifier confidence 0.95 · model fireworks/deepseek-v4-flash
The page is a press release addressed to 'Interested Parties' that contains explicit media-buy directives: channel selection (digital, CTV, radio, direct mail), geographic weighting (DMAs, counties), and audience targeting (runoff-history voters). This is not voter-facing persuasion or a standard press kit; it functions as guidance for an outside group to execute paid advertising.
Quoted evidence — verbatim spans from the page
D2 statewide on digital and connected TV — saturate the video across YouTube, Meta, X, and CTV. voters need to see Trump say Barry's name.
Directive for paid media placement across specific digital and CTV platforms, instructing saturation.Extra weight in Mobile and Huntsville — the two DMAs with the largest pools of persuadable primary voters. Over-index spend in both.
Geographic media-buy instruction specifying DMAs and budget weighting.Heavy radio in rural Alabama — audio cuts on rural AM/FM and Christian radio reach the runoff-history voters who don't live on social media.
Channel-specific guidance for radio targeting a particular voter segment.Direct Mail to 2+ Primary Voters with Runoff History in 18 Counties
Direct mail targeting instruction with specific voter history and county list.
Independent-expenditure corroboration
FEC Schedule E · 336 filings
Sequence. Messaging guidance was present on the candidate's site when detected (by us) on 2026-07-09; $29,784,289 in supporting independent expenditures is on file for this candidate, and $3,019 opposing.
| Committee | Amount | Filings | Date range | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S | DEFEND AMERICAN JOBS | $21,646,973 | 38 | 2026-02-10 – 2026-06-12 |
| S | ALABAMA FREEDOM FUND | $5,558,715 | 105 | 2026-03-23 – 2026-06-13 |
| S | FELLOWSHIP PAC | $1,400,000 | 4 | 2026-04-09 – 2026-04-09 |
| S | SENATE CONSERVATIVES FUND | $744,229 | 165 | 2025-08-26 – 2026-11-21 |
| S | AMERICAN MISSION | $330,085 | 2 | 2026-06-05 – 2026-06-08 |
| S | FREEDOM CAUCUS FUND | $53,000 | 11 | 2026-02-20 – 2026-04-02 |
| S | SENATE CONSERVATIVES ACTION | $41,893 | 4 | 2025-11-25 – 2026-03-02 |
| S | CLUB FOR GROWTH PAC | $9,395 | 6 | 2026-02-03 – 2026-04-24 |
| O | ALABAMA CONSERVATIVES | $3,019 | 1 | 2026-06-13 – 2026-06-13 |
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: $769. Dates are FEC expenditure dates.