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Finding Senate · Minnesota Democrat

Craig, Angie FINDING

Seat
S-MN-00
Party
DEM
Universe reason
contested_primary
FEC receipts
$9,290,612 FEC
Campaign site
https://angiecraig.com (unverified)
Pages scanned
162 · last 2026-07-09

Posted public messaging guidance consistent with red-boxing

Detected on https://angiecraig.com/issues  · classifier confidence 0.92 · model fireworks/deepseek-v4-flash

The page contains explicit directives for media buying (broadcast, streaming, digital) targeting specific voter segments (primary voters, seniors with inconsistent turnout) and prescribes messaging and proof points. This goes beyond standard voter persuasion or press kit content and is clearly intended as guidance for an outside group or media buyer to run ads, meeting the definition of red-boxing.

Quoted evidence — verbatim spans from the page

  • Minnesota Democratic primary voters need to see (on broadcast in all markets. And then also with an expansive statewide streaming and digital audience of voters 18+ and up)
    Directive specifying media channels, geography, and demographic segment for ad placement
  • Democrats over the age of 65 with an inconsistent record of voting in the Democratic Primary need to read specific information about the date and hours of Primary Election Day Voting, information about Early Voting in the Primary Election, and information about where to find their polling place and early voting locations.
    Segmented audience instruction with prescribed content, typical of media-buy guidance
  • It is important that Minnesota Democratic Primary voters hear from real Minnesotans expressing their belief that with all that’s at stake...
    Prescribed message theme and tone for ads, framed as an instruction
Archived screenshot of https://angiecraig.com/issues
Archived at detectionFull-page screenshot of https://angiecraig.com/issues · Raw HTML preserved

Independent-expenditure corroboration

FEC Schedule E · 68 filings

Sequence. Messaging guidance was present on the candidate's site when detected (by us) on 2026-07-09; $6,312,551 in supporting independent expenditures is on file for this candidate, and $1,588,440 opposing.

Committee AmountFilingsDate range
S NORTH STAR DAWN PAC $4,382,356 17 2026-03-30 – 2026-07-02
S CENTER FORWARD COMMITTEE $1,859,500 7 2025-11-19 – 2026-05-04
O DLGA $1,371,440 9 2026-05-18 – 2026-06-30
O CLEAR VOICE MINNESOTA $217,000 9 2026-01-15 – 2026-04-06
S BLUE MAJORITY PROJECT $50,853 8 2025-10-29 – 2026-02-09
S BLUE DEMOCRACY NETWORK $5,912 4 2026-02-17 – 2026-04-20
S DEMOCRATIC FUTURE PAC $3,667 4 2026-02-11 – 2026-04-20
S BLUE MAJORITY MAKERS PAC $3,256 2 2026-04-30 – 2026-05-12
S DMFI PAC $2,649 5 2025-12-16 – 2026-02-11
S MAJORITY BLUE PAC $2,262 2 2026-04-28 – 2026-05-05
S BLUE SHIFT PAC $2,096 1 2026-04-12 – 2026-04-12

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.