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Finding Senate · Mississippi Democrat

Scott Colom FINDING

Seat
S-MS-00
Party
DEM
Universe reason
contested_general+funded_nominee
FEC receipts
$2,384,921 FEC
Campaign site
https://scottcolom.com/ (unverified)
Pages scanned
409 · last 2026-09-03

Posted public messaging guidance consistent with red-boxing

Detected on https://scottcolom.com/media  · classifier confidence 0.95

  1. First detectedJuly 28, 2026

The page contains a directive block that specifies target audiences by media market and demographic, along with channel instructions (CTV, social media) and a prescribed attack message. This is not voter-facing persuasion but rather guidance for an outside spender on whom to reach and with what content. The presence of standard press kit elements (B-roll, fact sheet) does not negate the red-boxing signal.

Quoted evidence — verbatim spans from the page

  • Mississippi voters in the Jackson and Columbus media markets, along with white women reachable via CTV and social media platforms, need to know that Cindy Hyde-Smith is letting Mississippi voters down:
    Segmented audiences (geographic media markets, demographic 'white women') paired with channel directives (CTV, social media) and a prescribed message, indicating media-buy guidance to an outside group.
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Mississippi voters in the Jackson and Columbus media markets, along with white women reachable via CTV and social media platforms, need to know that Cindy Hyde-Smith is letting Mississippi voters down:

She won’t protect our kids: Cindy Hyde-Smith voted to block the release of files on child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
She’s making Washington corruption even worse: She voted to let politicians get rich off of insider trading, while Mississippians’ costs are going up.  
She’s delivering for out-of-state billionaires, but not Mississippi: She hasn’t held a town hall in six years. She voted to cut Medicaid, which covers one in four Mississippians, to pay for tax cuts for people making over $600,000 a year.
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Scott Colom is a seventh-generation Mississippian, proud husband and father of two, and district attorney who fights every day to keep Mississippians safe. Now, he’s running to serve in the United States Senate in the November 2026 election. Support his campaign by making a contribution or signing up to volunteer. 

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making a contribution
or
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Independent-expenditure corroboration

FEC Schedule E · 4 filings

Sequence. Messaging guidance was present on the candidate's site when detected on 2026-07-28; $754,154 in supporting independent expenditures is on file for this candidate.

Committee AmountFilingsDate range
S FULCRUM PAC $742,350 2 2026-02-27 – 2026-03-10
S NEW SOUTHERN MAJORITY IE PAC $11,804 2 2025-10-20 – 2026-03-23

S Supporting O Opposing

FEC filings can be trailing evidence — smaller expenditures may surface only in periodic reports. Supporting IE dated on or after our detection day: $0. Dates are FEC expenditure dates.

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