Political ads · 2026 · MN

Minnesota House District 3 2026: the ads, and who's paying for them

Kelly Morrison won · 64.0% to 35.9% · Called by AP on Nov 4

Kelly Morrison (Democratic-Farmer-Labor) and Tyler Bass (Republican) are the nominees for Minnesota's 3rd congressional district in the November 3, 2026 general election. Kelly Morrison is the incumbent. By their latest FEC reports, Kelly Morrison's campaign had raised $1.9 million (through October 14, 2026).

Kelly Morrison (DFL, incumbent), Tyler Bass (REP). 1 other filed with the FEC; any ads they ran are below. 0 ads analyzed, 0 with at least one technique in the copy. Newest first. The paid-for-by line is the advertiser's own filing.

Also on every Minnesota ballot: 1 statewide ballot measure → The ballot wording and the official arguments, read for rhetorical techniques.

How to vote in Minnesota

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Registration Register by Tue, Oct 13 (registration closed during the 20 days before the election, so last day is the 21st day before; online, mail, or in person). Same-day registration: at your polling place with proof of residence (ID, approved document, or a registered voter vouching) (passed)Source: revisor.mn.gov ↗
Early voting in person Fri, Sep 18 to Mon, Nov 2 (in-person absentee during the 46 days before; ballot-into-tabulator early voting in the last 18 days (from Oct 16)) (passed)Source: revisor.mn.gov ↗Source: revisor.mn.gov ↗
By mail Anyone can vote by mail; request a ballot by Mon, Nov 2 (any time up to the day before the election; mail time makes a late request risky); return it by Tue, Nov 3 (received by 8 p.m. Election Day; envelopes arriving later are marked late and not counted) (passed)Source: revisor.mn.gov ↗Source: revisor.mn.gov ↗Source: revisor.mn.gov ↗
Election Day Tue, Nov 3. Polls: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. (passed)Source: revisor.mn.gov ↗
ID at the polls No ID needed if registered; voter signs the polling place roster. Election Day registrants need proof of residenceSource: revisor.mn.gov ↗
Check your registration and polling place ↗ Minnesota's official election site ↗

Checked October 6, 2026. Rules can change; confirm with the official site before you go.

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Money in this race

From FEC filings for 2025–26. Outside spending is money a group spends on its own about a candidate — TV and online ads, mail, canvassing. It is not a donation to the campaign, and the candidate does not control it. Supporting means it was spent to help that candidate win; Opposing means it was spent to defeat them, usually on attack ads. Groups report it within 24 or 48 hours as the election nears. Raised is the campaign's own fundraising, as of its latest quarterly report. Largest donors come from each outside spender's own FEC receipts, with each donor's share of its itemized receipts; donors under $100,000 are not named. People are shown with the employer and occupation they reported. A donor that is itself a political committee is shown with its own largest donors. Companies and nonprofits don't report their funders to the FEC, so the trail ends there, and the page says so.

Kelly Morrison (DFL, incumbent)

Raised
$1.9M through 2026-10-14 individuals $1.5M · PACs $312K · party $33 · candidate's own money, incl. loans $7,000 · cash on hand $508K
Outside spending
none reported
Bundled through PACs
none reported · FEC bulk data of 2026-11-01
63 PACs gave directly — alphabetical; the legal limit is $5,000 per election
  • 314 ACTION FUND $3,000
  • AMERICA'S CREDIT UNIONS PAC OF CREDIT UNION NATIONAL ASSOCIATION INC. $3,500
  • AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (SKINPAC) $5,000
  • AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (FAMMEDPAC) $2,000
  • AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY BRAINPAC $5,000
  • AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY INC POLITICAL COMMITTEE (OPHTHPAC) $6,000
  • AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AAJ PAC) $5,000
  • AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NEUROLOGICAL SURGEONS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (NEUROSURGERYPAC) $2,500
  • AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ORAL & MAXILLOFACIAL SURGEONS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $2,500
  • AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY PAC (HEARTPAC) $3,000
  • AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIAN SERVICES INC PAC; AKA ACP SERVICES PAC $5,000
  • AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY ASSOCIATION PAC $4,500
  • AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION PAC $1,000
  • AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1,000
  • AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE COUNTY & MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES P E O P L E $7,500
  • AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, AFL-CIO COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATION $2,500
  • AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION PAC $5,500
  • AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $5,000
  • AMERICAN OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $2,500
  • AMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC INFORMATION ASSOCIATION - OSTEOPATHIC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $8,000
  • AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION PHYSICAL THERAPY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (PT-PAC) $1,000
  • AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $2,000
  • AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ANESTHESIOLOGISTS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (ASA PAC) $5,000
  • AMERICAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AUAPAC) $1,000
  • AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1,000
  • ASCO ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (ASCO ASSOCIATION PAC) $3,000
  • ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT DISTRIBUTORS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1,000
  • CARPENTERS LEGISLATIVE IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE UNITED BROTHERHOOD OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS $5,000
  • COLLEGE OF AMERICAN PATHOLOGISTS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $2,500
  • CONQUERING CANCER PAC $2,500
  • DEFEND THE VOTE $2,500
  • DEMOCRATIC DOCTORS PAC (DEM DOC PAC) $3,500
  • DOING RIGHT - RESULTS ACTION UNITY LEADERSHIP PAC $2,500
  • ELECT DEMOCRATIC WOMEN $7,500
  • END CITIZENS UNITED $2,500
  • ENGINEERS POLITICAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE (EPEC)/INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS $2,500
  • FAEGRE DRINKER POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (FAEGRE DRINKER PAC) $2,000
  • FAIR SHOT PAC $2,000
  • FOLLOW THE NORTH STAR FUND $10K
  • GREAT RIVER ENERGY ACTION TEAM (GREAT) $1,000
  • HEALTH & FITNESS ASSOCIATION PAC (FITPAC) $1,000
  • HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN PAC $1,000
  • INDEPENDENT INSURANCE AGENTS & BROKERS OF AMERICA, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (INSURPAC) $2,500
  • INTERNATIONAL UNION OF PAINTERS AND ALLIED TRADES POLITICAL ACTION TOGETHER POLITICAL COMMITTEE $5,000
  • LABORERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA (LIUNA) PAC $2,500
  • LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS ACTION FUND $1,050
  • MCCOLLUM FOR CONGRESS $1,600
  • MIDWEST VALUES PAC $5,000
  • NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BRANCH 9 P.A.L. $600
  • NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $3,000
  • NATIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICINE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE / AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANS $4,000
  • NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION AMERICA'S ELECTRIC COOPERATIVES PAC $2,500
  • NEA FUND FOR CHILDREN AND PUBLIC EDUCATION $2,000
  • PATRIOT PAC $5,000
  • POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS--PAC OF AAOS $3,000
  • SARA JACOBS FOR CONGRESS $1,000
  • SEIU COPE (SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATION) $5,000
  • SOCIETY FOR VASCULAR SURGERY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $2,500
  • SOCIETY OF THORACIC SURGEONS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1,000
  • SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT COALITION PAC (SEEC PAC) $2,500
  • THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF OB-GYNS PAC (OB-GYN PAC) $10K
  • UA UNION PLUMBERS & PIPEFITTERS VOTE! PAC (UNITED ASSOCIATION OF JOURNEYMEN AND APPRENTICES OF THE PLUMBING & PIPEFITTING INDUSTRY OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA) $5,000
  • WOMEN WINNING FEDERAL PAC $2,000

All filings at the FEC ↗

No 2025–26 FEC reports or outside spending found for Tyler Bass.

No campaign ads analyzed for this race yet.

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