New Hampshire House District 1 2026: the ads, and who's paying for them
Anthony DiLorenzo (REP), Stefany Shaheen (DEM).
11 others filed with the FEC; any ads they ran are below. 39 ads analyzed, 19 with at least one technique in the copy.
Newest first. The paid-for-by line is the advertiser's own filing. Updated 2026-09-30.
$78,700–97,150 on all ads, $39,900–47,572 on flagged ads · Meta reports ranges; these are the sums of their ends
Example
“put America and New Hampshire first” — Appeal to Prejudice, paid for by Anthony DiLorenzo for Congress
· the flagged ad with the highest reported spend that shows the most common technique
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49% of the 39 ads here use at least one of the techniques ticked below (19 ads).
Leaving out the softer ones (loaded language, glittering generalities, slogans, exaggeration, repetition): 44% of ads.
The words doing the work
The words that show up most in phrases our model flagged as loaded language or name calling in this race's ads, by number of ads.
trump'in 5 ads· e.g. “stop Trump's corruption”, “Trump's corruption”
trump' corruptionin 3 ads· e.g. “stop Trump's corruption”, “Trump's corruption”
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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.
NEW LEADERSHIP PAC— $401K opposing DiLorenzoAMERICA PAC— $76K supporting DiLorenzoLargest donors:
Elon Musk $20.1M (>99%), Space Exploration Technologies Corp., CEONO GOING BACK PAC INC.— $39K supporting DiLorenzoTURNING POINT PAC INC.— $1,873 supporting DiLorenzoLargest donors:
TURNING POINT ACTION INC $4.3M (45%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC); Larry Smead $1.2M (12%), Sasco, CEO; Robert Marling $100K (1%), Woodforest National Bank, CEO
6 PACs gave directly — alphabetical; the legal limit is $5,000 per election
BUCKEYE LIBERTY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $5,000
JIM JORDAN FOR CONGRESS $2,000
NATIONAL AUTOMOBILE DEALERS ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $5,000
ARTICLE ONE PAC— $1.3M supporting Shaheen
· 2 ads on this pageAMERICAN DEMOCRACY COMMITTEE— $752K supporting ShaheenLCV VICTORY FUND— $606K supporting ShaheenLargest donors:
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS, INC. $18.0M (81%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC); Amos Hostetter $600K (3%), Pilot House Associates LLC, Chairman; DEMOCRACY PAC $500K (2%); Giovanna Randall $375K (2%), Randall Apparel, Designer; Eric Laufer $375K (2%), Laufer Wind Group, Film ProducerFUTURE PROGRESS— $598K opposing ShaheenTHE NO KINGS PAC— $594K supporting Shaheen
· 2 ads on this pageand 4 more
29 PACs gave directly — alphabetical; the legal limit is $5,000 per election
A NEW DIRECTION PAC $10K
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AAJ PAC) $5,000
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS, AFL-CIO COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATION $2,500
AMERIPAC: THE FUND FOR A GREATER AMERICA $5,000
ANIMAL WELLNESS ACTION PAC $1,000
BLUE HEN FEDERAL PAC $5,000
CAP-PAC SEPARATE SEGREGATED FUND OF THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY ACTION FOUNDATION INC $5,000
D.R.I.V.E. - DEM, REP, IND VOTER ED (THE PAC OF THE INT'L BRHD OF TEAMSTERS) $5,000
FORWARD TOGETHER PAC $5,000
FRIENDS OF DICK DURBIN COMMITTEE $1,000
GREAT LAKES PAC $2,500
HEART OF DIXIE OBLIGATION PAC $5
IMPACT $5,000
INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $5,000
LABORERS' INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA (LIUNA) PAC $5,000
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS ACTION FUND $2,550
LIFTOFF PAC $2,500
LOBO PAC $2,000
NARRAGANSETT BAY PAC $5,000
NATIONAL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS ASSOCIATION PAC $2,500
NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO PRESERVE SOCIAL SECURITY & MEDICARE PAC $1,000
NUTMEG PAC $2,500
OCEANS PAC $2,500
OFF THE SIDELINES PAC $5,000
ONWARD TOGETHER COMMITTEE $5,000
PHILIPS COMMITTEE $800
SIG SAUER, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (AKA 'SIG SAUER PAC') $2,000
SMART SOLUTIONS PAC $1,500
UNUM GROUP POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (UNUMPAC) $2,500
Showing the 2 ads paid for by THE NO KINGS PAC. Show all 39 ads
Paid for by No Kings PACfrom 2026-08-21 to 2026-08-26spend $100–1998,000–8,999 impressions
Stefany Shaheen is outraged by how President Trump has enriched himself to the tune of an estimated $2 billion in the last year, profiting off the office he swore to serve in.
Standing with former state Supreme Court Justice John Broderick, Shaheen is proposing criminal penalties for presidents who profiteer from the White House. "We need to empower an independent office of government ethics, transforming the current office hollowed out by the president, and turn it into an effective watchdog that no president can manipulate or destroy," Shaheen said.
She's also pledging that if elected, she will never trade stocks or become a lobbyist, and believes every member of Congress should be held to the same standard. Learn where Stefany Shaheen stands on ending self-dealing in Washington and restoring accountability to the presidency.
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Paid for by No Kings PACfrom 2026-08-21 to 2026-08-27spend $700–79940,000–44,999 impressions
Stefany Shaheen helped lead the fight for clean water and long-term health testing for the families affected by PFAS in Portsmouth’s water.
Ten years ago, forever chemicals were found in a well near the Pease Tradeport. Nearly 10,000 people, including kids at a local child care center, were exposed.
Now she's warning that plans in Washington could delay forever-chemical cleanup at sites like Pease by up to 20 years. Stefany says that's unacceptable, and she's not new to this fight. Learn where she stands on protecting New Hampshire's water from attempts to roll back protections and safety standards by the Trump Administration and lobbyists in Washington.
no techniques found
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An ad is on this page because its own "Paid for by" line is a campaign in this race; or it comes from a national Senate group and ran mostly in NH; or it ran mostly in NH and names a candidate — unless its sponsor is a campaign for some other office. Ads from outside groups appear alongside the campaigns' own.
Campaigns run one text as many separate ads. Identical text from the same sponsor is one card here, marked with its number of variants.
A technique is a specific manipulative move in the wording, found by our model and explained in one line. It is not a claim that the ad is false.
Claims are checked when a reader asks: press "Check this ad's claims" on a card. The check runs once and its result is shown to everyone afterwards. The ten ads with the most money behind them in each race are checked ahead of time.
Claim verdicts say what the cited sources say. A verdict that an ad is wrong or misleading is shown only when it cites an established fact-checker or an institutional record — Congress, a federal agency, a court — and its confidence is not low; a weaker one is not shown at all. Each verdict shows what it rests on and how confident it is. If we got one wrong, press Disagree: a verdict that readers dispute and no one defends comes down.
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