AOC spent $240,000 on Facebook ads in March 2021.

But what were those ads actually advertising?

Where was she running them?

Who was she targeting?

Is she still spending $10k/day on Facebook ads?

Let's find out!
Facebook banned political ads immediately following Election Day 2020, but eventually lifted the ban on March 4, 2021.

Google also lifted their ban on political ads that followed 1/6.

AOC jumped right back into spending big on them...20 months ahead of her next election.
Part 1: What has AOC been advertising on Facebook?

By and large, AOC's tens of thousands of Facebook ads fall into 3 categories:

1) Self-promotional
2) Merch!
3) The Squad
•AOC's self-promotional Facebook ads•

They have talking points like:

▪️AOC is the biggest victim of Right Wing attacks 😢

▪️AOC doesn't spend 5h/day fundraising...she spends 0!🤗

▪️GOP are very scared of AOC💀

▪️NY-14 was the 2nd most expensive House race in 2020! 🤑
•AOC's merch Facebook ads•

AOC didn't start running these again until the end of March but they've been running ever since.

She sells merch for the following "policies":

•Abolish ICE
•Green New Deal
•Tax the Rich
•Those weird propaganda posters
•No policies that are law
•AOC's Squad Facebook ads•

These are the worst.

"Take the quiz to see which member of the Squad you are!"

I included a screenshot of the quiz which is just a marketing ploy to get emails.

To answer your next question, yes I took the quiz...
And godfuckingdammit I'm an AOC🤬
Part 2: Where are AOC's Facebook ads being run?

In most cases, the answer is nationally.

And for her national ads, California generally makes up the largest chunk of the traffic.

Here is a summary breakdown of one national ad 👇

It was viewed the most in:
CA
NY
TX
IL
PA
AOC also ran some *national* ads leading up to (and including) Election Day 2020.

She spent $120,000 on Facebook ads in just the first 3 days of November.

All 28 ads in the 2nd pic ran on Election Day.

Exactly half of those were national ads.
Part 3: Is AOC still spending $10k/day on Facebook ads like she did in March?

In the last 30 days that Facebook has tallied (May 27-Jun 25) she spent $179,000 on ads.

So that works out to AOC spending about $6,000/day on Facebook ads in the last month.
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Feb 25, 2022
Due to current events, it's a good time to remember...

Ilhan Omar's father received his military officer training in Soviet Russia.

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Ilhan Omar's father, Nur Omar Mohamed, was a high ranking officer in President Siad Barre's BRUTAL regime in Somalia.

Somalia was allied w/the Soviets for the early part of Nur's military career and Nur completed his military officer education in Soviet Russia.

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To be clear...Ilhan Omar's father wasn't just some poor conscript in a war.

Nur Omar Mohamed was an esteemed senior officer in the Somali National Army, for Siad Barre.

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How do you know if something is an op?

Some people are naturally better than others at determining whether something is grassroots or astroturf.

But there ARE telltale signs that things might be less organic than they seem.

👇 Here's a series of tests to help figure it out! 👇
1. Coordination

🔲Are many "unaffiliated" people suddenly saying the same thing "independently" of each other?

🔲Are unrelated groups suddenly in total agreement on what the specific goal is?

🔲And do they also act as though there is only one way to achieve that goal?
2. Disingenuous Demands

🔲Is "making demands" the only action the group has actually taken to achieve their goals?

🔲Are the demands illogical or even impossible?

🔲Are the demands directed at someone who isn't actually hindering progress?

🔲Do their goalposts keep moving?
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Dec 22, 2021
Only ONE bill written by any member of The Squad has actually become law👇

📜Rashida Tlaib
Bills Passed: 1 of 41
Amendments agreed to: 8 of 8

📜AOC
Bills: 0 of 33
Amends: 2 of 9

📜Ilhan Omar
Bills: 0 of 65
Amends: 4 of 5

📜Ayanna Pressley
Bills: 0 of 58
Amends: 9 of 11
Here are the same stats for the rest of the JusticeDems 👇

📜Cori Bush
Bills Passed: 0 of 10
Amendments agreed to: 0 of 1

📜Jamaal Bowman
Bills: 0 of 10
Amends: 1 of 2

📜Ro Khanna
Bills: 5 of 67
Amends: 5 of 6

📜Pramila Jayapal
Bills: 0 of 79
Amends: 11 of 17
Here are the same stats for some OTHER Reps who were also elected in 2018 👇

📜Elaine Luria
Bills passed: 4 of 35
Amendments agreed to: 2 of 2

📜Joe Neguse
Bills: 3 of 112
Amends: 8 of 9

📜Conor Lamb
Bills: 3 of 51
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📜Lucy Mcbath
Bills: 2 of 29
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Dec 20, 2021
In their most recent elections, AOC took in more than twice as much money as Joe Manchin did.

•AOC 2020: $21mil
•Manchin 2018: $9.5mil

Only $300k of Manchin's donations came from untraceable small dollar donations.

$16.4mil of AOC's fundraising was untraceable. ImageImage
"But Liz" I hear you saying, "Manchin is bought & paid for by Fossil Fuels. AOC gets small donations!"

People don't seem to realize that campaigns have STRICT contribution limits.

•PACs can donate $5k/yr
•Individuals can donate $2900/election
•Corporations cannot donate Image
Whenever you see a stat like "Senator X received $1mil from Big Pharma"...

That figure is calculated by OpenSecrets based on their own internal criteria:

•donations from *individuals* who work in an industry in ANY CAPACITY
•corporate PACs

(Both of those are capped at ~$5k) Image
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A few months ago, Sunrise Movement's national account tweeted out some "educational" resources about the fundamentals of Israel-Palestine.

So, I clicked on those links because I wanted to see exactly what messaging Sunrise was pushing to their teenage supporters.

It's bad.

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This is the where the first link in Sunrise's tweet takes you.

"introduction:

Palestine is a country...being occupied by the state of Israel, a Jewish ethnostate established by Zionists in 1948".

No wonder these kids no nothing about what's actually happening.
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Here are the "Basics" of what Sunrise wants their followers to learn about Israel-Palestine:

•That it has little to do with religion

•That antizionism is NOT antisemitic (& anyone who says it is is islamophobic)

•That a Palestinian one-state solution is the only option
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Oct 22, 2021
Don't forget that AOC sells an entire line of merch that says:

💢 Tax the Rich 💢 ImageImage
Each item purchased is considered a campaign contribution.

I still can't figure out how this works with FEC regulations.

And just for comparison: most (if not all) Members of Congress have merch of some sort. Bumper stickers, t shirts, etc 👇

AOC's VOLUME of merch sales is the crazy part. This was never something the FEC needed to focus on.

It could act as yet another proxy to hide donors' names. ImageImage
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