
TV planned = orders, estimates and contracts from the FCC files (what is booked); TV invoiced = station invoices in the same files (what actually ran and was billed). Scanned documents add nothing to either. FEC = independent expenditures as filed. Digital = the high end of platform-reported ranges (Meta). Nothing here is a projection.
| sponsor | side | about | TV planned | TV invoiced | FEC filed | digital (range) | media | latest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Don Coover9 stationsKCWE, KMBC-TV, KODE-TV, KSHB-TV, KSNF, KSNT, KTKA-TV, WDAF-TV, WIBW-TV |
blue | Don Coover | $63,825 | — | — | — | TV covers 51% |
2026-10-20 |
| Derek Schmidt | red | Derek Schmidt | — | — | — | —–$594 6 ads |
Meta | 2026-10-18 |
| National Right to Work Committee | unattributed | Don Coover | — | — | — | —–$99 1 ads |
Meta | 2026-10-19 |
| largest forward books | side | broadcast | cable | total ahead | undated orders | markets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derek Schmidt | red | $62,475 | — | $62,475 | $6,650 | Topeka |
| Don Coover | blue | $49,475 | — | $49,475 | — | Joplin-Pittsburg, Kansas City, Topeka |
By market: Topeka $83,195 · Kansas City $24,995 · Joplin-Pittsburg $3,760. Also on file: $6,650 in 1 priced order filed since the primary with no flight dates read — real money that cannot be placed on a week (some may already have aired), shown per sponsor in the undated column and kept out of the bars. Only priced orders count; a scanned order the reader could not price adds nothing.
| candidate | race | raised | spent | cash on hand | through | itemized to date | last 30 days | latest gift |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Don Coover blue | U.S. House, 2nd District federal | $1,242,465 | $809,424 | $433,042 | 2026-09-30 | – | – | – |
| Derek Schmidt red | U.S. House, 2nd District federal | $1,711,437 | $659,321 | $1,090,617 | 2026-09-30 | – | – | – |
Kansas statewide candidates report twice a year and before each election; the July report covers through July 23. The itemized columns come from the Secretary of State's contribution viewer, pulled daily, and move the moment a new report or a last-minute filing is processed. Federal figures follow the FEC's quarterly filings. Cash on hand is what is left after spending, not what has been booked.
| market | voters | files | $ floor | sponsors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Kansas City4 stationsKCWE, KMBC-TV, KSHB-TV, WDAF-TV | 34% | 9 | $39,345 | Don Coover |
Topeka3 stationsKSNT, KTKA-TV, WIBW-TV | 12% | 3 | $20,720 | Don Coover |
Joplin-Pittsburg2 stationsKODE-TV, KSNF | 5% | 2 | $3,760 | Don Coover |
| station | files | $ floor | sponsors |
|---|---|---|---|
| KMBC-TV Kansas City | 3 | $21,725 | Don Coover |
| WIBW-TV Topeka | 1 | $10,400 | Don Coover |
| KSHB-TV Kansas City | 1 | $7,385 | Don Coover |
| WDAF-TV Kansas City | 1 | $6,610 | Don Coover |
| KSNT Topeka | 1 | $6,420 | Don Coover |
| KTKA-TV Topeka | 1 | $3,900 | Don Coover |
| KCWE Kansas City | 4 | $3,625 | Don Coover |
| KSNF Joplin | 1 | $2,570 | Don Coover |
| KODE-TV Joplin | 1 | $1,190 | Don Coover |
| advertiser | flight | type | station · market | race filed under | spots | GRP | planned · spent | invoiced |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Don Coover | 2026-10-20 – 2026-10-26 | TV | WIBW-TV Topeka | U.S. House, 2nd District | 24 | — | $10,400 | — |
| Don Coover | 2026-10-20 – 2026-10-26 | TV | KMBC-TV Kansas City | U.S. House, 2nd District | 34 | — | $9,975 | — |
| Don Coover | 2026-10-20 – 2026-10-26 | TV | KSHB-TV Kansas City | U.S. House, 2nd District | 30 | — | $7,385 | — |
| Don Coover | 2026-10-20 – 2026-10-26 | TV | WDAF-TV Kansas City | U.S. House, 2nd District | 16 | — | $6,610 | — |
| Don Coover | 2026-10-20 – 2026-10-26 | TV | KSNT Topeka | U.S. House, 2nd District | 46 | — | $6,420 | — |
| Don Coover | 2026-10-20 – 2026-10-26 | TV | KTKA-TV Topeka | U.S. House, 2nd District | 33 | — | $3,900 | — |
| Don Coover | 2026-10-20 – 2026-10-26 | TV | KSNF Joplin-Pittsburg | U.S. House, 2nd District | 37 | — | $2,570 | — |
| Don Coover | 2026-10-20 – 2026-10-26 | TV | KODE-TV Joplin-Pittsburg | U.S. House, 2nd District | 18 | — | $1,190 | — |
| Don Coover | 2026-10-20 – 2026-10-26 | TV | KCWE Kansas City | U.S. House, 2nd District | 13 | — | $1,025 | — |
| Don Coover | 2026-10-13 – 2026-10-19 | TV | KMBC-TV Kansas City | U.S. House, 2nd District | 28 | — | $11,750 | — |
| Don Coover | 2026-10-13 – 2026-10-19 | TV | KCWE Kansas City | U.S. House, 2nd District | 1 | — | $2,350 | — |
| Don Coover | 2026-10-06 – 2026-10-12 | TV | KCWE Kansas City | U.S. House, 2nd District | 2 | — | $250 | — |
| Total | — | — | — | — | ||||
Broadcast (TV/cable/radio): planned = the station order (largest revision, counted once); invoiced = what the station later billed, shown beside planned and not added to it. Both are gross — what the advertiser pays, the figure the station quotes and the one a committee discloses to the FEC; where a filing breaks out the net, the order's own page shows what reached the station and what the agency kept. Spots = occurrences, how many times the ad airs on the flight, from the station's own schedule where the file was readable — a floor, and a dash means the schedule was scanned or unread, not zero airings. Digital and FEC are not here — the platforms report delivery by state, not by media market. The flight dates tell you which fight a buy was really for.
⤓ Spots by audience — age & gender (Excel) · who the TV spots reach, modeled from the daypart each runs in and public audience data (estimate, not measured ratings)
| advertiser | side | Meta | total (floor) | in Kansas | impressions | ads | latest |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derek Schmidt | red | $594 | $594 | $574 | 7,994 | 6 | 2026-10-18 |
| National Right to Work Committee | unattributed | $99 | $99 | $99 | 1,999 | 1 | 2026-10-19 |
| Total (floor) | $693 | $693 | $673 | 9,993 | |||
Kansas-level only, and every ad here already cleared the platform's Kansas filter (Meta: delivered in Kansas; Google & Snap: Kansas in the targeting). There is no media-market split of digital to pull — Meta reports each ad's Kansas delivery share and Google/Snap report the geography a buy targeted, neither reports dollars by market. Spend is the platform's own range; the total is the high end, the floor the rest of the app uses. In Kansas keeps only what landed here: the libraries list an ad if any of it touched Kansas and report its whole national spend, so a national advertiser's total overstates its Kansas money (Meta: spend × the ad's Kansas delivery share; Google & Snap: counted only when Kansas is in the targeting — an ad aimed at the whole United States is usually fundraising, not Kansas persuasion). The per-ad geography is in the next card.
| advertiser | platform | spend (range) | impressions | targeting / delivery | seen | ad |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derek Schmidt Derek Schmidt |
Meta | up to $99 | 2,000–2,999 | Kansas delivery 80% | 2026-10-18 | open ↗ |
| Derek Schmidt Derek Schmidt |
Meta | up to $99 | 100–999 | Kansas delivery 100% | 2026-10-18 | open ↗ |
| Derek Schmidt Derek Schmidt |
Meta | up to $99 | 100–999 | Kansas delivery 100% | 2026-10-18 | open ↗ |
| Derek Schmidt Derek Schmidt |
Meta | up to $99 | 100–999 | Kansas delivery 100% | 2026-10-18 | open ↗ |
| Derek Schmidt Derek Schmidt |
Meta | up to $99 | 100–999 | Kansas delivery 100% | 2026-10-18 | open ↗ |
| Derek Schmidt Derek Schmidt |
Meta | up to $99 | 100–999 | Kansas delivery 100% | 2026-10-18 | open ↗ |
| National Right to Work Committee National Right To Work |
Meta | up to $99 | 1,000–1,999 | Kansas delivery 100% | 2026-10-19 | open ↗ |