{"id":2130,"date":"2026-02-10T06:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2026-02-10T06:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T06:48:15","slug":"who-paid-for-the-super-bowl-ice-ad-mother-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmgiveawayfinder.com\/?p=2130","title":{"rendered":"Who Paid for the Super Bowl ICE Ad? \u2013 Mother Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A billboard from American Sovereignty, the mysterious group behind the pro-ICE Super Bowl ad.<\/span>Hearst Newspapers\/Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On Sunday<\/span> during the Super Bowl, you may have encountered a particularly saccharine bit of propaganda: a pro-ICE ad<\/a> describing agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement as \u201cfriends\u201d and \u201cneighbors\u201d\u2014local heroes, deporting \u201cviolent criminals\u201d from the homeland. (Only 14 percent<\/a> of those arrested by ICE, according to CBS News, have been charged with violent crimes.)<\/p>\n

The commercial wasn\u2019t the work of the Trump administration<\/a>\u2014or even a political candidate or a well-known advocacy organization. The pro-ICE advertisement was placed by a group called American Sovereignty, which is brand new, seems to be a nonprofit or political entity, and has almost no public presence\u2014save for half-a-dozen tweets<\/a> over the last couple weeks.<\/p>\n

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ICE has one mission: to make America a safer place to live. And that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing. <\/p>\n

THIS is law enforcement. THIS is ICE. pic.twitter.com\/SyrWC1KHO1<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 American Sovereignty (@AmSovereignty) January 31, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

American Sovereignty has a bare-bones website<\/a> created in January, where you can sign up for a mailing list and read its privacy policy. But, otherwise, basically nothing is known.<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t find any publicly available corporate registration documents, and I got no response today when I reached out to the email address on the website to ask about the background of the group. It\u2019s been the same for other news outlets: After American Sovereignty put up a pro-ICE billboard in San Francisco in the run-up to the Super Bowl, multiple journalists reached out to the group<\/a> but didn\u2019t get a response.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an odd situation. Somehow, a group with virtually no public information seems to have been set up in recent weeks to buy millions of dollars worth of ads to promote the work of ICE\u2014at precisely the moment when violence perpetrated by federal immigration agents has sparked a massive backlash<\/a> and placed funding for the Department of Homeland Security in jeopardy<\/a>. (DHS also did not respond to a request for comment.)<\/p>\n

There are a few clues as to what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n

According to documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission, the official name of the organization that placed the Super Bowl ad is \u201cAmerican Sovereignty PAC.\u201d That paperwork lists Daniel Scarpinato as a contact for American Sovereignty. Scarpinato, who served as chief of staff to former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R)<\/a>, did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Scarpinato runs what appears to be a public relations group called Winged Victory: The Agency<\/a>. The firm bills itself as helping clients with \u201ccrafting the right message, rolling out an idea, running a large-scale campaign, or prepping you for that tough interview.\u201d Winged Victory didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

So it remains a bit of a mystery. (If you have information, let us know<\/a>.) <\/p>\n

Someone created a group (a nonprofit, a political action committee, or something similar) with basically no public presence except for a bland website and a few tweets. It has launched millions in pro-ICE ads, and, at least so far, no one behind the venture has been willing to talk about it.<\/p>\n

Ideally, in a democracy, we\u2019d know who <\/em>is spending millions trying to change public opinion on the secret police. But, in the American system, that\u2019s just not how it works.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n