United States 2026 · Every advertiser
ACTA - American Council of Trustees and Alumni
This page ran 21 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 4 May 2026 and 22 October 2026. Meta reports $1.8–4.3K of spend, which makes it the 8,461st largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Group or campaign. Most of its spend took no side. Race: No specific race. Paid for by AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI.
Data from the Meta Ad Library, pulled 4 November 2026. Election on 3 November 2026. · Every ad of this page in Meta’s Ad Library ↗
21
ads
$3K
reported spend, range $1.8–4.3K
0.0%
of spend on federal races
$50
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 21 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- Nicole Hannah-Jones$50
- the Uncivil Collective$50
- The 1619 Project$50
- Academia$50
- Carolyn Rouse$50
- Faculty Senate president$50
Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.
Topics
Spend by race: No specific race 100%.
Spend by ad language: English 100%.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
🎥"Require it.” America's 250th is marred by higher ed's failure to teach the basic knowledge students need to become engaged, informed citizens. ACTA President Michael Poliakoff has a simple solution: a return to a required course in US history and civics in order to graduate. Learn more about ACTA's plan to rebuild civic and historical literacy:
27 May 2026 · ACTA - American Council of Trustees and Alumni · $1–1.5K · 60K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Horrifying: ACTA's survey of American college students finds 57% of young Americans would prefer to flee the country than to fight for it. Why? Because students who don't know the American story have no reason to defend what they do not comprehend. Read the full survey results exposing the depths of civic & historical ignorance among American college students:
23 June 2026 · ACTA - American Council of Trustees and Alumni · $400 – $499 · 25K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library
📰Only 19% of US universities require courses in American civics or history in order to graduate. This crisis of civic ignorance could lead to the death of the Republic. But there is hope: The movement to restore civics education at American universities has racked up win after win. Read the new op-ed from ACTA President Michael Poliakoff and UT-Knoxville civics center head Josh Dunn in the Washington Post:
21 May 2026 · ACTA - American Council of Trustees and Alumni · $400 – $499 · 15K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library
VIDEO PODCAST: Dr. Steve McGuire explains how 1619 Project author Nicole Hannah-Jones put her ideology ahead of what's best for her daughter: doing no help to the former, seriously harming the latter. Watch the full episode of Radio Free Campus on Youtube:
22 October 2026 · ACTA - American Council of Trustees and Alumni · $0 – $99 · 3K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
On Higher Ed Now, Third Way accreditation specialist Emily Rounds explains why the Trump administration is trying to suspend the American Bar Association's (ABA) accreditation. NACIQI (the accreditation advisory committee) ultimately made no recommendation on renewing or suspending the ABA's accreditation during their Wednesday meeting, punting back to the Ed Department. Listen to the full podcast on Spotify:
2 October 2026 · ACTA - American Council of Trustees and Alumni · $0 – $99 · 4K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library
🎥 "It's just hilarious to me that they think that complaining about civil discourse is going to reflect well on them." On Radio Free Campus, ACTA's Steve McGuire explains how the Uncivil Collective smears civics education initiatives as a right-wing conspiracy. Watch RFC on Youtube:
21 September 2026 · ACTA - American Council of Trustees and Alumni · $0 – $99 · 1K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Figures cover domestic political ads paid in dollars, from 4 May 2026. Spend is the sum of Meta’s range midpoints; impressions above one million are reported as “1M+”, so impression figures are floors. Each ad counts in the week its delivery started, with its lifetime spend at our last pull; ads still running before the vote are counted as of 31 October 2026.
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