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Defending Education

This page ran 5 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 20 May 2026 and 9 September 2026. Meta reports $1.2–1.7K of spend, which makes it the 11,790th 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 PARENTS DEFENDING EDUCATION.

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 ↗

5

ads

$1.4K

reported spend, range $1.2–1.7K

0.0%

of spend on federal races

$450

median spend per ad

Spend by week the ad started

1 Jun
6 Jul
3 Aug
7 Sep
5 Oct
 Spend still counting
2 Nov

Tone

Attack
80%
Promotional
20%

Share of the 5 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)$450
  • the state of Minnesota$50

Targets as the ads name them, by spend; the spellings of Donald Trump are counted together, other names as written.

Topics

Education
100%
Security, crime & immigration
40%

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.

  • Defending Education’s investigation is exposing how the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) didn’t just win recent elections. They’ve been on your school board for years. A DSA member became mayor of New York City A DSA member became the presumptive mayor of Washington, D.C. Three more DSA-backed candidates swept U.S. Congressional and state primaries in New York in a single week. Every parent needs to be aware. From letting minors secretly transition genders to removing police from all

    31 July 2026 · Defending Education · $400 – $499 · 20K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Defending Education has identified 1,216 school districts nationwide with transgender policies affecting over 12 MILLION students. The policies allow school staff to keep a student’s transgender status hidden from parents. OFFICIAL POLL: Should local schools be allowed to enforce transgender bathroom policies that violate Title IX? Vote Now!

    5 June 2026 · Defending Education · $400 – $499 · 15K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Defending Education is thrilled to share our new Center for Litigation and Legal Policy! We’ve established a dedicated team to bring litigation against schools and universities that violate the rights of parents and students, further strengthening our position as a national watchdog. Parents will finally get justice for the madness they were forced to endure all these years, because we at Defending Education believe parents and students need and deserve support to defend th

    20 May 2026 · Defending Education · $400 – $499 · 20K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Defending Education filed a complaint against the state of Minnesota, and now the U.S. Department of Education’s Student Privacy Policy Office has opened an investigation. As reported by Fox News and the New York Post, the University of Minnesota developed transgender dolls for children as young as four years old. Yes. You read that correctly. Four years old. The new “MyGender Dolls” program will soon launch for educators; these transgender dolls have “removable internal and external genitals

    9 September 2026 · Defending Education · $0 – $99 · 5K+ 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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