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Frontier Institute

This page ran 48 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 17 June 2026 and 21 August 2026. Meta reports $2.5–7.3K of spend, which makes it the 6,622nd 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 THE FRONTIER INSTITUTE INC.

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 ↗

48

ads

$4.9K

reported spend, range $2.5–7.3K

0.0%

of spend on federal races

$50

median spend per ad

Spend by week the ad started

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

Tone

Attack
17%
Promotional
8.5%
Informational
74%

Share of the 47 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • Montana local governments$150
  • Montana leaders$150
  • A legislator$50

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

Topics

Economy & cost of living
100%
Corruption & governance
28%
Education
11%

Spend by race: No specific race 100%.

Spend by ad language: English 95%.

The costliest ads

The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.

  • State and local government grew $6.85 billion faster than inflation. Government budgets should not grow faster than Montana families’ ability to pay for it. Taxpayers deserve protection. Cap government growth. Refund the rest. Sign on today to support taxpayer protections.

    18 July 2026 · Frontier Institute · $600 – $699 · 20K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • Montana does not need another temporary tax fix. We need a permanent taxpayer protection. Cap government growth at inflation, and return overcollections to taxpayers. Stop increasing budgets on the backs of Montana families. Sign on if you agree.

    11 July 2026 · Frontier Institute · $200 – $299 · 7K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • Montana does not need another temporary tax fix. We need permanent taxpayer protection. Cap government growth at inflation, and return overcollections to taxpayers. Stop increasing budgets on the backs of Montana families. Sign on if you agree.

    18 July 2026 · Frontier Institute · $200 – $299 · 7K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • “Eliminating the 6-Mill levy would remove a property tax burden that has grown along with rising assessments and deliver around $35 million annually in direct property tax relief to homeowners, farmers, ranchers, and businesses alike.” In his newest column for Lee Newspapers, our President & CEO Kendall Cotton lays out a clear and achievable property tax relief measure that the 2027 MTLeg can deliver for Montanans: letting the 6-Mill University Levy expire. All that the Legislature has to do t

    5 August 2026 · Frontier Institute · $100 – $199 · 10K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library

  • Our new 2026 Real Government Budgets report shows that major local governments across Montana have grown their budgets faster than the level of inflation, increasing the weight that Montana taxpayers have to bear with millions in excess spending. For example, the City of Missoula’s actual own-source revenue grew 62.8%, outpacing inflation by 39.9 percentage points. Had revenue grown only with inflation, the City of Missoula would have collected $63.0 million less over this period. These number

    28 July 2026 · Frontier Institute · $100 – $199 · 10K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Today, we’re calling on the 2027 MTLeg to eliminate Montana’s $35 million statewide university property tax called the 6-Mill Levy. Most people haven’t heard of it, but the 6-Mill Levy is a statewide property tax that automatically funds the university system every year. It’s already scheduled to expire on December 31, 2028. The 2027 MTLeg just has to do one thing: NOTHING. Don’t send it back to voters to reauthorize it, and it’s eliminated. Letting the 6-Mill Levy expire would deliver ~$35 m

    23 July 2026 · Frontier Institute · $100 – $199 · 10K+ 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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