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Goldwater Institute
This page ran 6 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 28 May 2026 and 14 September 2026. Meta reports $0 – $594 of spend, which makes it the 18,980th 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 BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC RESEARCH.
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 ↗
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ads
$297
reported spend, range $0 – $594
0.0%
of spend on federal races
$50
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 5 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- ideological activists$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: Ballot measures 17%, No specific race 83%.
Spend by ad language: English 83%.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
Why is housing so expensive in Arizona? Join us for a webinar on 9/16 to find out. One big reason for the high costs? The government. Good news is, there's something that can be done about it. Join our webinar with Mercatus Center on Sep 16 at Noon (MST) / 3 (EDT) to learn more about the sky-high housing costs and how permitting reform can help solve the problem.
14 September 2026 · Goldwater Institute · $0 – $99 · 4K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library
VICTORY! In a major victory for school choice, the Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that Proposition 212, the anti-school choice measure funded by out-of-state special interests, failed to turn in enough valid signatures to appear on this November’s ballot. “Despite spending an unprecedented amount of money in an effort to deceive voters into restricting school choice, the unions could not convince even a small fraction of Arizonans to sign their petition,” said Victor Riches, President and CEO
18 August 2026 · Goldwater Institute · $0 – $99 · 4K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Do you use artificial intelligence? Millions of Americans are already using AI to write, learn, organize their lives, solve everyday problems, and become more productive at home and at work. And data centers are the infrastructure that makes it possible. In a new Goldwater Institute paper, Harnessing the Value of AI at Home and in the Workplace, economist Domenico Ferraro explains why policymakers should weigh AI's real-world benefits alongside its costs. From helping families plan their day to
6 August 2026 · Goldwater Institute · $0 – $99 · 10K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library
What if the government could take your cash, car, or even your home—without ever charging you with a crime? Across America, that's happening every day through a practice known as civil asset forfeiture. Join the Goldwater Institute on August 20, 2026, for an exclusive free screening of "When Cops Become Robbers" at AMC Arizona Center 24 in downtown Phoenix. It's a powerful documentary exposing how civil asset forfeiture has transformed a tool once intended to stop drug cartels into a system
5 August 2026 · Goldwater Institute · $0 – $99 · 5K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library
History is being buried, and it's all because of political correctness. A new Goldwater Institute report shows how ideological activists are twisting a federal law with disastrous consequences for science. Anthropologist Elizabeth Weiss, Ph.D., writes in the report that activists are stretching the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA, beyond its intended purpose. That's restricting research, removing artifacts from public view, and burying evidence that helps us
28 May 2026 · Goldwater Institute · $0 – $99 · 3K+ 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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