United States 2026 · Every advertiser

Michael Knowles

This page ran 166 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 7 May 2026 and 27 October 2026. Meta reports $11.8–29K of spend, which makes it the 2,578th largest advertiser of the 24,034 pages in our data. Advertiser type: Media. Most of its spend took no side. Race: No specific race. Paid for by The Daily Wire.

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 ↗

166

ads

$20.4K

reported spend, range $11.8–29K

0.0%

of spend on federal races

$50

median spend per ad

Spend by week the ad started

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

Tone

Attack
42%
Informational
58%

Share of the 109 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • Hollywood$3.1K
  • Ilhan Omar$1.1K
  • the Taliban$598

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

Topics

Other
45%
Corruption & governance
23%
Social protection
17%
Infrastructure & energy
6.4%
Jobs & youth
5.5%
Education
5.5%
Security, crime & immigration
3.7%
Health
2.8%

Spend by race: No specific race 100%.

Spend by ad language: English 70%.

The costliest ads

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

  • These people are so bizarre... Hollywood forgot is that divorce is a tragedy, not a gentle breaking apart. At the very least, no one should be dancing.

    14 August 2026 · Michael Knowles · $1–1.5K · 90K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • The Civil Rights Act was not just flawed legislation. It was the founding document of the American Nanny State. The government decided you were not capable of managing your own life. Fifty years later, we are still living with the consequences. DEI, ESG, pronouns in the workplace. None of it came from nowhere.

    18 June 2026 · Michael Knowles · $1–1.5K · 50K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • This content was removed because it didn't follow our Advertising Standards.

    16 September 2026 · Michael Knowles · $900 – $999 · 80K+ impressions · Ad Library

  • How is this real?

    8 September 2026 · Michael Knowles · $800 – $899 · 100K+ impressions · Ad Library

  • Why Ilhan Omar is in her current situation

    19 October 2026 · Michael Knowles · $700 – $799 · 50K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • The search for Americana is not nostalgia. It is a recognition that the small rituals of a well-ordered life, knowing your neighbors, worshipping freely, raising children in a community that welcomes them, are worth preserving. Franklin, Tennessee is proof that they can be preserved. Read the full piece on The Daily Wire.

    31 July 2026 · Michael Knowles · $700 – $799 · 60K+ impressions · Informational · 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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Michael Knowles: political ads on Facebook and Instagram before the 2026 US midterms · Vipima