United States 2026 · Every advertiser
National Association of Scholars
This page ran 22 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 4 May 2026 and 22 October 2026. Meta reports $0 – $2.2K of spend, which makes it the 13,294th 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 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS.
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 ↗
22
ads
$1.1K
reported spend, range $0 – $2.2K
4.5%
of spend on federal races
$50
median spend per ad
Spend by week the ad started
Tone
Share of the 22 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.
Most attacked
- Democratic Party$50
- Professor Quinn Slobodian$50
- the left$50
- California$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: Federal 4.5%, No specific race 95%.
Spend by ad language: English 100%.
The costliest ads
The highest-spend ad of each distinct text, as it ran.
"Universities have not formally announced their partisanship, but they are clearly an informal part of the Democratic Party," notes NAS President Peter Wood as elite faculty break donation records in key Senate races. https://worldtribune.com/were-at-war-scarred-by-trump-big-academic-breaks-records-for-dem-donations-in-key-races/
22 October 2026 · National Association of Scholars · $0 – $99 · 7K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
If Harvard’s experiment succeeds as a legitimate undertaking, other colleges and universities may follow suit. Read Peter Wood on Harvard's intriguing new hiring decisions: https://mindingthecampus.org/2026/10/06/harvard-is-trying-to-hire-conservatives/
14 October 2026 · National Association of Scholars · $0 – $99 · 4K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library
Congress is acting on our research. Senator Rick Scott cites our report, "Behind the Climate Curtain", in a formal call to investigate California's climate & higher-ed ties.
25 August 2026 · National Association of Scholars · $0 – $99 · 2K+ impressions · Promotional · Ad Library
Far-left ideologies such as critical race theory (CRT) and critical whiteness theory (CWT) are cited as reasons why higher education must subvert its long-held ideals of objectivity, intellectual rigor, and merit-based achievement. Read on: https://mindingthecampus.org/2026/08/17/social-work-may-be-higher-educations-most-ideologically-captured-discipline/
19 August 2026 · National Association of Scholars · $0 – $99 · 2K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
"Our education system has completely been over the last 30 to 40 years changed to be absolutely pro a lot of these Marxist tendencies." General Robert Spalding III joins Ian Oxnevad and Lilla Nóra Kiss on Cafe Berlin to explore how Beijing turns corporate access, supply chains, and university research into strategic advantages without a declaration of war. Watch the full episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7DHygmaHE8
12 August 2026 · National Association of Scholars · $0 – $99 · 100+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library
Secretary McMahon’s letter inaugurates phase three of the Trump administration’s campaign to reform higher education. What’s different this time? Tone, timing, and circumstance. Revisit Peter Wood's 7 desiderata for a successful education system: https://mindingthecampus.org/2026/08/05/seven-questions-for-a-failing-system/
11 August 2026 · National Association of Scholars · $0 – $99 · 2K+ 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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