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Slate.com

This page ran 104 paid political ads on Facebook and Instagram between 1 May 2026 and 23 October 2026. Meta reports $15.2–28K of spend, which makes it the 2,469th 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 Slate Group LLC.

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 ↗

104

ads

$21.6K

reported spend, range $15.2–28K

2.3%

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
47%
Promotional
6.0%
Informational
47%

Share of the 100 ads with text that our model classified. Attack ads name an opponent.

Most attacked

  • Donald Trump$8.7K
  • Victor Marx$650
  • ICE$599
  • Megyn Kelly$298
  • Platner$297
  • Republican state legislators$249

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

Topics

Other
47%
Corruption & governance
25%
Candidate profile
12%
Security, crime & immigration
11%
Economy & cost of living
7.0%
Electoral process & turnout
7.0%
Infrastructure & energy
4.0%
Jobs & youth
4.0%

Spend by race: Federal 2.3%, State 3.0%, No specific race 95%.

Spend by ad language: English 99%.

The costliest ads

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

  • Among the approximately 1.776 billion scandals of this Trump administration, one has recently stood out to me: the ongoing boondoggle at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. What was supposed to be a minor maintenance project has somehow become one of the purest reflections of Trump-era governance, involving a no-bid contract, a golf-club manager from New Jersey, and the color “American Flag Blue.” Subscribe to The Slatest, our newsletter filled with smartly written updates on the most urgent,

    22 June 2026 · Slate.com · $5–6K · 200K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Depending who you ask, he’s the party’s future—or its demise. I went to see why. Subscribe to The Slatest, our newsletter filled with smartly written updates on the most urgent, surprising, and unusual news, delivered to your inbox daily.

    1 May 2026 · Slate.com · $2.5–3K · 150K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • It is nothing short of stunning that Trump came one vote away from persuading the court to repeal the bedrock of the Reconstruction Amendments. Subscribe to The Slatest, our newsletter filled with smartly written updates on the most urgent, surprising, and unusual news, delivered to your inbox daily.

    1 July 2026 · Slate.com · $1.5–2K · 60K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • Politics without the panic. Every week, Slate's Jim Newell breaks down the one story that matters, the one to watch, and the one everyone needs to take a deep breath about. Get The Surge in your inbox.

    13 October 2026 · Slate.com · $1–1.5K · 50K+ impressions · Informational · Ad Library

  • Victor Marx’s Colorado governor run is causing real problems for the state’s GOP. Subscribe to The Slatest, our newsletter filled with smartly written updates on the most urgent, surprising, and unusual news, delivered to your inbox daily.

    1 July 2026 · Slate.com · $600 – $699 · 30K+ impressions · Attack · Ad Library

  • In Newark, near my home, the most intense ICE protests since Minneapolis are unfolding. It’s not hard to see why.

    29 May 2026 · Slate.com · $500 – $599 · 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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