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Advertising tracking firm forecasting a record $11.6 billion in political advertising this cycle, above the $11.2 billion 2023-2024 record.
Wesleyan Media Project researchers tracked about $80 million spent on almost 170 AI-made midterm ads, 80% of them from Republican sponsors. Only 31% of those ads told viewers AI was involved, and that rate comes from a sample coders had to find largely by eye.
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Business Insider reviewed 130 US political TV ads and found candidates of every party attacking AI mostly over electricity costs, water use and tax breaks. Companies that need local approval to build now hear that cost case from challengers in both parties.
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Abortion runs in fewer than 5 percent of Democratic Senate ads nationally and about 15 percent of the $40.8 million spent in Maine, where Planned Parenthood Votes has placed its largest buy of 2026 against Susan Collins.
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More than $3.4 billion is chasing a chamber that decides who staffs the administration and who fills open court seats for the rest of the term, and the spending so far shows the two sides pricing the same seats very differently.
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Public Citizen counts $517 million of corporate spending on House and Senate races in 15 months, with crypto, tech and gaming supplying at least $294 million of it.
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