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Coverage & sourcesThe taxpayer‑funded government ads featuring Trump before the midterms

Collected articles: every report in this story's record, counted once, in the week (Monday to Sunday, UTC) it was published; a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week. Copies of the same wire story count as separate articles. This shows how much we collected, not how important a development was or whether it was independently confirmed. It covers this record only, not all news coverage. Our collection begins in October 2021.

Collected articles per week

515 dated articles from Sep 21, 2026 to the week of November 9, 2026.

1920Week of September 21, 2026: 69 articlesWeek of September 28, 2026: 192 articlesWeek of October 5, 2026: 164 articlesWeek of October 12, 2026: 90 articlesWeek of October 19, 2026: 0 articlesWeek of October 26, 2026: 0 articlesWeek of November 2, 2026: 0 articlesWeek of November 9, 2026: 0 articles, so farSep 2026Oct 2026Nov 2026so far

Weekly counts, newest first

Collected articles per week
Week ofArticlesReports
November 9, 20260 (so far)November 2026 in the record
November 2, 20260
October 26, 20260October 2026 in the record
October 19, 20260
October 12, 202690
October 5, 2026164
September 28, 2026192September 2026 in the record
September 21, 202669

Compare by outlet rating

Of 515 dated articles, 25% from left-rated outlets, 53% from center-rated outlets, 7% from local TV counted as center, 10% from right-rated outlets, 0% from outlets not yet rated and 4% from outlets not placed left or right.

A rating describes the outlet, not a single report. How outlets are rated

The table, with every outlet behind each number

Outlets nobody has rated stay in their own group. Local TV newsrooms are counted as center by a published rule, whatever their own rating, and are shown apart from outlets rated center.

Outlet ratingArticlesShare of the 515
Left (left and lean-left outlets)
The 35 outlets
12825%
Center (outlets rated center)
The 71 outlets
27553%
Counted as center by rule (local TV newsrooms)
The 13 outlets
377%
Right (right and lean-right outlets)
The 25 outlets
5110%
Not rated (no rating yet)
The 1 outlet
10%
Not placed left or right (foreign outlets, entertainment trades)
The 8 outlets
234%

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