At least $15 million will be spent advertising in Michigan's state House races, outpacing 2018 — both chambers included. Explore a district-by-district breakdown. read more

posted on 10/30/2020

A single liberal super PAC, Priorities USA Action, is spending $17.3 million to run ads every week until the general election. read more

posted on 05/10/2020

If Facebook in the week before Michigan's primary was any prelude to what voters can expect before November, dark money organizations could be flooding news feeds. read more

posted on 03/18/2020

The 501(c)(4), which are not meant to directly aid politcians, was created two weeks before the Governor's speech. read more

posted on 01/31/2020

Nearly $9 million in TV ads about candidates for the Michigan Legislature have already aired this fall or will air in the coming days, according to an analysis of ad-tracking data and public records. The ads are a large part of the expensive fight to decide which party will control the House and Senate. read more

posted on 10/25/2018

Michigan candidates and groups that want to influence their races have now aired an estimated $8.3 million in broadcast TV ads in 2018, according to the Michigan Campaign Finance Network's analysis of Federal Communications Commission filings and Kantar Media/CMAG ad-tracking data. read more

posted on 07/09/2018

As of Monday, June 4, Michigan voters had viewed an estimated $4.45 million in political ads on broadcast TV in 2018, according to the Michigan Campaign Finance Network’s analysis of Kantar Media/CMAG ad-tracking data and Federal Communications Commission filings. read more

posted on 06/06/2018

The Michigan Campaign Finance Network estimates that there’s been at least $1.01 million in spending by groups that don’t have to disclose their donors as of May 7. The spending includes ads run on broadcast TV, on cable TV and on some radio stations across Michigan. read more

posted on 05/10/2018

An estimated $1.7 million in political ads had aired on broadcast TV stations in Michigan as of Monday, March 26, according to an analysis of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) filings and of Kantar Media/CMAG ad-tracking data. The total doesn’t include ads airing on cable TV. There have been many of those as well. read more

posted on 03/29/2018

As Michigan suddenly became a key battleground, the state saw a spending surge in the last days of the presidential campaign. Republican Donald Trump, Democrat Hillary Clinton and their supporters aired an estimated $2.78 million in broadcast TV ads in Michigan markets over the last week. read more

posted on 11/08/2016

Campaigns and their supporters have already spent an estimated $3 million on broadcast TV ads this fall in four Michigan races for the U.S. House. That estimate is as of Monday, Oct. 3. It's a total that will continue to jump upward over the next month. read more

posted on 10/07/2016

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s early September TV ad blast in Michigan amounted to an estimated $654,962 in ads across the state. With the election just under two months away, he's not the only candidate hitting the airwaves. The campaign of a candidate in the 7th Congressional District has already spent $370,000 on broadcast TV ads, and more than $1 million in ad time has been ordered in the 1st District. Read more by following the link below. read more

posted on 09/14/2016