You may never have heard of the Election Assistance Commission, but it's the next big chapter in Trump's Election Takeover Playbook.

Interestingly, they are all publishers that would be characterized as right-wing: The Daily Caller, The Washington Examiner and National Review.

"We feel we have a moment of opportunity right now with AI," the U.N.'s Charlotte Scaddan told Cannes festival attendees, adding, "You all have that power.... to ensure that we don't make the same mistakes as we made a few years ago."

Actually, it's the incremental amount of political ad spending in AdImpact's just-released revised update for the 2025-26 election cycle.

I've been thinking about political narratives this week, not just because of Graham Platner's, but because I got pitched on a service capable of tracking how advertising impacts it.