Entity

Senate

The upper chamber of the U.S. Congress — two members per state, with sole power to confirm appointments and ratify treaties.

As of 29 Oct 2026Last evidence 28 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Disinformation videos, likely from Russia, are exploiting real people to malign Senate candidates

    Reported claim · first reported 28 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • U.S. midterms 2026

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 27 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • French Senate backs 'make rioters pay' bill despite rights concerns

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • US midterms: Trump escalates anti-Muslim attacks against Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • Alaska Dem Senate candidate suffers minor injuries in car crash, forcing her to skip campaign events

    Reported claim · first reported 25 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

All 9 events and claims involving Senate

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 139 mentions on 28 Oct 2026, against 129 on 7 Oct 2026 (+8%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 16 Oct 2026 (2 changes recorded since 16 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 28 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “2026 Balance of Power: R Senate, R House” moved from 12% to 6% Yes since 13 Sept 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

3,720 documents · 442 publishers · 4% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 28 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.037: about 96% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 1 receipt withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Senate

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

TrumpDemocratsWhite HouseIranUnited StatesAICryptoTexas
  • Trump · 1,894 shared documents
  • United States Congress · 1,453 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Democrats · 1,176 shared documents
  • President Donald · 896 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • White House · 790 shared documents
  • Iran · 775 shared documents
  • United States · 766 shared documents
  • AI · 762 shared documents
  • Crypto · 725 shared documents
  • Texas · 614 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 139 mentions on 28 Oct 2026 with 129 on 7 Oct 2026 (+8%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +90% from 13 Sept 2026 to 28 Oct 2026, between 25 and 207 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Senate, day by day.

Market price, cited

6% Yes

priced 29 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 12% → 6% Yes (-6pts, from 13 Sept 2026 to 29 Oct 2026)

on “2026 Balance of Power: R Senate, R House”

The day’s closing price on this market, and how it moved. The number is the market’s own. Ask about Senate

“2026 Balance of Power: R Senate, R House”: the market's own price; the venue link is not stored with it

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/4d401d280a20670086708880 returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name senate.

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Senate

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Disinformation videos, likely from Russia, are exploiting real people to malign Senate candidates

    Reported claim · first reported 28 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    could not check

  • U.S. midterms 2026

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 27 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • French Senate backs 'make rioters pay' bill despite rights concerns

    Reported claim · first reported 27 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • US midterms: Trump escalates anti-Muslim attacks against Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed

    Reported claim · first reported 26 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Alaska Dem Senate candidate suffers minor injuries in car crash, forcing her to skip campaign events

    Reported claim · first reported 25 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Barack Obama to rally for Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan before key US Senate race – US politics live

    Reported claim · first reported 24 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Blanche defends DoJ’s pre-emptive suit to block Alaska Senate results certification

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Trump administration sues to block Alaska’s US Senate election result if Peltola wins

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Buttigieg endorses independent in Montana Senate race with a Democrat still on the ballot

    Reported claim · first reported 23 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

Walk the record from Senate

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Senate

Entity.

Evidence
3,720 documents · 442 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 18 Mar 2026, last seen 28 Oct 2026
Measured
4% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
29 Oct 2026
19 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (8)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.
  • Could not check: We could not count this claim's sources, so we do not say how well it is supported.

Situations it is named in (1)

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Watch this

What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Senate, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

Evidence tiers: primary source = an official public record · attributed = a named outlet, receipt linked · lead = observed, not yet receipted.

Other markets materially about Senate

Markets whose question is about Senate or names it as a party. Each row says how the market relates to Senate and why. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue.

  • 21% Yes

    “Will the Democratic Party candidate win the 2026 Minnesota Senate election by 0%-5%?”

    Polymarket · priced 29 Oct 2026

    Relation: named in the question · “senate” is named in the question · close date not stated in the question

  • 32.5% Yes

    “Will the Republican Party control the Senate after the 2026 Midterm elections?”

    Polymarket · priced 29 Oct 2026

    Relation: named in the question · “senate” is named in the question · close date not stated in the question

  • 11.5% Yes

    “Will the Democratic Party candidate win the 2026 New Hampshire Senate election by 12%-15%?”

    Polymarket · priced 29 Oct 2026

    Relation: named in the question · “senate” is named in the question · close date not stated in the question

What it connects to

Related records.

Recorded history

  • 16 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 12 Oct 2026

  • 16 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: steady to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 12 Oct 2026

2 changes recorded since 16 Oct 2026, newest first.

Ask about SenateWatch Senate

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 29 Oct 2026.