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 16 Oct 2026Last evidence 15 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • U.S. midterms 2026

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 16 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Crypto PACs escalate spending against Sherrod Brown in Ohio Senate race

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Alaska Senate candidates clash over the Iran war, high prices and their times in office

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • Tillis calls on Pentagon IG to investigate Ukraine’s Starshield loss

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Bipartisan U.S. Senate bill seeks to reaffirm 'ironclad' nuclear deterrence commitment to S. Korea

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

All 15 events and claims involving Senate

What changed

  • Attention Steady: 109 mentions on 16 Oct 2026, against 115 on 25 Sept 2026 (-5%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 16 Oct 2026 (6 changes recorded since 7 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 4 claims first reported since 15 Oct 2026.

How well we know this

2,711 documents · 385 publishers · 4% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 15 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.036: 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.

TrumpCongressDemocratsCryptoAIWhite HouseIranUnited StatesClarity Act
  • Trump · 1,331 shared documents
  • Congress · 1,218 shared documents
  • Democrats · 804 shared documents
  • President Donald · 653 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Crypto · 599 shared documents
  • AI · 572 shared documents
  • White House · 570 shared documents
  • Iran · 554 shared documents
  • United States · 530 shared documents
  • Clarity Act · 470 shared documents

Story momentum

Steady

The word compares 109 mentions on 16 Oct 2026 with 115 on 25 Sept 2026 (-5%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +2625% from 1 Sept 2026 to 16 Oct 2026, between 4 and 183 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Senate, day by day.

Market price, cited

Not priced yet

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No market price on file: no prediction market prices a question about this name yet

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For developers

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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.

  • U.S. midterms 2026

    Registered event · reported 24 May 2026 to 16 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Crypto PACs escalate spending against Sherrod Brown in Ohio Senate race

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Alaska Senate candidates clash over the Iran war, high prices and their times in office

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • Tillis calls on Pentagon IG to investigate Ukraine’s Starshield loss

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Bipartisan U.S. Senate bill seeks to reaffirm 'ironclad' nuclear deterrence commitment to S. Korea

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • In heated Georgia Senate debate, Jon Ossoff says he won’t run for president in 2028

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Troy Jackson tells Susan Collins to ‘shut up’ during heated Maine Senate debate

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Watch live: Hinson, Turek set for rematch in Nexstar’s Iowa Senate debate

    Reported claim · first reported 13 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • Utah Senate District 6 election: Jared Neal, Josh Smith and Tami Tran face off

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    single source

  • South Carolina Senate rivals spar over Iran, AI and Trump in debate

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Elon Musk contributed over $150 million to bolster the Republican Party in Texas Senate race

    Reported claim · first reported 12 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Czech PM Babiš's ANO faces strong challenge in first round of Senate election

    Reported claim · first reported 11 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • Election: alabama & republican

    Registered event · reported 7 Aug 2026 to 24 Sept 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Election: alabama & republican party

    Registered event · reported 12 Sept 2026 to 24 Sept 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Election: michigan & republican

    Registered event · reported 17 Jul 2026 to 22 Sept 2026 · no longer active · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

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Senate

Entity.

Evidence
2,711 documents · 385 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 15 Oct 2026
Measured
4% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
16 Oct 2026
27 links from here

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

What is claimed about it (11)

  • 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.

Situations it is named in (6)

For machines: this record as JSON

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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.

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.

  • 9.1% Yes

    “Will an Independent win the Montana Senate race in 2026?”

    Polymarket · priced 16 Oct 2026

    Relation: named in the question · “senate” is named in the question · closes 31 Dec 2026

  • 64.5% Yes

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

    Polymarket · priced 16 Oct 2026

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

  • 36.5% Yes

    “Will Flávio Bolsonaro win Brazil, Gadi Eizenkot become Israeli PM, and Democrats win the US Senate?”

    Polymarket · priced 16 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

  • 12 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 11 Oct 2026

  • 12 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to steady

    Previous state held since 11 Oct 2026

  • 11 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 2 Oct 2026

  • 11 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 2 Oct 2026

6 changes recorded since 7 Oct 2026, newest first.

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Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 16 Oct 2026.