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Daily U.S. local-news intelligence report: cross-validated stories, regional pulse, demographic divergence, and underserved-state monitoring.
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Executive Summary
The most consequential cross-market signal is the escalating U.S.-Canada trade war, with retaliatory tariffs and import bans generating coverage across northern border states and agricultural regions. Hurricane Lowell's impact on Hawaii dominates Pacific coverage with school closures and power outages. Missouri's redistricting crisis represents a significant voting-rights story with national implications. The local corpus also shows heavy attention to Trump's 9/11 commemorations and disputes over his ground-zero claims, alongside a striking pattern of over 250 lawmakers filing Supreme Court briefs against USPS mail-in voting restrictions—a story carried by dozens of state-level nonprofit outlets but receiving uneven national attention.
Cross-Validated Stories
Supreme Court rejects Missouri GOP gerrymandered congressional map
This is a confirmed, high-stakes voting-rights story with direct national implications for House control. The cross-validation spans Black press, public radio, center-right newspapers, and state nonprofit outlets across multiple states, with both the Supreme Court rejection and subsequent federal judge blocking the old map creating genuine election-administration chaos.
Over 250 lawmakers file Supreme Court brief against Trump USPS mail-in voting restrictions
This is one of the most widely cross-validated stories in the corpus, with identical AP-sourced copy appearing in 20+ state-level nonprofit outlets across the political spectrum from Idaho to Georgia. The sheer geographic spread confirms this as a major coordinated legislative push against executive election policy, though the homogeneity of the copy (all appear to derive from the same wire source) slightly reduces independent-reporting value.
Hurricane Lowell devastates Hawaii with power outages, flooding and school closures
Confirmed natural disaster with verified impacts: 50,000+ without power, schools closed through Friday, airport reopened. Cross-validation spans English, Chinese-language and Vietnamese-language outlets, confirming the story's reach across AAPI communities with ties to Hawaii.
U.S.-Canada trade war escalates with retaliatory tariffs and import bans
Trade war escalation confirmed across multiple independent sources including state nonprofits, public radio, and AAPI press in two languages. The $28 billion Canadian retaliation figure and specific product bans (dairy, alcohol, motorcycles) are consistently reported. Agricultural impact framing in Oklahoma and Michigan adds regional economic dimension.
Trump's 9/11 claims and commemorations generate controversy
The divergence in framing is the story: Black press emphasizes fact-checking and skepticism of Trump's ground-zero claims, Hispanic press covers the ceremonial warning against terrorism, while mainstream outlets note both the commemoration and the pushback. This represents a genuine narrative split rather than a single confirmed event.
Lindsay Clancy murder trial ends in mistrial with jurors speaking out
Confirmed mistrial with new detail: a holdout juror acknowledged reasonable doubt but refused to acquit. The story has developed from initial mistrial reporting to juror interviews and now political controversy over the attorney's appeal to Trump. Geographic spread from Massachusetts to national Black press confirms sustained attention.
ICE raids' economic toll quantified in Chicago study
The $1.26 billion economic loss figure from Chicago ICE raids appears in Hispanic press and is then picked up by public radio in South Carolina and Oklahoma, indicating deliberate redistribution of this study. However, all three may derive from the same original source, reducing independent confirmation.
Themes by Geography
U.S.-Canada trade war impacts 12 stories
Northern border states and agricultural regions emphasize farmer anxiety and supply-chain disruption; AAPI press in New York and California covers the geopolitical framing; Montana and Plains states focus on specific commodity impacts. The pattern shows consistent escalation narrative but variable local economic emphasis.
Voting rights and election administration 35 stories
Two distinct sub-themes: Missouri redistricting chaos (localized but with national implications) and the multi-state lawmakers' brief against USPS mail-in voting restrictions (carried identically across 25+ state outlets). The latter shows remarkable geographic spread but journalistic homogeneity, suggesting coordinated distribution rather than independent reporting.
Hurricane Lowell recovery 8 stories
Intensive local coverage in Hawaii with school closure extensions, power restoration, and airport reopening; diaspora coverage in New York and California AAPI press. The geographic concentration is tight but the diaspora signal confirms community concern beyond the immediate impact zone.
9/11 anniversary commemorations and contested history 14 stories
Ceremonial coverage in Alaska and general press; critical fact-checking in Black press and some center-left outlets; local New York stories on toxic fallout disclosure and first-responder cuisine. The 25th anniversary generates both memorial and investigative frames, with political controversy over Trump's specific claims overlaying both.
Nuclear energy revival 3 stories
Iowa's Duane Arnold plant restart with $1.9 billion federal loan receives coverage in Iowa Capital Dispatch and Vietnamese-language Cali Today. Sparse but significant as a cross-regional energy infrastructure story with federal policy implications.
Sports betting and prediction markets 8 stories
Polymarket and Kalshi promotional codes appear repeatedly in cleveland.com, MassLive, and The Oregonian, suggesting these outlets have affiliate relationships. The geographic spread is real but the content is commercially driven rather than editorially originated.
Public safety and policing controversies 12 stories
Clark County School District police use-of-force disparities in Nevada; Chicago Labor Day violence; Baltimore County police shooting during welfare check; Ohio police guilty plea in Black man's killing; Florida IHOP racial discrimination lawsuit. Consistent pattern of local accountability reporting on policing, with racial dimension prominent in Black press and general-market outlets.
Regional Pulse
Pacific
Hurricane Lowell dominates Hawaii coverage with recovery efforts; California sees heavy AAPI and Hispanic press activity on trade war and immigration; Oregon data center moratorium emerges as tech-policy story. Overall tone is risk-off due to natural disaster and trade uncertainty.
Mountain West
Montana flat-tax proposal, Colorado wolf kills, and Arizona border security politics are leading stories. Nevada has unusual volume of sports betting content and casino labor news. Mixed tone with some economic development optimism offset by environmental and labor concerns.
Plains
Iowa nuclear restart and Minnesota school funding amendment are positive infrastructure stories; Nebraska and North Dakota have election-law developments. Agricultural trade war anxiety in Oklahoma and Iowa. Slightly risk-on due to energy and education investments.
Midwest
Missouri redistricting chaos is the dominant story with genuine election-administration crisis. Wisconsin EV charging and Milwaukee transit redesign show infrastructure investment. Chicago violence and Ohio police accountability stories darken tone. Mixed, trending risk-off.
South
Texas curriculum controversy and Florida budget politics lead. Tennessee and Arkansas have state-level political stories. South Carolina public radio picks up Chicago ICE study. Less volume than other regions; tone is mixed with education and immigration flashpoints.
Mid-Atlantic
Maryland has intense local coverage: Baltimore police shooting, school therapy expansion, ICE permit fights, and commercial house party ban. Pennsylvania Fetterman pushback against WSJ 'hit piece.' Delaware voting law upheld. Active but fragmented; tone is risk-on for civic engagement.
Northeast
Massachusetts Lindsay Clancy trial aftermath and Springfield cyberattack are major stories. New Hampshire primary voter apathy is notable. Maine tribal land acquisition and recovery high school opening. Vermont rate increases and cannabis debates. Dense coverage with mixed tone; civic institutions under stress but some innovative responses.
Watch List
- Missouri redistricting resolution before November election MO — Federal courts have issued conflicting orders; voters may not know their districts. Could affect House control and become a national precedent for mid-decade redistricting.
- Hawaii Hurricane Lowell recovery and federal aid request HI — Kauai infrastructure damage and extended school closures suggest major disaster declaration likely; federal response will be compared to past hurricane responses.
- U.S.-Canada trade war agricultural impact MT, ND, MN, MI, NY, VT, ME — Retaliatory tariffs and import bans threaten harvest-season commodity prices; farmer political pressure could shift administration policy.
- Supreme Court mail-in voting case WA, OR, CO, UT, HI, CA — Vote-by-mail states face potential ballot rejection surge; 250+ lawmaker brief signals major inter-branch conflict over election administration.
- Texas social studies curriculum implementation TX — Muslim Texan opposition to anti-Islam framing in textbooks could generate legal challenge or textbook adoption boycott; model for other conservative states.
- Oregon data center moratorium movement OR — Governor Kotek's partial pause and rally support for broader moratorium signals emerging tech-labor-environment coalition with potential copycat legislation.
- El Salvador TPS expiration DC, VA, MD, TX, CA — 200,000 Salvadorans face status loss September 9; DHS non-decision creates legal and humanitarian uncertainty with direct impact on DMV region.
Regional Roundtable
Heartland Voice
The Missouri redistricting chaos is what happens when national parties treat states as chess pieces. Here in the Midwest, we're watching our election maps get redrawn by federal judges while voters don't know which district they're in. The $1.9 billion for Iowa's nuclear restart is real money and real jobs—something the coasts ignore until they need our electricity. But the trade war with Canada is hitting our harvest timing, and the national press only cares about Trump's tweets, not whether soybeans rot in silos.
Key call: The Midwest will determine House control in November, and Missouri's map confusion alone could flip two seats—yet national outlets are covering this like a procedural footnote.
Dissent: The Coastal Voice underestimates how much trade war fatigue exists here; farmers are not automatic Trump voters when their livelihoods are at stake, and the 'economic anxiety' frame is reductive.
Coastal Voice
The mail-in voting crisis is an immediate emergency in Oregon and Washington that the national press is sleeping on. Thousands of ballots already rejected, with a presidential election twelve weeks away—this is operational, not theoretical. The AAPI press coverage of Canada tariffs and Hurricane Lowell shows how diaspora communities maintain transnational information networks that general-market outlets don't replicate. Meanwhile, the Polymarket promotional content flooding Oregon and Ohio newspapers is a corruption of local journalism we need to name.
Key call: Vote-by-mail states are about to experience a ballot rejection surge that will make 2000 Florida look orderly, and the Supreme Court brief is a last-ditch defense that may fail.
Dissent: The Heartland Voice overstates Midwestern electoral determinism; the real action is voter suppression architecture being tested in western states before national deployment, and the Mountain & Tribal Voice is right that tribal sovereignty gets erased in both frames.
Sun Belt Voice
Texas is rewriting how Islam gets taught in schools, and the national press is missing a template for curriculum battles in Florida, Arizona, and Georgia. The TPS expiration for 200,000 Salvadorans on September 9 is a humanitarian emergency concentrated in our region—DMV and Houston especially—that's invisible in national coverage. Meanwhile, Florida's budget politics and Tampa's $2 billion municipal fights show local governance under strain that 'national vs. local' framing doesn't capture.
Key call: The Texas textbook fight will spread to other conservative states by 2027, and Muslim voter mobilization against it could flip suburban districts in Dallas and Houston.
Dissent: The Coastal Voice's focus on mail-in voting ignores that Texas and Florida have spent years restricting it successfully; the real battleground is now employer-based ICE threats in California, which the Heartland Voice doesn't see as their problem until meatpacking plants close.
Mountain & Tribal Voice
The Alaska Native Medical Center transfer to tribal ownership is sovereignty made material after decades of IHS failure—yet it gets two items in a 800-story corpus. Colorado's wolf kills and Montana's flat-tax proposal show how resource extraction and tax policy intersect with tribal treaty rights in ways neither national nor regional frames capture. The Mendocino sheriff's nonprofit funding trafficking raids with zero convictions is exactly the kind of rural accountability story that only local nonprofit press will touch.
Key call: Tribal health sovereignty and land back are the most significant undercovered structural shifts in this corpus; the Alaska transfer is a model for IHS facilities nationwide that will be ignored until a crisis forces attention.
Dissent: The Sun Belt Voice's TPS focus is valid but temporally narrow; the Coastal Voice's mail-in voting alarm ignores that tribal voters face distinct ballot access barriers in Arizona and Nevada that drop-box reliance doesn't solve. All three voices treat 'the West' as an afterthought.
Underserved States
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National vs Regional Bifurcation
U.S.-Canada trade war MODERATE
National narrative: National outlets frame this as geopolitical escalation with Trump personally antagonizing allies; emphasis on presidential statements and macroeconomic indicators.
Regional signals:
- Plains — NUANCED: Agricultural press and public radio emphasize specific commodity pain and farmer anxiety rather than presidential rhetoric
- Mountain West — ALIGNED: Montana outlets cover flat-tax proposal as separate economic story, minimal direct trade war coverage
- Northeast — NUANCED: AAPI press covers trade war through diaspora business lens, particularly Chinese-language outlets connecting to broader U.S.-China tensions
Implication: National coverage misses the harvest-season timing and commodity-specific impacts that drive farmer political behavior; this gap suggests trade war fatigue in agricultural communities may not match Beltway narrative intensity.
Mail-in voting restrictions STRONG
National narrative: Sparse national coverage relative to volume; when covered, framed as Trump election subversion or administrative reform depending on outlet lean.
Regional signals:
- Pacific Northwest — DIVERGENT: Oregon and Washington outlets treat this as imminent operational crisis with specific ballot rejection data; urge drop-box use as practical response
- Northeast — NUANCED: Delaware public radio covers absentee voting law upheld by Court of Chancery as separate but related story; Maine covers lawmakers' brief as institutional defense
- Midwest — ALIGNED: Wisconsin and Minnesota outlets carry identical brief coverage with minimal local framing
Implication: Vote-by-mail states are treating this as an active emergency requiring voter behavior change; national coverage has not conveyed the operational urgency or the geographic concentration of risk in western states.
Hurricane Lowell MODERATE
National narrative: CBS News and other nationals cover as weather disaster with standard damage imagery; limited follow-up on recovery logistics.
Regional signals:
- Pacific — NUANCED: Hawaii press focuses on extended school closures, specific infrastructure restoration timelines, and diaspora communication; AAPI press in California and New York covers for concerned immigrant families
Implication: National coverage will likely drop before recovery completes; the extended closure of schools and government offices through September 11 suggests sustained local attention that nationals will miss.
ICE raids and immigration enforcement STRONG
National narrative: National coverage emphasizes policy shifts, border statistics, and political rhetoric; occasional human-interest features on deportation.
Regional signals:
- Pacific — DIVERGENT: California outlets report employer threats using ICE as leverage against workers; Chicago study on $1.26B economic loss redistributed to South Carolina and Oklahoma public radio
- South — NUANCED: Texas Border Report covers specific border-crossing drug seizures and deportation cases; El Tiempo Latino tracks TPS expiration for 200,000 Salvadorans
Implication: Local coverage reveals immigration enforcement as economic and labor-market story with employer complicity; national frame remains security and border-focused. The TPS expiration absent from national corpus is a significant gap.
Trump's 9/11 claims STRONG
National narrative: Washington Examiner covers Trump's insistence his ground-zero story is 'exactly accurate' after fact checks; some national outlets ignore or briefly note.
Regional signals:
- South — INVERTED: Black press treats Trump's claims as demonstrably false and politically manipulative, with extensive fact-checking and eyewitness rebuttal
- Pacific Northwest — ALIGNED: Anchorage Daily News covers commemoration straightforwardly with 'never forget' framing
Implication: The Black press's sustained critical coverage versus general-market ceremonial coverage represents a genuine narrative inversion that national outlets have not synthesized; suggests ongoing credibility gap with Black voters that 9/11 commemoration exacerbated rather than bridged.
Nuclear energy restart MODERATE
National narrative: Absent from national corpus provided; no coverage of Iowa Duane Arnold restart or $1.9B loan.
Regional signals:
- Plains — DIVERGENT: Iowa Capital Dispatch covers as major infrastructure win with federal investment; Vietnamese press in California notes for diaspora audience
Implication: Nuclear restart as climate and energy policy is invisible in national coverage despite significant federal investment; local coverage suggests this is a model the administration may promote more broadly, making the absence notable.
Local Sentiment Landscape
Overall direction: RISK-OFF
Hurricane Lowell's extended recovery timeline with schools closed through Friday anchors Pacific anxiety; Missouri's election-administration chaos generates institutional distrust; trade war escalation with Canada produces economic uncertainty across agricultural and northern border regions. The 9/11 anniversary coverage is more contested than commemorative, with Trump's claims generating skepticism rather than unity.
Regional sentiment:
- Pacific RISK-OFF: Natural disaster recovery and trade war impacts on immigrant communities
- Pacific Northwest RISK-OFF: Mail-in voting operational crisis and data center moratorium environmental concerns
- Mountain West MIXED: Tax policy changes and wolf management conflicts alongside casino labor wins
- Plains RISK-ON: Nuclear energy investment and school funding amendments provide infrastructure optimism
- Midwest RISK-OFF: Election administration crisis in Missouri and Chicago violence dominate
- South MIXED: Texas curriculum fights and Florida budget politics with scattered positive local governance
- Mid-Atlantic MIXED: Baltimore-area public safety and school investments alongside political ethics investigations
- Northeast MIXED: Massachusetts trial aftermath and New Hampshire voter apathy with Maine tribal and education innovation
Demographic sentiment:
- AAPI RISK-OFF: Trade war impacts on diaspora businesses, Hurricane Lowell concern for Hawaiian communities, and immigration enforcement anxiety
- Hispanic RISK-OFF: ICE raid economic tolls, TPS expiration urgency, and border enforcement stories dominate over cultural coverage
- Black RISK-OFF: Police accountability stories, Trump's 9/11 claims fact-checking, and institutional skepticism including Smithsonian leadership change
- Tribal RISK-ON: Alaska Native Medical Center ownership transfer as sovereignty victory, though extremely thin corpus limits confidence
Issue sentiment:
- housing RISK-OFF: Affordable housing trusts in Texas, rental fraud in Oregon, but mostly negative access stories
- jobs/wages MIXED: Fast-food scheduling protections in L.A. positive, but ICE raid job losses and employer threats dominate
- public safety RISK-OFF: Police shootings, use-of-force disparities, and accountability stories predominate
- schools MIXED: Cyberattack closures negative, therapy expansions and recovery high school positive
- infrastructure RISK-ON: Nuclear restart, EV charging, and transmission projects provide optimism
- environment RISK-OFF: Hurricane damage, heat records, wolf kills, and data center energy concerns
- healthcare access MIXED: Mental health resources in Anchorage positive, but Arkansas disability waitlist and 9/11 toxic fallout are negative
- immigration enforcement RISK-OFF: ICE raids, TPS expiration, deportation cases, and employer threats uniformly negative
- local government MIXED: Corruption and ethics investigations mixed with innovative programs
- elections/voting RISK-OFF: Redistricting chaos, mail-in voting restrictions, and ballot rejection surge create institutional distrust
Lean distribution: L: 12 · LC: 78 · C: 45 · RC: 8 · R: 0
Demographic Divergence
ICE raid economic impact Hispanic
La Opinion frames Chicago ICE raids as $1.26 billion economic catastrophe for immigrant communities, with fear keeping people home from work and consumption
Evidence: La Opinion: 'Operación migratoria de Trump golpea a Chicago: estudio calcula pérdidas por $1,260 millones'
Implication: Hispanic press treats ICE raids primarily as economic story affecting community viability; general market covers as enforcement policy with occasional human interest. This divergence suggests Hispanic voter mobilization may be driven by pocketbook concerns underreported in English-language coverage.
Trump 9/11 claims fact-checking Black
Atlanta Black Star and TheGrio treat Trump's ground-zero claims as demonstrably false with extensive eyewitness rebuttal, emphasizing pattern of fabrication
Evidence: Atlanta Black Star: 'Trying Not to Betray the Stink': Trump Tells Wild 9/11 Rescue Story, Then the Man Across from Him Steals the Segment with One Look
Implication: Black press's sustained critical coverage versus general-market ceremonial framing represents genuine narrative divergence; suggests 9/11 commemoration exacerbated rather than bridged credibility gap with Black voters.
U.S.-Canada trade war diaspora impacts AAPI
Sing Tao Daily and Cali Today connect Canada tariffs to broader pattern of U.S. trade restrictions affecting diaspora business networks, with specific product detail (dairy, alcohol, motorcycles) and Chinese-language context on 'trade war escalation'
Evidence: Sing Tao Daily: '美加貿易戰升級 美禁加國乳製品電單車'; Cali Today Vietnamese coverage of retaliatory tariffs
Implication: AAPI press maintains transnational business perspective that general market lacks; the diaspora coverage may presage shifts in suburban Asian-American voter attitudes on trade policy.
Tribal health sovereignty Tribal
Native News Online and Alaska Beacon frame Alaska Native Medical Center transfer as decades-long advocacy victory and sovereignty precedent, with specific IHS failure context
Evidence: Native News Online: 'Alaska Native Medical Center Now Under Tribal Ownership'; Alaska Beacon: 'Tribal consortium achieves long-desired ownership'
Implication: Tribal press treats this as structural sovereignty shift with national replication potential; general market's marginal coverage suggests policy significance is underrecognized until crisis forces attention.
Employer ICE threats in California Hispanic
KQED News (public radio, not demographic-targeted but relevant) and Hispanic press cover employer threats using ICE as leverage against workers; Border Report covers specific deportation cases
Evidence: KQED News: 'Complaints of Employer ICE Threats on the Rise in California'; Border Report: multiple immigration enforcement stories
Implication: Story sits at intersection of labor and immigration enforcement that demographic press covers as systemic exploitation; general market's absence suggests blind spot where immigration and labor policy converge.
Single-Source Spikes
Mendocino sheriff runs nonprofit funding trafficking raids with no convictions
LIKELY SCOOP — Investigative reporting on a specific conflict-of-interest arrangement involving a Buffett family foundation, with detailed documentation of zero trafficking convictions. The narrow geographic focus and specific allegations suggest original reporting unlikely to be replicated elsewhere.
St. Louis postal worker accused of dumping 30,000 pieces of mail
LIKELY SCOOP — Federal indictment with specific quantity, tied to ongoing national concerns about USPS reliability. Public radio origin suggests local accountability journalism with potential for broader pickup.
New Hampshire voters express disgust, distrust and apathy at polls
LIKELY SCOOP — Original exit-interview reporting from primary day with distinctive voter sentiment. The specific framing of civic-duty-driven turnout despite candidate disaffection is analytically valuable for midterm forecasting.
Christian cop group that hired ex-deputy who assaulted women quietly dissolved
AWAITING CONFIRMATION — Nonprofit investigative outlet with track record; dissolution claim attributed to former chaplain. The 'quietly' framing suggests deliberate avoidance of scrutiny, but second-source verification would strengthen.
Alaska Native Medical Center transferred to tribal ownership after decades of advocacy
LIKELY SCOOP — Tribal press exclusive on significant IHS transfer, with Alaska Beacon providing secondary confirmation. The decades-long advocacy framing and specific institutional details suggest original tribal-source reporting.
Texas Board approves curriculum some warn is anti-Islam
AWAITING CONFIRMATION — AAPI outlet covering Muslim Texan concerns about textbook rewrite; the 'some warn' hedging and single-source Texas Tribune citation suggest this is redistributed rather than independently reported. Broader pickup would confirm significance.
Keyword Signals
- Trump 45 — tied to trade war, 9/11 claims, mail-in voting restrictions, and general political coverage
- Canada 18 — trade war escalation, tariffs, and retaliatory measures
- Missouri 12 — redistricting crisis and Supreme Court rejection of GOP map
- Hawaii 15 — Hurricane Lowell impacts and recovery
- 9/11 14 — 25th anniversary commemorations and toxic fallout disclosures
- mail-in voting 25 — lawmakers' Supreme Court brief against USPS restrictions
- ICE 10 — raids, deportation, and employer threats in California and Texas
- Supreme Court 20 — Missouri map, mail-in voting, and immigrant detention cases
- nuclear 5 — Iowa plant restart with $1.9B federal loan
- redistricting 8 — Missouri congressional map chaos
- gerrymander 6 — Missouri GOP map rejected by courts
- tariffs 12 — Canada trade war and agricultural impacts
- Hurricane Lowell 8 — Hawaii power outages and school closures
- Polymarket 6 — sports betting promotional content in multiple outlets
- Lindsay Clancy 5 — mistrial aftermath and juror interviews
- Baltimore 8 — police shooting, school therapy contract, and commercial house parties
- Chicago 10 — Labor Day violence, ICE raid economic toll, and sports
- Oregon 12 — data center moratorium, mail voting defense, and prison tablets
Source Diversity Audit
Lean distribution: L: 12 · LC: 78 · C: 45 · RC: 8 · R: 0
Category distribution: Newspaper: 138 · Public Radio: 86 · Nonprofit: 160 · Online: 101 · Hispanic: 12 · Tribal: 2 · Crypto: 16 · Magazine: 2 · Public Media: 2 · Local News: 1 · Resort: 16 · Coastal: 4
Blind spots: Severe underrepresentation of right-leaning sources (RC: 8, R: 0); Tribal press extremely thin at 2 items despite 574 federally recognized tribes; no Black newspaper presence in the South outside Atlanta and St. Louis; Spanish-language television absent from US television sample. The 'Crypto' category (30 items with no state) may represent a coverage gap in understanding digital asset regulation at state level.