Latest Fact Checks By Eleanor Dearman

Professor: ‘Concrete examples’ of teachers, students spurning University of Texas due to gun law

By Eleanor Dearman , W. Gardner Selby

August 26, 2016

Says there are "concrete examples" of University of Texas job applicants or prospective applicants and students as well as invited speakers changing their minds because…

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Mostly False: Claim that as Texas mayor, Julián Castro got big referral fee from ‘notorious’ lawyer

By Eleanor Dearman

July 28, 2016

"In 2009, his first year as mayor," Julián Castro "received a seven-figure referral fee" that smells like a dirty financial gift "from notorious personal injury…

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Ted Cruz makes Mostly False claim about Obama directing men and boys into girls’ bathrooms

By Eleanor Dearman

June 26, 2016

Barack Obama issued a decree "demanding that every public school now allow grown men and boys into the little girls’ bathroom."  

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Wendy Davis wrongly says Texas among states with no ‘equal pay’ law

By Eleanor Dearman

May 27, 2016

"Texas is one of only a handful of states that does not have an equal pay law."

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Jorge Ramos echoes count of 80 journalists killed in Mexico since 2006, but tallies vary

By Eleanor Dearman

April 8, 2016

Says 80 journalists have been killed in Mexico in the last decade.

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Rick Perry claims Donald Trump’s wall on the Southwest border will take years to complete

By Eleanor Dearman

February 27, 2016

"Building a wall" on the U.S.-Mexico border "will take literally years."

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Joe Straus accurately says Texas growing twice as fast as rest of nation

By Eleanor Dearman

January 30, 2016

"Texas is growing twice as fast as the rest of the country."

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