Beto O’Rourke claims near-uniqueness in not taking corporate or PAC contributions
"I’m one of two members of Congress out of 535 that takes no corporate cash, no political action committee money."
Public school advocates say no voucher bills have passed in Texas Legislature
"Texas legislators have filed voucher proposals in every legislative session since 1995, but all of them have failed to become law."
John Cornyn joins Texans saying Obama administration didn’t request border surveillance from air
Says the Department of Homeland Security didn't request any hours of aerial surveillance for the U.S.-Mexico border from the Department of Defense for 2017.
Sid Miller posts manipulated photo of ‘The Rock’ wearing a pro-flag T-shirt
Says actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson wore a T-shirt stating: "We Stand for the flag, we kneel for the fallen."
Democrat Jennie Lou Leeder says Texas spends more per inmate than public school student
Texas spends "more per day to house an inmate than we do on a student."
Progress Texas makes speculative claim about Donald Trump firing 49,000 Texas teachers
"Donald Trump's education plan to dramatically slash funding for public education would fire 49,000 Texas teachers."
Sylvester Turner calls Houston nation’s most diverse city
"Welcome to #Houston, the most #diverse city in #America."
Researcher rounds up wrong figure on Texas cattle
"Only five Texas counties account for almost 90 percent of the (state’s) cattle industry."
Sen. Rodney Ellis says Harris County has some of highest incarceration rates in the world
Harris County, Texas has "some of the highest jailing and incarceration rates in the U.S. and the world."
World’s widest highway not where Sylvester Turner thinks it is
"The Katy Freeway, or Interstate 10 west of Houston, is the widest freeway in the world, with up to 26 lanes, including frontage road lanes."
Sid Miller posts fake photo of Obama holding Che Guevara T-shirt
Says Barack Obama was happily photographed holding a T-shirt with revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara’s face on it.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee says maternal mortality rate for U.S. women shot up 136 percent
"Between 1990 and 2013, the maternal mortality rate for women in the U.S. has increased by 136%."