Latest Fact Checks By Fauzeya Rahman

Beto O’Rourke claims near-uniqueness in not taking corporate or PAC contributions

By Fauzeya Rahman

July 27, 2017

"I’m one of two members of Congress out of 535 that takes no corporate cash, no political action committee money."

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Public school advocates say no voucher bills have passed in Texas Legislature

By Fauzeya Rahman

March 17, 2017

"Texas legislators have filed voucher proposals in every legislative session since 1995, but all of them have failed to become law."

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John Cornyn joins Texans saying Obama administration didn’t request border surveillance from air

By Fauzeya Rahman

January 31, 2017

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.

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Sid Miller posts manipulated photo of ‘The Rock’ wearing a pro-flag T-shirt

By Fauzeya Rahman

December 7, 2016

Says actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson wore a T-shirt stating: "We Stand for the flag, we kneel for the fallen."

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Democrat Jennie Lou Leeder says Texas spends more per inmate than public school student

By Fauzeya Rahman

November 18, 2016

Texas spends "more per day to house an inmate than we do on a student."

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Progress Texas makes speculative claim about Donald Trump firing 49,000 Texas teachers

By Fauzeya Rahman

October 20, 2016

"Donald Trump's education plan to dramatically slash funding for public education would fire 49,000 Texas teachers."

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Sylvester Turner calls Houston nation’s most diverse city

By Fauzeya Rahman

September 23, 2016

"Welcome to #Houston, the most #diverse city in #America."

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Researcher rounds up wrong figure on Texas cattle

By Fauzeya Rahman

July 29, 2016

"Only five Texas counties account for almost 90 percent of the (state’s) cattle industry."

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Sen. Rodney Ellis says Harris County has some of highest incarceration rates in the world

By Fauzeya Rahman

July 8, 2016

Harris County, Texas has "some of the highest jailing and incarceration rates in the U.S. and the world."  

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World’s widest highway not where Sylvester Turner thinks it is

By Fauzeya Rahman

April 13, 2016

"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."

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Sid Miller posts fake photo of Obama holding Che Guevara T-shirt

By Fauzeya Rahman

March 25, 2016

Says Barack Obama was happily photographed holding a T-shirt with revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara’s face on it.  

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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee says maternal mortality rate for U.S. women shot up 136 percent

By Fauzeya Rahman

February 1, 2016

"Between 1990 and 2013, the maternal mortality rate for women in the U.S. has increased by 136%."

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