Latest Fact-Checks In Civil Rights

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Alma Adams
Alma Adams
stated on January 11, 2022 a tweet
“From 1917 to 1994, half of the bills that were successfully filibustered in the Senate were civil rights legislation.”
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By Paul Specht • January 24, 2022
Raphael Warnock
Raphael Warnock
stated on December 6, 2020 a debate
Says Kelly Loeffler “welcomed the support of a QAnon conspiracy theorist, and she sat down with a white supremacist for an interview.”
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December 9, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 16, 2020 a Wall Street Journal op-ed
“For the past three years, the state senator who represents Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco, has led a push to abolish single-family zoning in California.”
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By Chris Nichols • August 17, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 29, 2020 a Facebook post
Black Lives Matter demonstrators attack “elderly man wearing oxygen.”
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July 7, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on June 29, 2020 a viral image
Lawyer-couple who pointed guns at protesters are Black Lives Matter backers, Democrats and represent a police brutality victim.
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July 1, 2020
Justice Democrats
Justice Democrats
stated on April 25, 2019 a tweet
Says Joe Biden "voted for the Iraq War, for mass incarceration, and for the Bankruptcy Reform Act while voting against gay marriage, reproductive rights, and school desegregation."  
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By Jon Greenberg • April 26, 2019
Toni Preckwinkle
Toni Preckwinkle
stated on January 9, 2019 a TV ad
Says she "made sure Laquan McDonald’s autopsy went public" and "called for the dash cam footage to be released."
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By Kiannah Sepeda-Miller • January 15, 2019
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on January 5, 2017 remarks to reporters supporting legislation related to bathroom access
"Martin Luther King said our lives begin to end the day we become silent on things that matter."
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By W. Gardner Selby • January 6, 2017
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on July 27, 2016 a speech at the Democratic National Convention
Says Indiana Gov. Mike Pence "advocated diverting taxpayer dollars to so-called conversion therapy."
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By Chris Nichols • December 2, 2016
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 26, 2016 a Presidential debate
Says Donald Trump "publicly invited Putin to hack into Americans’ (emails)."
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By Amy Sherman • September 27, 2016
Tim Kaine
Tim Kaine
stated on August 4, 2016 a speech
Says his father-in-law, former Gov. Linwood Holton, "integrated Virginia public schools."
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By Warren Fiske • August 15, 2016
Tim Moore
Tim Moore
stated on May 5, 2016 a conversation with reporters
Says 80 percent of North Carolinians support "the concept that men should not be in women’s restrooms, changing rooms, bathrooms, etc."
Half-True
By Will Doran • May 14, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 16, 2015 an interview on MSNBC
The New York Police Department used to have "surveillance going on in and around mosques in New York City. ... Our mayor totally cut that out."
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By Clayton Youngman • November 20, 2015
Juan Williams
Juan Williams
stated on June 22, 2015 a broadcast of "The Five" on Fox News
Polls indicate that "white people think that black people are less intelligent. They think they’re less trustworthy, less patriotic."  
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By Jon Greenberg • June 29, 2015
Michael Skolnik
Michael Skolnik
stated on June 16, 2015 comments on CNN
"For most black people in the history of this country … it was illegal to pass as a white person. You were actually put in jail if you tried to pass."
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By Anna Bruzgulis • June 18, 2015
Mark Pocan
Mark Pocan
stated on May 20, 2015 a radio interview
"Twenty-five percent of people in the country have said they changed their email and phone habits because of" the collection of data allowed by the Patriot Act.
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By Sarah Hauer • June 15, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on April 1, 2015 an interview
Says Bill Clinton signed a law "very similar to," and Barack Obama voted for a law "something like," Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act.    
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April 13, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on March 30, 2015 an interview with Hugh Hewitt
"Florida has a law like (Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act)."
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By Amy Sherman, Katie Sanders • March 31, 2015
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on March 29, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week"
Says Barack Obama voted for the "very same language" of Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act when he was in the Illinois state Senate. Sexual orientation "doesn't have anything to do with this law."
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By Katie Sanders • March 29, 2015
Young, Gifted and Black Coalition
Young, Gifted and Black Coalition
stated on January 9, 2015 an open letter
"Black people are eight times more likely to be arrested than white people" in Madison.
Half-True
March 9, 2015
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