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Byron Donalds
Byron Donalds
stated on April 12, 2026 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":
The U.S. Navy was created "to free international waters from the Barbary pirates."
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By Louis Jacobson, Zoe Weyand • April 14, 2026
Lisa Murkowski
Lisa Murkowski
stated on January 20, 2025 an X post:
"Our nation’s tallest mountain … has been called Denali for thousands of years."
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By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu • January 23, 2025
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris
stated on July 20, 2023 a speech to the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority:
Florida “decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery.”
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By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson, Sofia Bliss-Carrascosa • July 24, 2023
Dave Grohl
Dave Grohl
stated on February 12, 2023 a Super Bowl ad:
Canada is to thank for American football.
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By Samantha Putterman • February 13, 2023
USA Freedom Fund
USA Freedom Fund
stated on May 11, 2022 an attack ad:
“Kathy Barnette wants to build a statue of Barack Obama right next to the one of Abraham Lincoln on Capitol Hill."
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By Jon Greenberg • May 13, 2022
Iowa House Democrats
Iowa House Democrats
stated on February 10, 2022 a tweet:
"According to Republican Rep. Jeff Shipley, teachers should not receive a pay raise if they teach American history that Republicans don’t agree with."
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By Meg Doster • March 2, 2022
Ben Wikler
Ben Wikler
stated on September 23, 2021 Twitter:
Says Rebecca Kleefisch played a key role in the Foxconn deal, “the largest attempted government handout to a foreign company in American history."
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By Madeline Heim • October 26, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on September 9, 2020 a Facebook post:
Says Donald Trump funded a Veterans Day parade 26 years ago in New York City after the city refused to pay.
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By Samantha Putterman • September 17, 2020
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on June 5, 2020 on social media:
“Central Park actually used to be a town called Seneca Village” founded by African Americans in 1825.
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By Hannah Roesch, Julia Schneider • August 12, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 3, 2020 a Facebook post:
Says a leader of the Blackfeet Nation tribe designed the current Washington Redskins logo and once said it “made us all proud to have an Indian on a big-time team."
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By Samantha Putterman • July 16, 2020
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on October 30, 2019 an interview:
"When it comes to electability, every single time my party has won the presidency in the last 50 years, it’s been with a candidate who was new on the national scene, hadn’t spent a lot of time in Washington, and represented a new generation of leadership."
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By Miriam Valverde • November 5, 2019
Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang
stated on September 21, 2019 Iowa Steak Fry speech:
Says about universal basic income, "Thomas Paine was for it at our founding ... Martin Luther King, champion in the ‘60s, called it a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans… It passed the U.S. House of Representatives twice in 1971."
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By Miriam Valverde • October 16, 2019
Kelly E. Hastings
Kelly E. Hastings
stated on June 30, 2019 On twitter:
Said, "The Seven Years’ War led to near bankruptcy for many countries; Britain’s need to raise taxes fueled the American desire for independence."
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By Elizabeth Thompson • July 3, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 6, 2018 a rally in Billings, Mont.:
"When Abraham Lincoln made the Gettysburg Address speech, the great speech, do you know he was ridiculed? He was ridiculed."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • September 7, 2018
Becoming American Initiative
Becoming American Initiative
stated on July 3, 2018 an ad:
Says Ronald Reagan said immigrants "brought with them courage and the values of family, work, and freedom. Let us pledge to each other that we can make America great again."
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By Miriam Valverde • July 3, 2018
Jim Spencer
Jim Spencer
stated on June 18, 2018 a news blog post:
Says May 2018 marked the 401st straight month of global temperatures exceeding the 20th century average.
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By W. Gardner Selby • June 20, 2018
stated on May 8, 2018 an Austin American-Statesman news story:
Says Austin has "been ranked repeatedly as one of the most, if not the most, economically segregated cities in the country."
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By W. Gardner Selby • May 31, 2018
Lupe Valdez
Lupe Valdez
stated on April 11, 2018 an interview with Austin American-Statesman commentator Ken Herman:
"I come from the poorest ZIP code in San Antonio."
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By W. Gardner Selby • May 3, 2018
Steve Adler
Steve Adler
stated on April 25, 2018 a tweet:
Says Austin is the "safest big city in Texas with an unemployment rate under 3% that has been named the best place to live in the entire United States two years running."    
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By W. Gardner Selby • April 26, 2018
Ronna McDaniel
Ronna McDaniel
stated on March 28, 2018 a radio interview:
The census "for years and years and years, decades, has asked, ‘Are you a citizen of the United States of America?’"
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By D.L. Davis • April 3, 2018
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