Latest Fact-Checks In Texas

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stated on August 5, 2025 a press conference
Texas Republicans held one hearing on flood response but eight hearings on redistricting
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By Amy Sherman • August 6, 2025
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on August 28, 2024 a post on X
“This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.”
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By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman • August 29, 2024
Randi Weingarten
Randi Weingarten
stated on September 20, 2023 an X post
"Texas teacher fired for reading Diary of Anne Frank to class.”
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September 22, 2023
Brandon Creighton
Brandon Creighton
stated on March 19, 2023 Interview with WFAA
When discussing education savings accounts, "We would be 31st in the nation to have these policies going forward on behalf of kids.”
Half-True
By Aarón Torres • March 30, 2023
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 16, 2023 the State of the State speech
"Businesses large and small have led Texas to be ranked the number one state for business every year that I’ve been governor."
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By Aarón Torres • March 20, 2023
Sawyer Hackett
Sawyer Hackett
stated on January 16, 2023 a tweet
Gov. Abbott “signed a bill last year eliminating the requirements for Texas schools to teach MLK’s ‘I have a dream’ speech.”
Half-True
By Nusaiba Mizan • February 14, 2023
Chip Roy
Chip Roy
stated on January 23, 2023 a tweet
"Under Biden, we have seen over 4.6 million encounters at our southern border. Most have been released into the interior and will stay here indefinitely."
Half-True
By Maria Ramirez Uribe • February 3, 2023
Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Crystal Peoples-Stokes
stated on March 29, 2022 a news release
“Cities in notoriously ‘tough on crime’ states like Texas and Florida saw a more significant increase in violent crime than cities in NYS.”
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 16, 2022
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on March 22, 2022 a Senate judiciary committee hearing
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson called former President George W. Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as “war criminals in a legal filing.”
Half-True
By Madison Czopek • March 24, 2022
Greg Casar
Greg Casar
stated on February 8, 2022 an ad
“Greg Casar passed paid sick leave."
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February 10, 2022
Stacey Abrams
Stacey Abrams
stated on January 31, 2022 an interview on CNN
“In Texas, because of the laws they passed, a 95-year-old World War II veteran is being denied the right to vote by mail because he can't produce a registration number he got back in the 1950s.”
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By Amy Sherman • February 3, 2022
Roger Williams
Roger Williams
stated on October 28, 2021 in a speech
"U.S. households are on track to spend $19 billion more on energy by 2030."
Half-True
By Nusaiba Mizan • November 30, 2021
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on October 18, 2021 a TV interview
Over a million people apprehended at the border this year, "meaning probably another 2 or 3 million have come in illegally."
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By Nusaiba Mizan • November 15, 2021
Occupy Democrats
Occupy Democrats
stated on September 1, 2021 on social media
Texas “ranks 50th in baby wellness checks, ranks 50th in clinical care for infants, ranks 50th in uninsured women, ranks 43rd in maternal mortality, ranks 44th in school funding per child, and ranks 46th in child hunger.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2021
Louie Gohmert
Louie Gohmert
stated on August 11, 2021 an OAN broadcast.
Solar panel farms cause “hundreds and thousands” of birds to “hit that magnified sun, explode in flame ... (This) is going to bring the nation down.”
Half-True
By Jason Asenso • August 17, 2021
Chip Roy
Chip Roy
stated on June 3, 2021 an interview
Says Austin should be putting more police on the streets. “Why are we going the other way? (Austin leaders are saying) ‘Oh, let’s reimagine police by getting rid of them.' What do you have? You have a doubling of murder in Austin, Texas.”
Half-True
By Brandon Mulder • June 11, 2021
Veronica Escobar
Veronica Escobar
stated on March 14, 2021 an interview
"We began seeing the increase in unaccompanied minors going back to last April 2020. This is not something that happened as a result of Joe Biden becoming president.”
Half-True
By Brandon Mulder • March 29, 2021
Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom
stated on March 9, 2021 a State of the State Address
“California’s [COVID-19] death rate has remained one of the lowest per capita in the nation: 134 deaths per 100,000, compared to 158 nationally, 153 in Texas and 247 in New York.”
Half-True
By Chris Nichols • March 10, 2021
Viral image
Viral image
stated on February 18, 2021 a Facebook post
A Texas energy company billed a customer more than $200,000.
Half-True
February 19, 2021
Kevin Brady
Kevin Brady
stated on January 22, 2021 a tweet
Says that Biden’s ban on new federal leases will kill 120,000 Texas jobs.
Half-True
By Brandon Mulder • January 29, 2021
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