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Ted Cruz
stated on November 6, 2023 An interview on CNBC

“We produce a lot more wind energy in Texas than California does.”

By Sarah Bahari • November 14, 2023

Morgan Luttrell
stated on January 10, 2023 a tweet

"Biden drained America's Strategic Petroleum Reserves to the lowest level since 1984."

By Nusaiba Mizan • January 19, 2023

Kevin Brady
stated on December 8, 2022 a statement

Joe Biden’s $36 billion for a union pension fund is “the largest private pension bailout in American history.”

December 14, 2022

Greg Abbott
stated on May 15, 2022 a tweet

Texas' public high school graduation rate is at 90% overall.

By Nusaiba Mizan • July 14, 2022

Ted Cruz
stated on February 16, 2022 a committee meeting

"In 2020, more journalists were killed in Mexico than in any other country in the world."

By Nusaiba Mizan • February 28, 2022

John Cornyn
stated on February 14, 2022 a tweet

"100,000 Americans died of an overdose in a single year."

By Nusaiba Mizan • February 21, 2022

Roger Williams
stated on December 2, 2021 an email

"The number of COVID-19 deaths recorded so far in 2021 has surpassed the total for 2020."

By Nusaiba Mizan • January 18, 2022

Chip Roy
stated on July 29, 2021 a hearing

A quorum-breaking Texas Democrat said in 2007 that mail-in ballot fraud “is the greatest source of voter fraud in this state.”

By Brandon Mulder • August 6, 2021

Greg Abbott
stated on May 18, 2021 an interview

“We now have more job openings than we do people who are on unemployment. We have 60% more job openings today than we did the month before the pandemic hit the state of Texas.”

By Brandon Mulder • May 21, 2021

Greg Abbott
stated on March 30, 2021 a tweet

“Twice as many children are in Border Patrol custody under Biden than Trump peak in 2019.”

By Brandon Mulder • April 6, 2021

Energy Transfer
stated on February 26, 2021 testimony

“Pipelines do not freeze. They are naturally insulated. They’re buried beneath the ground.”

By Brandon Mulder • March 5, 2021

Beto O'Rourke
stated on February 16, 2021 a tweet

“Energy experts and State House Dems, among others, were warning of this (the Texas power blackout) for years.”

By Amy Sherman • February 19, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on February 16, 2021 a Facebook post

"The Texas power grid is not part of the US power grid because they wanted to avoid federal regulation.”

February 18, 2021

Michael Burgess
stated on September 19, 2020 a tweet

“In the last 10 years less than half of adults in the U.S. received a flu shot.”

By Madlin Mekelburg • September 25, 2020

M.J. Hegar
stated on July 22, 2020 a speech

Says 1 in 5 Texans did not have health insurance coverage before the pandemic, and now “nearly 1 in 3 Texans under the age of 65 don’t have access to health care insurance.”

By Madlin Mekelburg • July 30, 2020

John Cornyn
stated on June 11, 2020 an interview

The United States has not completed a “top-to-bottom review of our criminal justice system at the national level since 1965.”

By Taylor Goldenstein • July 2, 2020

Veronica Escobar
stated on April 22, 2020 an interview

Says Texas “either is near the bottom or at the very bottom when it comes to testing per capita.”

By Madlin Mekelburg • April 24, 2020

Dan Crenshaw
stated on March 13, 2020 a tweet

Says longstanding Food and Drug Administration regulations “created barriers to the private industry creating a test quickly” for the coronavirus.

By Madlin Mekelburg • March 23, 2020

James White
stated on January 27, 2020 a tweet

Says "10% of U.S. children are Texans."

By Madlin Mekelburg • January 31, 2020

Beto O'Rourke
stated on September 4, 2019 an interview

"There are 390 million guns out on the streets of a country of 329 million people."

By Madlin Mekelburg • September 9, 2019

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