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Latest Fact-Checks In Texas

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Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 6, 2023 An interview on CNBC:
“We produce a lot more wind energy in Texas than California does.”
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By Sarah Bahari • November 14, 2023
Morgan Luttrell
Morgan Luttrell
stated on January 10, 2023 a tweet:
"Biden drained America's Strategic Petroleum Reserves to the lowest level since 1984."
True
By Nusaiba Mizan • January 19, 2023
Kevin Brady
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.”
True
By Tom Kertscher • December 14, 2022
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on May 15, 2022 a tweet:
Texas' public high school graduation rate is at 90% overall.
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By Nusaiba Mizan • July 14, 2022
Ted Cruz
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."
True
By Nusaiba Mizan • February 28, 2022
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on February 14, 2022 a tweet:
"100,000 Americans died of an overdose in a single year."
True
By Nusaiba Mizan • February 21, 2022
Roger Williams
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."
True
By Nusaiba Mizan • January 18, 2022
Chip Roy
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.”
True
By Brandon Mulder • August 6, 2021
Greg Abbott
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.”
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By Brandon Mulder • May 21, 2021
Greg Abbott
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.”
True
By Brandon Mulder • April 6, 2021
Energy Transfer
Energy Transfer
stated on February 26, 2021 testimony:
“Pipelines do not freeze. They are naturally insulated. They’re buried beneath the ground.”
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By Brandon Mulder • March 5, 2021
Beto O'Rourke
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.”
True
By Amy Sherman • February 19, 2021
Facebook posts
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.”
True
By Noah Y. Kim • February 18, 2021
Michael Burgess
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.”
True
By Madlin Mekelburg • September 25, 2020
M.J. Hegar
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.”
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By Madlin Mekelburg • July 30, 2020
John Cornyn
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.”
True
By Taylor Goldenstein • July 2, 2020
Veronica Escobar
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.”
True
By Madlin Mekelburg • April 24, 2020
Dan Crenshaw
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.
True
By Madlin Mekelburg • March 23, 2020
James White
James White
stated on January 27, 2020 a tweet:
Says "10% of U.S. children are Texans." 
True
By Madlin Mekelburg • January 31, 2020
Beto O'Rourke
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."
True
By Madlin Mekelburg • September 9, 2019
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