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Marco Rubio
stated on May 20, 2026 in an X post:

“The reason (people in Cuba) are forced to survive 22 hours a day without electricity is not due to an oil ‘blockade’ by the US.”

By Maria Briceño, Samantha Putterman • May 22, 2026

Pine Tree Results PAC
stated on April 26, 2026 in an ad:

“Graham Platner blames Maine’s women for getting raped because he says they get f----- up drunk"

By Amy Sherman • April 29, 2026

Restoration of America
stated on April 13, 2026 in an ad:

“83% of us favor requiring a photo ID to vote. In fact, most of the civilized world requires it but not us.”

By Amy Sherman • April 17, 2026

Brandon Gill
stated on April 7, 2026 in an X post:

“The Dignity Act is mass amnesty.”

By Samantha Putterman • April 13, 2026

Mark Kelly
stated on March 17, 2026 in an X post:

The SAVE America Act “requires everyone to re-register to vote in person and your driver’s license, REAL ID, or military ID aren’t even good enough.”

By Amy Sherman • March 24, 2026

Pam Bondi
stated on December 29, 2025 in an X post:

The Justice Department has been investigating fraud in Minnesota “for months. So far, we have charged 98 individuals.”

By Amy Sherman • January 8, 2026

X posts
stated on September 19, 2025 in an X post:

Thirty percent of U.S. medical residents are international medical graduates, and 10,000 of 43,000 residency spots are filled by H-1B visa holders.

By Maria Briceño • October 2, 2025

Chris Murphy
stated on August 27, 2025 in an X post:

Following the passage of a 2022 gun safety law, mass shootings “began to drop.”

By Amy Sherman • August 28, 2025

Ken Martin
stated on August 5, 2025 in a press conference:

Texas Republicans held one hearing on flood response but eight hearings on redistricting

By Amy Sherman • August 6, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on July 27, 2025 in a press briefing:

“We gave $60 million two weeks ago” for food aid to Gaza.

By Gabrielle Lazor, Samantha Putterman • July 30, 2025

Elizabeth Warren
stated on June 24, 2025 in an X post:

“If every one of the 340 million people in America paid a new $35 copay to visit the doctor, that still wouldn’t be enough to cover how much Meta would get from just one tax break in Donald Trump's ‘Big Beautiful Bill.’"

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • June 27, 2025

Donald Trump
stated on April 2, 2025 in a speech announcing tariffs:

“Egg prices came down 50%”

By Amy Sherman, Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2025

A Better Wisconsin Together
stated on February 24, 2025 in Social media ads:

“71 out of 72 Wisconsin counties filed lawsuits against Purdue Pharma. Brad Schimel refused to join them.”

By Hope Karnopp • March 11, 2025

Kristi Noem
stated on February 2, 2025 in an interview:

At Guantánamo Bay, “we'll have the capacity to continue to do there what we've always done. We've always had a presence of illegal immigrants there that have been detained.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • February 9, 2025

Karoline Leavitt
stated on January 28, 2025 in White House press briefing:

The U.S. has an egg shortage because the “Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens.”

By Jeff Cercone • January 30, 2025

Elizabeth Warren
stated on January 29, 2025 in a Senate confirmation hearing:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “made $2.5 million off suing one of the entities that (he would be regulating) and plans to keep getting a take of every lawsuit in the future.”

By Sara Swann • January 30, 2025

Social Media
stated on December 1, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter:

“Trump won 18-to-24-year-olds in Wisconsin."

By D.L. Davis • January 6, 2025

Kamala Harris
stated on September 27, 2024 in a campaign ad:

Former President Donald Trump wants to take away the Affordable Care Act.

By Samantha Putterman, Marta Campabadal Graus • October 24, 2024

Robert Reich
stated on October 8, 2024 in an Instagram post:

“Two weeks ago 100 GOP lawmakers voted against additional FEMA funding.”

By Amy Sherman • October 11, 2024

Jared Moskowitz
stated on September 19, 2024 in a House hearing:

“Project 2025 wants to get rid of NOAA” and the National Weather Service.

By Amy Sherman • September 26, 2024

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