Stand up for the facts!

Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy.
We need your help.

More Info

I would like to contribute

$

Latest Fact-Checks

Clear
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 16, 2012 in the campaign film "The Road We've Traveled":
Because of the new health care law, "2.5 million young adults now have coverage."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 16, 2012
Luis Garcia
Luis Garcia
stated on February 15, 2012 in a campaign press release:
Says David Rivera "received a $5,000 campaign contribution from Congressman Spencer Bachus, who is currently under House Ethics investigation for insider trading."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • March 16, 2012
Texas Democratic Party
Texas Democratic Party
stated on March 3, 2012 in a quoted comment.:
"In Texas, there are 668 Democratic Hispanic elected officials to the 60 in the Republican Party."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • March 16, 2012
Joel Kleefisch
Joel Kleefisch
stated on February 22, 2012 in a television interview:
The Wisconsin state Assembly chambers extend to the bathroom and the parlor, and rules allow members to vote for each other if the member is in the chambers.
Mostly True
By James B. Nelson • March 15, 2012
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on March 11, 2012 in an appearance on "Fox News Sunday":
Obama's secretary of energy, Dr. Steven Chu, "has said publicly he wants us to pay European levels (for gasoline), and that would be $9 or $10 a gallon."
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • March 14, 2012
Kathleen Falk
Kathleen Falk
stated on February 29, 2012 in an appearance at Marquette University:
Says Gov. Scott Walker cut aid to local schools despite campaigning on trying to restore two-thirds state funding for education
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • March 14, 2012
Shaun Donovan
Shaun Donovan
stated on March 5, 2012 in an interview on "The Daily Show":
"It costs about $40,000 a year for a homeless person to be on the streets."
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • March 12, 2012
Rush Holt
Rush Holt
stated on February 24, 2012 in an e-mail newsletter:
"A clear majority of Americans support removing the cost-sharing requirement for prescription contraceptive coverage."
Mostly True
By Erin O'Neill • March 12, 2012
Ted Jackson
Ted Jackson
stated on February 29, 2012 in a letter:
Georgia ranks "last in job growth."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • March 12, 2012
Steve Rothman
Steve Rothman
stated on February 13, 2012 in a campaign video posted on YouTube:
"They're paying a less rate of tax -- these richest people in America -- than they have in the last 80 years."
Mostly True
By Bill Wichert • March 11, 2012
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on February 26, 2012 in an interview posted online by WFAA-TV in Dallas:
"A hundred percent of all the jobs lost during the recession have been reclaimed in Texas … while the nation is at about 36 percent."
Mostly True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • March 11, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on March 6, 2012 in a campaign speech in Steubenville, Ohio:
"A little less than 50 percent of the people in this country depend on some form of federal payment, some form of government benefit to help provide for them."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 8, 2012
Gary Johnson
Gary Johnson
stated on February 25, 2012 in a forum:
"Fifty percent of the graduating class of the year 2012 will have smoked marijuana or have done illegal drugs."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • March 7, 2012
Glenford Shibley
Glenford Shibley
stated on December 9, 2011 in a news release:
"Rhode Island is the only state where officers at state-supported [colleges] carry out their duties unarmed."
Mostly True
By Alex Kuffner • March 7, 2012
Charlotte Nash
Charlotte Nash
stated on February 15, 2012 in a speech:
"[E]mployment in Gwinnett is up more than 3 percent over last year, and unemployment is the lowest of the five core metro counties."
Mostly True
By Eric Stirgus • March 5, 2012
American Civil Liberties Union of Florida
American Civil Liberties Union of Florida
stated on March 1, 2012 in interview on "The Colbert Report":
There are "a larger number of shark attacks in Florida than there are cases of voter fraud."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • March 2, 2012
Rick Scott
Rick Scott
stated on February 25, 2012 in an interview with WTSP:
"In some communities, for $10,000 worth of (PIP) coverage it’s $1,500 a year."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • March 2, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on February 23, 2012 in a speech in Miami:
"We supported the first new nuclear power plant in three decades."
Mostly True
By Angie Drobnic Holan • March 2, 2012
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on February 22, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Arizona:
Says he "did the very best" in a recent poll in Iowa matching up each of the major Republican presidential candidates against President Barack Obama.
Mostly True
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • March 2, 2012
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on December 18, 2011 in a presidential campaign stop in Decorah, Iowa:
Says there’s no proven instance where hydraulic fracking has polluted groundwater.
Mostly True
By Sue Owen • February 29, 2012
Previous Next