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 In National

Clear
Red, White and Blue Fund
Red, White and Blue Fund
stated on February 24, 2012 in a campaign ad:
"Gingrich supported individual health insurance mandates."
True
By Molly Moorhead • March 2, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on February 23, 2012 in a television ad:
Says Mitt Romney said he does not "line up with the NRA."
True
By Molly Moorhead • February 29, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on February 23, 2012 in Feb. 23, 2012, in a campaign ad:
Says "Rick Santorum supported (Arlen) Specter over conservative candidates twice."
True
By Becky Bowers • February 29, 2012
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on February 22, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Mesa, Ariz.:
"Over 40 percent of children born in America are born out of wedlock."
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 24, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on February 4, 2012 in a speech in Las Vegas, Nev., on Feb. 4, 2012:
"If you take into account all the people who are struggling for work, or have just stopped looking, the real unemployment rate is over 15 percent."
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 8, 2012
Chain email
Chain email
stated on January 30, 2012 in a chain e-mail and blog and Facebook posts:
In July 1996, Mitt Romney helped locate the missing teenage daughter of a partner at Bain Capital.
True
By Louis Jacobson • January 30, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 24, 2012 in the State of the Union address:
Says he eliminated an EPA rule that treated spilled milk like it was oil.
True
By Molly Moorhead • January 25, 2012
Restore Our Future
Restore Our Future
stated on December 14, 2011 in a video ad:
Newt Gingrich "teamed with Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore on global warming."
True
By Molly Moorhead • December 21, 2011
stated on December 9, 2011 in a column in the New York Times:
Newt Gingrich "has suggested" building "a mirror system in space" could improve the Earth’s habitability.
True
By Louis Jacobson • December 12, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on November 21, 2011 in an interview with the editorial board of the 'Telegraph.':
Says he followed state law and the precedent of other Massachusetts governors when he erased electronic communications as he left office.
True
By Jake Berry • December 2, 2011
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on November 29, 2011 in an op-ed in the "New Hampshire Union Leader":
The balanced-budget amendment once came within one vote of passing Congress but was defeated because of the no vote from a top Senate Republican, and Rick Santorum says he "stood up and called for him to resign his chairmanship."
True
By John Gregg • December 2, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on November 30, 2011 in a speech in Scranton, Pa.:
For "the average middle-class family, your taxes today are lower than when I took office."
True
By Louis Jacobson • December 1, 2011
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on November 28, 2011 in a campaign advertisement:
Says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on a taxpayer protection pledge.
True
By Louis Jacobson • November 29, 2011
Democratic National Committee
Democratic National Committee
stated on November 28, 2011 in a campaign ad:
Says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on abortion.
True
By Louis Jacobson • November 28, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on November 22, 2011 in a Republican debate in Washington:
Says Apple CEO Steve Jobs told President Obama that the company moved factories to China because it needed 30,000 engineers.
True
By Bill Adair • November 23, 2011
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on October 20, 2011 in speaking at New Hampshire’s Plymouth State University:
"The median income of a middle class family went down $2,100 from 2001 to 2007."
True
By Maryalice Gill • November 18, 2011
Ron Paul
Ron Paul
stated on November 12, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Spartanburg, S.C.:
"Torture is illegal by our laws. It's illegal by international laws."
True
By Louis Jacobson • November 15, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on October 28, 2011 in a web advertisement:
Says Mitt Romney flip-flopped on abortion.
True
By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas:
"When we got the income tax in 1913, the top rate was 7 percent. By 1980, the top rate was 70 percent."
True
By Louis Jacobson • October 19, 2011
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 18, 2011 in a Republican presidential debate in Hanover, N.H.:
"The people in Massachusetts like (the state health care plan) by about a 3-1 margin."
True
By Louis Jacobson • October 19, 2011
Previous Next