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Ted Cruz
stated on October 14, 2015 an interview on Fox News:

The "Democratic Party is getting smaller and smaller and smaller."

Mostly False

By Emma Hinchliffe • November 15, 2015

Courageous Conservatives PAC
stated on November 6, 2015 a video ad posted online:

"After Sandy Hook, Ted Cruz stopped Obama’s push for new gun control laws."

Mostly False

By W. Gardner Selby • November 13, 2015

Greg Abbott
stated on October 28, 2015 a tweet:

"Texas #2 in nation for new gun purchases, behind California."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • November 6, 2015

Greenville Gazette
stated on February 1, 2015 an article:

Texas legislation "would allow… teachers to kill their students if they felt it was needed."

Half-True

By Andy East • November 6, 2015

Facebook posts
stated on August 6, 2015 a Snopes.com tweet recapping a Facebook post:

A Texas police department bought an ad telling drug dealers, "We can take your competition off the streets for FREE."

True

By W. Gardner Selby • October 30, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on October 26, 2015 a Houston press conference:

My campaign "finished the last quarter reporting the most cash on hand of any Republican in the field … $13.8 million in the bank, $3.5 million more than the Jeb Bush campaign."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • October 30, 2015

Dan Patrick
stated on October 19, 2015 an interview with Neil Cavuto of Fox News:

Planned Parenthood is "nothing more than a referral service. … They don’t do anything except profit from killing babies and then selling body parts of those aborted babies."

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • October 22, 2015

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 15, 2015 a speech in San Antonio:

"We lose an average of 90 Americans every day because of guns."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • October 21, 2015

Bill O'Reilly
stated on October 7, 2015 a commentary:

From 2014 to 2015, Austin’s "murder rate is up a whopping 83 percent."

Mostly False

By Philip Jankowski, W. Gardner Selby • October 16, 2015

Jason Villalba
stated on October 13, 2015 a tweet:

"Bernie Sanders admits he is a Democratic Socialist. … Nazis were Democratic Socialists."

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • October 16, 2015

Bee Moorhead
stated on September 29, 2015 an oped article in the Austin American-Statesman:

Texas has "outstripped the national poverty rate" since "at least 1959."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • October 12, 2015

Dan Patrick
stated on September 3, 2015 an interview by David Brown, host of the Texas Standard:

"100 percent of the crime is committed, in estimate, by about 15 percent of the population."

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • October 6, 2015

Jeremy Bird
stated on October 2, 2015 a tweet after the shootings at an Oregon community college:

"90% of Americans want national background checks that close loopholes."

True

By W. Gardner Selby • October 5, 2015

Michael McCaul
stated on September 12, 2015 the Republican weekly radio/TV address:

Iran’s "regime is responsible for more than 1,000 American casualties during the Iraq war" and "has plotted a terrorist attack here in our nation's capital."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • October 5, 2015

Ora Houston
stated on September 8, 2015 an Austin City Council meeting about the city budget:

"HIV/AIDS among women is skyrocketing in Austin."

False

By Mary Ann Roser • October 2, 2015

Glenn Hegar
stated on September 10, 2015 a speech in Georgetown, Texas:

"We have 650 people who move to Texas every day."

True

By W. Gardner Selby • October 1, 2015

Don Zimmerman
stated on September 1, 2015 an Austin City Council meeting:

Salaries of Austin residents who don't work for city government "have not been going up 3 percent a year for the last several years."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • September 25, 2015

Ted Cruz
stated on September 1, 2015 a speech to the Greater Houston Partnership:

The Iran deal "trusts the Iranians to inspect themselves."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • September 18, 2015

Greg Abbott
stated on August 25, 2015 a tweet:

"After Texas defunded Planned Parenthood, both the unintended pregnancy and abortion rates dropped."

Mostly False

By W. Gardner Selby • September 13, 2015

Lloyd Doggett
stated on September 3, 2015 remarks in San Antonio:

As many as six federal department budget bills have been delayed because of opposition to amendments that would ban Confederate battle flag sales at federal building gift shops.

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • September 11, 2015

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