Latest Fact-Checks In Texas

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Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 21, 2021 a Facebook post
“Texas has launched ‘Operation Lone Star’ to finish the border wall themselves.”
False
March 23, 2021
Dan Crenshaw
Dan Crenshaw
stated on February 16, 2021 a tweet
“Subsidizing investment in wind has pushed gas and nuclear out. Now we live with the consequences.”
False
By Brandon Mulder • February 26, 2021
Lara Logan
Lara Logan
stated on February 19, 2021 a TV segment
"The reality" in Texas is that "you’re flying helicopters, using fossil fuels, to put oil on wind turbines to defrost them.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • February 24, 2021
Students for Trump
Students for Trump
stated on February 16, 2021 a Tweet
“Joe Biden is handing our power grid to the Chinese Communist Party.”
False
February 23, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 18, 2021 a Facebook post
Says Joe Biden didn’t act in response to the emergency in Texas.
False
By Samantha Putterman • February 19, 2021
Viral image
Viral image
stated on February 19, 2021 a Facebook post
Says Ted Cruz tweeted, “I’ll believe in climate change when Texas freezes over.”
False
February 19, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 17, 2021 a Facebook post
Photo shows an ice mass hanging inside a Houston home during Texas winter storms.
False
February 19, 2021
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 16, 2021 an interview
"Our wind and our solar got shut down ... and that thrust Texas into this situation where it was lacking power at a statewide basis.”
False
By Brandon Mulder • February 19, 2021
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 17, 2021 a Facebook post
“FEMA is paying for hotel rooms!!!” for Texas winter storm victims.
False
February 19, 2021
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on January 24, 2021 a tweet
“Innocent lives will be saved” by ending taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.
False
By Brandon Mulder • February 12, 2021
John Kerry
John Kerry
stated on January 31, 2021 in an interview
Says that Hurricane Harvey “dropped more water on Houston in five days than goes over Niagara Falls in a year.”
False
By Brandon Mulder • February 5, 2021
Royce West
Royce West
stated on November 23, 2020 a committee meeting
Says that this year is the first time during his 27 years as senator “that two African Americans have ever served on the same (Senate) committee.”
False
By Brandon Mulder • December 11, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 8, 2020 a Facebook post
The Supreme Court “has decided to take up the Texas case.”
False
December 9, 2020
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on November 19, 2020 a press conference
Says that shutdowns are “ineffective” and that we now know that COVID-19 is not commonly spread “by someone going to work.”
False
By Brandon Mulder • November 27, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on November 15, 2020 a Facebook post
“Biden campaign director arrested for electoral fraud.”
False
November 17, 2020
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on November 5, 2020 a Fox News interview
Philadelphia is “clouding the vote counting in a shroud of darkness.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • November 6, 2020
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 26, 2020 an interview
Says Trump “didn’t campaign on cutting the debt” … “That’s not what he promised to do.”
False
By Brandon Mulder • October 30, 2020
Sri Preston Kulkarni
Sri Preston Kulkarni
stated on October 23, 2020 an ad
Says Troy Nehls “called wearing masks 'un-American' and called those who do 'communists.'"
False
October 27, 2020
Roger Williams
Roger Williams
stated on October 18, 2020 a tweet
Says Texas has “lower taxes and less regulations than anywhere else in the U.S.”
False
By Brandon Mulder • October 23, 2020
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on October 14, 2020 a tweet
Says Democratic senators were missing “masks” as they huddled close together at the Judiciary Committee hearing for Amy Coney Barrett.
False
By Samantha Putterman • October 14, 2020
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