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Latest Fact-Checks In Texas

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Crystal Peoples-Stokes
Crystal Peoples-Stokes
stated on March 29, 2022 a news release
“Cities in notoriously ‘tough on crime’ states like Texas and Florida saw a more significant increase in violent crime than cities in NYS.”
Half-True
By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 16, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 4, 2022 a post
Schools are putting litter boxes in bathrooms to accommodate kids who identify as furries.
Pants on Fire!
By Monique Curet • April 8, 2022
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on February 3, 2022 a press conference
"As compared to last year, Texas has about 15% more power generation capacity."
Mostly True
By Nusaiba Mizan • April 4, 2022
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on March 22, 2022 a Senate judiciary committee hearing
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson called former President George W. Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as “war criminals in a legal filing.”
Half-True
By Madison Czopek • March 24, 2022
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Charlie Kirk Show
stated on March 13, 2022 a video
"Beto O'Rourke's Plan to Take 'Trans' Children from Parents."
False
By Monique Curet • March 16, 2022
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on February 16, 2022 a committee meeting
"In 2020, more journalists were killed in Mexico than in any other country in the world."
True
By Nusaiba Mizan • February 28, 2022
Don Huffines
Don Huffines
stated on February 12, 2022 an ad
“Under Greg Abbott’s leadership, Texas is putting taxpayer dollars into Chinese companies.”
Mostly False
February 24, 2022
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on February 14, 2022 a tweet
"100,000 Americans died of an overdose in a single year."
True
By Nusaiba Mizan • February 21, 2022
Chip Roy
Chip Roy
stated on February 1, 2022 a tweet
Pfizer is "literally using the force of government and the culture of fear to jab children under 5 — with zero basis in science — to make billions of dollars."
Pants on Fire!
By Nusaiba Mizan • February 15, 2022
X posts
X posts
stated on February 1, 2022 a post
"Books banned in Texas include 1984, Maus, and The Handmaid's Tale, but not Mein Kampf."
False
By Nusaiba Mizan • February 14, 2022
Troy Nehls
Troy Nehls
stated on February 9, 2022 an ad
"In Joe Biden’s America, your children are more likely to have access to a crack pipe than a mask-free education."
Pants on Fire!
February 10, 2022
Greg Casar
Greg Casar
stated on February 8, 2022 an ad
“Greg Casar passed paid sick leave."
Half-True
February 10, 2022
Mauro Garza
Mauro Garza
stated on January 24, 2022 an ad
“They call” Jan. 6 “an insurrection,” but “were FBI agents used as political agitators?"
False
February 7, 2022
Stacey Abrams
Stacey Abrams
stated on January 31, 2022 an interview on CNN
“In Texas, because of the laws they passed, a 95-year-old World War II veteran is being denied the right to vote by mail because he can't produce a registration number he got back in the 1950s.”
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • February 3, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 2, 2022 a Facebook post
A photo shows a crash in Eminence, Indiana.
False
February 3, 2022
Ronny Jackson
Ronny Jackson
stated on January 16, 2022 a tweet
"In 2022, illegal immigrants will have MORE FREEDOMS and easier access to healthcare and ballot boxes than most Americans... Just think about that."
Pants on Fire!
By Nusaiba Mizan • January 31, 2022
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on November 19, 2021 a rally
"Right now, in the average Texas fourth grade classroom, 7 out of 10 kids cannot read at grade level."
Mostly True
By Nusaiba Mizan • January 28, 2022
Roger Williams
Roger Williams
stated on December 2, 2021 an email
"The number of COVID-19 deaths recorded so far in 2021 has surpassed the total for 2020."
True
By Nusaiba Mizan • January 18, 2022
Beto O'Rourke
Beto O'Rourke
stated on November 19, 2021 a rally
"Expanding Medicaid, which if we had done at the beginning of the Abbott administration, would have brought in $100 billion to this state's economy."
Mostly True
By Nusaiba Mizan • January 10, 2022
Roger Williams
Roger Williams
stated on October 28, 2021 in a speech
"U.S. households are on track to spend $19 billion more on energy by 2030."
Half-True
By Nusaiba Mizan • November 30, 2021
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