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
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 22, 2015 in a House hearing on Benghazi:
Says John Kerry "is the first secretary of state to rely primarily on a government account."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 23, 2015
Chris Koster
Chris Koster
stated on August 20, 2015 in comments at the Missouri State Fair as quoted by the Columbia Daily Tribune:
"Since 2001, higher education in the state has been cut or allowed to erode ... by 35 or 40 percent."    
Mostly True
By Adam Aton • October 23, 2015
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on October 7, 2015 in an interview:
Some 8.1 million of the estimated 11 million to 12 million people "in this country illegally are working."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • October 23, 2015
Martin O'Malley
Martin O'Malley
stated on October 19, 2015 in comments on the Daily Show:
Says Hillary Clinton "couldn't bring herself to say we need to separate commercial banking and speculative banking, namely reinstating Glass-Steagall."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • October 22, 2015
Chris Danou
Chris Danou
stated on October 20, 2015 in remarks in Assembly debate:
A Republican bill that would change John Doe criminal investigations is "creating exceptions in the law for politicians."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • October 22, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 15, 2015 in 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
Elton John
Elton John
stated on October 13, 2015 in CNN:
HIV/AIDS is "dramatically on the rise in the U.S. South."
Mostly True
By Nancy Badertscher • October 19, 2015
American Petroleum Institute
American Petroleum Institute
stated on August 27, 2015 in a blog post:
"The oil and natural gas industry provides or supports 141,600 jobs in Georgia."
Mostly True
By April Hunt • October 16, 2015
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on October 13, 2015 in a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas:
"Fifteen out of the 20 most polluted cities in the world" are in India and China.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 15, 2015
Lincoln Chafee
Lincoln Chafee
stated on October 13, 2015 in presidential debate:
"I am very proud that over my almost 30 years of public service I have had no scandals."
Mostly True
By Mark Reynolds • October 15, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 14, 2015 in the CNN Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas:
"Every other major country" has family paid leave.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • October 14, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 13, 2015 in the first Democratic debate:
"Today in America, we have more people in jail than any other country on Earth."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 14, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 5, 2015 in on NBC's Today Show:
"There have been seven investigations (of Benghazi) led mostly by Republicans in the Congress" that concluded "nobody did anything wrong, but there were changes we could make."
Mostly True
By Clayton Youngman • October 12, 2015
Bee Moorhead
Bee Moorhead
stated on September 29, 2015 in 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
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
stated on October 11, 2015 in comments on "State of the Union":
"When we had a conservative Republican president we were losing 750,000 jobs a month."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • October 11, 2015
League of Conservation Voters
League of Conservation Voters
stated on September 1, 2015 in a television ad:
Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson "led the fight to let polluters release unlimited amounts of carbon pollution and took nearly $225,000 from polluters."
Mostly True
By James B. Nelson • October 9, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on October 5, 2015 in her gun policy platform.:
"While 38 percent of (firearms) dealers that were inspected in 2011 were noncompliant with federal law, only 0.05 percent of inspected dealers had their licenses revoked."
Mostly True
By Linda Qiu • October 8, 2015
Sean Duffy
Sean Duffy
stated on September 18, 2015 in a speech:
"Millions of dollars are spent by Planned Parenthood to elect Democrats to the House of Representatives and the Senate."  
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • October 8, 2015
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on September 25, 2015 in comments to reporters:
A state agency wanted to fire an employee who spent four hours per day watching pornography, but the state "employment commission reinstated the person."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • October 7, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 2, 2015 in a press conference:
Today, the deficit is "below the average deficits over the past 40 years."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 6, 2015
Previous Next