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
Henry Cuellar
Henry Cuellar
stated on February 22, 2019 a press conference:
Says President Donald Trump "put out a $297 million contract to a vendor to show him how to hire Border Patrol. So, the first payment they made was $14.8 million. You know how many Border Patrol they hired with $14.8 million? Two."
Mostly True
By Miriam Valverde • March 1, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 25, 2019 a tweet:
"The Democrat(ic) position on abortion is now so extreme that they don’t mind executing babies AFTER birth."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 28, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 25, 2019 a CNN town hall event:
"We have a president who wanted to throw 32 million people off of the health care they had."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 28, 2019
American Civil Liberties Union
American Civil Liberties Union
stated on December 22, 2018 a Facebook post:
"Half the states in the U.S. have laws that criminalize criticism."
Mostly False
By Yanqi Xu • February 27, 2019
Tulsi Gabbard
Tulsi Gabbard
stated on February 19, 2019 a tweet:
Farmers are declaring bankruptcy "in record numbers" and "the median income for U.S. farm households was -$1,548 in 2018."
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • February 27, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 19, 2019 a policy announcement on Medium:
"The high cost of child care is the No. 1 reason people give for having fewer children than they’d like."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 25, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 25, 2019 a tweet:
Says former Sen. Harry Reid "got thrown out."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • February 25, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 20, 2019 a tweet:
"We have just built this powerful Wall in New Mexico. Completed on January 30, 2019 — 47 days ahead of schedule!"
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • February 25, 2019
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on February 18, 2019 a town hall:
Prescription drugs "are nearly 20 percent of our health care costs now when you include hospital prescription drugs."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • February 22, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on February 15, 2019 a tweet:
"Since the passage of (the Violence Against Women Act), annual rates of domestic violence have dropped by 63 percent."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 22, 2019
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on February 19, 2019 an interview on CBS This Morning:
"In Canada, for a number of decades, they have provided quality care to all people without out-of-pocket expenses. You go in for cancer therapy, you don't take out your wallet."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 22, 2019
Cory Gardner
Cory Gardner
stated on February 14, 2019 an interview:
Says Kamala Harris said, "We will take their (health) insurance away."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 21, 2019
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on February 18, 2019 a CNN town hall:
"Comprehensive immigration reform, the bill we had back in 2013 ... brought the debt down $158 billion."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • February 20, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 13, 2019 a speech:
"Violent crime is now going down for the first time in a long while."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • February 14, 2019
Jerrold Nadler
Jerrold Nadler
stated on February 6, 2019 a committee hearing:
"In 2011, for example, the United Kingdom had 146 deaths due to gun violence; Denmark, 71; Portugal, 142; and Japan, 30. But last year, in the United States, almost 40,000."
Mostly True
By Yanqi Xu • February 14, 2019
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren
stated on February 4, 2019 a Facebook post:
"By rubber-stamping the Bayer-Monsanto merger, the Justice Department is handing control over one quarter of the world's seeds and pesticides market to one ginormous agribusiness."  
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • February 14, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 11, 2019 a speech in El Paso, Texas:
Says that at Beto O’Rourke’s rally in El Paso, there were "200 people, 300 people."
False
By Louis Jacobson • February 12, 2019
Ilhan Omar
Ilhan Omar
stated on February 7, 2019 a congressional hearing:
"In 2017, the CEO of McDonalds got paid $21.8 million. The median pay for a McDonald's worker that year was $7,000. This is a moral outrage. We need a $15 minimum wage so that no one is paid a poverty wage."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • February 12, 2019
Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg
stated on January 31, 2019 an interview:
"I have more military experience than anybody who’s arrived behind that desk since George H.W. Bush."
True
By Tom Kertscher • February 12, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 5, 2019 State of the Union address:
"The border city of El Paso, Texas, used to have extremely high rates of violent crime — one of the highest in the country, and considered one of our nation's most dangerous cities. Now, immediately upon its building, with a powerful barrier in place, El Paso is one of the safest cities in our country."  
False
By Miriam Valverde • February 8, 2019
Previous Next