Latest Fact Checks By Chris Nichols

Pants On Fire for claim of Muslim man’s arrest in Northern California wildfires

By Chris Nichols

December 20, 2017

BREAKING: Illegal Muslim From Iran Arrested For Starting California Wildfire

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Travis Allen’s Mostly False claim on the California gas tax

By Chris Nichols

December 15, 2017

"This new gas tax does not increase (road) capacity anywhere in the state. It will build no new lanes of freeways. If Californians didn’t like…

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Pelosi’s problematic claim GOP tax plan ‘sabotages’ health care of 13 million Americans

By Chris Nichols

November 29, 2017

The GOP tax plan "Sabotages the health care of 13 MILLION Americans."

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Do Californians pay the ‘highest electricity bills’ in the nation?

By Chris Nichols

November 16, 2017

Californians pay "the highest electricity bills" in the nation.

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The False claim California has built far more prisons than colleges since 1965

By Chris Nichols

November 9, 2017

Since 1965, California has built "six (college) campuses but 23 prisons."

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Does California spend ‘nearly 5 times as much’ to build a mile of road as rest of nation?

By Chris Nichols

November 1, 2017

"It costs nearly five times as much in California to build and maintain a mile of road as it does in the rest of the…

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Do millennials have ‘only a 50-50 chance’ of doing better financially than their parents?

By Chris Nichols

October 27, 2017

"Ninety percent of people born in the 1940s ended up doing better financially than their parents. But those born in the 1980s, the much-maligned Millennials,…

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Breitbart’s False and inflammatory claim about deadly Wine Country fires

By Chris Nichols

October 20, 2017

An undocumented immigrant "was arrested on suspicion of arson in (the) Wine Country fires that have killed at least 40 residents."

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Did LA’s violent crime drop by nearly half during Villaraigosa’s time as mayor?

By Chris Nichols

October 18, 2017

"In the eight years that I was mayor, (there was a) nearly 50 percent drop in violent crime, gang crime — crime went down because…

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Hillary Clinton’s False claim on mass shootings

By Chris Nichols

October 10, 2017

"There have been more than 270 mass shootings in the United States in the last year alone. That’s where four or more are killed."

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Has Gavin Newsom ‘flip-flopped’ on California’s high-speed rail?

By Chris Nichols

September 29, 2017

California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom was "for (high-speed rail), before he’s against it, and then he’s for it again."

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Do three-quarters of Americans support the DREAM Act? Nancy Pelosi says so

By Chris Nichols

September 19, 2017

"Seventy-six percent of the American people support us passing the DREAM Act … with citizenship and legalization as part of it all. … More than…

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