Latest Fact Checks By W. Gardner Selby

Roman McAllen correct that Texas Railroad Commission has nothing to do with railroads

By W. Gardner Selby

July 19, 2018

"The Railroad Commission of Texas has nothing to do with railroads."

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Greg Abbott says Houston is home to more brothels than Starbucks stores

By W. Gardner Selby

July 13, 2018

"In Houston, Texas, there are more brothels than there are Starbucks."

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Kendall Scudder says Bob Hall hasn’t passed a bill into law

By W. Gardner Selby

July 12, 2018

"Bob Hall never successfully passed a bill." 

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Jim Spencer: May 2018 marked 401st month of global temperature exceeding 20th-century average

By W. Gardner Selby

June 20, 2018

Says May 2018 marked the 401st straight month of global temperatures exceeding the 20th century average.

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Ted Cruz says child-parent separations at border tied to a court order

By W. Gardner Selby

June 18, 2018

"There’s actually a court order that prevents keeping the kids with the parents when you put the parents in jail."  

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Tweeted photo inaccurately indicates boy ‘caged’ by federal government

By W. Gardner Selby

June 15, 2018

Say a boy was 'caged' in a wire enclosure.

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Lupe Valdez says 1 in 4 Texas clinics closed after lawmakers cut family planning aid

By W. Gardner Selby

June 14, 2018

"After Texas cut" its "two-year family planning budget by $73 million, one in four clinics closed their doors."

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Most Austin city parks lack recycling though donations funded bins in biggest parks

By W. Gardner Selby

June 8, 2018

Says most of Austin’s biggest parks have recycling though as "many as 293 out of 300" Austin city "parks have no recycling, including almost every…

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Donald Trump says people went out on their boats to watch Hurricane Harvey

By W. Gardner Selby

June 7, 2018

Says that people "went out in their boats to watch" Hurricane Harvey.

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Justin Nelson tags Ken Paxton, Texas attorney general, as nation’s sole indicted statewide official

By W. Gardner Selby

June 7, 2018

Says "our indicted Attorney General Ken Paxton is back to being the only statewide official in the country under indictment."  

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Lupe Valdez says 1 in 6 Texans ‘don’t have health care’ and Texas is the most uninsured state

By W. Gardner Selby

May 31, 2018

"One in six Texans don’t have health care. We’re the most uninsured state in the U.S."

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Greg Casar says Austin ‘ranked repeatedly’ high for economic segregation–even No. 1 nationally

By W. Gardner Selby

May 31, 2018

Says Austin has "been ranked repeatedly as one of the most, if not the most, economically segregated cities in the country."

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