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No, Charlie Daniels never said ‘voting for Trump is like playing country music backwards.’
By Samantha Putterman June 13, 2019

Says singer Charlie Daniels said, "voting for Trump is like playing country music backwards … you get your house back, your car back, your job…

Amy Klobuchar right about state psychiatric bed shortages
By Sophie Austin June 13, 2019

"Millions of Americans need mental health care. Yet in Iowa, there are just 64 public mental health care beds. And you see similar numbers across…

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No, Nixon was never officially impeached. He resigned first
By Bill McCarthy June 13, 2019

"Richard Nixon was the last president to be impeached."

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Tab for federal benefits for the dead: $1 billion, Florida Congressman says
By Amy Sherman June 13, 2019

"It’s estimated that in 2018 alone, dead people received $1 billion in benefits from Medicare, Medicaid, social security payments, and federal pensions."

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Are migrants with diseases like Ebola being dumped in San Antonio? No
By Louis Jacobson June 12, 2019

"Disease-ridden" migrants from parts of Africa with Ebola are being "dumped in San Antonio."  

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Zuckerberg video about ‘billions of people’s stolen data’ is a deepfake
By Samantha Putterman June 12, 2019

A video of Mark Zuckerberg shows him talking about controlling "billions of people’s stolen data" to control the future.  

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No, photo of woman being ‘beaten and arrested’ by police was not Susan B. Anthony
By Samantha Putterman June 12, 2019

Says a viral photo shows Susan B. Anthony being "beaten and arrested for trying to vote" in 1872.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s claim is high: There aren’t 500 gun deaths per day in the US, it’s closer to 100
June 12, 2019

"Every day on average 500 people die from gun violence."  

Has vaping ‘wiped out’ progress on reducing youth smoking, as Tim Kaine says?
By Warren Fiske June 12, 2019

"The e-cigarette vaping phenomenon has wiped out all the progress we’ve made on reducing youth smoking."

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Did people lie about the maternal mortality rate in Texas, as Abbott said?
By Madlin Mekelburg June 11, 2019

"Turns out the critics of the Texas maternal mortality rate were just lying. It’s less than half of what the critics said. It’s about 1/10…

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State lawmaker goes too far out to pasture with large-scale farm manure claim
By Mica Soellner June 11, 2019

Republicans on the budget-writing committee "did nothing" to address oversight of large-scale farms, "as literal manure is coming out of people’s faucets. 

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Bernie Sanders oversimplifies record on Hyde Amendment
By Louis Jacobson June 11, 2019

"I have consistently voted against the Hyde Amendment."

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