Our most-read fact check of the year is pretty much Bob Cole's fault. (That's a hint.)
But other fact checks -- including our finding False Sen. Ted Cruz's claim about Christians getting nailed to trees -- also drew lots of reader interest in 2014.
Our countdown of the year's Top 10 most-read fact checks starts with our recap of a Facebook claim about marijuana.
Pete Gallego of Texas slipped this into his farewell remarks on the House floor: "This Congress made history as the least productive, most unpopular Congress in the history of this proud nation."
Ever ever ever?
Steve Adler, set to be sworn in as Austin's mayor in January, already has a record on the Texas Truth-O-Meter.
See Austin Mayor-elect Steve Adler's PolitiFact report card.
If you vote in Austin, you (should) know about 10-1; the soon-to-be reconfigured Austin City Council will have 10 members elected from individual districts plus the mayor elected citywide. Runoff elections are Tuesday.
We ended up doing more than 10 city-related fact checks. Here's a snapshot.
See every fact check related to Austin city government here.
No Texan made it into the nominees for PolitiFact's lie of the year. You can vote anyway.
Vote now in PolitiFact Readers' Poll for the 2014 Lie of the Year.
Texas Gov.-elect Greg Abbott figured into two of our most-read fact checks in November. But a 9/11 story won the month, per online reader views. More ahead or below.
The Texas Cinco:
* "Greg Abbott says he has sued Obama administration 25 times"
* "Roger Williams: Obama policies contributed to raising gas prices from $1.89 in 2009 to $3.51 today"
* "In Context: Laura Pressley’s ‘something was planted’ in World Trade Center"
Jason Stanford was hardly the only person to say Texas had the nation’s worst voter turnout this November.
But when he made his declaration, we noticed--and checked.
Paul Brown of TWC News asked us if Barack Obama was accurate about his position not changing on whether he alone can change immigration policies.
* False: "My position hasn’t changed" on using executive authority to address immigration issues.
Ever get behind on mail? We sure did.
Open the mailbag, Arthur.
John Cornyn and Greg Abbott were among the Republicans who won every race for statewide office again -- the kind of sweep that Texas voters have touched off every year since 1996.
We've got work ahead. Not all the winners have extensive Truth-O-Meter report cards.
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We figure we've done around 200 fact checks of Texas candidates and political figures leading into November’s balloting.
Ready to gorge?