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Latest Fact-Checks In Texas

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Brandon Gill
stated on April 7, 2026 in an X post:
“The Dignity Act is mass amnesty.”
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By Samantha Putterman • April 13, 2026
Ken Martin
stated on August 5, 2025 in a press conference:
Texas Republicans held one hearing on flood response but eight hearings on redistricting
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By Amy Sherman • August 6, 2025
Rick Scott
stated on August 28, 2024 in a post on X:
“This month alone, more than 16,000 non-citizens have been removed from the voter rolls in 3 states.”
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By Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman • August 29, 2024
Randi Weingarten
stated on September 20, 2023 in an X post:
“Texas teacher fired for reading Diary of Anne Frank to class.”
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By Jeff Cercone • September 22, 2023
Brandon Creighton
stated on March 19, 2023 in Interview with WFAA:
When discussing education savings accounts, “We would be 31st in the nation to have these policies going forward on behalf of kids.”
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By Aarón Torres • March 30, 2023
Greg Abbott
stated on February 16, 2023 in the State of the State speech:
“Businesses large and small have led Texas to be ranked the number one state for business every year that I’ve been governor.”
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By Aarón Torres • March 20, 2023
Sawyer Hackett
stated on January 16, 2023 in a tweet:
Gov. Abbott “signed a bill last year eliminating the requirements for Texas schools to teach MLK’s ‘I have a dream’ speech.”
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By Nusaiba Mizan • February 14, 2023
Chip Roy
stated on January 23, 2023 in a tweet:
“Under Biden, we have seen over 4.6 million encounters at our southern border. Most have been released into the interior and will stay here indefinitely.”
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By Maria Ramirez Uribe • February 3, 2023
Crystal Peoples-Stokes
stated on March 29, 2022 in a news release:
“Cities in notoriously ‘tough on crime’ states like Texas and Florida saw a more significant increase in violent crime than cities in NYS.”
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • April 16, 2022
John Cornyn
stated on March 22, 2022 in a Senate judiciary committee hearing:
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson called former President George W. Bush and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as “war criminals in a legal filing.”
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By Madison Czopek • March 24, 2022
Greg Casar
stated on February 8, 2022 in an ad:
“Greg Casar passed paid sick leave.”
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By Tom Kertscher • February 10, 2022
Stacey Abrams
stated on January 31, 2022 in an interview on CNN:
“In Texas, because of the laws they passed, a 95-year-old World War II veteran is being denied the right to vote by mail because he can’t produce a registration number he got back in the 1950s.”
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By Amy Sherman • February 3, 2022
Roger Williams
stated on October 28, 2021 in in a speech:
“U.S. households are on track to spend $19 billion more on energy by 2030.”
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By Nusaiba Mizan • November 30, 2021
Dan Patrick
stated on October 18, 2021 in a TV interview:
Over a million people apprehended at the border this year, “meaning probably another 2 or 3 million have come in illegally.”
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By Nusaiba Mizan • November 15, 2021
Occupy Democrats
stated on September 1, 2021 in on social media:
Texas “ranks 50th in baby wellness checks, ranks 50th in clinical care for infants, ranks 50th in uninsured women, ranks 43rd in maternal mortality, ranks 44th in school funding per child, and ranks 46th in child hunger.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • September 8, 2021
Louie Gohmert
stated on August 11, 2021 in an OAN broadcast.:
Solar panel farms cause “hundreds and thousands” of birds to “hit that magnified sun, explode in flame … (This) is going to bring the nation down.”
Half-True
By Jason Asenso • August 17, 2021
Chip Roy
stated on June 3, 2021 in an interview:
Says Austin should be putting more police on the streets. “Why are we going the other way? (Austin leaders are saying) ‘Oh, let’s reimagine police by getting rid of them.’ What do you have? You have a doubling of murder in Austin, Texas.”
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By Brandon Mulder • June 11, 2021
Veronica Escobar
stated on March 14, 2021 in an interview:
“We began seeing the increase in unaccompanied minors going back to last April 2020. This is not something that happened as a result of Joe Biden becoming president.”
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By Brandon Mulder • March 29, 2021
Gavin Newsom
stated on March 9, 2021 in a State of the State Address:
“California’s [COVID-19] death rate has remained one of the lowest per capita in the nation: 134 deaths per 100,000, compared to 158 nationally, 153 in Texas and 247 in New York.”
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By Chris Nichols • March 10, 2021
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stated on February 18, 2021 in a Facebook post:
A Texas energy company billed a customer more than $200,000.
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By Ciara O'Rourke • February 19, 2021
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