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Steny Hoyer stated on February 12, 2013 in a media availability with reporters:

"The majority of (the American people) voted for a Democratic House."

By Katie Sanders • February 19, 2013

NAACP stated on September 12, 2012 in press release:

"Since 2000, only 10 cases of in-person voter fraud have been proven nationally."

By Janel Davis • September 19, 2012

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated on March 4, 2025 in a Fox Nation interview:

“A lot of studies” show that getting measles "boosts your immune system later in life against cancers, atopic diseases, cardiac disease."

By Jeff Cercone • March 19, 2025

Facebook posts stated on March 29, 2024 in a Facebook post:

CERN’s activation of its Large Hadron Collider is connected to the April 8 eclipse.

By Loreben Tuquero • April 5, 2024

Instagram posts stated on January 15, 2024 in a post:

Women "store DNA" from all their male sexual partners.

By Grace Abels • January 17, 2024

Instagram posts stated on October 16, 2022 in Instagram post:

“Millions” of people from International Monetary Fund member countries are at risk of being placed in “COVID camps.”

By Michael Majchrowicz • October 21, 2022

Gary Palmer stated on September 13, 2021 in remarks during a House hearing:

“As a result of the massive decline in natural gas prices, we’re saving 11,000 lives per year in the U.S.”

By Jon Greenberg • September 23, 2021

Facebook posts stated on May 19, 2021 in a video on Facebook:

COVID-19 vaccines are creating the coronavirus variants.

By Samantha Putterman • May 28, 2021

Sidney Powell stated on November 8, 2020 in an interview with Fox News:

“At least 450,000 ballots in the key states ... miraculously only have a mark for Joe Biden on them, and no other candidate."

By Samantha Putterman • November 20, 2020

Facebook posts stated on July 9, 2020 in on social media:

Say that according to the Los Angeles Times, “95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens,” more than two-thirds of all births in Los Angeles County “are to illegal alien Mexicans” on Medicaid, “nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal,” and Nancy Pelosi “wants to put a windfall tax” on retirement fund profits.

By Louis Jacobson • July 29, 2020

Kevin McCarthy stated on June 3, 2018 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":

"If you are talking about Canada .. our wine cannot sit on their supermarkets."

By Louis Jacobson • June 6, 2018

Donald Trump stated on April 5, 2018 in a speech in West Virginia:

"In many places, like California, the same person votes many times. You probably heard about that. They always like to say 'oh that's a conspiracy theory.' Not a conspiracy theory, folks. Millions and millions of people."

By Amy Sherman • April 6, 2018

Michael McCaul stated on March 26, 2018 in an interview on Capital Tonight on Spectrum News:

"1 in 100 people are sociopaths."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 30, 2018

Ohio Taxpayers for Lower Drug Prices stated on August 29, 2017 in a campaign video:

An Ohio ballot issue would address the fact that "we’ve gone from paying about $100 for Epipens to over $600 ... We don’t have a choice but to pay it and the drug companies know it."

By Manuela Tobias • October 13, 2017

Hillary Clinton stated on October 9, 2017 in a speech at the University of California at Davis:

"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."

By Chris Nichols • October 10, 2017

Paul Ryan stated on September 1, 2017 in an interview:

"We've got about $3 trillion in trapped cash overseas that basically can't come back in this country because of our tax laws."

By Tom Kertscher • September 15, 2017

Jill Stein stated on October 17, 2016 in a forum at Huston-Tillotson University:

Says climate scientist James Hansen says "we have until perhaps 50 years from now," or maybe a little longer "and at that point, we are looking at 10, 20, 30 feet of sea-level rise."

By Dylan Baddour • November 23, 2016

Bernie Sanders stated on July 25, 2016 in remarks at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia:

"The top one-tenth of 1 percent now owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent."

By Lauren Carroll, Tom Kertscher • July 26, 2016

Hugh Hewitt stated on July 20, 2016 in an MSNBC panel:

"A million Democrats deserted (Howard Dean’s) party and joined my party because of Donald Trump in Ohio this year."

By Nadia Pflaum • July 21, 2016

Hillary Clinton stated on June 13, 2016 in a speech after a terrorist attack in Orlando:

"Hate crimes against American Muslims and mosques have tripled after Paris and San Bernardino."

By Louis Jacobson • June 14, 2016

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