Statements we say are True

Cynthia Meyer

"More black babies are aborted in NYC than born."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, November 25th, 2015

Pete Gallego

Will Hurd "tends to have a 96 percent straight Republican, straight party voting record."

— PolitiFact Texas on Sunday, November 15th, 2015

Facebook posts

A Texas police department bought an ad telling drug dealers, "We can take your competition off the streets for FREE."  

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, October 30th, 2015

Jeremy Bird

"90% of Americans want national background checks that close loopholes."

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, October 5th, 2015

Glenn Hegar

"We have 650 people who move to Texas every day."

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, October 1st, 2015

Joe Pojman

"The State of Texas is funding … women’s health services at historically high levels; they just increased their level another $50 million for the next two years."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, September 4th, 2015

Sid Miller

"To vote in Mexico every eligible Mexican citizen has to have a tamper-proof photo-ID card with a thumbprint and an embossed hologram."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, August 26th, 2015

Julián Castro

"Less than half of the poorest American households have a home Internet subscription."

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, August 20th, 2015

Ron Paul

"Jasper County in Texas raised property taxes by 7 percent in order to pay for one death penalty case."

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, July 9th, 2015

Hillary Clinton

"If you want to vote in" Texas, "you can use a concealed-weapon permit as a valid form of identification, but a valid student ID isn’t good enough."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, June 26th, 2015

Rick Perry

"One out of five of our children live in a family that’s on food stamps."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015

Texas Organizing Project

"The unemployment rate among blacks in Texas is 9.5% -- far more than double white unemployment -- and wages have fallen for black workers in Texas since 2000."

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, April 23rd, 2015

Jerry Falwell

Ted Cruz was "the longest-serving solicitor general in the history of Texas."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, March 25th, 2015

Greg Abbott

"Already this calendar year, since January 1, we have had more than 20,000 people come across the border, apprehended, unauthorized."

— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015

Lloyd Doggett

The Department of Homeland Security is "the only federal department not funded for this entire fiscal year" by Congress.

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, February 18th, 2015

Rick Perry

"I belong to the AFL-CIO."  

— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, January 13th, 2015

Kevin Brady

"Texas families have kept more than $10 billion in their family budgets since we successfully fought to restore Texas' sales tax deduction a decade ago."

— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014

Greg Abbott

"My wife is going to be the first Hispanic first lady in the history of Texas."

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, December 22nd, 2014

Progress for Austin PAC

"Mike Martinez cut a deal with prosecutors to avoid facing possible jail time and stuck us with his $24,657.50 legal bill."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, December 10th, 2014

Greg Abbott

A lawyer demanded "several Houston pastors hand over to the city government many of their private papers, including their sermons."

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, October 23rd, 2014