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Facebook posts
stated on April 28, 2022 in a video on Facebook:

“We have 76% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, meaning they are one paycheck away from poverty.”

By Madison Czopek • May 16, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on May 15, 2022 in a Facebook post:

“Finland joins NATO.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • May 16, 2022
Greg Abbott
stated on May 12, 2022 in a press release:

Says the Biden administration is choosing to send baby formula to the border as one of its “out-of-touch priorities.”

By Madison Czopek • May 13, 2022
Tom Tiffany
stated on February 18, 2022 in Twitter:

The Biden administration has been "recklessly releasing potentially dangerous Afghans into our communities."

By Alan Hovorka • May 13, 2022
Aaron Lieberman
stated on April 28, 2022 in an ad:

"Kari Lake has been appearing at rallies with neo-Nazis," while "two federal juries have found" Katie Hobbs "guilty of racial discrimination."

By Tom Kertscher • May 12, 2022
Dave McCormick
stated on May 4, 2022 in an ad:

Mehmet Oz is “pro-abortion.”

By Tom Kertscher • May 11, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on April 9, 2022 in a photo on Facebook:

“If you earn $100 and pay $33 income tax you’re left with $67. You then buy $67 worth of fuel and in doing so pay a 48% fuel tax (fuel tax = $32.16 + $6.70 GST). This means that the government just got $71.86 tax from your hard earned $100.”

By Sara Swann • May 6, 2022
One America News
stated on April 12, 2022 in a video:

"Pfizer tries to hide 2.4K full-time hires handling vax injuries."

By Vivian Lam • May 5, 2022
Ron DeSantis
stated on April 29, 2022 in a press conference:

“The student debt that is out there, almost 60% of it is graduate school debt.”

By Yacob Reyes • May 5, 2022
School Freedom Fund
stated on April 2, 2022 in a television ad:

Former Gov. Pat McCrory appointed liberals to the North Carolina Textbook Commission, which “mandated textbooks” pushing critical race theory.

By Paul Specht • April 26, 2022
Mike Gibbons
stated on April 7, 2022 in an ad:

"As Ohio treasurer, Josh Mandel loaned your money to Chinese business interests, and Mandel opposed a bill holding Communist China accountable when they cheated and stole American jobs."

By Tom Kertscher • April 22, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on April 12, 2022 in a post:

Fuel containing 15% ethanol will ruin a car engine.

By Monique Curet • April 18, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on April 10, 2022 in a video on Facebook:

“It’s been proven that sugar triggers and causes cancer. … So the best thing to do to prevent cancer is to avoid sugar.”

By Sara Swann • April 18, 2022
Sarah Godlewski
stated on April 1, 2022 in Twitter:

"Ron Johnson is trying to let insurance companies deny coverage to people with pre-existing conditions like cancer, depression, pregnancy, diabetes—or even COVID.”

By Madeline Heim • April 15, 2022
Rebecca Kleefisch
stated on March 28, 2022 in TV ad:

“As your Lieutenant Governor…I cut your taxes.”

By Laura Schulte • April 13, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on April 8, 2022 in a post:

As with people vaccinated against COVID-19, “many people who were NOT vaccinated also experienced zero or mild symptoms.”

By Monique Curet • April 11, 2022
David Perdue
stated on March 29, 2022 in an ad:

“A secret backroom deal" gave "away hundreds of millions of tax dollars to a Soros-owned company."

By Tom Kertscher • April 8, 2022
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
stated on March 29, 2022 in an ad:

“Senate Republicans’ plan" would "end Social Security" and "end Medicare."

By Tom Kertscher • April 6, 2022
Ron Klain
stated on April 3, 2022 in an interview on ABC's "This Week":

The economy was "dead in the water when we got here. Virtually no jobs created."

By Louis Jacobson • April 4, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on March 30, 2022 in a Facebook post:

“Democrat’s New Plan: Tax billionaires to lower the deficit by $1 TRILLION and fund clean energy independence. Republican’s New Plan: Raise taxes on households earning less than $50,000 by an ADDITIONAL $4,500 after CUTTING taxes for the rich.”

By Sara Swann • April 4, 2022
Tammy Duckworth
stated on March 15, 2022 in a tweet:

“An extra 2 whole months and 15 days. That’s how long it takes for white women to make the same amount men made in the same job last year. And it's even worse for women of color.”

By Analisa Trofimuk • April 1, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on April 29, 2022 in a post:

Germany imposes a 19% tax on feminine hygiene products but a 7% tax on books, so one company is packaging tampons as books.

By Monique Curet • March 31, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on March 28, 2022 in a post:

"Alopecia isn't a medical disease; it's an aesthetic one."

By Monique Curet • March 30, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on March 20, 2022 in a Facebook post:

“The Space Foundation has erased the honors previously bestowed on Yuri Gagarin, the first man to ever be in space. His name was stripped ‘in light of current events.’”

By Samantha Putterman • March 29, 2022
Ted Budd
stated on March 21, 2022 in a tweet:

“Pat McCrory appointed the ‘Republican’ judge who sided with Democrats in the partisan Democrat lawsuit/power-grab over redistricting.”

By Paul Specht • March 29, 2022
Sean Ryan
stated on March 3, 2022 in an op-ed:

“New York state has already lost 99% of its historic freshwater wetlands.”

By Elizabeth Egan • March 29, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on March 8, 2022 in a Facebook post:

In 1975, then-U.S. Sen. Joe Biden opposed efforts by President Gerald Ford to aid South Vietnam and evacuate refugees.

By Sara Swann • March 29, 2022
Mehmet Oz
stated on March 17, 2022 in an ad:

"David McCormick fired Pennsylvanians and bragged about shipping their jobs to Asia."

By Tom Kertscher • March 29, 2022
Ron Johnson
stated on March 18, 2022 in Twitter:

Gas prices are high “due to the Democrats’ war on fossil fuels.”

By Laura Schulte • March 29, 2022
Lars Larson
stated on March 21, 2022 in a Facebook post:

“Judge Jackson doesn’t think perverts should have to register (as sex offenders). She says it ‘stigmatizes’ THEM.”

By Yacob Reyes • March 25, 2022

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