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Bloggers stated on November 22, 2018 in a blog post:

"United Nations caught helping and coaching caravan illegal aliens!"

By Miriam Valverde• December 13, 2018

Facebook posts stated on August 30, 2023 in a Facebook post:

A new Florida law says “a father must submit a DNA test before signing the birth certificates.”

By Samantha Putterman• September 6, 2023

West Virginians For Health Freedom stated on August 29, 2025 in a billboard in Morgantown, W.Va.:

“Vaccine makers are exempt from all liability for vaccine injury and death.”

By Natalie Ribar• October 15, 2025

X posts stated on October 26, 2025 in a post on X:

Video shows Hurricane Melissa hitting Jamaica on Oct. 26, 2025.

By Maria Briceño• October 27, 2025

Brian Tyler Cohen stated on May 03, 2023 in a Facebook post:

House Speaker “Kevin McCarthy has quietly implemented a pay raise for members (of Congress) that could be $30,000+ per person. It circumvents the Constitution by instead reimbursing their rent, utilities, & meals.”

By Louis Jacobson• May 11, 2023

Ted Cruz stated on October 19, 2025 in an X post:

Democrats are “dishonestly sending around a video from 2017” claiming it was an Oct. 18 ‘No Kings’ rally in Boston.

By Louis Jacobson, Loreben Tuquero• October 20, 2025

Barack Obama, briefly in Austin, has kept 45 percent of his campaign promises, Obameter indicates

By W. Gardner Selby• March 11, 2016

Ted Cruz and the Truth-O-Meter Already Hot

By W. Gardner Selby• March 22, 2015

Federal spending on old and young, by the numbers

By Louis Jacobson• January 28, 2013

Ted Cruz's first fact checks as presidential hopeful

By W. Gardner Selby• March 27, 2015

Ted Cruz photos by Associated Press included several of gun seemingly pointed at him

By W. Gardner Selby• June 22, 2015