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Julián Castro stated on March 08, 2016 in Hillary Clinton campaign news release:
"Bernie Sanders voted with Republicans to protect the Minutemen, a hate group that used military tactics against our community."
By Filipa Ioannou• April 30, 2016
TikTok posts stated on March 23, 2025 in a video:
Screenshots show Speaker Mike Johnson messaging on Grindr.
By Grace Abels• April 1, 2025
Brandon Creighton stated on May 07, 2019 in the Texas Senate:
"Texas actually leads in the number of (Confederate) monuments removed."
By Madlin Mekelburg• May 10, 2019
Dennis Prager stated on May 18, 2017 in an appearance on CNN:
"It was a 100 percent lie that (Donald Trump’s) election unleashed anti-Semitism. … Hundreds of Jewish community centers had bomb threats called in. To the best of our knowledge to this day, 90 percent of them were called in by an American Jewish kid living in Israel, and the other 10 percent were a black radical who was trying to impress his girlfriend."
By Louis Jacobson• May 22, 2017
Ron DeSantis stated on March 13, 2021 in in an interview on Fox News:
"When I became governor, we banned sanctuary cities and we also did E-Verify."
By Amy Sherman• March 19, 2021
Raphael Warnock stated on December 06, 2020 in a debate:
Says Kelly Loeffler “welcomed the support of a QAnon conspiracy theorist, and she sat down with a white supremacist for an interview.”
By Tom Kertscher• December 9, 2020
Kelly Loeffler stated on December 06, 2022 in a tweet:
On the day of the Dec. 6 runoff, “armed groups of Black Panthers” were “reportedly patrolling certain voting locations” in Georgia.
By Gabrielle Settles, Amy Sherman• December 8, 2022
Pam Stewart stated on August 19, 2013 in a letter to the editor in the "Miami Herald":
Florida’s "high school graduation rates continue to increase at the fastest rate in the nation, with Florida leading the nation in the rate of Hispanic graduates."
By Amy Sherman• August 23, 2013
Donald Trump stated on January 13, 2026 in a speech in Detroit:
"If we stop this fraud, this massive fraud, we're going to have a balanced budget."
By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• January 13, 2026
Pam Bondi stated on July 31, 2010 in a Bay News 9/CFN 13 debate.:
Mortgage fraud is "up 400 percent in the last five years."
By Aaron Sharockman• August 2, 2010
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
David Perdue stated on November 01, 2017 in a tweet:
The diversity visa lottery is "plagued by fraud."
By Miriam Valverde• November 6, 2017
Holly Benson stated on July 31, 2010 in a candidates' debate:
"Florida is now the No. 1 state in the country for automobile accident fraud."
By Lukas Pleva• August 5, 2010
Peter Roskam stated on June 12, 2013 in an interview with Fox News:
"Worldwide credit card transactions, the credit card fraud rate is 0.04 percent, compared to almost 8 percent, 9 percent, 10 percent of Medicare fraud."
By Jon Greenberg• June 17, 2013
Tom Coburn stated on August 24, 2009 in Fox News Channel's On the Record With Greta Van Susteren:
"Medicare has at least $80 billion worth of fraud a year. That's a full 20 percent of every dollar that's spent on Medicare goes to fraud."
By Louis Jacobson• August 27, 2009
Chip Roy stated on July 29, 2021 in a hearing:
A quorum-breaking Texas Democrat said in 2007 that mail-in ballot fraud “is the greatest source of voter fraud in this state.”
By Brandon Mulder• August 6, 2021
Cory Booker stated on August 09, 2015 in an interview on ABC's "This Week.":
"You’re more likely to get struck by lightning in Texas" than find in-person voter fraud.
By Christian Belanger• August 18, 2015
Alex Sink stated on March 04, 2010 in an interview with interview with the St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald.:
"Nobody has been talking about it (Medicaid fraud), focused on it, or paying attention to it."
By Aaron Sharockman• March 6, 2010
Roy Cooper stated on March 26, 2021 in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper:
“People don’t pretend to be someone else to go in and vote. You just don’t see that kind of fraud.”
By Paul Specht• April 5, 2021
Eddie Bernice Johnson stated on August 08, 2013 in an opinion column in Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
"Studies have shown that voter fraud is non-existent in Texas."
By Sue Owen• September 13, 2013

Articles (630)

Is the Center for Immigration Studies a hate group, as the Southern Poverty Law Center says?

By Amy Sherman• March 22, 2017

Did Mike Johnson work for a hate group? SPLC and Christian law firm have sparred over label

By Grace Abels• October 27, 2023

12 fact-checks from Donald Trump's all-women Fox News town hall

By Matthew Crowley, Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman, Amy Sherman• October 16, 2024

Fact-checking Julián Castro’s claim that asylum ‘metering’ caused drowning of father, daughter

By Amy Sherman, Miriam Valverde• June 27, 2019

Are there white nationalists in the White House?

By Louis Jacobson• August 15, 2017

Elon Musk claims ‘massive' Social Security fraud. How much money is actually lost to fraud, waste?

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• March 12, 2025

Trump, Musk claim government 'fraud' without showing proof. How common is federal fraud, abuse?

By Claire Cranford, Amy Sherman• February 13, 2025

Rick Scott and the fraud case of Columbia/HCA

By Aaron Sharockman• June 11, 2010

Greg Abbott's Pants on Fire voter fraud claim sparked our No. 8 fact check

By W. Gardner Selby• December 27, 2016

Still Burning: Trump’s claim of ‘serious voter fraud’ in Calif. remains Pants On Fire

By Chris Nichols• January 27, 2017

Donald Trump and Rick Scott allege fraud in Broward, Palm Beach vote counting without any evidence

By Amy Sherman, Manuela Tobias• November 13, 2018

McConnell falsely suggests GOP forecast the type of election fraud found in NC

By Matthew Riley, Paul Specht• March 7, 2019

Much has changed since Jimmy Carter’s report on fraud in mail voting

By Amy Sherman• September 22, 2021

Trump’s own advisers add to evidence that election wasn’t stolen

By Amy Sherman• June 10, 2022

Trump and his allies lack evidence for claim about 'rigged' California recall

By Amy Sherman• September 13, 2021

The facts of a fair US election have only gotten stronger since Capitol attack

By Amy Sherman• January 6, 2022

Abbott touts 50 election fraud convictions; we subtract 29

By W. Gardner Selby• April 17, 2012

Trump said ‘cheating’ was happening in Pennsylvania. Then he won. Now what?

By Amy Sherman, Sara Swann• November 7, 2024

Timeline: Donald Trump pressures Justice Department on his election fraud claims

By Ellie Borst, Jon Greenberg• June 24, 2022

Elon Musk’s chart doesn’t prove millions of centenarians fraudulently get Social Security benefits

By Madison Czopek, Amy Sherman• February 21, 2025