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Bloggers stated on October 21, 2018 in a post on Facebook:

"Soros Letter Reveals Plot to ‘Take Down Borders’ with Migrant Caravan Invasions"

By Tessa Weinberg• November 1, 2018

X posts stated on May 15, 2024 in an X post:

Video shows Slovakia Prime Minister Fico speaking against the World Health Organization the week before he was the target of an assassination attempt.

By Loreben Tuquero• May 16, 2024

Common Cause stated on July 19, 2016 in an online video ad:

"Half of all NC legislative candidates are unopposed because of gerrymandering."

By Will Doran• August 9, 2016

Phil Berger stated on September 15, 2017 in In a press release:

North Carolina has "the strictest anti-gerrymandering standards in the entire country."

By Paul Specht• October 5, 2017

Fentrice Driskell stated on April 29, 2026 in an interview:

“Under federal law, you cannot engage in partisan gerrymandering.”

By Samantha Putterman• May 1, 2026

Bill Kristol stated on February 23, 2014 in comments on ABC's "This Week":

The Ukraine Orange Revolution in 2004 "was the first color revolution."

By Julie Kliegman• February 23, 2014

Beto O'Rourke stated on March 16, 2018 in remarks on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher":

"Texas is one of the most gerrymandered states in the union."

By Louis Jacobson• August 16, 2018

Adam Jarchow stated on July 16, 2019 in a tweet:

"Elected officials draw (legislative redistricting) maps. That’s it."

By Eric Litke• August 23, 2019

Threads posts stated on July 07, 2024 in a Threads post:

Video shows “huge green coloured meteor” on July 7, 2024, in Budapest, Hungary.

By Grace Abels• July 9, 2024

Donald Trump stated on November 06, 2025 in remarks at a dinner:

Walmart’s 2025 package of Thanksgiving dinner ingredients shows a “25% reduction in costs for Thanksgiving between (President Joe) Biden and me.”

By Louis Jacobson• November 14, 2025

Dave Hansen stated on March 05, 2017 in an interview:

Wisconsin is "the most -- if not Number 1, number 2 -- gerrymandered state in the country" for state legislative boundaries.

By Tom Kertscher• March 17, 2017

Byron Donalds stated on May 04, 2026 in an interview:

Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act because “the Democrat party at the time, especially in the South, were racially gerrymandering districts to disenfranchise Black voters.”

By Samantha Putterman• May 8, 2026

Janet Bewley stated on November 05, 2021 in News release:

“Wisconsin is almost equally divided on partisan lines” and therefore new Legislative maps could be drawn to “represent that 50-50 split.”

By Madeline Heim• November 23, 2021

Chris Larson stated on November 09, 2020 in Twitter:

“Jurisdictions representing about 80% of WI residents have passed referendums or resolutions in favor of fair maps.”

By Laura Schulte• December 21, 2020

Robin Hayes stated on January 10, 2018 in Press release:

"A ‘gerrymander’ is by definition and common understanding, a strange looking ‘monster’ drawing. This map is clearly not that."

By Paul Specht• January 10, 2018

Saundra McDowell stated on August 20, 2018 in remarks on "The Weekend Report":

If Missouri Amendment 1 passes, the auditor's office "could take one district, St. Louis here, and merge it with a district in southwest Missouri, a Republican district, and they don't even have to touch."

By Sten Spinella, Titus Wu• September 5, 2018

Lloyd Doggett stated on November 04, 2013 in a guest lecture:

"During the last election, Democrats won over a million votes more than Republicans, but because of the way districts are designed, the Republicans got 33 more members of the House of Representatives than the Democrats did."

By W. Gardner Selby• November 26, 2013

Turning Point USA stated on March 27, 2021 in a video posted on Instagram:

HR 1 “gives the federal government the power to establish their own committees” to take over the redistricting process.

By Louis Jacobson• April 2, 2021

Protect Your Vote Ohio stated on August 01, 2012 in a news release:

"Thousands of politicians from across Ohio – along with their relatives, employees and friends – are still eligible to serve" on the proposed redistricting commission.

By Joe Guillen• August 9, 2012

Nina Perales stated on May 31, 2011 in a press release.:

Says a Republican-drawn map of proposed U.S. House districts for Texas "gerrymanders more than nine million Latinos in Texas to make sure that we have no more electoral opportunity than we did in 1991."

By W. Gardner Selby• June 22, 2011

What is redistricting? And why should voters care?

By Louis Jacobson• October 27, 2021

Ask PolitiFact: What is independent state legislature theory, and could it create election chaos?

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• December 5, 2022

What you need to know about Donald Trump, Russia and Ukraine

By Linda Qiu• August 4, 2016

JD Vance called California’s congressional map ‘outrageous.’ It’s not an outlier

By Louis Jacobson• August 4, 2025

The legal fight over NC gerrymandering isn’t over. How we got here, and what’s next.

By Elizabeth Thompson• July 2, 2019

Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s top adviser, and his ties to pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine

By Aleksandra Kharchenko• May 2, 2016

Latino power in Texas

By W. Gardner Selby• June 23, 2011

On whether Wisconsin is the most gerrymandered state

By Tom Kertscher• June 18, 2018

What we know about Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, why Joe Biden traded him to free Brittney Griner

By Tom Kertscher, Yacob Reyes• December 8, 2022

Why Ukraine? How an Eastern European country triggered tumult in American politics

By Jon Greenberg• September 30, 2019

Fiona Hill and conspiracy theories about Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know

By Daniel Funke, Louis Jacobson• November 21, 2019

PolitiFact Wisconsin's most clicked items for August 2019

By D.L. Davis• September 3, 2019

Fact-checking Donald Trump’s Fox News town hall with Sean Hannity

By Louis Jacobson, Maria Ramirez Uribe, Amy Sherman• September 5, 2024

The history of the filibuster as 'Jim Crow relic'

By Louis Jacobson• August 4, 2020

Do NC, Texas face more election lawsuits than all other states combined?

By Paul Specht• February 8, 2019

With Biden impeachment probe now authorized, what’s next?

By Louis Jacobson• December 14, 2023

The Stump Speech Analyzer: Elizabeth Warren

By Jon Greenberg• January 23, 2020

PunditFact fact-checks the Feb. 23 news shows

By Aaron Sharockman• February 23, 2014

Fact-checking the Feb. 23 news shows