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Brandon Mulder writes for PolitiFact Texas and the Austin American-Statesman.

Featured Statements

Dan Patrick
stated on April 6, 2021 in a press conference:

“Nothing has changed in the election code (under SB 7) regarding early voting. Nothing has changed."

By Brandon Mulder • April 9, 2021
Greg Abbott
stated on March 30, 2021 in a tweet:

“Twice as many children are in Border Patrol custody under Biden than Trump peak in 2019.”

By Brandon Mulder • April 6, 2021
Veronica Escobar
stated on March 14, 2021 in an interview:

"We began seeing the increase in unaccompanied minors going back to last April 2020. This is not something that happened as a result of Joe Biden becoming president.”

By Brandon Mulder • March 29, 2021
Greg Abbott
stated on March 3, 2021 in a tweet:

“The Biden Administration is recklessly releasing hundreds of illegal immigrants who have COVID into Texas communities.”

By Brandon Mulder • March 11, 2021
Energy Transfer
stated on February 26, 2021 in testimony:

“Pipelines do not freeze. They are naturally insulated. They’re buried beneath the ground.”

By Brandon Mulder • March 5, 2021
Dan Crenshaw
stated on February 16, 2021 in a tweet:

“Subsidizing investment in wind has pushed gas and nuclear out. Now we live with the consequences.”

By Brandon Mulder • February 26, 2021
Greg Abbott
stated on February 16, 2021 in an interview:

"Our wind and our solar got shut down ... and that thrust Texas into this situation where it was lacking power at a statewide basis.”

By Brandon Mulder • February 19, 2021
Greg Abbott
stated on January 24, 2021 in a tweet:

“Innocent lives will be saved” by ending taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.

By Brandon Mulder • February 12, 2021
John Kerry
stated on January 31, 2021 in in an interview:

Says that Hurricane Harvey “dropped more water on Houston in five days than goes over Niagara Falls in a year.”

By Brandon Mulder • February 5, 2021
Kevin Brady
stated on January 22, 2021 in a tweet:

Says that Biden’s ban on new federal leases will kill 120,000 Texas jobs.

By Brandon Mulder • January 29, 2021