Statements we say are Pants on Fire!

Historically holey

Ken Paxton

Says Texas has "had over 600,000 crimes committed by illegals since 2011. Over 1,200 homicides."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, September 7th, 2018

Way off

Will Hurd

Says Democratic challenger Gina Ortiz Jones has raised "more money from Massachusetts than" from Texas.

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, August 15th, 2018

Overinflated and worthy of a red card

Austin for a Better Future

Says proposal to use city-owned land for an Austin pro soccer stadium is a "$1 billion giveaway."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, June 27th, 2018

We saw rescue boats

Donald Trump

Says that people "went out in their boats to watch" Hurricane Harvey.

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, June 7th, 2018

Hang up, hang up, hang up

Anonymous Caller

Says that unless the recipient called back about "your tax filings," you "will be taken into custody by the local cops as there are more serious allegations pressed on your name."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, April 11th, 2018

Misapprehension

Mike Pence

Says that "along the southern border of the U.S.," the government apprehends "seven individuals a day who are either known or suspected terrorists."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, February 21st, 2018

No such figure

Dan Patrick

Says "566,000 crimes" were "made in Texas by criminal aliens in the last 6 years."

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, January 25th, 2018

Unilateral fumble

Ken Paxton

"President Obama used" his DACA order "to unilaterally confer U.S. citizenship."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, September 15th, 2017

Rep later backpedaled

Pete Olson

Says that Bill Clinton "basically" told then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch in 2016 that "we killed Vince Foster."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, July 5th, 2017

UPDATED: Shaky tax rate assumptions

Dan Patrick

Says Texas tax legislation would "save the average homeowner in Texas $20,000 a year over the next 20 years or so."

— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017

Facebook Live distortion

Greg Abbott

Says Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez "declared that she would not detain known criminals accused of violent crimes."

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, May 18th, 2017

Let all the air out

Bloggers

Say Lance Armstrong is dead.

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, May 15th, 2017

Firing blanks

Bloggers

A University of Texas "student pulled out a concealed handgun" on a knife-wielding suspect "and made him back down."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, May 10th, 2017

Make the Wookiee sound

Bloggers

Says extras are needed to portray aliens in a Star Wars movie being shot near Rosenberg, Texas.

— PolitiFact Texas on Sunday, April 2nd, 2017

Hocus Pecos

Liberal Blogger

Says a Republican U.S. House member from Texas, Rob McCaskill, tweeted that he "can’t wait for the next 9/11."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, February 15th, 2017

Limited cuts, no election connection

If You Only News

"Emboldened by election, Texas Republicans kill Medicaid funding for kids with disabilities."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, December 21st, 2016

Absence of evidence

Sheri Gallo

Alison Alter "got an F in attendance in 2016" as an Austin parks board member "and was removed by a unanimous vote of the Austin City Council."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, December 2nd, 2016

Hugely speculative

Progress Texas

"Donald Trump's education plan to dramatically slash funding for public education would fire 49,000 Texas teachers."

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, October 20th, 2016

Los Angeles isn't Beijing

Celia Israel

Says Donald Trump’s "Make America Great Again" caps are "made in China."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, August 24th, 2016

Denied months ago

Donald Trump

Says Ted Cruz "never denied" his father was photographed with Lee Harvey Oswald.

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, July 22nd, 2016