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"Confederate veterans were conferred with many of the same benefits of other United States military veterans by Acts of Congress back in 1929 and 1957."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, November 15th, 2019

Texas lawmakers "left children able to be sterilized and mutilated at any point in their life" by failing to adopt a law prohibiting minors from undergoing medical or surgical gender transitions.

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, November 11th, 2019

"As we have learned, the Intel Inspector General (IG) changed the rule after the complaint was known in order to allow hearsay complaints, but the IG dishonestly backdated the rule change so that damage could be done to President Trump."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, October 30th, 2019

"The City of Austin is dedicating more than $20,000 PER HOMELESS PERSON in Austin."

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, October 17th, 2019

Says the Associated Press was wrong to report that "Income Inequality grew to largest in 50 years" because in a "new Census report all four measures of income inequality SHRUNK, reversing rise over past five decades."

— PolitiFact Texas on Saturday, October 12th, 2019

"50% of the DUIs on Interstate 35 are from illegals. Ninety percent of the 50% have absolutely no identification."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, October 4th, 2019

"You can have an active warrant for your arrest for murder and legally pass a background check system in the state of Texas" to purchase a gun.

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, September 20th, 2019

"Beto O’Rourke wants to confiscate guns because he can’t buy one himself due to his criminal record."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, September 18th, 2019

"There are 390 million guns out on the streets of a country of 329 million people."

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, September 9th, 2019

"The U.S. now leads the world in producing both oil and natural gas, and at the same time reducing energy-related emissions."

— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, August 27th, 2019

Says after the shooting in El Paso, "on Sunday, everyone was going to church in America, praying about this, and the next day when their kids went to school, they weren’t allowed to pray or bring it up."

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, August 19th, 2019

Says the late Lady Bird Johnson sicced the CIA on actress and singer Eartha Kitt after Kitt spoke out against the Vietnam War during a White House luncheon in January 1968.

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, August 15th, 2019

Says Royce West stood with Wendy Davis "to support painful late-term abortions."

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, August 8th, 2019

Says of El Paso that some years, "in a city of almost 700,000, we had five murders the entire year. Our average over the last 10 years is 18 (murders per year). We exceeded that average just on one day" after a gunman opened fire at a Walmart in the city.

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, August 5th, 2019

Says "we lose nearly 40,000 people in this country to gun violence, a number that no other country comes even close to."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, August 2nd, 2019

Since 2014, there has been a 25% reduction in crime in communities at the Texas-Mexico border.

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, July 25th, 2019

"A study was done, a post-mortem, so a retrospective study done, looking at autopsies and drug levels, what drugs were in the blood of veterans that committed suicide, and 70 percent had THC."

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, July 15th, 2019

Says Section 1325 of U.S. immigration law was "put into place in 1929, by a segregationist."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, July 12th, 2019

Of shelters for immigrant children: "You know what? There's not a lock on the door. Any child is free to leave at anytime, but they don't. You know why? Because they are well taken care of."

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, July 10th, 2019

Says recent changes to Austin city policy give homeless people more rights than property owners and allow for "homeless camps on private property, business frontage, and even public sidewalks." 

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, July 5th, 2019