Our latest fact-checks

"I don’t take a dime of PAC money."

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, August 20th, 2018

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

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, August 16th, 2018

Says Texas charter schools "get 100% state $/pupil funding while district schools (95% students) get about 1/3 funding from state w/ rest coming from local prop taxes (which is why those taxes are so high). Districts getting less b/c scarce $ going to charters."    

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, August 15th, 2018

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

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, August 15th, 2018

Says Winston Churchill said, "The fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists."

— PolitiFact Texas on Tuesday, August 7th, 2018

Says Beto O’Rourke is "open to abolishing ICE."

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, August 6th, 2018

"Muslims in America have been subjected to more insults, attacks and hate crimes in the last two or three years than ever before, specifically more than after 9-11."    

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, August 3rd, 2018

Says Pete Gallego canceled a "planned meeting with the families of Sandy Hook victims."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, July 27th, 2018

Says he’s "never voted ‘present’ in the House instead of taking a yes or no position.

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, July 26th, 2018

Says Beto O’Rourke is "the only candidate to the U.S. Senate to call for" impeaching President Donald Trump.  

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, July 25th, 2018

Says a poll showed Democrat Beto O’Rourke within 2 percentage points of Republican Sen. Ted Cruz.

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, July 20th, 2018

"The Railroad Commission of Texas has nothing to do with railroads."

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, July 19th, 2018

"In Houston, Texas, there are more brothels than there are Starbucks."

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, July 13th, 2018

"Bob Hall never successfully passed a bill." 

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, July 12th, 2018

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

Says May 2018 marked the 401st straight month of global temperatures exceeding the 20th century average.

— PolitiFact Texas on Wednesday, June 20th, 2018

"There’s actually a court order that prevents keeping the kids with the parents when you put the parents in jail."  

— PolitiFact Texas on Monday, June 18th, 2018

Say a boy was 'caged' in a wire enclosure.

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, June 15th, 2018

"After Texas cut" its "two-year family planning budget by $73 million, one in four clinics closed their doors."

— PolitiFact Texas on Thursday, June 14th, 2018

Says most of Austin’s biggest parks have recycling though as "many as 293 out of 300" Austin city "parks have no recycling, including almost every neighborhood park."  

— PolitiFact Texas on Friday, June 8th, 2018