Gauging Republican beliefs about Obama
We cited eight national polls in finding unsupported a Democrat’s claim about Republicans and President Barack Obama. Gilberto Hinojosa, a candidate to chair the Texas Democratic Party, told an Austin...
View ArticleObama’s record on the Truth-O-Meter
President Barack Obama, who’s making a rare swing through Austin, often figures into our fact checks. We’ve posted some of our checks relating to Obama to the right, including ridiculous claims about...
View ArticleObama, Perry, Hinojosa and jobs, jobs, jobs
With President Obama stopping in Austin to talk cutting-edge economic issues, Gov. Rick Perry welcomed him by touting the Texas "model," saying in a newspaper ad that Texas accounted for one third of...
View ArticleUPDATED: Grading Texas claims by, and about, Barack Obama
Barack Obama talked up economic development in his Austin-area swing May 9, 2013. As his trip played out, we identified a presidential claim about the significance of the technology sector of Austin's...
View ArticleTexas Truth-O-Meter: Kesha Rogers is a Democrat
Kesha Rogers, a LaRouche Democrat in a runoff for the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination in Texas, isn’t a Democrat, the chairman of the Texas Democratic Party maintains. Rogers, who favors the...
View ArticleObama, Dewhurst and a climate change musical figured into readers’ favorite...
A flammable David Dewhurst claim by Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst topped our online readers’ favorite fact checks in April. Dewhurst, who faces state Sen. Dan Patrick in a May runoff for the 2014 Republican...
View ArticleFinding the facts about immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border
Hottest topic of summer 2014? Perhaps surprisingly, it wasn’t anything solely bubbling out of the state’s first incumbent-free race for governor since 1990. Political figures from U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to...
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