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Long-form dossiers on the hoaxes, deepfakes, and death rumors that go viral — each one stamped with a verdict and printed with every source on the record.
Politics & Policy
Liberation Day Address Claims: A Comprehensive Fact-Check
Comprehensive fact-check of Trump's April 2, 2025 'Liberation Day' tariff announcement — the chart, the revenue promise, who really pays — and the Supreme Court ruling that ultimately struck the tariffs down.
FILED SEP 10, 2026 · UPDATED SEP 10, 2026 · 10 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
Los Angeles ICE Raids and Protests, 2025: Fact vs. Fiction
A verified fact-check of the June 2025 Los Angeles ICE raids and protests: what DHS, Human Rights Watch, and federal courts actually confirmed, and which viral claims turned out to be false or misattributed.
FILED SEP 10, 2026 · UPDATED SEP 10, 2026 · 12 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
Trump's "$20 Trillion" Investment Claim Keeps Growing. The Evidence Still Isn't.
At the Republican midterm convention, Trump said his administration secured "over $20 trillion" in investment since January 2025. The White House's own tally is about half that, and analysts say even that figure is inflated.
FILED SEP 10, 2026 · UPDATED SEP 10, 2026 · 4 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
No Record Exists of the 9/11 Rescue Crew Trump Says He Sent
Days before the 25th anniversary of the attacks, Trump told Fox News he deployed his own construction workers to Ground Zero and was carried to safety by firefighters. Two decades of fact-checking has never turned up a witness, a work order, or a fire department record.
FILED SEP 9, 2026 · UPDATED SEP 9, 2026 · 5 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
Inflation 'Historical Cap' Claims: Separating Fact from Fiction
Comprehensive fact-check of claims that inflation reached historically unprecedented levels, checked against BLS, Federal Reserve, and fact-checker records.
FILED SEP 6, 2026 · UPDATED SEP 6, 2026 · 7 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
The GOP Ad Blaming Sherrod Brown for a Fatal Crash. Fact-Checkers Found No Link.
A National Republican Senatorial Committee ad ties former Sen. Sherrod Brown's immigration votes to a fatal Ohio crash that killed a young family. PolitiFact and FactCheck.org both found no factual connection — and the victims' relatives say their grief was used without permission.
FILED SEP 5, 2026 · UPDATED SEP 5, 2026 · 4 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
ICE Arrest Bounties Claim: The Reality Behind the Hoax
Viral 2025 claims that ICE pays bounty hunters to capture immigrants were rated false by fact-checkers, and DHS called specific viral incidents "fabricated." But within months, the government built a real, functionally similar system: skip-tracing contracts worth up to $281,250,000 per vendor (over $1 billion combined), tiered $500-$1,000 quarterly bonuses for local police, and a briefly-live $100-$200 per-deportation bonus for ICE's own agents.
FILED SEP 4, 2026 · UPDATED SEP 4, 2026 · 18 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
Pete Hegseth's Signalgate: What the Investigation Confirmed
In March 2025, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared operational details of a planned U.S. strike on Houthi targets in Yemen inside a Signal chat that inadvertently included a journalist — and a Pentagon watchdog later found the episode risked troops' safety and broke records-retention rules.
FILED SEP 3, 2026 · UPDATED SEP 3, 2026 · 9 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
2025 Government Shutdown: Longest in U.S. History
Comprehensive fact-check of the October-November 2025 government shutdown, the longest in U.S. history at 43 days.
FILED SEP 2, 2026 · UPDATED SEP 2, 2026 · 11 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
Did Jocelyn Benson Help Fund the KKK? What the SPLC Indictment Actually Says
A dark-money attack ad and her own gubernatorial opponent say Michigan's Jocelyn Benson is tied to a group that "sent millions" to the Ku Klux Klan. The federal indictment behind the claim names specific payments in the thousands — and doesn't mention Benson at all.
FILED SEP 2, 2026 · UPDATED SEP 2, 2026 · 5 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
Gaza Ceasefire Deal Attribution: Who Gets the Credit?
Fact-check of Biden and Trump claims about the January 2025 Gaza ceasefire deal — how it compares to Biden's May 2024 framework, what Trump's incoming team actually contributed, and how the deal's later collapse complicates both sides' credit claims.
FILED AUG 31, 2026 · UPDATED AUG 31, 2026 · 12 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
Florida 2026 Midterm Election Myths: 39 Claims Debunked
Comprehensive debunking of 39 Florida election myths ahead of the 2026 midterms. Heritage Foundation's own database found just 85 noncitizen-voting cases nationwide from 2002 to 2023 — under 0.0001% of ballots cast. CISA confirms election security. Florida's own audits found zero problems.
FILED AUG 31, 2026 · UPDATED AUG 31, 2026 · 41 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
Trump Says Canada's Unemployment Hit 10% and Does '95%' of Its Business With the US. Neither Number Is Real.
In a single week of Truth Social posts and rally remarks, Trump strung together a trade-dependency figure, an unemployment rate, and a deficit number about Canada — and government data contradicts all three, even as he escalates tariffs to 50%.
FILED AUG 31, 2026 · UPDATED AUG 31, 2026 · 3 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
Trump Bought Up to $500K in Boeing Stock the Same Day the Navy Gave It an $880 Million Contract
Financial disclosures confirm the timing is real — and Boeing wasn't an isolated case. SpaceX and Palantir show the same same-day pattern within a single week.
FILED AUG 30, 2026 · UPDATED AUG 30, 2026 · 3 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
JD Vance Says the Border Explains Maine's Overdose Drop. The Decline Started Under Biden.
Vance credited Trump's border crackdown for a 20% fall in Maine's overdose deaths — but the decline began years before his second term, and researchers point to naloxone access and treatment funding instead.
FILED AUG 30, 2026 · UPDATED AUG 30, 2026 · 4 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
Epstein Files 2026: What the 3.5 Million DOJ Documents Actually Reveal
Comprehensive analysis of the DOJ's January 30, 2026 Epstein files release. Verified communications with Musk, Bannon, Gates, Ruemmler, and more. Distinguishing evidence from unverified tips.
FILED AUG 29, 2026 · UPDATED AUG 29, 2026 · 35 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
Trump Says Tipped Workers Saved $10,000 in Taxes. The Real Number Is a Fraction of That.
At rallies in Nevada and Georgia, Trump told tipped workers they'd saved thousands under his "no tax on tips" law — but he's citing the size of a deduction, not the actual tax savings, which independent analysts put at roughly a quarter of his numbers.
FILED AUG 29, 2026 · UPDATED AUG 29, 2026 · 3 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
The GOP Attack Ad Blaming Roy Cooper for a Murder He Had Nothing To Do With
A $71 million Senate Leadership Fund campaign ties Democrat Roy Cooper to Logan Federico's murder — but she was killed in South Carolina, by a man released from a South Carolina jail, under a Republican governor.
FILED AUG 29, 2026 · UPDATED AUG 29, 2026 · 4 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
Trump's EPA Endangerment Finding Revocation: False Scientific Claims Exposed
Trump claimed EPA's 2009 endangerment finding "had no basis in fact" and "no basis in law." Both claims are false: the finding was compelled by a Supreme Court ruling, upheld unanimously by a federal appeals court, and rests on a scientific record that federal reviewers say has only gotten stronger.
FILED AUG 28, 2026 · UPDATED AUG 28, 2026 · 17 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
A 21-Year-Old Faked a Poll. It Fooled a Mayor, the Press, and Almost the Midterms.
Median Strategies wasn't a polling firm. Its poll showing Karen Bass surging in LA's mayoral race wasn't real either — but that didn't stop her campaign from posting it as fact.
FILED AUG 28, 2026 · UPDATED AUG 28, 2026 · 4 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
Trump Says the National Guard Cut Crime in D.C. The Study He's Citing Says Otherwise.
A historic 2025 FBI crime drop is real. Trump's claim that National Guard deployments drove it down in D.C., Memphis, and New Orleans isn't backed by the research — an independent study found the troops had 'no effect' on violent crime there.
FILED AUG 27, 2026 · UPDATED AUG 27, 2026 · 4 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
DOGE's 'Gaza Condom' Claim: Misleading the Public on Foreign Aid
Comprehensive fact-check of DOGE's viral claim about federal spending on condoms in Gaza.
FILED AUG 26, 2026 · UPDATED AUG 26, 2026 · 11 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
DHS "Worst of the Worst" Website: Rife with Errors
DHS admitted its website showcasing 'worst of the worst' arrested immigrants contained hundreds of errors, falsely portraying people with minor offenses as dangerous criminals. Forensic analysis of government misinformation.
FILED AUG 24, 2026 · UPDATED AUG 24, 2026 · 29 SOURCES
Politics & Policy
DHS 'Worst of the Worst' Website: Government Misinformation Exposed
DHS admitted its 'Worst of the Worst' immigrant database (wow.dhs.gov) was riddled with errors after CNN's February 2026 exclusive. Independent reporting from Minnesota, NPR, and Maine documented at least three distinct patterns of false data.
FILED AUG 24, 2026 · UPDATED AUG 24, 2026 · 23 SOURCES
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