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Badlands Daily: 10/21/26 - Newsom’s Office, Michigan’s Jewish Voters & Trump Slams Zelensky

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Badlands MediaOct 21, 2026
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Badlands MediaBadlands Daily: 10/21/26 - Newsom’s Office, Michigan’s Jewish Voters & Trump Slams ZelenskyWhole episode, 1:59:57
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  1. 1TrueLifelong Jewish Democrats in Michigan are rethinking their votes for the 2026 midterms.As of 2026-10-21, AP reporting (Oct 17) said some Jewish voters who typically lean left were switching to Republican Mike Rogers, and other outlets in the record describe lifelong Jewish Democrats in Michigan weighing or withdrawing their support for Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed. The claim's core assertion is supported and nothing in the sources contradicts it; the sources also show the picture was still divided and that most Michigan Jews still leaned Democratic.7 sources →
  2. 2FalseDonald Trump stated he is on the wrong side of history in response to a claim by Volodymyr Zelensky.The claim reverses the exchange: Zelensky said Trump was on the 'wrong side of history', and Trump responded that Zelensky 'doesn't know what he's talking about' rather than saying he was on the wrong side himself. Several sources report Trump's rebuttal directly, so the claim's core assertion is contradicted.9 sources →
  3. 3TrueThe Great American Restoration Tour stop 14 will take place in Saint Pete Beach, Florida, from November 12th through November 14th.The claim matches the passage, and the organizer's own event page and ticket shop both list the Great American Restoration Tour 14 at St. Pete Beach, FL on November 12–14, 2026, as of the October 21 post date. No independent source covers the event, and all supporting pages trace to Badlands Media, so confidence is capped.4 sources →

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  4. 4Can’t tellNGOs are dropping off groups of Somalis to vote in Lewiston, Maine.The claim traces back to a Maine Wire report that NGOs were dropping off Somalis to vote in Lewiston, and most later sources repeat that account without independent confirmation of the drop-offs. The DOJ is only reviewing footage, and the WSJ-sourced report says there is no evidence of ballot stuffing, which does not address the drop-off claim itself.7 sources →

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  5. 5Can’t tellInterpreters aiding voters in Lewiston, Maine, are being paid by NGOs.The sources show only that the Maine Wire alleged NGO-affiliated interpreters at Lewiston City Hall, and that the DOJ is reviewing the footage; none independently establishes that interpreters are paid by NGOs. The claim also drops the post's hedge "likely," and its payment assertion mostly echoes the claimant's own allegation, which cannot corroborate it.7 sources →

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  6. 6Can’t tellInterpreters in Lewiston, Maine, have been observed touching ballots and placing ballots into envelopes.The only direct account of touching and envelope-placing is the claimant's own reporting (Maine Wire reporter Jon Fetherston), which other outlets repeat without independent verification. Official responses are limited to DOJ reviewing footage and the clerk distributing guidance, so the sources show the observations were claimed but do not confirm or dispute them.7 sources →

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  7. 7Can’t tellThe Maine People's Alliance is paying people to work at polling locations.No source reports that the Maine People's Alliance paid people to work at polling locations. The post itself only passes on hedged hearsay ('I've been told by other sources that maybe the Maine People's Alliance is paying these people'), and the extracted claim drops that hedge and states it as fact. The Lewiston complaints in WMTW and NewsCenter Maine say the allegation has not been independently verified, and the Robinson Report (published after the post) makes related electioneering allegations without evidence of payment. As of 2026-10-21 the record neither substantiates nor disputes the payment claim.5 sources →

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  8. 8TrueSusan Collins is the only Republican member of the U.S. House or Senate representing a New England state.Multiple sources published around the claim date describe Susan Collins as the only Republican in New England's congressional delegation, which matches the claim. The claim departs from the post only trivially (the post's 'one of only 31' phrasing is garbled, but the 'only Republican in all of New England' statement is faithfully extracted), and the situation was unchanged in the sources through the check date.8 sources →

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  9. 9TrueSusan Collins serves as the chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.Multiple primary and tier1 sources show Susan Collins served as Republican chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee around the claim date of 2026-10-21, including the official committee membership page (published 2026-10-19), the committee membership list, and AP reporting from August 2026. The claim departs from nothing in the passage, which says the same thing about her chairmanship.6 sources →

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  10. 10TrueThe most recent continuing resolution postponed a rule by the Office of Management and Budget to hold political appointees accountable for grant money.Multiple sources, including AP, the Rutgers Bloustein School, Ballotpedia, and ASME, report that the stopgap continuing resolution (H.R. 6500) delayed an OMB proposed grantmaking rule that would give political appointees more say over federal grants. The claim's core assertion is supported; its framing as holding appointees 'accountable' is a characterization the sources do not use, since they describe the rule as expanding appointee control.6 sources →

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  11. 11TrueGallup released a poll last month stating that 89% of adults in the U.S. believe that corruption is widespread.Gallup's September 2, 2026 release reported that 89% of U.S. adults say government corruption is widespread, which matches the claim's figure and timing ("last month" relative to the October 21 post). The claim drops the word "government", but the post itself says only "corruption is widespread", so this is faithful to the passage.4 sources →

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  12. 12TrueLos Angeles election officials stated in a federal court that they have no independent way to verify voter citizenship beyond voter attestation.Multiple sources report that a Los Angeles County assistant registrar told the federal court in filings (around Oct 20-21, 2026) that the office has no information beyond the voter's own attestation to determine citizenship, which matches the claim. The claim is accurately extracted from the post, and the statement was made as of the claim's date; later coverage on Nov 2 reflects ongoing litigation, not a change to the claim.6 sources →

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  13. 13TrueCalifornia has not acted on a list of 20,000 suspected non-citizens or agreed to set aside their ballots.As of 2026-10-21, sources show California declined to act on the DOJ's list of roughly 20,000 suspected noncitizens and did not agree to set aside those ballots; the state called the request 'outrageous' and later opposed it in court. Local officials did review the list and called it unreliable, and the state demanded details on how individuals were identified, but neither amounts to setting aside ballots. Later court rulings against the DOJ's set-aside demand do not change the verdict for the 10-21 date.7 sources →

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  14. 14TrueCalifornia adheres to federal law passed by Congress in the 1990s, specifically 52 USC 20504(c)(2) Section 5 of the NVRA.The claim's core, that California adheres to the NVRA, is supported: the Secretary of State's manual applies 52 U.S.C. 20504(c)(2)'s confidentiality rules to DMV registrations, state code requires compliance with Section 20504, and a DOJ filing does not suggest California fails to follow federal voter-registration law. A 2019 state review found past DMV-to-SOS transmittal lapses, but those concern subsection (e) timeliness, not the (c)(2) provision the claim cites, and the claim's wording is the Newsom press office's own rebuttal, so it is not independent corroboration.6 sources →

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  15. 15Can’t tellCalifornia adheres to federal law 52 U.S.C. 20506, Section 5 of the National Voter Registration Act.The extracted claim departs from the passage: the post's garbled citation reads "C-52 USC 2054 C-2," not 52 U.S.C. 20506, so the specific statute number was added during extraction. The sources also show 52 U.S.C. 20506 is NVRA Section 7 (voter registration agencies), not Section 5 (motor voter), so the claim's own citation does not match its label. Sources do indicate California's provisional voting and VRA procedures are implemented under the NVRA, but they do not settle the claim as worded.4 sources →

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  16. 16TrueFederal law 18 U.S.C. 611 makes it unlawful for any alien to vote in any election held for the purpose of electing a candidate for federal office.The claim matches the text of 18 U.S.C. 611(a), which makes it unlawful for any alien to vote in an election held solely or in part for electing a candidate for President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Senate, House, D.C. Delegate, or Resident Commissioner. The extraction drops the 'solely or in part' qualifier and the statute's exceptions, but these do not change the core assertion. The primary statute text and fact-checkers Snopes and LeadStories confirm it.7 sources →

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  17. 17MixedThe Department of Homeland Security sent a letter stating that 20,000 people are illegally registered to vote.The 20,000 figure is supported: a Justice Department complaint filed October 15, 2026, with DHS/HSI analysis, says more than 20,000 likely noncitizens are registered in California. But the record does not show DHS sending a letter with that figure. The DHS letters in July cited 190,832 potential noncitizens in California, and the 20,000-voter letters that followed were from DOJ, sent after the post date, so the claim misattributes the letter and is only partly supported as of 2026-10-21.5 sources →

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  18. 18MixedThe Social Security Administration reviewed 390 million records and found that 15% of them, approximately 58 million records, required corrections.SSA sources confirm that nearly 15% of active SSNs were corrected across a scope of about 390 million total records, so the direction and general scale hold. However, the 15% is of active SSNs (about 330 million citizens, roughly 50 million corrected), not of the 390 million records, so the 58 million figure is overstated; the post's claim that SSA 'reviewed all' records is also not stated in the sources.4 sources →

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  19. 19TrueThe Social Security Administration database is used to verify voter citizenship and identity.Sources as of late 2026 show the Social Security Administration's data is used to verify voter citizenship and identity: the expanded DHS SAVE system, which draws on SSA records, was allowed to operate by the Supreme Court on 2026-09-25, and SSA's HAVV system has long been used by states to verify voters' identities. The claim is technically about SAVE drawing on SSA data rather than a single SSA database, and critics dispute its accuracy, but no source contradicts the core assertion; the post itself matches the extracted claim.9 sources →

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  20. 20MixedThe Social Security Administration began assessing agencies that verify identities and eligibility for payments on April 10.The April 10 date and the subject of verifying identity and eligibility before payments are supported by a FedScoop report and a Treasury-linked record dated April 10, 2026. However, those sources say the Treasury Department's Do Not Pay system added SSA's Numident database for agencies and states to use, not that the SSA itself began assessing which agencies verify identities. The claim's actor is therefore contradicted by the record, so it is graded mixed rather than true.2 sources →

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  21. 21TrueA judge blocked the Social Security Administration from using the SAVE database to verify eligibility for payments on June 22.Multiple sources, including a court opinion, confirm that on June 22, 2026, Judge Sparkle Sooknanan set aside and blocked the modified SAVE database, which pulled in Social Security data. The sources frame the block as a bar on the government's use of the database for voter-citizenship checks rather than specifically on SSA payment eligibility, but the post itself ties the SAVE block to SSA, so the core assertion holds.7 sources →

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  22. 22TrueThe D.C. Circuit appellate court denied an appeal to allow the Social Security Administration to continue using the SAVE database for eligibility verification.The D.C. Circuit's 2-1 order of September 4, 2026 denied the government's emergency request to stay Judge Sooknanan's June ruling, which had blocked the revamped SAVE system, so the core assertion holds. The claim calls this an 'appeal' and attributes the request to SSA, though sources frame it as a stay motion by DHS/the Justice Department involving SSA data; these are minor imprecisions. The Supreme Court later stayed the block on September 25, which does not make the D.C. Circuit's earlier denial false.9 sources →

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  23. 23MixedThe Social Security Administration lifted the block on using the SAVE database on September 25.The block was lifted on September 25, 2026, but the Supreme Court did it, on a DHS/DOJ emergency request, not the Social Security Administration. The SSA's data was part of the challenged system, so the event and date are supported while the claimed actor is contradicted.6 sources →

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  24. 24TrueThe Social Security Administration database contained 17 million records of deceased individuals listed as living.The SSA's primary press release and Reuters both report that the agency added 17 million dates of death to records that previously lacked them, which matches the claim's 17 million figure as of the October 21 posting. The phrase 'listed as living' is a reasonable reading of 'no death date on file', but sources also stress that a missing death date does not mean the person was alive or receiving benefits, so the characterization is contestable.6 sources →

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  25. 25TrueThe Social Security Administration database contained 25 million records missing citizenship information.Reuters and The Hill, both published on 2026-10-20/21, report that the SSA updated about 25 million records that previously lacked citizenship information, which matches the claim as of the 2026-10-21 post date. The claim is a faithful paraphrase of the post, and no source contradicts it. The sources say the records lacked the information, not that they were shown to belong to non-citizens.7 sources →

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  26. 26Can’t tellGavin Newsom, the California Attorney General, and the California Secretary of State have obstructed efforts to clean up voter rolls.The sources document that California officials refused DOJ's demand to act on a list of about 20,000 alleged noncitizens, sued by the DOJ, and the courts were skeptical of the federal request, but they do not establish whether this amounts to obstruction of voter-roll cleanup. 'Obstructed every step of the way' is a sweeping political characterization of the officials' conduct rather than a checkable factual claim, and the state's side (the list was unreliable, and the federal government has no role in state election administration) is also reported.7 sources →

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  27. 27MixedThe Social Security Administration reviewed 390 million records.The post's 'yesterday' refers to SSA's October 20, 2026 announcement, so the extraction is faithful. The sources confirm the cleanup covered a database of nearly 390 million total records, but they say about 15% of active SSNs were corrected, not that all 390 million were reviewed.4 sources →

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  28. 28TrueThe Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced a project regarding voter rolls in April 2025.DHS, USCIS and DOGE announced an overhaul of the SAVE citizenship-verification database on April 22, 2025, which sources describe as a tool to check voter eligibility and voter rolls. The claim's April 2025 date and DOGE's role are supported, though the sources tie the project to voter rolls only through the announcement's 'voting illegally' framing and later SAVE use.5 sources →

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  29. 29Can’t tellGiza Dream bed sheets are priced as low as 29.98 dollars.The only source citing a $29.98 price is Mike Lindell's own September 13, 2026 X post, which is circular because it is the claimant's company promoting its product. Independent retailer listings from October show Giza Dreams sets at $49.98 to $99.98 with promo codes, but none shows the $29.98 price on or around 2026-10-21, so the sources neither confirm nor refute the 'as low as' floor.5 sources →

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  30. 30TrueLifelong Jewish Democrats in the Detroit suburbs are voting for the Republican candidate in the Michigan Senate race for the first time in their lives.Sources support that some lifelong Jewish Democrats in the Detroit suburbs were switching to Republican Mike Rogers before the claim date, and one source says they were voting Republican for the first time ever, though hedged as "possibly." No source quantifies how many, and the claim's wording is broader than the post's "saying" framing. The claim departs little from the passage, and the Peters quote itself is not used as evidence.8 sources →

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  31. 31Can’t tellThe Squad members effectively won their challenges against Nancy Pelosi and transformed the Democratic Party.The claim that the Squad 'effectively won' their challenges against Pelosi and 'transformed the Democratic Party' is a sweeping, evaluative characterization of political influence; sources document friction and Pelosi's partial accommodations (2019 Ocasio-Cortez peace, Pelosi later re-elected with Squad votes) but none directly grades who 'won' or credits the Squad with transforming the party, and the claim's 'transformed' assertion is interpretive, so it cannot be graded in either direction.8 sources →

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  32. 32TrueZohran Mamdani appointed Jewish advisors to his council in New York.Mamdani appointed Jewish people to advisory roles: Bloomberg Law reports he appointed Jewish judicial ethics attorney Douglas Keith to direct the Mayor's Advisory Committee on the Judiciary, and his Business Advisory Council includes Jewish business leaders. The claim's central assertion holds, though earlier reporting showed the judiciary committee had no Jewish members when it was first named.6 sources →

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  33. 33Can’t tellJoe Hoff published an article indicating polling for the House of Representatives is 218 to 217.None of the provided sources mention Joe Hoff or an article by him, so whether he published an article on House polling cannot be checked. The sources also do not report a 218-217 polling figure; they show Democrats leading in polls well above the 218 seats needed, which does not confirm or refute what the article said. The extracted claim states the polling 'is' 218 to 217, while the post said it 'could be like' that, so the claim also drops a hedge from the passage.12 sources →

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  34. 34Can’t tellJoe Hoff published an article indicating polling for the Senate is 53 to 47.None of the provided sources mention Joe Hoff or any article by him, so the claim cannot be checked against its named referent. The 53-47 figure appears in the sources only as the current Republican Senate majority, not as a polling result, so it does not show what the claimed article said. The claim is faithful to the passage, which attributed the 53-to-47 figure to a Joe Hoff article from the day before, but the sources neither confirm nor refute that.11 sources →

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  35. 35TrueMike Rogers was involved in a confrontation with Matt Gaetz during the 15 rounds of voting for Speaker of the House.Multiple reliable sources, including AP, Reuters and BBC, report that Rep. Mike Rogers lunged at or nearly came to blows with Rep. Matt Gaetz during the House speaker vote in January 2023, and that Rogers was physically restrained. The confrontation occurred during the 14th of the 15 ballots, which falls within the 15-round process the claim describes.5 sources →

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  36. 36Can’t tellA group of former military officers and advisors is conspiring to overthrow the Trump administration to transfer power to Democratic governors.The claim matches what the post says (the speaker described a clandestine group conspiring to overthrow the Trump administration and give power to Democratic governors), but the only coverage of the plot comes from low-credibility, unrated outlets that repeat the same investigation by one researcher, and no authoritative fact-checker or official record substantiates or refutes it as of 2026-10-21. Media Matters, a fact-checking outlet, says the host cited no direct evidence, but that is not a finding that the plot is false.10 sources →

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  37. 37TrueBank of America enabled foreign money laundering networks.The claim matches the post's wording and is supported by Treasury, FinCEN, and OCC findings that Bank of America admitted willfully violating the Bank Secrecy Act. Those findings say its controls failed to detect and report suspicious transactions indicative of Chinese money laundering networks, which is consistent with 'enabling' them. The sources describe failures to detect and report rather than knowing participation, and the sources do not show the bank intended to facilitate the networks.8 sources →

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  38. 38TrueBank of America was fined $1.2 billion.Multiple tier-1 sources, including the FinCEN and Treasury primary releases, confirm Bank of America was fined $1.2 billion on October 13, 2026 for anti-money laundering and sanctions failures. The claim's wording matches the passage's own figure, and the 'no accountability for executives' and net-worth comparisons are commentary not included in the extracted claim.7 sources →

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  39. 39MixedBank of America has $3.5 trillion in assets.Bank of America reported total assets of $3,499 billion (about $3.5 trillion) at the end of Q2 2026, but its Q3 2026 figure, reported October 14, 2026 before the post date, was $3,428 billion (about $3.4 trillion). As of October 21, 2026, the latest reported figure was therefore closer to $3.4 trillion, so the claim matches Q2 but not the most recent quarter. The post hedged with "I think it was 3.5 trillion," and the claim drops that hedge, which is a faithful paraphrase.6 sources →

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  40. 40TrueDonald Trump announced a 1% commission for anyone who exposes government fraud.Trump announced the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program from the Oval Office on October 20, 2026, promising a 1% commission on the amount of fraud a tip uncovers, which matches the claim and the post's 'yesterday' dating. The Justice Department's description of $10,000 to $30,000 awards differs from Trump's 1% framing, but that is a program-detail discrepancy, not a contradiction of the announcement.4 sources →

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  41. 41MixedThe administration has uncovered $260 billion of fraud in Medicare and Medicaid since taking office.The $260 billion figure is the administration's own estimate from the White House Fraud Ledger (about $260.7 billion of 'estimated fraud identified through data analysis' since January 2025), but sources describe it as spanning multiple programs, including Social Security and food assistance, and Fox17 notes it has not been independently verified. The claim's narrower scope of Medicare and Medicaid alone is not supported, since the total is not confined to those two programs.5 sources →

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  42. 42Can’t tellThe administration removed 160,000 dead people from the list of food stamp recipients.No provided source independently confirms or refutes that the administration removed 160,000 dead people from food stamp rolls. The figure appears only in the claimant's remarks and in coverage that repeats them, while the one related source (Snopes) discusses USDA findings about dead and double-enrolled recipients without this number.8 sources →

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  43. 43TrueThe administration removed 275,000 illegal aliens from Social Security.The administration's own primary releases state that about 275,000 illegal aliens were removed from or kicked off Social Security rolls, matching the claim's wording and the post's faithful paraphrase. Independent tier1 Reuters coverage of the October 2026 SSA record cleanup shows related citizenship-data corrections but does not verify the 275,000 count, and a GovExec piece disputes the administration's fraud framing without directly refuting this figure.9 sources →

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  44. 44FalseThe administration eliminated $125 billion in Obamacare subsidies.The administration did halt Obamacare subsidy payments, but the sources put the savings in the hundreds of millions to low billions (about $738 million this year, roughly $1.5 billion annualized, and a claimed total of nearly $6 billion), not $125 billion. The claim's $125 billion figure is grossly off the record's magnitude, and no source supports it.7 sources →

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  45. 45MixedThe administration uncovered 562,000 fraudulent small business loans.The SBA's own release and the Fraud.gov dashboard confirm the administration announced 562,000 suspected fraudulent or delinquent pandemic-era loans, but the SBA says those loans were first flagged during the Biden administration and not sent for collection. The claim's "uncovered" and dropped "suspected" qualifier therefore overstate the administration's role in identifying them, while the figure itself is supported.5 sources →

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  46. 46MixedThe administration cut off funding to fake hospice facilities that stole an estimated $1.4 billion.The sources support that the administration suspended or withheld about $1.4 billion in Medicare payments to hospice and home health providers suspected of fraud, with roughly 800 hospices cut off. They do not establish that the providers were fake or that the $1.4 billion was stolen, and the $1.4 billion covers home health as well as hospice.7 sources →

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  47. 47TrueThe False Claims Act has been on the books since 1863.The claim is a faithful extraction of the post's phrase 'the book since 1863' (meaning on the books), and multiple primary/official sources confirm the False Claims Act was enacted in 1863; the 'since 1863' framing is affirmed by DOJ and Senator Grassley's Congressional Record statement. The 'on the books' phrasing is casual wording, not a contradiction.5 sources →

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  48. 48TrueDonald Trump began his presidential campaign in 2015.Multiple independent sources report that Trump announced his presidential campaign on June 16, 2015 at Trump Tower, so the claim that his campaign began in 2015 is supported. The extracted claim is a faithful reading of the post's reference to his '2015 campaign.8 sources →

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  49. 49TrueStephen Miller and Steve Bannon were the authors of Donald Trump's 2017 inauguration speech.The Wall Street Journal report, relayed by The Hill, says a White House official told it that Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller penned Trump's 2017 inaugural address, and Politico, the NYT live coverage and Jacobin agree. Trump's team had claimed he wrote it himself, and an unrated university piece says he wrote the final text, but that dissent is weaker than the tier1 reporting and does not overturn the claim.8 sources →

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  50. 50Can’t tellPolymarket pays content creators as little as $25 to influence the US midterms through social media videos disguised as ordinary posts.The passage attributes the claim to 'political groups' paying creators as little as $25, and the extraction changed the payer to Polymarket, which the passage does not say, so the claim departs from the passage. The sources do document Polymarket paying influencers without disclosure, but none mentions a $25 payment or confirms the $25 figure.5 sources →

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  51. 51MixedIlhan Omar claims she obtained US citizenship as a 17-year-old minor through her father's naturalization in 2001.Sources confirm Omar claims she obtained citizenship as a 17-year-old minor through her father's naturalization, but they place that citizenship in 2000, not 2001 as the claim states. The year is the contradicted element; the core claim about derivative citizenship at 17 is supported.Minor detail. The sources confirm the claim; only a minor detail differs, such as a name's spelling, a title's wording or a rounding.7 sources →

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  52. 52TrueIlhan Omar's father passed away in 2020.Multiple independent reliable sources, including AP, Reuters, the congresswoman's own press release, NBC, Politico, NYT and CNN, confirm that Nur Omar Mohamed, Ilhan Omar's father, died in June 2020 from COVID-19 complications. The claim's only detail beyond the core is the year, which matches the record; the claim faithfully tracks the passage's '2020' reference.8 sources →

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  53. 53TrueThe Department of Homeland Security issued a certificate of non-existence of record for the naturalization of Ilhan Omar's father.Multiple outlets report that a DHS Certificate of Non-Existence of Record concerning Nur Omar Mohamed's naturalization exists, and AOL describes documents obtained by Kern showing a USCIS 'diligent search' with 'no record.' The sources trace largely to Kern's own account, and no source contradicts the claim, so confidence is moderate.5 sources →

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  54. 54MixedThe Social Security Administration has updated its records to include 390 million records that were recently reviewed and corrected.SSA did announce a large records correction on Oct 20, 2026, and about 390 million is the figure it gave for total database records. However, the SSA release says nearly 15% of active SSNs were corrected, and Washington Examiner reports roughly 60 million corrected records, so the claim's implication that 390 million records were reviewed and corrected misreads the 390 million total as the corrected count. The claim matches the post's wording, and the post's own 'database of 390 million records' phrasing is accurate.5 sources →

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  55. 55TrueNew immigrant student enrollment in California schools has decreased over the past two years.Multiple sources, all tracing to an EdSource report, state that new immigrant (newcomer) student enrollment in California has fallen sharply over the past two years, with Oakland Unified's new-student counts dropping from over 1,300 a year to 498 in 2025-26. The claim faithfully paraphrases the post, and the only independent-looking corroboration is the EdSource-origin coverage plus AP's national reporting on declines, so confidence is capped below 0.9.5 sources →

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  56. 56TrueBorder crossings decreased in early 2025.Multiple primary federal sources show border crossings fell sharply in early 2025: CBP monthly apprehensions dropped from 48,137 in December 2024 to 30,127 in January 2025 and 9,241 in February 2025, and Reuters reports Border Patrol apprehensions fell to the lowest levels in decades after January 2025. The claim's wording matches the post's extraction faithfully, and the post's word 'abrupt' is consistent with the steep February 2025 drop.6 sources →

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  57. 57TrueOakland Unified School District enrolled 1,300 new immigrant students each year from 2017 through 2025, excluding the year 2020.Multiple reprints of an EdSource report state that Oakland Unified had more than 1,300 new students arriving from other countries each year from 2017-18 to 2024-25, except 2020-21 during the pandemic, which matches the claim's core figure and 2020 exclusion. The claim's '2025' endpoint is a labeling ambiguity: the 2025-26 school year had only 498 new immigrant students, so the claim is only accurate if '2025' is read as the 2024-25 school year, and the claim drops the 'more than' qualifier, which is a minor imprecision. Most coverage traces back to EdSource, which limits confidence.5 sources →

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  58. 58TrueOakland Unified School District enrolled 498 new immigrant students in 2025.Multiple sources, including the EdSource original and a Just News reprint, report that Oakland Unified enrolled 498 new immigrant students in 2025-26 (the school year beginning fall 2025), which matches the claim's figure. The claim's '2025' is a reasonable reading of the school year, and the post's own wording matches it; the Oaklandside 2026 piece on newcomer declines is consistent with this trend.4 sources →

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  59. 59TrueAs of October 7, 2026, 212 new immigrant students had enrolled in Oakland Unified School District for the current school year.Multiple outlets report that 212 new immigrant students had enrolled in Oakland Unified for the first time as of Oct. 7, 2026, matching the claim. The figures trace largely to a single EdSource report, and the claim departs from the post only in trivial wording, not in substance.7 sources →

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  60. 60MixedThe number of newcomer students in Los Angeles Unified School District dropped from 20,755 in the 2024-2025 school year to 11,103 in the 2026-2027 school year.EdSource, citing district data, reports the claimed figures (20,755 in 2024-25 to 11,103 in 2026-27, a 46.5% drop) and the arithmetic checks out, but the only other district-based source, LAist, reports 2024-25 newcomer enrollment as 19,110, which conflicts with the 20,755 figure, possibly due to a different snapshot or definition. Most other sources simply repeat the EdSource numbers, so the figures are effectively single-sourced.5 sources →

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  61. 61TrueMike Johnston is the Mayor of Denver.Multiple sources confirm Mike Johnston has been Mayor of Denver since 2023 (Lincoln Institute, Wikipedia, Reuters Feb 2026 order, and the Denver mayor's office page), so the claim held on 2026-10-21. The claim departs only trivially from the passage, which calls him 'Mayor Mike Johnston', and the sources show he remained mayor afterward, with a 2027 reelection contest noted by Denverite.5 sources →

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  62. 62TrueElissa Slotkin is a former CIA employee.Multiple tier1 and primary sources (Senate.gov bio, AP, BBC, Reuters) confirm Elissa Slotkin was a CIA analyst before entering Congress, so she is a former CIA employee. The claim is a faithful extraction of the passage's 'former CIA officer' phrase, with the spelling 'Alyssa' in the post corrected to Elissa, which the sources support.6 sources →

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  63. 63Can’t tellNicole Wallace is a former CIA employee.None of the sources report that Nicolle Wallace ever worked for the CIA. Her documented career is in Republican politics, the Bush White House, and TV commentary, and the sources do not mention intelligence work. The only CIA officer named Nicole in the sources is a different person, so she cannot confirm or refute the claim.6 sources →

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  64. 64TrueAmy Acton is a candidate for Governor of Ohio.Multiple reliable sources published around the claim date (AP Oct 5, Statehouse News Oct 22, Cleveland.com Oct 27, ABC News Oct 25) confirm Amy Acton was the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor in the 2026 race as of 2026-10-21, and the post's phrasing 'running for governor' matches this. The claim is accurate as of the posting date and remains true at checking time, with the Nov. 3 election still pending.9 sources →

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  65. 65TrueDharma Arthur stated that Amy Acton lied about growing up in a tent.The sources confirm that Acton's birth mother appeared in the Ramaswamy ad and said Acton "says she grew up living in a tent. None of that is true" and that she "lies about her past." The sources name the speaker as Donna Arthur, while the post transcript says Dharma Arthur, but the context (Acton's mother in the ad) identifies the same person. The claim's act of stating is supported; court and police records in the sources contradict the content of what she said.7 sources →

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  66. 66TruePhilip Sturts stated that Amy Acton was sexually abused by their birth mother's husband at age 12.Philip Stearns, the brother, did state in the campaign's released statement that Acton endured sexual abuse at 12 from their birth mother's husband, and court and police records reported by several outlets show the stepfather was arrested and indicted for raping Acton at 12. The post spells the brother's surname 'Sturts' in one place and 'Stearns' in another, and the sources use 'Stearns', but the referent is clearly the same brother.9 sources →

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  67. 67MixedAmy Acton's driver's license was suspended due to a misdemeanor.Court records show Acton was cited in May 1993 for driving under suspension, a first-degree misdemeanor, and the officer listed an FRA (insurance) suspension, so a suspension and a related misdemeanor charge existed. However, the Dispatch and Yahoo reports say she pleaded guilty to a different, minor misdemeanor (driving with an expired license), and the suspension stemmed from a lack of insurance rather than from a misdemeanor, so the causal framing is contested.6 sources →

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  68. 68TrueThe woman interviewed by Piers Morgan stated that she would fire all Republicans if she were in office.Multiple reliable outlets report that Jaime West, the Indiana Democratic candidate interviewed by Piers Morgan, said she would fire all Republicans if elected, and she reaffirmed the pledge in the Morgan interview. The statement was originally made at a Connersville TV3 candidate forum on October 9, 2026, and the sources say 'if elected' rather than 'in office', a minor wording difference.6 sources →

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  69. 69TrueThe woman interviewed by Piers Morgan admitted to consuming three beers before the interview.Multiple independent outlets (Washington Post, Independent, People, Washington Examiner, Newsweek, IndyStar) report that Jaime West told Piers Morgan on his podcast she had three beers before the viral forum; the claim matches the passage, which refers to the same interview, and the claimant's own words are used only to resolve the referent. Some outlets note she also said she was 'not that intoxicated' and that she earlier said she had one beer, but the core admission of three beers is consistently reported.6 sources →

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  70. 70FalseThirteen service members have died during the ongoing military conflict.The claim that 13 service members had died was contradicted as of 2026-10-21: the Pentagon's official tally had been revised to 21 by October 11, and AP reported 21 killed on October 28. The figure of 13 matches reporting from June through July and an April Time piece, so it was accurate for an earlier period but not for the date the post was made.7 sources →

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  71. 71FalseOver 10,000 U.S. service members were lost during the 20-year war.The claim that over 10,000 U.S. service members were lost in the 20-year war is contradicted by official and tier-1 figures: about 2,350 to 2,450 U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan, and roughly 7,000 across both Iraq and Afghanistan. Reaching 10,000 only works by counting the roughly 20,000 wounded, who are not 'lost'.4 sources →

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  72. 72True89% of people believe that the government is corrupt according to a Gallup poll.Gallup's September 2026 poll (fielded May 1–June 10, 2026) found 89% of U.S. adults say government corruption is widespread, and multiple outlets report the same figure. The claim's wording ('believe the government is corrupt') is a close paraphrase of 'widespread corruption,' and the post's referent (the Gallup poll) matches; as of the 2026-10-21 posting date the figure was already published and no source contradicts it.5 sources →

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  73. 73TrueVolodymyr Zelenskyy met with Piers Morgan to discuss the war in Ukraine.Multiple reliable sources (Reuters, AP, Independent) report that Zelenskyy sat down with Piers Morgan for an interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored, filmed in London around 14 October 2026, and discussed the war in Ukraine, so the claim held on 2026-10-21. The post's 'he' refers to Morgan and the title names Zelensky, so the extraction is faithful; 'met with' is a reasonable description of the sit-down interview.5 sources →

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  74. 74Can’t tellThe United States has purchased fuel from Russia after the United States hit refineries in Russia.The claim departs from the passage: the speaker says Ukraine ('they') keeps hitting refineries in Russia, not that the United States did, so the 'United States hit refineries' element is not the post's claim and is graded as unverifiable. The purchase element is only partly covered: sources show a Trump-Putin diesel deal and a Russian diesel tanker bound for New York as of 2026-10-23, but no source confirms a completed US purchase by 2026-10-21.3 sources →

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  75. 75Can’t tellThe United States hitting refineries in Russia has caused a fuel crisis in the United States.The claim departs from the passage: the post says "they" (Ukraine, per the surrounding text) continue to hit Russian refineries, not the United States, so the extraction adds an actor the post never names. Sources show Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian refineries and US pressure on Kyiv to stop them, and they dispute whether those strikes drove US fuel prices (analysts point to the Iran war), but nothing here grades the claim as stated.10 sources →

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  76. 76FalseDiana DeGette is no longer in Congress.As of 2026-10-21, DeGette was still a sitting member of Congress: she lost the June 2026 Democratic primary, but her term runs to January 3, 2027, and official House records from October still list her as serving in the 119th Congress. The claim is false on the claim date, though her loss of renomination means she will leave office in January 2027.6 sources →

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  77. 77TrueDiana DeGette was a member of the United States House of Representatives for 30 years.DeGette first took office on January 3, 1997 and remained in the House through the 2026 period, so her tenure is about 29 to 30 years, and sources describe it both ways (Reuters and CPR say 29 years, AP and a Japanese consulate notice say 30). The 30-year figure falls within rounding of the record, and the claim does not add anything the post did not say.6 sources →

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  78. 78TrueDonald Trump stated he would be in China in November.Trump publicly stated on September 25, 2026 that he would meet Xi Jinping in China in November, as reported by Reuters and quoted from his Truth Social post, so the claim was true as of the October 21 posting date. The post's remark that he would be 'over in China in November' matches this statement, and the claim does not depart from the passage.6 sources →

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  79. 79FalseDonald Trump, Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin are going to meet in Beijing to settle the war in Ukraine.As of 2026-10-21 the Trump-Xi-Putin meeting was only a proposal: Putin raised it, Trump said he 'would do' it, and China had not issued an invitation. Sources place any summit at the APEC forum in Shenzhen, not Beijing, and report that Xi does not want Ukraine on the agenda, which contradicts the claim that the meeting is set to settle the war. Later reporting (Nov 1-2) on Steinmeier's account of his Oct 30 talks with Xi reinforces this, but the claim's core is undermined already by the Shenzhen location and the disputed Ukraine agenda.7 sources →

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  80. 80Can’t tellSusan Collins and Lisa Murkowski represent states that use ranked choice voting.On substance, the sources support that Maine (Collins's state) and Alaska (Murkowski's state) use ranked choice voting for federal elections. However, the passage only says "her and Lisa Murkowski" and never names Collins, so the extracted claim adds a name the post does not state, and it is graded as unverifiable. The claim was made 2026-10-21, and the sources confirm the RCV status as of that period.4 sources →

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  81. 81Can’t tellMyPillow mattresses and mattress toppers are priced as low as 99.98 dollars.The only source giving a $99.98 price is an aggregator coupon page (offers.com, published 2026-11-01, after the 2026-10-21 claim date), and it covers mattress toppers only, not mattresses. Retailer pages show toppers at higher prices (MyPillow's 2025 page lists toppers from $149.97 with promo code; Tractor Supply shows $179.99 on 2026-11-01), so the sources do not establish the claimed floor price as of 2026-10-21. The passage's 'as low as 99 98' matches the claim's wording, so the claim does not depart from the post.4 sources →

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  82. 82Can’t tellOver 99% of the fraud found by the federal government is not covered by the False Claims Act.The sources confirm that Vance made this statement on 2026-10-20 but do not measure what share of government-found fraud the False Claims Act covers, so the 99% figure is not directly graded. Recovery and loss estimates (FCA recoveries of roughly $2.9 to $6.8 billion against GAO-cited losses of $233 to $521 billion a year) point in its direction but are not the same measure, and an opinion piece calls the figure hyperbole. The claim is quoted from the speaker's own remarks, so it is graded on the sources alone.7 sources →

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Fact-checkers 77Primary records 64Most reliable outlets 10Reliable outlets 37Less reliable outlets 2Unrated 276Rated low 7

  • yournews.comRated low for factual reporting by Iffy.news · cited in checking claims 36, 59
  • economictimes.indiatimes.comRated low for factual reporting by Iffy.news · cited in checking claim 42
  • noticias.foxnews.comRated low for factual reporting by Iffy.news · cited in checking claim 46
  • thefederalist.comRated low for factual reporting by Iffy.news · cited in checking claim 6
  • thegatewaypundit.comRated low for factual reporting by Iffy.news and Media Bias/Fact Check · cited in checking claim 4
  • wnd.comRated low for factual reporting by Iffy.news and Media Bias/Fact Check · cited in checking claim 4

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