PM Show Hr 1 | At This Point You are Either for Paxton or Talarico

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1. 1TrueKen Paxton and James Talarico are the two candidates in the election.Multiple reliable sources published in late October and early November 2026 (AP, Reuters, PBS, CBS) identify Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico as the two candidates facing off in the U.S. Senate race in Texas. The claim's 'the election' is best read as that Senate race, as the post's title and context suggest; the same sources show other races, such as governor, on the same ballot, and the sources report no third candidate in the Senate race.6 sources →
2. 2MixedThe federal government requires the removal of abandoned pipelines.The claim is partly supported: offshore seafloor pipelines are generally required to be removed, per Oceana's summary of federal rules. But the sources also show that federal regulators routinely allow abandoned pipelines to be left in place, with over 97% authorized that way, and the pipeline rule in 49 CFR 192.727 requires only disconnecting, purging, and sealing abandoned pipelines, not removing them. The post's specific Georgia-to-Alabama pipeline case is not addressed by any source.5 sources →

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3. 3TrueThe study linking testosterone replacement therapy to prostate health issues has been debunked.The sources consistently find no established link between testosterone replacement therapy and increased prostate cancer risk, and the FDA/HHS proposal says available data have not generally shown such an increase, which supports the claim that the concern has been refuted. No source names the single 'one study' the post refers to or uses the word 'debunked' about it, so the specific-study wording is inferred from the broader evidence.6 sources →

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4. 4TrueJames Talarico campaigned at Black churches over the weekend.Sources show Talarico spent the weekend of September 12-13, 2026 in Houston, including a Sunday rally at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church and a Sunday morning visit to Church Without Walls, both predominantly Black churches. The extracted claim matches the post's wording and timeframe, and the post's own 'weekend' is the same weekend the sources describe.5 sources →

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5. 5OpinionThe author judges that it is funny to watch James Talarico pander to voters.A judgement, not a statement of fact. It has no true or false answer.

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6. 6TrueJasmine Crockett stated she is not campaigning for James Talarico.Crockett publicly said she would not campaign with Talarico and would focus on down-ballot races instead, as reported by The Hill and CNN in August 2026. The claim's wording matches the post's paraphrase, and later coverage confirms she still had not campaigned with him.4 sources →

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7. 7TrueJames Talarico is 37 years old.James Talarico, the Texas Democratic Senate candidate, was born May 17, 1989, so he was 37 on the posted date of 2026-08-18. The WSJ and NYT, both published in late October 2026, describe him as 37, and the birth date is consistent across Britannica and Wikipedia. The claim matches the passage's wording, and the post's 'Tallarico' spelling refers to the same person.5 sources →

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8. 8TrueJames Talarico shares a bank account with his mother.Talarico's personal financial disclosure, as quoted by multiple outlets, lists a single Wells Fargo checking account 'jointly held by the filer and the filer's mother,' and the claim held as of the September 2026 posting. The post's 'unmarried' and '37-year-old' details are not part of the extracted claim and do not change its core, and the August disclosure shows the account still existed though its balance had dropped.9 sources →

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9. 9Can’t tellJames Talarico does not live in the district he represents.The sources report that Talarico listed his parents' Austin address on his voter registration and did not update it until September 2024, after buying a home nearby, and his campaign says he lives at a north Austin home he owns. None of the sources states that this home lies outside House District 50, so the claim that he does not live in the district he represents is neither confirmed nor refuted. The claim is also a paraphrase of the post, which says he doesn't live with his mother and that she lives in the district and he doesn't; that reading is graded here as the same assertion.7 sources →

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10. 10TrueThe Houston Chronicle published a headline stating: 'Muslim leaders call today's Islamophobia worse than 9-11 aftermath.'Two sources show the Houston Chronicle headline with the claimed wording: a Reddit post by the houston_chronicle author and a Rothko Chapel archive entry dated September 11, 2026. The Chronicle's own article URL (source 3) carries a different headline, 'Houston Muslims say Islamophobia is worse today than after 9/11. What changed?', which suggests the headline was later reworded, but the claimed headline did appear.3 sources →

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11. 11Can’t tellThe Senate Leadership Fund has spent $50.2 million in the current Texas race.No source reports SLF's Texas spending as of 2026-09-15, so the $50.2 million figure is neither confirmed nor refuted. The nearest data points are a Texas Tribune report (2026-09-22) of 'nearly $70 million' already spent and Politico's $131 million by Oct. 10, which are consistent with a lower mid-September figure but do not establish $50.2 million.5 sources →

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12. 12PredictionThe Paxton campaign will raise $200 million if current fundraising trends continue.Can't be checked yet.

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13. 13TrueJeff Zucker was the head of CNN in 2015 and 2016.Multiple tier1 sources establish that Jeff Zucker led CNN Worldwide from January 2013 until his February 2022 resignation, so he was head of CNN in 2015 and 2016. The claim matches the passage's own timeframe ('in '15 and '16') and no source contradicts it.6 sources →

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14. 14MixedKen Paxton went from trailing by 20 points in the polls to receiving significant campaign contributions.The money half of the claim is well supported: by September 2026 Paxton had raised $18 million in Q3, and outside groups had poured in hundreds of millions, including Musk-linked money. The 20-point deficit is contradicted, since polls cited in the sources show Paxton trailing Talarico by only about 1 to 6 points, and no source reports a 20-point gap. The extraction faithfully reflects the post's wording, so the claim is graded as made.5 sources →

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15. 15TrueJames Talarico stated, 'I'm a Christian who hates Christianity.'Talarico did say, in a 2021 Activist Theology Podcast interview, that he thinks of himself as a Christian who hates Christianity. Snopes and FactCheck.org both confirm the quote is accurate, though the claim drops the 'always think of myself as' wording and the context that he is always drawn back to Christianity.4 sources →

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16. 16TrueJames Talarico stated that God is 'nonbinary'.Multiple tier1 sources confirm that Talarico said "God is nonbinary" during Oct. 14, 2021, Texas House floor remarks opposing HB 25, the transgender youth sports bill. The extraction's attribution to Talarico matches the post's own subject, so the claim is graded as stated.6 sources →

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17. 17MixedJames Talarico stated, 'There are not two genders. There are six.'Talarico did say in a 2021 Texas House hearing that there are "many more than two biological sexes" and "six" of them, and he later said "there are not six sexes, there are two." However, FactCheck.org reports that the ad's line "let there be six genders" includes phrases that weren't part of his statements, so the exact quoted wording and the 'genders' framing are not his, and the post's passage is the host's commentary on the ad rather than a Talarico quote.7 sources →

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18. 18MixedJames Talarico stated, 'We're going to dismantle capitalism.'Talarico's 2020 remarks described capitalism as an 'oppressive system' he wanted to help dismantle, alongside white supremacy and climate change, so the sentiment is documented. But no source contains the verbatim line 'We're going to dismantle capitalism,' and his 2026 Diary of a CEO interview says he is not proposing a radical economic vision and that 'we don't have capitalism' today, which cuts against a present-tense plan to dismantle it.7 sources →

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19. 19TrueJames Talarico stated, 'Oil and gas is an outdated business. It's like cassette tapes.'Multiple outlets report that Talarico compared Texas's oil and gas industry to cassette tapes and said it would not last, most clearly in a 2020 Sierra Club forum. The exact wording in the claim ('outdated business') does not appear in the sources, but the substance matches the reported remarks, so the claim is graded as a faithful paraphrase.5 sources →

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20. 20TrueThe Senate Leadership Fund produced a political advertisement targeting James Talarico.Multiple sources, including AP and FactCheck.org, confirm the Texas PAC, which is affiliated with the Senate Leadership Fund, ran ads targeting Democrat James Talarico, and the claim's core assertion holds. The post calls it a Texas PAC spot 'the Senate Leadership Fund has done'; sources describe the Texas PAC as SLF-associated, which is a standard reading of that attribution, though the ad's accuracy is disputed and not part of this claim.6 sources →

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21. 21TrueJames Talarico stated that denying a child's gender identity is abusive.Multiple sources quote Talarico's October 2019 House committee remarks on HB 1910: 'if you deny your child's gender identity, that's incredibly harmful... whether or not we label it with the term abuse, it's abusive for sure.' PolitiFact acknowledges the ad's citation of his 2019 'abusive' remark without disputing that he made it, so the claim is supported, though he hedged on the word 'abuse' and the statement was made in 2019, not in 2026.6 sources →

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22. 22Can’t tellThe Texas Senate previously claimed to have engaged in election finance reform.None of the sources records the Texas Senate making the claimed 'election finance reform' statement, so the claim can be neither confirmed nor refuted. The closest source, a 2017 Texas Senate ethics-reform passage, is about a different bill and does not contain the quoted assertion. The post says only 'The Senate', so the Texas attribution is an inference from context.7 sources →

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23. 23FalseJames Talarico supported using taxpayer dollars for sex change surgeries on young children.Multiple authoritative fact-checkers (PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, CNN) rate the claim that Talarico supported taxpayer-funded sex change surgeries for young children as false or misleading: he voted against SB 14, which banned such surgeries and public funding for them, and he opposes surgeries for minors, though he voted for narrowing amendments. The extracted claim matches the ad's wording, which the post repeats.7 sources →

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24. 24FalseThere are between 601.4 million jobs in Texas.The claim that there are 601.4 million jobs in Texas is off by roughly a factor of 40. Primary sources from the Texas Workforce Commission and BLS put Texas nonfarm employment at about 14.4 to 14.5 million in mid-2026, and the claim was checked as of its 2026-09-15 posting date, when the figure was about 14.46 million. The extraction matches the passage's wording, so the claim is graded as the post made it.3 sources →

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25. 25FalseKen Paxton was down by almost 15 points in one poll.The claim's referent is clearly Paxton and the passage's "down by almost 15 points" refers to a poll he trailed in. The sources report no poll showing a deficit anywhere near 15 points: the largest Talarico lead cited is 6 to 7 points (CNN, and Fox registered voters), and one source says Paxton's polling since summer shows him trailing by single digits. Because a single unlisted poll could still exist, confidence is moderate.8 sources →

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26. 26FalseClayton Williams led Ann Richards by over 30 percentage points in the 1990 Texas gubernatorial race.No source reports Williams leading Richards by more than 30 points at any point in the 1990 race. The largest lead cited is about twenty points (Wikipedia, unrated), while the polls reported in the sources show leads of roughly 8 to 11 points.6 sources →

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27. 27MixedClayton Williams' lead over Ann Richards dropped to 10% by the time of their 1990 debate.Sources show Williams' lead shrinking through 1990, with late-summer polls at roughly 8 to 10 points (D Magazine) and a 46-38 poll after the rape remark (Texas Monthly), so a 10-point lead is within the reported range. However, no source dates the debate or reports the lead at that moment, and the sources conflict on his starting lead (Wikipedia says about 20 points, the post says over 30). Later polls showed a 5-point lead (LA Times, late October), and the lead had evaporated by Election Day.5 sources →

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28. 28MixedIn the 1960 presidential election, radio listeners polled as preferring Richard Nixon by five percentage points.The sources support that radio listeners were polled as favoring Nixon after the first 1960 debate, but none gives a five-point margin. The one poll cited, Sindlinger's, reported a 2-to-1 margin, which is a different and larger measure, and later analysis calls that poll biased and its radio-victory finding unreliable.4 sources →

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29. 29FalseKen Paxton has an artificial eye.The claim that Ken Paxton has an artificial eye is contradicted by multiple sources describing his own natural eyes after a childhood injury, including surgeries, a droopy eyelid, and a 'good' left eye. The Nick Lachey page makes contradictory claims and is low credibility, so it does not establish the claim. The extraction matches the post, which states the artificial-eye assertion directly.5 sources →

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30. 30Can’t tellPipe Yard Inc. facilitates the removal and sale of pipelines across three different states.The sources support that Pipe Yard Inc. removes pipelines and buys and sells used pipe, with its own website claiming removals 'anywhere in the United States.' None of the sources says the company works in exactly three states, so that specific figure is unverified, and the sources are mostly self-published or aggregator listings. The claim's 'three states' detail comes from the post, and the post's claim that this business is 'entire pipelines' moving across three states is not corroborated by independent records as of 2026-09-15.5 sources →

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31. 31Can’t tellIn the 2016 primary, Jeb Bush raised $78.6 million before dropping out.The claim departs from the passage: the post attributes the $78.6 million figure to Cruz, who stayed in the race later, not to Jeb Bush, whom it says raised the most money at the point he dropped out. The sources do not report a $78.6 million figure for Bush, and they report larger Bush fundraising totals (over $100 million to over $150 million including his super PAC), so the figure as attached to Bush cannot be confirmed.2 sources →

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