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Can’t tell35% confidence8 sourcesSep 16, 2026Judge Tawani issued a formal preliminary injunction eight days after the temporary restraining order.Said by CThe sources confirm a 14-day temporary restraining order granted on August 27, 2026 in the new USPS rule cases, but none reports a formal preliminary injunction issued eight days later (about September 4). The only preliminary injunction in the record was Judge Talwani's August 11 order, which came before the TRO, so the claimed sequence is not supported.Can’t tell30% confidence4 sourcesSep 16, 2026The Wisconsin Election Commission advised election officials to continue preparing for mail voting.Said by CNone of the provided sources reports the Wisconsin Election Commission advising election officials to continue preparing for mail voting as of 2026-09-16. Reuters (2026-09-15) describes election officials preparing for disruptions from the federal mail-voting plan, and the Wisconsin Commission's later guidance (Oct 2026) concerns absentee deadlines and clerk instructions, which are nearby but different. The claim is not contradicted, so it cannot be graded either way.Can’t tell50% confidence4 sourcesSep 16, 2026The Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) is under federal investigation.Sources show that DHS Secretary Mullin asked the Justice Department in early September 2026 to investigate CEIR under the Driver's Privacy Protection Act, and CEIR denied the allegations. No source confirms that DOJ actually opened an investigation of CEIR as of 2026-09-16, so the claim's central assertion is neither confirmed nor contradicted.Can’t tell40% confidence4 sourcesSep 16, 2026Fulton County officials filed lawsuits regarding election records without the permission of the board.Said by ASource [10] shows Chairman Robb Pitts and the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections filed a petition over the seizure of 2020 election records, which partly fits the claim's subject. No source addresses whether those filings were made with or without board permission, so the central 'without permission' element cannot be graded.Can’t tell50% confidence6 sourcesSep 16, 2026Nevada officials identified 185 possible non-citizens on their voter list during meetings with the Department of Homeland Security.The claim departs from the passage: the post attributes the 185 figure to DHS, which 'met with' Nevada and 'stood by' 185 possible non-citizens, not to Nevada officials identifying them. The sources agree that DHS confirmed or identified the 185 cases, and Nevada officials disputed that, saying their records showed all 185 were citizens.Can’t tell20% confidence3 sourcesSep 16, 2026The speaker served as a DOJ monitor for seven years.Said by CThe claim attributes to the speaker (David Becker, per the episode title) seven years of service as a DOJ monitor, which the passage states. None of the provided sources addresses Becker's monitoring history, so neither confirmation nor contradiction is possible; the sources only give general background on the monitor program.Can’t tell30% confidence5 sourcesSep 16, 2026Tamar Hagler served as Chief of the Voting Section at the Department of Justice for 25 years.Said by CThe extracted claim says Hagler served as Chief of the Voting Section for 25 years, but the post says only that she was a former chief and that she "was there for 25 years" (at DOJ), so the claim departs from the passage. Sources confirm she was chief of the Voting Section, but none gives her total tenure or her tenure as chief, so the 25-year figure is neither supported nor contradicted.Can’t tell35% confidence6 sourcesSep 16, 2026Banks kept over 433 billion dollars in interest from Americans.Said by 5DThe only source giving a matching figure is River's own marketing piece claiming about $434 billion in 2025 net interest income, and River is the advertiser sponsoring this segment, so it cannot independently corroborate the claim. Independent sources cover related but different measures (FDIC interest expense, Fed reserve payments, credit card interest) and do not establish a $433 billion figure for interest banks 'kept' from Americans; the claim also departs from the passage's own arithmetic of $1,600 per person times millions of Americans.Can’t tell40% confidence5 sourcesSep 16, 2026Stacy Abrams' organization Fair Fight engages in litigation in Georgia.The sources document that Fair Fight Action litigated in Georgia, including its 2018 federal suit lost in September 2022 and a 2020 suit against True the Vote, but none show its current litigation as of 2026-09-16. The claim also departs from the passage, which says only that Abrams is "in Fair Fight down in Georgia" and never mentions litigation, so the claim adds a scope the post did not make.Can’t tell50% confidence7 sourcesSep 16, 2026Statutory claims against the Postal Service must be reviewed first by the Postal Regulatory Commission and then by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.Said by 5CThe passage says the statute channels 'many claims' to PRC initial review and then D.C. Circuit review, and the sources confirm that mechanism for certain complaints under 39 U.S.C. §§3662-3663. The extracted claim drops 'many' and asserts that all statutory claims against the Postal Service must go through this path, a widened scope the post does not state, so the claim departs from the passage and is unverifiable as stated.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.Can’t tell40% confidence6 sourcesSep 16, 2026A district judge issued a nationwide injunction after Justice Scalia stated that district judges could not issue nationwide injunctions.The sources do not show that Justice Scalia said district judges could not issue nationwide injunctions, and no source covers the specific 2026 USPS mail-ballot injunction the post describes. Coverage of nationwide injunctions names other Justices' separate-opinion views but does not mention a Scalia statement of this kind, so the claim is uncorroborated rather than contradicted.