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Can’t tell35% confidence5 sourcesOct 15, 2026Minnesota law allows schools to facilitate gender transition for children without parental consent.Said by AThe claim adds 'facilitate gender transition,' which the passage never says; the post only says schools can take a child out of school and 'do whatever,' so the claim departs from the passage and cannot be graded as the poster's statement. Even on the closest reading, the sources do not show a Minnesota law letting schools facilitate transition without parental consent: the health compendium reports no restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors, PolitiFact found the 2023 'Trans Refuge' law does not authorize taking custody from non-consenting parents, and the 2026 HF3533 and SF 5247 items are bill texts or status pages, not enacted law.Can’t tell45% confidence9 sourcesOct 15, 2026The Democratic Party voted in favor of policies that resulted in the highest energy costs in American history.Said by AThe sources document rising energy costs and some record-high gasoline prices in 2022, but none establishes that Democratic votes produced the highest energy costs in American history. PolitiFact (2022) found that green energy policies did not cause the record gas prices, which cuts against the causal attribution, but the claim's sweeping partisan superlative is not tested directly by the sources.Can’t tell30% confidence3 sourcesOct 15, 2026A male athlete finished a long-distance race six hours, 14 minutes, and twelve seconds ahead of the women.Said by AThe sources do not cover the race the claimant describes, which mixes swimming, cycling and running and is never named, so no source confirms or refutes a six-hour, 14-minute, 12-second winning margin. The sources cover marathons where the men's and women's winning gaps are roughly 18 minutes (NYC 2026) and 3 minutes 40 seconds (Sydney 2025), which are different events.Can’t tell45% confidence8 sourcesOct 15, 2026Donald Trump has taken a cognitive test during every physical examination he has had while in office.Said by ASources document a cognitive test at Trump's 2018, April 2025, and May 2026 physicals, and Trump's own statements say he takes one at every physical. No source establishes whether a test was given at every physical he has had in office, and none contradicts the claim, so the universal 'every physical' assertion is not confirmed.Can’t tell50% confidence7 sourcesOct 15, 2026Donald Trump has taken a cognitive test three times.Said by AThe post's own account (three tests, with the last at a recent physical) matches what Trump has repeatedly said, but the sources only independently document about two tests: a 2018 test confirmed by his physician, and a 2025 test he mentioned at his first second-term physical. The third test rests only on Trump's own statements, which cannot corroborate the claim, so the count cannot be confirmed or refuted.Can’t tell60% confidence6 sourcesOct 15, 2026No other president has taken the cognitive test that Donald Trump took.Said by AThe sources show Trump repeatedly claiming he is the only president to take a cognitive test, but independent fact-checkers say this cannot be verified because there is no official record of whether other presidents took such tests privately. The claim is therefore unverifiable rather than true or false.Can’t tell35% confidence6 sourcesOct 15, 2026Katie Hobbs made Arizona one of the least affordable states in the country.Said by AThe claim repeats a ranking and causal attribution that Trump and Andy Biggs made, and the only support is partisan material (a campaign-linked memo calling Arizona the seventh least affordable state) plus candidate statements. No authoritative source confirms that Arizona was among the least affordable states or that Hobbs caused it, and the Common Sense Institute attributes housing costs to a lack of construction, while the state budget summary reports modest housing affordability improvement; the extracted wording matches the passage.Can’t tell60% confidence3 sourcesOct 15, 2026Donald Trump won the state of Nevada in the 2020 election with the highest vote total in the history of Nevada.Said by AThe sources show Joe Biden, not Trump, won Nevada in the 2020 election (50.06% to 47.67%), but the passage never names 2020; the extracted claim adds that year, so it departs from the post, which refers to an unspecified Nevada win. The post's 'highest vote in the history of Nevada' assertion is not corroborated by any source, so the claim as posted cannot be graded from these sources.Can’t tell60% confidence7 sourcesOct 15, 202698% of people who voted against Donald Trump in the past say they will vote for House Republican candidates in the upcoming election.Said by 6AThe claim departs from the passage: the 98% figure in the post refers to MAGA Republicans (who backed Trump 99% in 2024), not to people who voted against Trump, and no source reports a 98% figure for anti-Trump voters. Sources do show Republican likely voters at 96% supporting their party's candidates (ABC/Post/Ipsos, Oct. 9-13), but that is a different group and figure.Can’t tell20% confidence2 sourcesOct 15, 2026The book titled The War of Stories is available for purchase at badlandsmedia.tv/rise.The post says 'The War of Stories, available now at badlands media.tv slash rise,' and the extracted claim matches that wording faithfully. None of the sources mentions a book titled The War of Stories or confirms that badlandsmedia.tv/rise sells it; the phrase 'war of stories' appears only as podcast rhetoric, and the Badlands shop page lists other products. Absence of coverage is not contradiction, so the claim cannot be graded.Can’t tell35% confidence6 sourcesOct 15, 2026A 104-year-old veteran received the Congressional Medal of Honor.The post says Trump mentioned a Medal of Honor for a 104-year-old veteran during an October 2026 rally, and the claim faithfully reflects that. None of the sources shows a 104-year-old receiving the Medal of Honor: the sources show Royce Williams at 100 (February 2026, described as the oldest recipient ever) and later recipients with no stated age of 104, while the 104-year-old Oscar Primm was honored only by a House statement, not the Medal of Honor.Can’t tell50% confidence7 sourcesOct 15, 2026Democrats are planning to reopen the southern border and open the prisons and jails of the planet to release criminals into the United States.Said by AThe post made a conditional forecast ('if the Democrats get back into power, they will...'), but the extracted claim restates it as a present plan ('are planning'), which departs from the passage. The sources contain partisan characterizations that Democrats want open borders and a Democratic Socialists of America cochair's answer on abolishing prisons, but none shows a Democratic plan to empty the world's prisons into the U.S. The Marshall Project fact-check debunks Trump's claims about prison releases from Venezuela, a different referent, so it does not settle this claim.