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True75% confidence5 sourcesOct 21, 2026The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced a project regarding voter rolls in April 2025.Said by 3BDHS, 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.True60% confidence8 sourcesOct 21, 2026Lifelong 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.True80% confidence6 sourcesOct 21, 2026Zohran Mamdani appointed Jewish advisors to his council in New York.Said by AMamdani 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.True93% confidence5 sourcesOct 21, 2026Mike 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.True75% confidence8 sourcesOct 21, 2026Bank 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.True97% confidence7 sourcesOct 21, 2026Bank of America was fined $1.2 billion.Said by 3BMultiple 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.True90% confidence4 sourcesOct 21, 2026Donald Trump announced a 1% commission for anyone who exposes government fraud.Said by 3BTrump 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.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True60% confidence9 sourcesOct 21, 2026The 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.True90% confidence5 sourcesOct 21, 2026The 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.True95% confidence8 sourcesOct 21, 2026Donald Trump began his presidential campaign in 2015.Said by AMultiple 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.True85% confidence8 sourcesOct 21, 2026Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon were the authors of Donald Trump's 2017 inauguration speech.Said by AThe 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.True60% confidence5 sourcesOct 21, 2026The Department of Homeland Security issued a certificate of non-existence of record for the naturalization of Ilhan Omar's father.Said by 5CMultiple 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.