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Mixed45% confidence6 sourcesOct 28, 2026There are approximately 500,000 high-propensity Republican voters in Texas who have not yet voted.Said by 3BThe sources give competing estimates of high-propensity Republicans who had not yet voted, and the claimed 500,000 falls between them: Ryan's count of 318,000 Republicans who voted in all four prior GOP primaries (through Oct. 23) and Patrick's roughly 600,000 (Oct. 25). The claim is a faithful extraction of the passage's 'about a half million', but no source gives 500,000 directly, and the broader 2 million figure uses a different definition.Mixed45% confidence4 sourcesOct 7, 2026In the three months leading up to the 2024 presidential election, the spot price of gold increased by over 12%.Said by ENo source directly measures gold's change over the three months before the November 5, 2024 election, so the claim can only be estimated from monthly data. Those estimates vary by measure: compounding COMEX monthly changes from source [2] gives roughly +13% for August through October, while monthly-average figures in [6] give roughly +9% from August to October and about +12% from July. The claimed 12% sits within that range, so the verdict depends on the measure used.Mixed60% confidence10 sourcesOct 7, 2026President Donald Trump stated that a ballistic missile would be dropped on Los Angeles or San Diego.Said by DTrump did say, at the San Antonio rally, "Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles," but he did not use the word "ballistic," and the sources frame the remark as a conditional about Iran rather than a stated plan. The White House and Trump's Truth Social post say he meant that Iran with a nuclear weapon would threaten those cities, while critics read it as calling for an attack. The literal wording is supported, but the claim's characterization of Trump's intent is contested.Mixed50% confidence7 sourcesOct 7, 2026Following the release of the Access Hollywood tape in October 2016, Republican establishment figures proposed that Mike Pence replace Donald Trump as the presidential nominee with Condoleezza Rice as the vice-presidential nominee.Said by EContemporaneous 2016 coverage shows many Republicans called for Trump to step down and often suggested Pence as a replacement, and Vox columnist Akhil Amar floated a 'flip the ticket' idea. The specific claim that GOP officials proposed a Pence-for-Trump ticket with Condoleezza Rice as VP rests on a single Atlantic report (2017) repeated by other outlets, which Pence's press secretary explicitly denied ('Didn't happen'). The sources conflict on whether the Pence-Rice arrangement was actually proposed.Mixed60% confidence7 sourcesOct 7, 2026Paula Jones and other women publicly accused Bill Clinton of rape at a presidential debate.Said by EThe sources confirm that Trump presented several Clinton accusers, including Paula Jones, at a pre-debate event in St. Louis, and that Juanita Broaddrick publicly accused Bill Clinton of rape. They contradict the rape part as applied to Jones: her allegation was of propositioning and exposure, not rape. The claim also departs from the post's setting (the women were at a pre-debate press conference and sat in the debate hall, and the sources do not record a rape accusation spoken at the debate itself).Mixed60% confidence7 sourcesOct 7, 2026There have been no official government investigations into the October 7, 2023, attack in Israel as of October 2026.Read literally, 'no official government investigations' is contradicted: the IDF (Feb 2025), the Shin Bet (Mar 2025) and the state comptroller (launched Dec 2023, later suspended) all conducted official probes of the October 7 failures. Read as the post likely meant it, 'no official state inquiry', the sources largely support it: a BBC piece from 2026-10-07 says there is still no independent state inquiry, and the government's Nov 2025 committee was described as watered-down and under Netanyahu's control. The claim's literal wording and its intended meaning get different verdicts, so it is rated mixed.Mixed55% confidence10 sourcesAug 17, 2026The Chinese Communist Party purchased a building within sniper distance of the White House.The sources support that a building about 650 feet from the White House was bought on July 21, 2026 for $8.4 million by the Philip Qiu and Family Foundation, whose chairman is described as a CCP-linked former intelligence official. No source says the Chinese Communist Party itself, as an institution, made the purchase, so the claim's attribution to the party is a stretch beyond the record, and the post's 'Ministry of State Security' description is not supported.Mixed60% confidence6 sourcesAug 17, 2026The Wuhan Institute of Virology is run by a general and its experiments were approved by a general using military budget funds.Said by BThe sources contradict the claim that the Wuhan Institute of Virology is run by a general: the ODNI assessment describes it as a civilian institute founded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and independent of the PLA. The State Department and Epoch Times do support some military involvement, including classified research for the Chinese military and collaboration on a military-linked project, but no source says a general runs the institute or approves its experiments with military budget funds.Mixed45% confidence4 sourcesAug 17, 2026More than 75% of people entering the United States on exchange visitor visas are working as cheap labor for employers.Said by DThe only source with a share figure, CIS (unrated advocacy group), reports that 75 percent of 2025 J-1 visa issuances went to workers, which roughly matches the claim's figure but not its 'more than 75%' wording. The 'cheap labor' characterization is advocacy framing, and the figure measures visa issuances rather than people entering, so the verdict is mixed rather than true.Mixed40% confidence4 sourcesAug 17, 2026The number of Chinese research scholars coming to the United States on exchange visas has decreased.Said by DThe claim is a present-tense statement about August 2026, but the sources cover mainly 2018 to 2022. An NBER working paper shows Chinese J-1 scholar numbers falling sharply through 2021/22, with only slow recovery in 2023. A 2026 NYT report, citing a Carnegie study, says the number of Chinese-origin AI researchers working in the US rose over the prior three years, though that is a narrower population than exchange-visa research scholars. No source directly measures 2026 J-1 research scholar flows, and the claim's post also says the numbers 'have gone down a little bit' without any 2026 data behind it.Mixed50% confidence6 sourcesAug 17, 2026The State Department outsources the oversight of exchange visitor visa programs to staffing companies.Said by DSources show the State Department relies on designated sponsors for much day-to-day program management and oversight, which partly supports the claim. However, official State sources say ECA itself administers and monitors the program, and no source identifies the sponsors as staffing companies, so the 'outsourced to staffing companies' framing is not supported. The claim also departs from the post's 'all the oversight' wording by dropping 'all', which is a narrowing rather than an addition. Sources are dated to 2026 and the 2011 and 2016 items are older, but the post's date of 2026-08-17 falls within the period the sources cover.Mixed40% confidence6 sourcesAug 17, 2026The State Department runs a program that places 32,000 camp counselors and 10,000 au pairs in the United States.Said by AThe sources confirm the State Department administers the J-1 exchange programs that include camp counselors and au pairs, so the program claim holds. The specific figures do not hold up: no source gives 32,000 camp counselors, and the only au pair counts (about 20,000 in 2013 and roughly 17,500 per year in 2017) differ from the claimed 10,000, though those figures are old and predate the 2026 claim date. The extraction is faithful to the post, which gives the same figures.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.