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True65% confidence7 sourcesOct 28, 2026Ballots cast by Black voters in North Carolina are up 63% from the same point in 2022.Said by BIndependent State Board of Elections data reported by the Washington Examiner on 2026-10-23 shows Black early voters at about 279,688 versus roughly 170,000 at the same point in 2022, a rise of about 64%, consistent with the claimed 63%. Other reports put the increase at over 60% and 70% at earlier dates, and no source contradicts the claim, though the exact 63% figure and its date are not stated in an independent source (the Bloomberg-quoted figure is echoed by the Sykes substack, which is circular).Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True80% confidence6 sourcesOct 28, 2026The Voting Rights Act of 1965 passed the United States Senate with a vote of 79 to 18.Said by CThe final Senate passage of the Voting Rights Act on August 4, 1965 was 79-18, per the Congressional Research Service and a Supreme Court record. Several sources instead cite 77-19, which is the earlier May 26, 1965 Senate vote on the original bill, S. 1564, so the claim holds for the final bill as the post specified.True85% confidence6 sourcesOct 28, 2026In Louisiana, Black voters have cast more early votes in one week than they did in all of 2022.Said by BLouisiana Secretary of State data, as reported by KPLC and WBRZ, shows Black early votes exceeded the full 2022 early-voting total within about a week of early voting: KPLC reports 179,094 Black early votes through Oct. 27 versus 98,008 in 2022, and WBRZ reports 123,568 Black early votes with the 2022 total nearly 25,000 lower. The claim's "all of 2022" refers to the 2022 early-voting period, which the sources use as the comparison, and the figures are consistent with the claim as of Oct. 28. The sources are local outlets citing the state's data rather than the state's own record, so confidence is high but not maximal.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True55% confidence6 sourcesOct 28, 2026Black voters in Florida are using in-person early voting at twice the rate they did in 2022.Said by BThe claim matches McDonald's statement, as reported by Bloomberg and repeated in the Yahoo and Sykes pieces, that Black in-person early voting in Florida roughly doubled from the same point in 2022. The only direct figure comes from secondary reporting of his tracker, and the Yahoo piece groups Black and Hispanic voters together, so confidence is moderate; the official UF tracker source shows no readable Black-voter figures.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True80% confidence7 sourcesOct 28, 2026Strom Thurmond voted against the Voting Rights Act of 1965 after switching from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party.Said by CMultiple sources state that Thurmond switched from the Democrats to the Republicans in 1964 and voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act, so the switch came before the vote. The claim's 'Republican Party' wording is resolved from the post's own reference to Republican senators, and no source contradicts it.True75% confidence5 sourcesOct 28, 2026The proportion of Black voters in the Louisiana early vote has increased from 26% in 2022 to 34% in 2026.Said by AThe KPLC report, citing Louisiana Secretary of State data through Oct. 27, 2026, states Black voters are about 34% of early voters, up from about 26% in 2022. The totals check out: 98,008 of 377,428 in 2022 is about 26%, and 179,094 of 520,942 in 2026 is about 34%. The claimant's figure of 96,000 in 2022 differs slightly from the 98,008 reported, which is within rounding for a claim about share.True75% confidence6 sourcesOct 28, 2026Total early voting in Louisiana is up 40% compared to the previous cycle.Said by ALouisiana early voting was up about 38% to nearly 40% over 2022 as of October 28, 2026, so the claim's 40% figure is within rounding of the reported increase. WAFB reported 520,942 votes against 377,428 in 2022, a rise of about 38%, and WBRZ and KNOE both cite about 38% from Secretary of State data, while WAFB's headline says 'nearly 40%'. The claim matches the post's own wording ('it's up 40% in Louisiana'), so the extraction is faithful.True60% confidence4 sourcesOct 28, 2026Rural hospitals are being defunded.Said by ASources on the claim's central point agree that rural hospital funding is being reduced. The 2025 federal law's Medicaid cuts are expected to lower rural health funding overall, and the FY2027 budget request proposes eliminating rural health programs. Those cuts are mostly projected or phased in rather than already reflected in hospital budgets, and a new $50B rural fund partly offsets them, so the claim is supported with caveats.True85% confidence5 sourcesOct 28, 2026Texas gerrymandered five seats.Said by AMultiple reliable sources (Reuters, NBC News, CBS News Texas, AP) report that Texas Republicans redrew the congressional map in 2025 to target five Democratic-held seats, and the new map is in use for the 2026 midterms. The claim's 'five seats' figure matches the record; the post's wording 'gerrymandered five seats' is consistent with this, and the sources describe the new map as partisan gerrymandering.True90% confidence5 sourcesOct 28, 2026Barack Obama is rallying voters in Georgia.Said by BMultiple independent outlets (AP, CBS Atlanta, Georgia Recorder, GPB, FOX 5, Reuters-syndicated coverage) report that former President Barack Obama rallied Georgia voters on Wednesday October 28, 2026 in Morrow/Clayton County alongside Ossoff and Bottoms, matching the claim's core assertion as of the posting date. The claim's wording ('is rallying') is a present-tense paraphrase of the post's 'will be there shortly to rally voters across Georgia'; the rally did occur on the posted day, so it is graded as supported.True80% confidence5 sourcesOct 28, 2026Jon Ossoff is leading by eight points in the latest AJC poll.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll, conducted by UGA's School of Public and International Affairs and released October 21, 2026, showed Ossoff at 48% to Collins's 40%, an eight-point lead, and multiple outlets reported the same figures. The post's 'latest AJC poll' matches this release, which was the latest before the October 28 posting, and no later AJC poll appears in the sources.True85% confidence6 sourcesOct 28, 2026Jon Ossoff made corruption the focus of his 2020 campaign against Senator David Perdue.Said by 2DMultiple 2020-era sources report that Ossoff's campaign centered on anti-corruption themes and that attacking Perdue as corrupt was its dominant message, so the claim is supported. The claim matches the passage's wording without adding anything, and no source contradicts it.