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Jennifer Welch & Angie Sullivan
Bible Belt natives and progressive podcasters, Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan share how they *really feel* about political news. Their comedic, feel-good takes drop daily, possibly more when sh*t really hits the fan.
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Mixed55% confidence7 sourcesSep 20, 2026The Heritage Foundation conducted an investigation into voter fraud and found very little, minuscule instances of it.Said by BThe Heritage Foundation's voter fraud database does list only about 1,000 proven cases over decades, which sources like Politifact, the BBC, and the Utah study cite as evidence that fraud is rare. However, the database is a non-comprehensive sampling of prosecutions rather than an investigation, and no source shows Heritage itself concluding that fraud is minuscule.Mixed55% confidence5 sourcesSep 20, 2026Donald Trump has placed at least 25 election deniers in county-level election positions.Said by BThe sources support the count: a New York Times analysis of Voting Rights Lab data, republished by the Daily Press, finds at least 25 county-level election officials who took office since 2024 and aligned with the election-denier movement. They do not show that Trump placed them, since the officials came to office through local appointments or elections, and the sources say only that they took office after Trump returned to power. The post's 'he placed' framing is therefore partly unsupported. The claim was made on 2026-09-20, and the August 2026 count predates that date, so it is judged as of then.Mixed55% confidence8 sourcesSep 20, 2026The current administration is holding people in concentration camps.Said by BThe sources clearly support that the administration is detaining large numbers of people in ICE facilities, including warehouse camps and Camp East Montana, where deaths and violations have been reported. Whether those facilities are 'concentration camps' is a contested label used by advocates, journalists and some experts, not a settled factual finding by an authoritative body, so the claim leans on a contested reading.True95% confidence4 sourcesSep 20, 2026Donald Trump has been convicted of 34 felony counts.Said by BMultiple sources, including AP and NPR, report that a New York jury found Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in May 2024. The extracted claim is a faithful paraphrase of the passage, which presupposes these convictions, and later sources (USA Today 2026, CBC) still describe the conviction as standing, with an unconditional discharge at sentencing.True90% confidence5 sourcesSep 20, 2026The Supreme Court currently has a 6-3 conservative majority.Said by BMultiple sources dated before and around 2026-09-20 (Reuters June 2026, Newsweek May 2026, Union Leader Oct 2026, CNN June 2026) report the Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative majority, with three Trump appointees, so the claim held as of the posting date. The claim's extraction matches the passage; the post's 'three justices Trump appointed himself' is consistent with sources noting three Trump appointees.True95% confidence5 sourcesSep 20, 2026Pete Hegseth holds a position within the Department of Defense.Said by AMultiple tier1 and primary sources (the official Department of War leadership page, AP, The Hill, Congress.gov biography) show Pete Hegseth as Secretary of War (formerly Secretary of Defense, renamed Sept. 5, 2025) as of September 2026, so he held a position within the Department of Defense on 2026-09-20. The claim's 'Pete Hexeth' misspelling in the post is a trivial typo, not a change of referent, and the sources remain consistent with the claim after that date.True95% confidence6 sourcesSep 20, 2026Todd Blanche holds the position of head of the Department of Justice.Said by AAs of 2026-09-20, Todd Blanche was the head of the Justice Department: he had been acting attorney general since April 2026 and was sworn in as attorney general on August 10, 2026, after Senate confirmation. The post's phrasing 'under Todd Blanche' supports this reading, and the claim is still true as of the check date.True95% confidence7 sourcesSep 20, 2026Donald Trump appointed three of the current Supreme Court justices.Said by BMultiple authoritative sources confirm Trump appointed Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, who are all current justices as of late 2026. The extracted claim faithfully matches the post's wording, which is about the three justices Trump appointed.True92% confidence7 sourcesSep 20, 2026The Supreme Court ruled against the Trump administration's request for new mail-in voting restrictions.Said by BMultiple tier-1 outlets (AP, Reuters, BBC) report that the Supreme Court on September 14, 2026 denied the Trump administration's request to lift a lower-court injunction blocking the USPS mail-ballot rule, so the claim that it ruled against the administration's request is supported. The post's word "unprecedented" is dropped in the extracted claim, which is a dropped qualifier graded normally, and the ruling was an unsigned emergency order that found the government unlikely to succeed on the merits rather than a full merits decision.True85% confidence8 sourcesSep 20, 2026The Supreme Court's ruling on mail-in voting restrictions was issued on the emergency shadow docket.Said by AThe September 14, 2026 Supreme Court order declining to let the Postal Service enforce Trump's mail-ballot rule was an unsigned, one-paragraph emergency order on the government's application, which matches the shadow-docket label. PBS explicitly describes the September mail-voting ruling as an emergency docket ruling, and the extraction faithfully reflects the post's 'this week' reference.True92% confidence5 sourcesSep 20, 2026Donald Trump's proposed plan would have required states to provide lists of voters' names approved to receive mail ballots.Said by BThe claim that Trump's plan would have required states to provide lists of voters approved to receive mail ballots is supported by multiple sources, including NYT, The Hill, Bloomberg, and ProPublica, which all describe the state voter-list requirement. The plan was later blocked by courts, including the Supreme Court, but that does not make the 'would have required' claim false as of 2026-09-20.True90% confidence6 sourcesSep 20, 2026Donald Trump's proposed plan would have required specific barcodes on envelopes for mail-in ballots.Said by BMultiple sources, including AP (tier1), report that Trump's order would have required states to use an envelope style with barcodes, so the claim that the plan required specific barcodes on mail-ballot envelopes is supported. The plan was blocked by the courts (the Supreme Court refused to lift the injunction on Sept. 14), but that later development does not make the claim false as of 2026-09-20.