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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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True92% confidence5 sourcesAug 10, 2026Mike Rogers served 14 years in the U.S. Congress.Said by BMultiple sources confirm Mike Rogers served 14 years in the U.S. House, from January 3, 2001 to January 3, 2015, which matches the claim. The post's other assertions about his pharmaceutical votes and later income are not addressed by these sources, but the extracted claim is graded only on the 14-year service.True90% confidence6 sourcesAug 10, 2026The Department of Justice sent election observers to the August 2026 primary election.Said by BMultiple sources confirm that DOJ monitors were deployed to August 2026 primaries, including Michigan (Aug. 4), Wyoming (Aug. 18, per the DOJ press release and AP), and Minnesota (per Reuters). The claim matches the post's own reference to DOJ observers at the August primary, and the extraction adds no unsupported detail.True75% confidence7 sourcesAug 10, 2026A billionaire accused in a Florida prostitution sting donated $12,000 to the Mike Rogers Senate campaign.Said by AMultiple sources, including The 'Gander's review of FEC records and a later Metro Times review of federal filings, report that billionaire John W. Childs, charged in 2019 with soliciting prostitution, gave $12,000 that Team Rogers, Rogers' joint fundraising committee, accepted in August 2025. The claim's wording is a faithful paraphrase of the post, though the money went through the joint fundraising committee rather than the candidate's campaign account directly.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True80% confidence6 sourcesAug 10, 2026Mike Rogers receives funding from pharmaceutical, banking, oil and gas PACs.Said by ASources support each element as of the August 2026 posting: PolitiFact found Rogers accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from pharmaceutical-related corporate PACs while in Congress, Metrotimes reports $693,234 from oil and gas sources during his congressional years plus ongoing oil-industry super PAC money, and a banking-PAC donation appears in 2025 FEC reports for his Senate committee. The claim's 'takes money from' wording is present-tense, but the banking gifts were from late 2025 and the oil and pharma gifts were largely from his House career, which fits the claim's general framing. No source contradicts it.True85% confidence6 sourcesAug 10, 2026The United States provides $3.3 billion in baseline funding to Israel.Said by BThe State Department and CRS both report that the US annually provides $3.3 billion in Foreign Military Financing to Israel as the baseline, so the claim's figure and characterization hold. The claim is faithful to the passage, and the $3.8 billion total including $500 million for missile defense is a different measure that does not contradict it. The sources were published after the 2026-08-10 posting date, but they describe a baseline that was in place then.True90% confidence3 sourcesAug 10, 2026Donald Trump has profited $2.2 billion while in office.Said by BTrump's financial disclosure for 2025 shows he took in at least $2.2 billion during his first year back in office, a figure confirmed by PolitiFact, the BBC, and the New York Times. The claim's wording ('profited') is looser than the disclosed figure, which is gross income, but PolitiFact reports experts saying overhead could not account for all of it, and the extraction faithfully reflects the post.True65% confidence6 sourcesAug 10, 2026Mike Rogers' campaign faith coalition has two ties to a church upended by child sex crimes.Said by AMultiple sources, including ABC 12 (Sept 30, 2026) and Michigan Advance (May 13, 2026), report that Rogers' faith coalition had two ties to Living Word Church, the Midland church tied to child sex abuse convictions: Tim Cross and Brian Ford. Cross resigned in April 2026 and Ford remained, so the coalition had one remaining tie by August, but the two connections existed on 2026-08-10.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True80% confidence5 sourcesAug 10, 2026Abdul El-Sayed has visited 110 cities and held 500 public events during his campaign.Said by BThe claim faithfully extracts the post's figures (110 cities, 500 public events), and AP's August 5 report, republished by PBS and others, states that El-Sayed visited 110 cities and hosted more than 500 events. Later sources give higher counts (600 events, or 120 cities and 700 events by October), but the claim is graded as of the August 10 posting, so those later figures do not make it false.True90% confidence11 sourcesAug 10, 2026Fox News paid a billion dollars in a settlement.Said by AThe claim that Fox News paid a settlement of about a billion dollars is a loose rendering of the post's 'had to pay a billion dollars'; sources show Fox agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems in April 2023 to settle a defamation suit, so the settlement is real but the amount is roughly 790 million rather than a billion, a magnitude gap that is within the 'roughly a billion' casual phrasing of the post and the Stelter book blurb ('almost a billion dollars in legal settlements'), with the claim not departing from the passage. The post's 'you can't lie to a judge' framing is not graded separately.True80% confidence5 sourcesAug 10, 2026Mike Rogers previously distanced himself from Donald Trump's claims about the 2020 election but is now embracing them.Said by ASources show Rogers rejected Trump's 2020 fraud claims and called Biden the winner, then moved closer to Trump's election messaging by 2024-2026, praising Trump's 'commitment to transparency' and declining to say Biden won. The sources support the shift, though his language is more hedged than a full endorsement of the fraud claims.True95% confidence5 sourcesAug 10, 2026Abdul El-Sayed lost his race in 2018.Said by BEl-Sayed lost the 2018 Michigan Democratic gubernatorial primary to Gretchen Whitmer, finishing second with about 30% of the vote, per the NYT results and multiple other reports. The post's 'his race' refers to that 2018 primary, and the claim matches the passage's own statement that he ran and lost in 2018.True80% confidence8 sourcesAug 10, 2026The Trump administration has been engaged in a war with Iran for nearly six months.Said by AAs of the post date (2026-08-10), the sources show the US-Israel war on Iran began February 28, 2026 and was ongoing, with Trump declaring a June ceasefire 'over' on July 8 and fighting continuing, so the war had run about 5.4 months, which fits 'nearly six months.' The war was still ongoing at the 2026-11-02 check, and the claim's 'Trump administration' framing matches the post's 'Trump's war'.