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Raging Moderates with Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov
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Raging against the extremes. Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov are in the middle — and they’re mad, because being a moderate in America these days does NOT mean staying silent. New episodes every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evening. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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True82% confidence4 sourcesOct 27, 2026Juan Ciscomani voted for Medicaid cuts as part of the Big Beautiful Bill.Said by CMultiple sources confirm Ciscomani voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill, which contains Medicaid cuts, so the vote claim holds. Sources also show he pushed to soften the Medicaid provisions and argue the cuts would have been larger without his efforts, which is context rather than contradiction.True80% confidence7 sourcesOct 27, 2026Juan Ciscomani voted against a War Powers Resolution several times.Said by 3CMultiple roll-call records and a PBS broadcast show Rep. Juan Ciscomani voted against Iran-related War Powers Resolutions, including H.Con.Res. 93 on Sept. 15, 2026, and several others, so 'several times' holds. The post names 'Mr. Siskamani,' which the sources treat as Ciscomani, and the Substack fact-check says his no votes on May 14, June 3 and Sept. 15 are confirmed while the total of six is plausible but not fully confirmed.True85% confidence8 sourcesOct 27, 2026Gallup released a poll where Republicans ranked patriotism as the number one value the country needs, while Democrats ranked it last.Said by CMultiple reports of the Gallup/With Honor survey state that Republicans ranked patriotism first among the 12 values the country most needs, and Democrats ranked it last. The extracted claim matches the post's wording, and the poll was released in late October 2026 as the post describes.Reported in the post, not stated as its own.True70% confidence8 sourcesOct 27, 2026Approximately 30 million Americans have already voted in the 2026 midterm elections.The claim matches the record as of the claim's 2026-10-27 date: a fact-check piece published 2026-10-26 reports that the University of Florida Election Lab counted about 30 million early votes, and the trajectory from about 21 million (Oct 23) to 23 million (Oct 23, IBTimes) to 43 million (Oct 29-30) is consistent with that figure. Later sources show the total rose well past 30 million, but that does not make the claim false as of its date.True92% confidence4 sourcesOct 27, 2026Gadi Eisenkot is the leader of the Yashar Party.Multiple tier1 sources, including Reuters (Oct 23) and BBC (Oct 24), describe Gadi Eisenkot as leader of the Yashar party, and AP and CNN later say the same. The claim is faithful to the post, and the situation held on 2026-10-27, the date it was made.True95% confidence5 sourcesOct 27, 2026JoAnna Mendoza is a candidate in Arizona’s 6th District.Multiple sources, including AP, the Arizona Daily Star/Arizona Republic, New Politics, AZPM, and VoteSee, confirm JoAnna Mendoza is the Democratic candidate in Arizona's 6th Congressional District running against incumbent Republican Juan Ciscomani, and she was already the nominee as of late October 2026. The claim matches the passage's own wording, and the sources' coverage of her candidacy predates and extends past the 2026-10-27 posting date.True92% confidence6 sourcesOct 27, 2026Juan Ciscomani is the incumbent Republican representative for Arizona's 6th District.The claim holds as of 2026-10-27: the House.gov representative lookup for ZIP 85741 lists Juan Ciscomani as the Republican representative for Arizona's 6th District, and Reuters and other outlets describe him as the Republican incumbent. The extraction is faithful to the passage, which calls him the incumbent Republican, and the sources show he remained the incumbent through the late-October coverage.True90% confidence7 sourcesOct 27, 2026Latino voters helped carry Donald Trump to victory in 2024.Multiple sources, including AP, NBC News exit polls, and BBC, establish that Trump made large gains with Latino voters in 2024 and that this support helped propel him to victory. The claim departs from the passage only in the phrasing 'helped carry Donald Trump to victory,' which the passage itself states nearly verbatim, so it is graded normally.True97% confidence6 sourcesSep 30, 2026Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.Multiple tier1 and primary sources (AP, Reuters, FEC official results) confirm Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election with 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232 and about 81.3 million popular votes. The extracted claim matches the passage's assertion, which the post made as its own content; the claimant's dispute over 'certified' does not change the core assertion.True90% confidence6 sourcesSep 30, 2026Ken Paxton is the Republican U.S. Senate nominee for Texas.As of 2026-10-24, multiple sources describe Ken Paxton as the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas, including a tier1 Reuters report calling him the Republican Senate candidate, a Texas Tribune item calling him the Republican nominee, and Ballotpedia and Wikipedia listing him as the Republican nominee in the 2026 general election against James Talarico. No source contradicts this, and the extracted claim matches the passage's wording.True85% confidence5 sourcesSep 30, 2026Ken Paxton was impeached by the Republican party.Said by AThe Texas House, which was Republican-controlled, voted 121-23 on May 27, 2023 to impeach Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, with 60 Republicans voting in favor according to the Washington Post. The claim's wording is loose, since the House rather than the party as an organization cast the vote, but the post's 'impeached by his own party' reading holds on a standard interpretation.True92% confidence5 sourcesSep 30, 2026Donald Trump endorsed Ken Paxton for the U.S. Senate race in Texas one week before the primary.Said by AMultiple tier-1 sources (AP, Reuters) report that Trump endorsed Ken Paxton on May 19, 2026, one week before the May 26 Texas GOP Senate runoff, so the core claim holds. The claim's 'primary' is the runoff in the same contest, a label difference rather than a contradiction.