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The Dan Bongino Show
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The Dan Bongino Show delivers no-nonsense analysis of the day’s most important political and cultural stories. Hosted by the former Deputy Director of the FBI, former Secret Service agent, NYPD officer, and bestselling author Dan Bongino, the show cuts through media spin with facts, accountability, and unapologetic conviction. Whether it’s exposing government overreach, defending constitutional freedoms, or connecting the dots the mainstream media ignores, The Dan Bongino Show provides in-depth analysis of the issues shaping America today. Each episode features sharp commentary, deep dives into breaking news, and behind-the-scenes insight you won’t hear anywhere else. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dan-bongino-show/id965293227?mt=2 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4sftHO603JaFqpuQBEZReL?si=PBlx46DyS5KxCuCXMOrQvw Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/bongino?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v4_sa_o
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False75% confidence4 sourcesSep 16, 2026China is building 100 fission reactors.Said by 3BThe claim that China is building 100 fission reactors is contradicted by the sources, which put China's reactors under construction at roughly 33 to 38 (EIA citing PRIS: 36; Nuclear News Network: 33; World Nuclear Association: 38). The figure of 100 only approaches the total of operating plus under-construction units (about 60 to 65 operating), not the number being built, and the post's sources do not support a 100-reactor build-out. The claim matches the post's wording, so no extraction issue arises.False70% confidence3 sourcesSep 16, 2026Helix Sleep offers a 120-night sleep trial for its mattresses.Said by AThe claim that Helix offers a 120-night sleep trial is contradicted by Helix's own support and sleep-trial pages, which describe a 365-night trial on its mattresses, and by a 2026 review that also reports 365 days. The 2022 Helix page already stated the 365-night trial, so the figure was wrong as of the 2026-09-16 post. The post's passage matches the extracted claim, so this is not an extraction addition.Mixed50% confidence7 sourcesOct 19, 2026The Muslim Brotherhood is banned in 5 Muslim countries.Said by AThe claim's figure of five Muslim countries falls within the range the sources give, but the count depends on whether one counts outright bans or terrorist designations. Sources name Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Bahrain as banning or designating the group, Jordan as banning it in April 2025, and Syria (and Libya to some extent) in other accounts, while one source counts seven Muslim-majority nations. The extracted claim is a faithful paraphrase of the post's 'banned in five Muslim countries,' and the sources do not state the figure five directly.Mixed65% confidence4 sourcesOct 19, 2026The poverty rate is the lowest in history.Said by AThe official Census poverty rate (10.2% in 2025) was the lowest on record since 1959, so the claim holds under that standard measure as of the 2026-10-19 post date. Under the Supplemental Poverty Measure (13.1% in 2025, versus a 7.7% low in 2021), the rate is not at an all-time low, so the claim fails on that measure.Mixed60% confidence4 sourcesOct 19, 2026Patriot Mobile offers premium 5G coverage on three major U.S. networks, unlimited data, and international calling to over 200 countries.Patriot Mobile's premium priority coverage on all three major networks is supported by its plans page and a 2026 review, but the claimed unlimited data is contradicted by capped data allotments on its plans, and the 200-country calling figure is not confirmed (one source cites 70+ countries). The Carol Swain post repeating all the claims is promotional and circular, so it adds no corroboration. Judged as of 2026-10-19 from these sources.Mixed60% confidence8 sourcesOct 19, 2026Non-citizens and aliens have been voting in U.S. elections for the past four years.Said by ALiterally, the claim that some non-citizens have voted in recent U.S. elections is supported: DOJ charged nine Pennsylvania non-citizens with illegally voting in the 2022 and 2024 elections, and New Jersey officials said fewer than 400 ballots were cast by erroneously registered non-citizens. On the post's intended reading, that it has been happening at scale ("millions" flooded in and "we've proven" widespread voting), fact-checkers and experts contradict it, finding documented cases to be very small and not shown to change outcomes. The extraction also drops the post's "millions" framing, so the claim as extracted is narrower than the post's own point.Mixed60% confidence5 sourcesOct 19, 2026Senator Dick Durbin has opposed efforts to clean voter rolls.Said by ASources show Durbin repeatedly opposing the Trump administration's voter-roll purge campaigns, DOJ demands for state voter data, and the SAVE database, calling them unlawful or risky to eligible voters. The claim's broad wording ('opposed efforts to clean voter rolls') leans on a contested reading, since the administration frames these efforts as cleaning and Durbin frames them as wrongful purges, and no source has him opposing lawful list maintenance. The claim also departs slightly from the post, which asserted that Durbin wants 'voter fraud,' and the post's own claim is not corroborated by the sources.Mixed55% confidence5 sourcesOct 19, 2026Democratic socialist members of the House and Senate are pressuring Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer to bring a Medicare for All bill to the floor for a vote.Said by ASources support that DSA-aligned progressives, most of them candidates not yet in office, were conditioning support for Jeffries on a Medicare for All floor vote, as of October 2026. No source reports pressure on Schumer or any Senate-side effort, and the claim's description of them as current 'members' conflicts with sources describing them as incoming or not yet elected.Mixed60% confidence6 sourcesOct 19, 2026The Democratic Party is running on a Medicare for All bill that would make private health insurance illegal.Said by ASources support that Sanders' Medicare for All bill would make duplicative private coverage unlawful and would effectively outlaw most private insurance, and that some Democratic candidates embrace it. However, FactCheck.org notes private insurers could still sell supplemental coverage (e.g., cosmetic care), so 'private health insurance illegal' overstates the bill, and the sources show a bill backed by some Democrats rather than the party as a whole running on it. The claim departs slightly from the passage's wording on scope but not on referent.Mixed60% confidence7 sourcesOct 19, 2026Medicare for All would ban private insurance that duplicates benefits provided by the government program.The bill text quoted in the sources (Sanders' Medicare for All, Sec. 107) makes it unlawful for private insurers to sell coverage that duplicates Medicare for All benefits, and PolitiFact says some versions ban private insurance matching Medicare's coverage. But PolitiFact, Bridge, and Yahoo report that El-Sayed's version would not ban duplicative private insurance, so the claim holds for some versions of Medicare for All and not others. The post's 'which it will' is a prediction and the claim is a generic characterization, so the verdict depends on which version is meant.Mixed55% confidence8 sourcesOct 19, 2026Overall crime in Memphis is at a 25-year low, down 34% from last year.The 25-year-low part of the claim is supported by several sources, but the 34% figure depends on which measure is used: the Washington Examiner reports Blanche citing 34%, the White House cites about 36%, city data cited by FactCheck.org shows about 39%, and Crime Commission data cited by TBA shows 21.2% through September. The claim's 34% falls within that range, so the verdict is mixed rather than true. The claim is extracted faithfully from the post, which is about Memphis, and the post dates to 2026-10-19.Mixed50% confidence6 sourcesOct 19, 2026Murders in Memphis are down 33%, sexual assaults down 25%, motor vehicle thefts down 54%, robberies down 40%, and aggravated assaults down 24%.The five percentages match Attorney General Blanche's October 16, 2026 remarks, which the claim repeats, but Memphis Report says Blanche gave no period or data set and the DOJ published no written figures. Other records show the same direction with figures in a similar range (White House/city data in September: murder -36%, sexual assault -28%, vehicle theft -57%, robbery -42%, aggravated assault -26%; MPD Q2 2026 and FactCheck.org show different magnitudes), so the claim's figures fall within a range of competing estimates. The extraction faithfully matches the passage, and the October 27 weekly data showing some increases covers a short window after the claim date and does not directly contradict the year-to-date figures.Minor detail. The sources confirm the claim; only a minor detail differs, such as a name's spelling, a title's wording or a rounding.