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The Dispatch→ Iran, America, and the Democratic Impulse
The collapse of the theocracy could change American attitudes about promoting democracy.The post Iran, America, and the Democratic Impulse appeared first on The Dispatch.
PolitiFact→ Viral image – No evidence that ballots found in California county signal Democratic scheme
Ballots recovered from a Santa Clara County, California, ravine are evidence of “how the left cheats to win.”
PolitiFact→ Julie Gunnigle – Democratic Maricopa County attorney candidate says Arizona has world’s eighth-highest incarceration
"If Arizona were a country, it’d be the eighth largest incarcerator in the world."
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Image Does NOT Show Democratic Candidate for AZ Governor, Katie Hobbs, In Ballot Counting Center
Does a photograph show the Democratic candidate for governor of Arizona, Katie Hobbs, walking through a ballot-counting center in Maricopa County, the state's largest voting district? No, that's not true: A spokesman for Maricopa County t
PolitiFact→ Senate Majority PAC – Democratic group omits details of Budd votes on Social Security, Medicare
“Ted Budd voted to cut Medicare and Social Security and voted to raise the retirement age, too.”
PolitiFact→ Ted Cruz – Ted Cruz’s misleading claim that only Democratic cities take days to count votes
Only Democratic cities take “‘days’ to count their votes” while “the rest of the country manages to get it done on election night.”
Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Democratic Officials in Pennsylvania Did NOT Mail Out 255,000 Ballots To Unverified Voters — They Were Mail-In Ballot Applications
Did Democratic election officials in Pennsylvania mail out 255,000 ballots to unverified voters? No, that's not true: As required by state law, county election offices mailed applications for mail-in or absentee ballots to any registered
Washington Post→ GOP ad falsely tags Democratic candidate with ‘defund police’ label
Trudy Busch Valentine says she wants to boost police funding. But her GOP rival is using guilt by association and misleading video to claim she has a "anti-cop agenda."
PolitiFact→ West Virginia Democratic Party – Is Rep. Carol Miller of West Virginia worth over $16 million?
“Carol Miller is a multi-millionaire worth over $16 million.”
PolitiFact→ Arizona Democratic Party – Fact-checking Arizona Democrats’ claim that Abraham Hamadeh misled about his legal experience
Abraham Hamadeh misled "about his legal experience.”
PolitiFact→ Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee – Adam Laxalt supports letting states restrict abortion, but hasn’t called for bans with no exceptions
Adam Laxalt “would let Nevada and other states ban abortion with zero exceptions.”
PolitiFact→ Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee – Did Herschel Walker misrepresent his record on veterans, graduation and law enforcement? Yes
Herschel Walker misled about “personally treating 4,500 veterans per year,” about “graduating from college” and about “working in law enforcement.”
PolitiFact→ National Republican Senatorial Committee – Democratic bill didn’t 'slash' Medicare spending. It would get the same drugs, cheaper
Sen. Raphael Warnock "voted with Biden to slash Medicare spending.”
PolitiFact→ Democratic Party of Wisconsin – Wisconsin Dems exaggerate with claim that Tim Michels believes gay people shouldn’t be out in public
Says “Tim Michels doesn’t think gay people should be out in public.”
PolitiFact→ Adam Laxalt – GOP claim on tax hikes in Democratic bill doesn’t factor in subsidies, savings
A Democratic bill negotiated between Sens. Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer would "increase taxes on millions of Americans across every income bracket."
PolitiFact→ Mariannette Miller-Meeks – Fact-checking Rep. Miller-Meeks claims that Democratic bill would allow abortion up until birth
The Democrats’ Women’s Health Protection Act of 2022 “would permit abortion up until delivery.”
PolitiFact→ Francesca Hong – State GOP only let less than 2% of Democratic bills have public hearings, Dem says
"In the Wisconsin State Assembly this session, more than 75% of GOP bills received a public hearing. Meanwhile, the GOP allowed less than 2% of Democratic bills to have a hearing."
PolitiFact→ Sarah Godlewski – Democratic U.S. Senate candidate says 54% of people in Wisconsin lack accessible child care
"Fifty-four percent of Wisconsinites live in a child care desert."
Washington Post→ The misleading claim that a Democratic candidate ‘sued’ a group of nuns over contraception coverage
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, a gubernatorial hopeful, sued the federal government — not nuns providing charity for the poor.
FactCheck.org→ Post Misleadingly Equates 2016 Democratic Effort to Trump’s 2020 ‘Alternate Electors’
Quick Take After the 2016 presidential election, some progressive Democrats tried to convince electors for Donald Trump to switch their Electoral College votes to Hillary Clinton. But a conservative commentator misleadingly claimed in a social media po
AllSides→ Fact check: Democratic group makes multiple false claims in its dramatic allegations about Lauren Boebert’s past
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/25/politics/fact-check-super-pac-lauren-boebert-escort-abortion-sugar-daddy/index.html
AllSides→ Democratic Congressman Exaggerates Number of Gun ‘Massacres’
https://www.factcheck.org/2022/06/democratic-congressman-exaggerates-number-of-gun-massacres/ In discus
FactCheck.org→ Democratic Congressman Exaggerates Number of Gun ‘Massacres’
In discussing a bipartisan Senate proposal to address gun violence, Rep. Jamie Raskin exaggerated when he said there have been “more massacres than days in 2022.” Using the source supplied by the congressman’s office, guns were used i
PolitiFact→ Democratic Party of Wisconsin – Democrats still exaggerating GOP backing of Scott’s plan on Social Security, Medicare, taxes
Republican politicians are pushing a plan "that could raise taxes on almost one in three Wisconsinites and sunset Social Security and Medicare in five years."
Snopes→ GOP Incumbents Face House Primaries in Democratic California
No incumbents appear at risk of losing their primary, but the districts will be among the country's marquee races in November.
PolitiFact→ Democratic Party of Wisconsin – Yes, a tax break Ron Johnson pushed for in 2017 has benefited America’s wealthiest more
"The tax carve out (Ron) Johnson spearheaded overwhelmingly benefited the wealthiest, over small businesses."
PolitiFact→ Blake Masters – Factchecking Arizona’s Blake Masters’ claim of open borders and Democratic amnesty plans
“Democrats want open borders so they can bring in and amnesty tens of millions of illegal aliens — that’s their electoral strategy.”
PolitiFact→ Democratic Party of Virginia – No, Virginia's House did not vote to cut school funding
“The proposed (Virginia) House budget cuts hundreds of millions in funding for public education…”
PolitiFact→ Penn Progress – No proof that Pa. US Senate candidate John Fetterman has described himself as a democratic socialist
"John Fetterman's a self-described democratic socialist."
PolitiFact→ Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee – Democratic ad exaggerates GOP embrace and scope of Scott's proposal on Social Security, Medicare
“Senate Republicans’ plan" would "end Social Security" and "end Medicare."
AllSides→ Democratic activists falsely claim Marjorie Taylor Greene refused to applaud Zelensky
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/17/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-applause-zelensky-fact-check/index.html
PolitiFact→ Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee – Democratic group’s false attack on Wis. GOP Sen. Ron Johnson over outsourcing to China
Sen. Ron Johnson has been “rewarding companies that outsource to China.”
PolitiFact→ North Carolina state House Democratic Caucus – NC Democrats target Republicans but leave out context
Republican state Sens. Paul Newton and Warren Daniel “refused to even give testimony” in North Carolina’s latest redistricting case.
PolitiFact→ Iowa Senate Democrats – Iowa broadband touted by Republicans was funded by Democratic votes for American Rescue Plan
Gov. Kim Reynolds, touting $210 million for Iowa broadband, “failed to mention these are actually federal funds approved by Rep. Cindy Axne and signed into law by President Joe Biden.”
PolitiFact→ Facebook posts – No, Ivanka Trump isn’t joining the Democratic Party to challenge her father
“Ivanka Trump is joining the Democrats to run against her dad.”
Washington Post→ Democratic ad claims Cortez Masto helped ‘lower costs’ for prescription drugs
The Majority Forward ad conflates two separate bills anchoring Biden’s agenda: a bipartisan infrastructure law that has passed and a Democratic spending bill that hasn't.
Snopes→ Vermont Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy Won’t Seek Reelection
Leahy, 81, said he and his wife, Marcelle, have concluded that “it is time to pass the torch to the next Vermonter who will carry on this work for our great state."
AllSides→ Electric Vehicle Tax Credits in Democratic Plan
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/11/electric-vehicle-tax-credits-in-democratic-plan/ The House’s curren
FactCheck.org→ Electric Vehicle Tax Credits in Democratic Plan
The House’s current Build Back Better plan calls for extending a $7,500 tax credit for the purchase of electric vehicles, and it includes an additional $4,500 credit for electric vehicles built in the U.S. by union labor. In a press conference bl