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Threads posts
stated on October 3, 2024 in a Threads post:

The U.S. government is offering Americans loans to pay for flights out of Lebanon while they have been flying Israeli citizens out of Israel on chartered flights for a year “on our dime.”

By Sofia Ahmed • October 9, 2024
Bret Weinstein
stated on January 28, 2024 in an Instagram post:

The World Health Organization is discussing ending the First Amendment.

By Sofia Ahmed • May 15, 2024
Asa Hutchinson
stated on December 11, 2023 in comments at Stand with Crypto Alliance at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire:

China is allowed to do crypto mining in the U.S.

By Rebecca Catalanello • December 15, 2023
TikTok posts
stated on May 24, 2023 in a TikTok post:

Says Ron DeSantis said Puerto Rico’s flag can’t be displayed in Florida.

By Maria Briceño • May 30, 2023
TikTok posts
stated on April 20, 2023 in a TikTok post:

The World Economic Forum and the United Nations have “ordered world governments to ration people’s water supply.”

By Tom Kertscher • May 3, 2023
Pete Buttigieg
stated on February 21, 2023 in a tweet:

Sen. Marco Rubio signed a 2021 letter that “supports waivers that would reduce visual track inspections.”

By Madison Czopek • March 2, 2023
Sean Hannity
stated on January 10, 2023 in a TV segment:

“The White House is now attempting to ban all gas ovens and burners.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe • January 12, 2023
Liquid Death
stated on October 27, 2022 in an ad:

In Georgia, it's "illegal to give people water within 150 feet of a polling place" and "punishable by up to a year in prison."

By Tom Kertscher • November 8, 2022
Georgia Gun Owners
stated on October 30, 2022 in an ad:

"Raphael Warnock and Stacey Abrams are radical communists and, if they get their way, gun owners here in Georgia will be completely disarmed."

By Tom Kertscher • November 3, 2022
Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
stated on September 22, 2022 in an ad:

Adam Laxalt “would let Nevada and other states ban abortion with zero exceptions.”

By Tom Kertscher • October 10, 2022
Senate Majority PAC
stated on September 12, 2022 in an ad:

Blake Masters does not support abortion exceptions for rape and incest.

By Tom Kertscher • September 16, 2022
Mark Kelly
stated on August 5, 2022 in an ad:

Blake Masters “wants to pass a national ban on abortion.”

By Tom Kertscher • August 26, 2022
Stacey Abrams
stated on August 4, 2022 in an ad:

"Brian Kemp wants to investigate and punish women for having miscarriages."

By Tom Kertscher • August 12, 2022
Planned Parenthood Votes
stated on June 30, 2022 in an ad:

Mehmet Oz “wants to make abortion a crime in Pennsylvania.”

By Tom Kertscher • July 18, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on July 5, 2022 in a Facebook post:

Shooter in Highland Park, Illinois, “bought the gun illegally.”

By Madison Czopek • July 12, 2022
Focus on the Family
stated on June 28, 2022 in ads:

Abortion is available at any point of pregnancy and for any reason in Alaska, Colorado, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon and Vermont.

By Tom Kertscher • July 12, 2022
Catherine Cortez Masto
stated on June 14, 2022 in an ad:

Adam Laxalt "wants to restrict" and "worked to limit access to birth control."

By Tom Kertscher • June 23, 2022
Catherine Cortez Masto
stated on June 14, 2022 in an ad:

Adam Laxalt "supports eliminating Nevada's protections for legal abortions."

By Tom Kertscher • June 23, 2022
Marco Rubio
stated on May 25, 2022 in an interview on CNN:

“There hasn't been a single of these mass shootings that have been purchased at a gun show or on the internet.”

By Yacob Reyes • May 27, 2022
Matthew Dowd
stated on May 24, 2022 in an interview:

“50% of the guns sold in Texas, because of the loopholes, do not pass through a background check.”

By Tom Kertscher • May 25, 2022
Ohio Gun Owners
stated on April 21, 2022 in an ad:

Matt Dolan sponsored Michael Bloomberg's “red-flag gun confiscation law, letting the people reporting your social media posts send SWAT teams to your house to take your guns."

By Tom Kertscher • May 2, 2022
Mary Miller
stated on April 8, 2022 in a tweet:

The Biden Administration is engaging in extreme ‘woke’ politics by encouraging children to take chemical castration drugs and undergo surgeries, and they are lying to children by telling them puberty blockers are "reversible."

By Analisa Trofimuk • April 17, 2022
Greg Casar
stated on February 8, 2022 in an ad:

“Greg Casar passed paid sick leave."

By Tom Kertscher • February 10, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on February 7, 2022 in a Facebook post:

The federal government requires “COVID passports to visit the movies.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 8, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on November 19, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Low gas prices in Russia, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia show that Joe Biden’s decision to cancel the Keystone Pipeline project is to blame for U.S. prices.

By Tom Kertscher • December 1, 2021
Instagram posts
stated on October 15, 2021 in an Instagram post:

“There’s been no” TV commercials for the COVID-19 vaccines because “they are required by law to list all adverse side effects.”

By Tom Kertscher • October 25, 2021
TikTok posts
stated on September 5, 2021 in a TikTok post:

“Paris police beat a woman for shopping at a mall with no vaccine passport.”

By Gabrielle Settles • October 12, 2021
10 GOP Louisiana Lawmakers
stated on September 29, 2021 in a letter to the governor of Louisiana:

“There is no FDA approval for the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19.”

By Jon Greenberg • October 7, 2021
TikTok posts
stated on September 2, 2021 in a TikTok video:

The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine “is not approved.”

By Tom Kertscher • September 17, 2021
Infowars
stated on September 13, 2021 in an Instagram post:

“Biden’s Treasury Department declares IRS will monitor” all accounts over $600.

By Tom Kertscher • September 15, 2021

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