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Anna Peterson is a reporter for PolitiFact Missouri and a former community reporter for the Columbia Missourian. She also contributes to Vox magazine and the Missourian design team. Anna is studying news editing at the University of Missouri.

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Vicky Hartzler
stated on May 7, 2020 in a letter to the president:

"Right now, China controls 80% of all ingredients and raw materials going into our generic prescription drugs."

By Anna Peterson • May 28, 2020
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Say televangelist Pat Robertson said some young people “are doing all kinds of unnatural things with their sex organs. When people do that, they transfer all kinds of chemicals from ladies’ private parts and that’s where I think the (corona)virus came from.”

By Anna Peterson • April 13, 2020
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stated on January 20, 2020 in a tweet:

“Remember, the American Revolution began when they came for the guns.”

By Anna Peterson • March 18, 2020

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