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Get the printable receipts pack →Iowa's Josh Turek is on her list, but Warren endorsed his primary opponent, Zach Wahls. Ballotpedia, citing Cook's Jessica Taylor, reports that moderate senators backed Turek while Warren backed Wahls. Before the vote...
The post counts Alaska in its winning list, but the AP-based tally still showed that race undecided. One update put Peltola ahead of Sullivan by only 637 votes. The wins are real: Talarico, El-Sayed, Turek, Jackson an...
Corruption was a big driver, so part of her framing holds. Exit polls had about 91% calling it a crucial or major factor, and about 55% calling it crucial in the ABC and SSRS polls. But cost of living was nearly as st...
The price jump is real. AAA's national average was $2.98 on Feb. 26, before the war, and $4.1493 on Nov. 3. The remedy is where her record gets thin. In March 2022, with Democrats running the Senate, Warren co-sponsor...
It is a reminder of her own line, not news. Benzinga logged her tweeting the same words on Aug. 26, 2026, and says she used a near-identical line on Nov. 30, 2025. In 2018 she said Trump's era gave the nation the most...
Warren's own campaign plan says she took no money from federal lobbyists or PACs of any kind, and she proposed making it illegal for corporate PACs to give to federal candidates. Her party hasn't met that standard. Do...
The $1.6B matches a Center for American Progress analysis. CAP says the administration has spent or plans to spend at least that much on vanity projects. Using the maximum estimates, CAP says the total would top $2.3 ...
The '1 in 5' figure is real. It comes from the Fed's Survey of Consumer Finances, which found the share of families behind on loan payments rose from about 12% to nearly 20%. But that survey covers 2022 to 2025, and C...
The headline number holds up. The Pentagon told Congress the war has cost $45.1 billion, with costs of $43.6 billion as of September 3 plus $1.5 billion for extra fuel. That figure leaves out base repair costs. The of...
The number is close but rounded up. Bloomberg's report on new FEC filings put Musk's cycle total at more than $445 million, as relayed by Mediaite. Warren's 'why' is her own theory. NPR, relaying the New York Times, r...
The 'billions' part has support. Trump's mandatory disclosure showed more than $2.2 billion in income last year, including at least $1.4 billion from family crypto ventures. But 'not one thing' skips September's Clari...
The 'rubber-stamp' line presumes an approval that hasn't happened. Kroger's own SEC filing says the $1.65 billion deal is still subject to the Hart-Scott-Rodino waiting period and 'limited' store divestitures, with cl...
The off-balance-sheet AI obligations she is pointing at are real and large. Nikkei put them at roughly $1.65 trillion across five companies, against $1.35 trillion of reported debt. But reporting says they are disclos...
The squeeze is partly real. The 2026 Trustees Report moved the retirement trust fund's depletion to 2032, one year earlier, which would mean a 22% benefit cut absent congressional action. The Bipartisan Policy Center ...
The deal is announced and pending. It is not closed or approved. Sysco expects to close it in fiscal 2027 and needs regulatory sign-off. MLex reported in August that the FTC had begun sending civil investigative deman...
Anthropic filed on Oct. 26 to go public, but the final raise, valuation and offering price are still uncertain. Reported figures are up to $100 billion raised at up to a $2 trillion valuation, against SpaceX's record ...
She is on solid ground that the fraud claims are weak. Her August 12 letter notes no fraudulent votes were cast in the two cases CMS's July 20 memo cites, and the Texas case ended in a plea to lesser charges. But the ...
Her slogan skips a fact that cuts against it. On Nov. 14, 2025, Trump asked DOJ to investigate Epstein's relationship with J.P. Morgan Chase and others, and Bondi assigned SDNY's Jay Clayton to lead the probe. Critics...
Trump made the remark at an Oct. 27 Texas rally as a joke about his promised $5,000 payment. CNBC reports he added that he wasn't sure you could even buy that, and "No, don't go there." The post cuts the quote off bef...
The rate decision she links to was the Fed's. On Oct. 28 it held its benchmark at 3.75%-4% in a 10-2 vote, and both dissenters (Lisa Cook and Beth Hammack) wanted a quarter-point hike. Markets are pricing a December h...
The facts in her post track the reporting. The NYT-based accounts say U.S. officials believe Megaspeed executive Alice Huang was a Chinese intelligence asset, and Megaspeed has been investigated over chip diversion. T...
The taxpayer half has support. The Washington Post reported a contractor estimate of $600 million, with about half from taxpayer-funded sources: $155M from the Secret Service, $149M from the White House Military Offic...
Her topline holds up. The Washington Post reported no real wage growth from January 2025 to September 2026, with prices and pay both up about 5.4%. BLS data show real hourly earnings fell 0.5% in September alone and 0...
The post frames this as a question of platform enforcement. Warren's own position has been a flat ban. In 2023 she signed a letter urging the CFTC to deny Kalshi's election contracts as a clear conflict with the publi...
The deal was announced today and has not been reviewed yet. The companies expect it to close at the end of 2027 or in the first half of 2028, after antitrust reviews. DoorDash has pledged that grocers can keep using a...
The 'give a damn' line is real, but the coverage describes a Georgia campaign rally, not an answer to a question. Trump said oil and gas companies are making hundreds of billions, said his people told him not to menti...
Trump did say 'tremendous self-regulation' at a Sept. 29 White House lunch. But the private dinner was with Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and the lunch had about two dozen tech leaders. 'Not a finger' is wrong. On Oct. 1 ...
The 'illegal' part is real but dated. On Feb. 20, 2026 the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that IEEPA does not authorize tariffs, and Trump terminated those tariffs the same day. The 10% Section 122 replacement expired July 2...
The 16-to-1 gap is a fundraising figure: Bloomberg says Vindman outraised Nixon 16-to-1, and Forbes says he raised over $16 million. On 'didn't soften,' The Hill reports Nixon is a DSA member whose campaign confirmed ...
Nothing here is new. DOJ and UnitedHealth settled on Aug. 7, 2025, and the companies closed the deal days later. A court later approved the settlement. The $3.3 billion deal dates to June 2023. The Biden DOJ sued only...
On Sept. 16 her own office said frontier AI models are currently a dangerous technology without the safeguards needed to protect people. The same statement said to enforce the laws already on the books and said Congre...
The diaper-bag-to-stroller line tracks a June 2025 report by Democratic staff of the Joint Economic Committee. It found a 24% ($98) rise in five baby items on Amazon between April 1 and June 9, 2025. It also cited Bab...
When she endorsed him in July, Warren called El-Sayed the only candidate in the race not taking corporate money. The race he is running in is the most expensive in Michigan history. A money tracker puts it at about $2...
Gas is the strong part of her case. It is up 34.2% over 12 months (September CPI), and CNN reports a record Election Day price of $4.15. Al Jazeera notes it was $2.98 when the US and Israel first struck Iran on Feb. 2...
In January she urged Democrats to reject billionaire donors, and Fox News reported she said the money wasn't "worth it." Since then Michael Bloomberg has sent about $80M to Democrats in September and October, and CNBC...
The mower half is right but narrow. Walk-behind power mowers that are consumer products must meet a mandatory federal standard, 16 CFR Part 1205. The standard does not cover riding mowers, lawn or garden tractors, hed...
Trump did vow on the campaign trail to cut electricity bills in half in his first year. The number she gives is in the right range. BLS shows electricity up 4.4% over the year to September 2026, and EIA's average resi...
The post implies workers would be left breathing toxins. The headline proposal is narrower. OSHA's June 2026 proposal would end mandatory medical evaluations only for filtering facepiece respirators (N95s) and loose-f...
Her top figures match a Groundwork Collaborative and Century Foundation analysis, which found that Halloween candy favorites rose 15.3%. Both groups are progressive policy think tanks. The government's own measure is ...
In 2013 Warren said senators have a "duty to change the filibuster rules." She had also written a 2012 op-ed urging a majority vote to change the rule. Democrats then triggered the nuclear option, which the Brennan Ce...
The raw count behind the slogan holds up. Public Citizen says the Trump administration has canceled inherited enforcement actions against 205 corporations. That breaks down as 80 closed investigations, 67 dismissed la...
NPR describes the war as one that lawmakers never voted to authorize. The votes she means were Democrat-forced war powers resolutions, so Republicans voted against ending the war and did not vote to start it. The late...
The 8,000% number comes from a Pentagon inspector general audit released Oct. 29, 2024, not a new finding. The audit reviewed 46 C-17 spare parts bought from 2018 to 2022 and found 12 overpriced and nine reasonably pr...
The Republican-led Senate has checked Trump on the record. In October 2025 it voted 51-47 to block his global tariffs, with four Republicans joining Democrats. In June 2026 it voted 50-48 for an Iran war powers resolu...
Part of her case holds up. Red Lobster's 2014 private equity buyout was financed partly by a $1.5 billion sale-leaseback, which left the chain paying rent on buildings it once owned. CNN reported in 2018 that Claire's...
CAP's report does put the average increase for borrowers moving from SAVE to RAP at $2,163 a year, with costs varying by income. CAP says its figures were calculated from national median income at each education level...
USDA's Economic Research Service has food-at-home prices up 2.3 percent in 2025, and the 2024 figure was 1.2 percent, so her 'almost double' line holds. What the release leaves out is that 2.3 percent was below the 20...
The bill's one-pager says over 80 percent of U.S. doctors are employed by corporate entities, including private equity firms and insurers. The industry-commissioned PAI-Avalere count behind that kind of figure puts 82...
Wages: she is right. Average hourly pay rose 3.0% over the 12 months to September while prices rose 3.7%, so real wages fell 0.7%. Unemployment: 'rising' rests on a one-month tick. The rate went from 4.1% in August to...
The $368M/day figure is not a government number. It comes from a March 2026 report by The Century Foundation and Protect Borrowers (TCF), built on Fed series for rates and balances. Warren's own Banking Committee offi...
The cap she calls a loophole is the statutory taxable maximum, $184,500 in 2026. Her comparison covers only the 6.2% Social Security payroll tax. CBO's household data (2019, latest in the sources found) put the averag...
Massachusetts passed a Qualified Data Center Sales and Use Tax Exemption in 2024. It gives data centers a 20-year exemption if they meet certain requirements. Gov. Maura Healey signed the law that created it. Healey p...
The post states the link between donor favors and household bills as settled fact and gives no dollar figure. The Warren report released the next day, 'Settling For Less,' describes an antitrust system that is 'appare...
The airfare and food numbers check out: food is up 2.5% from last year and airline fares are up 22.4%. Airfares are the outlier, rising far faster than the 3.7% overall increase in consumer prices. She left out the bi...
The $2.2 trillion figure covers announced deals. It is not a count of mergers the DOJ or FTC cleared, and the release itself says only that the deals 'often cleared'. Law-firm tallies show a different enforcement pict...
The number is real. Marsh projects 8.2% for 2027, the highest since 2003, but that is after employers' planned cost-cutting. Employers expect 11% if they did nothing. Marsh's actuaries say GLP-1 drugs, AI-assisted bil...
FactCheck.org found the 8 million figure roughly matched the total drop in Medicaid and ACA marketplace enrollment since early 2025, but most of the law's health provisions had not yet taken effect, so the drop could ...
PolitiFact rated the claim Mostly False. The 267% figure came from a Bloomberg analysis of wholesale power prices at grid points near data centers, not from household bills; wholesale supply is only about 30% to 50% o...
The Senate held more than a dozen cloture votes on the House-passed stopgap bill (H.R. 5371) during the shutdown. Warren voted no on those checked here, including Oct. 8 (Roll Call 551) and on final passage Nov. 10 (R...
Her release cited no source for the 17 million figure. CBO estimated the Senate-passed bill would leave about 11.8 million more people uninsured by 2034. FactCheck.org said the bigger Democratic numbers folded in mill...
PolitiFact rated it Half True. The arithmetic roughly held up, but the comparison was not apples to apples: the R&D provision changes when Meta can deduct expenses, not whether it can, while the copay applied only to ...
FactCheck.org found the Democratic warnings were largely speculative: no legally required benefit had been cut and no privatization plan had been proposed. A Cato analyst it quoted said changing eligibility would take...
PolitiFact rated the claim Mostly False in a December 13, 2019 fact-check of her fisheries plan.
PolitiFact rated the ad Mostly False. Broadcasters are legally required to air federal candidates' ads regardless of accuracy, and PolitiFact found no evidence most networks reject false candidate ads, though Warren w...
In a 2007 UC Berkeley interview she described leaving on her own: she lacked education courses, was on an emergency certificate, and decided teaching was not working out. Riverdale, N.J., school board minutes show her...