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• Benny Johnson’s Border Claims: Real Data, False Conclusions
  • Sep 28, 2026 Correction — An earlier version said JD Vance “invoked” replacement theory; it now quotes what he said, attributes the characterization to hate-speech experts interviewed by the AP, and notes that he rejected it. It put the word “replace” in quotation marks as if it appeared in Rep. Elise Stefanik’s 2021 ads; it did not, and the ads are now quoted directly. It said all four gunmen named explicitly referenced replacement theory; the Pittsburgh gunman left no manifesto, and the passage now describes what each actually wrote. It also misstated several figures: House seats (220 to 215 is the 2024 result; the House now has 218 Republicans, 214 Democrats, one independent and two vacancies), monthly border numbers (one month since February 2025, May 2026, exceeded 10,000), Border Patrol apprehensions labeled as total encounters, a June 2024 proclamation called an executive order, the AP-NORC poll (the 45% figure measures a stricter question than the 32% figure it was paired with), the Harvard CAPS/Harris poll (registered voters, and “stand for,” not “want”), Cook’s rating changes, the New Democrat Coalition plan, Renaud Camus’s framing, Kauffman’s measure and source, and Johnson’s audience size. Two unsupported generalizations were removed. None of the three ratings changed.
• The White House cut 284 clean-energy grants using an electoral-vote filter
  • Sep 25, 2026 Correction — This fact-check originally said the Energy Department’s admission that it chose grants by electoral vote came in response to discovery in the 13-state lawsuit. It came in stipulations DOE made on July 15, 2026, in Thakur v. Trump, a suit by University of California researchers, to avoid discovery in that case. The piece also dated Judge Amit Mehta’s equal protection ruling to July 2026; he ruled on Jan. 12, 2026, and entered a final judgment in a second case in June 2026. A block quote attributed to Mehta was language from the plaintiffs’ brief and has been replaced with his own words. The verdict is unchanged.
• ICE Under the Constitution: A Legal Accounting of 2025-2026 Enforcement Actions
  • Sep 25, 2026 Update — Updated with developments since publication: the full Fifth Circuit dismissed the Alien Enemies Act case as moot in August 2026, leaving the act’s use undecided; the criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia was dismissed as vindictive in May 2026 and is on appeal; and the full D.C. Circuit agreed to rehear the ruling that ended Judge Boasberg’s contempt inquiry, with arguments on Sept. 29, 2026.
• Trump’s claims that oil was higher under Biden and prices are falling don’t hold
  • Sep 16, 2026 Correction — An earlier version said the claim that price increases were “caused by Sleepy Joe Biden” had “a real foundation,” then supported that only with the facts that inflation peaked during Biden’s term and that Trump inherited an elevated price level. Those establish sequence and level, not causation. The section now separates the two and shows that presidential causation fails in both directions: the larger pandemic stimulus was signed by Trump, and the euro area (10.6%) and UK (11.1%) peaked above the US without either bill.
• Palantir, the Minab School Strike, and AI Warfare: A Fact-Check
  • Sep 5, 2026 Correction — This piece originally gave the Minab toll as 156 killed including 120 schoolchildren, stated as settled fact. Published counts do not agree: totals range from roughly 140 to 175 depending on the source, and the original text was internally inconsistent, since 120 children plus 26 teachers and 4 parents sums to 150 rather than 156. The figures are now given as ranges. The Mostly True verdict is unchanged, but its basis is corrected: “160+” is within the plausible range for the total dead, so the claim’s error is calling them all schoolchildren rather than the scale of the number.
• Does a Civil Judgment “Prove” Trump Raped Someone?
  • Jul 5, 2026 Correction — Corrected the date the Supreme Court declined to hear Trump’s appeal: June 29, 2026, not June 29, 2025.