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Originalism When Convenient: A Case-by-Case Audit of the Conservative Supreme Court's Own Standard

The conservative supermajority claims to follow 'text, history, and tradition' — but a case-by-case audit shows they apply originalism when it produces conservative outcomes and abandon it when it…

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Trump Calls for Obama's Arrest: A Fact-Check of Every Claim

Trump posted 55 times in three hours calling for Obama's arrest on treason charges — every specific claim he made has been investigated and debunked, most of them by Trump's own appointees.

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8,499 Posts, Fact-Checked: What the President Told America From Truth Social

A data-driven, bipartisan fact-check of the most significant claims Trump made on Truth Social during his second term — 8,499 posts categorized, cross-referenced against court filings, government…

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Did China Troll Trump? A Claim-by-Claim Fact-Check of the Beijing Summit

Five viral claims about China trolling Trump during his May 2026 state visit — one false, two true, two true-but-misframed — with sources for every detail.

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DNC 2024 Autopsy: What It Gets Right, Wrong, and Omits

The DNC's 192-page 2024 election autopsy correctly identifies strategic failures but is riddled with factual errors, missing sections, and a glaring omission of Gaza's electoral impact.

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3,711 Trades: A Fact-Check of Trump's Presidential Stock Portfolio

Trump filed 3,711 stock trades worth $220M-$750M in Q1 2026 — including unsolicited purchases in companies he praised the same day, contradicting blind-trust claims and exploiting a legal exemption…

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Noncitizen Voting: What Republicans Claim vs. What the Data Shows

Every state audit, Trump's own commission, and the Heritage Foundation's own database find noncitizen voting at rates between 0.0001% and 0.007% — not the millions Republicans claim.

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Depression Talk and Hitler Comparisons: Fact-Checking a Viral Reddit Thread

The US checks zero of the Great Depression's hard indicators but faces real recession risk; the Hitler analogy is contested — expert concern about authoritarian drift is mainstream, literal 1933…

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Billions for Iran, None for Health Care? A Fact-Check

Mostly false as framed: the money headed to Iran is Iran's own frozen assets plus Gulf-state cash, not US dollars; the US isn't paying Venezuela $20B (it's taking oil) — but Trump did say the US…

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The $600M Ballroom & Three More Claims: A Fact-Check

Fact-checking a Really American newsletter's four Trump claims (ballroom, Iran deal, WSJ editorial, reflecting pool): all true against primary sources, with two minor imprecisions. The ballroom is a…

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Does This Deal Stink? Trump's Crypto Firm Becomes a Bank

World Liberty Financial — the Trump-family crypto firm — is about to get a federal bank charter from Trump's own OCC appointee. It's legal (the president is exempt from the conflict statute) but a…

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Is the Iran War "Worse Than Vietnam"? Fact-Checking Foreign Policy's Verdict

Foreign Policy's facts on the 2026 Iran war check out; its 'defeat worse than Vietnam' verdict is a contested argument, and real upsides for Trump exist that it minimizes.

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The "Two Santas" Strategy: A Fact-Check

Fact-checking the viral "Two Santa Clauses" essay on GOP vs. Democratic economic strategy: the core thesis holds up, but several headline details are wrong.

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Was Trump's Iran Deal a "Catastrophic Capitulation" for Israel?

The NYT's reporting on Israel's shock is accurate, but its 'none of Israel's war aims' verdict omits Israel's real tactical wins, and the Lebanon-withdrawal claim is genuinely contested.