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Socialists Are WINNING Elections. Mehdi & Sam Seder Explain Why

103 claims checked · Published August 2026 · Checked August 2026

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  1. Claim 1
    Accurate99% confidence▶ 0:22
    “When Donald Trump came down the escalator”

    Donald Trump came down an escalator when he launched his 2016 presidential campaign.

    Trump descended the golden escalator at Trump Tower on June 16, 2015, before announcing his presidential candidacy.

    Sources

    • 1Donald Trump begins 2016 bid, citing his outsider status

      SupportsNEW YORK — Inside the auditorium of Trump Tower — past the Trump Bar, the Trump Grill, the Trump Cafe and Trump's Ice Cream Parlor, beside the glass encasements selling Donald Trump neckwear and holding the basket of Donald Trump books — the man himself strode through the crowd, descended a golden escalator and stood at a lectern in front of eight American flags Tuesday.

  2. Claim 2
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 0:27
    “Meanwhile, the Hillary Clinton campaign was saying, this is the best guy we could face off against.”

    The Hillary Clinton campaign regarded Donald Trump as a particularly favorable opponent in the 2016 general election.

    The claim attributes a private or internal campaign view, but the available reporting documents Clinton publicly attacking Trump and calling him dangerous rather than confirming that her campaign said he was its preferred opponent.

    Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Unverifiable. Recorded as Unverifiable.

    Sources

  3. Claim 3
    False98% confidence▶ 0:45
    “At that time, there was no one who was criticizing Israel.”

    No one was criticizing Israel at the time being discussed.

    The universal claim is refuted by documented criticism of Israel before the referenced period. PBS reported that Obama administration officials were frustrated with Israel's conduct, and earlier reporting documented prominent American Jewish criticism of Israeli policies.

    Sources

  4. Claim 4
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 1:57
    “you're the oldest guest we've ever had”

    Sam Seder was the oldest guest The Intercept podcast had ever hosted.

    This is a specific record claim, but no complete, authoritative guest list with verified ages was available to establish whether Seder was the oldest guest at the time.

    Sources: none found for this claim.

  5. Claim 5
    Accurate97% confidence▶ 2:50
    “The show started out when I launched this iteration you know, the the show originally came from Air America which was radio and then we would do 3 hours.”

    The Majority Report began as a three-hour radio program on Air America.

    The Majority Report was launched on Air America Radio in 2004, with Sam Seder and Janeane Garofalo hosting an evening three-hour block.

    Sources

    • 1Talk radio takes a turn to the left

      SupportsFranken and co-host Katherine Lanpher will have a noon-to-3 p.m. show, while Garofalo and co-host Sam Seder will anchor the evening block from 8 to 11 p.m.

    • 2The Majority Report with Sam Seder

      SupportsOriginally airing on the Air America radio network from March 2004 until July 2006, the show was hosted by Janeane Garofalo, who was originally asked by Air America to host the program and suggested Seder as a co-host.

  6. Claim 6
    Accurate97% confidence▶ 3:00
    “the podcast started out I think I started it in 2010.”

    Seder said he thinks he started the podcast in 2010.

    The Majority Report with Sam Seder was relaunched as an independent online podcast in November 2010, so the speaker's qualified statement that he thinks he started it in 2010 is accurate.

    Sources

  7. Claim 7
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 3:07
    “It was 45 minutes for the free show and then 45 minutes for the what we now call the fun half.”

    The podcast originally had a 45-minute free show followed by a 45-minute Fun Half.

    Available archives confirm that the program used a free portion and a Fun Half, and that the show was once intended to run for 45 minutes, but I found no reliable independent source confirming that both original segments were each exactly 45 minutes.

    Sources

    • 1The Majority Report

      BackgroundThe main show, which is available to everyone live and via podcast, is 40 minutes packed full of news, insightful commentary and intelligent interviews with some of the most respected minds in politics and world affairs.

    • 2The Majority Report with Sam Seder — transcript

      BackgroundThis show was supposed to be 45 minutes long And then it just grew in metastasized

  8. Claim 8
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 3:19
    “there was mission creep and now it's like 2 and 1/2 hours”

    The show had expanded to approximately two and a half hours.

    The show's format and episode lengths have varied, and the available official description gives a 40-minute main show plus more than an hour of Fun Half content, but it does not establish that the program was usually two and a half hours at the time of the statement.

    The intensifier "now" makes this dependent on when the clip was recorded; I judged the claim as a time-specific assertion about the show's usual duration at that point.

    Sources

  9. Claim 9
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 4:33
    “I think I put out like 10 of those. That was like the inter uh the the interregnum between uh my Air America stint and launching the podcast.”

    Seder produced approximately ten installments of his That's Bullshit series between his Air America work and launching the podcast.

    Contemporary references establish that Seder produced That's Bullshit videos in 2010 and that the podcast launched later that year, but I found no reliable archive establishing that he produced approximately ten installments.

    Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Unverifiable and the second Accurate. Recorded as Unverifiable.

    Sources

  10. Claim 10
    Accurate50% confidence▶ 5:07
    “Yeah, there was still the racism about Barack Hussein Obama, but you know, they pretended to care about things like constitutional principles and budget deficits.”

    There was racist rhetoric involving Barack Obama's full name during that period.

    Contemporary reporting documented politicians and political figures using “Barack Hussein Obama” in rhetoric that critics identified as racist or as associating Obama with Islam and foreignness. The claim says such racism existed, not that every use of the name was inherently racist.

    Sources

  11. Claim 11
    Accurate50% confidence▶ 5:30
    “I remember like a sort of famously like Ezra Klein and and and some of those who were talking about Paul Ryan being an intellectual”

    Ezra Klein and others publicly portrayed Paul Ryan as an intellectual or policy thinker.

    Contemporary and retrospective coverage shows Ezra Klein praising Ryan's policy acumen, while other major political coverage described Ryan as an intellectual leader or a leading Republican intellectual. The statement is broadly accurate as a characterization of that public framing.

    Sources

  12. Claim 12
    Accurate99% confidence▶ 5:42
    “The Young Guns book. Do you remember that with Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy and Canter?”

    Paul Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, and Eric Cantor were associated with the Young Guns book.

    The 2010 book Young Guns was jointly authored by Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, and Paul Ryan. The transcript's "Canter" appears to be a transcription error for Cantor, but the intended factual claim is correct.

    Sources

  13. Claim 13
    Misleading86% confidence▶ 5:52
    “With Carthy of course even after accusing him of insurrection.”

    Kevin McCarthy had previously accused Trump of responsibility for the January 6 attack before later aligning himself with Trump.

    McCarthy publicly said that President Trump bore responsibility for the attack and criticized his conduct, but the available record does not show McCarthy accusing Trump of committing insurrection. The statement is therefore misleading in its wording, though it reflects McCarthy's earlier attribution of responsibility for the attack.

    Omits: McCarthy said that Trump bore responsibility for the January 6 attack on Congress, but he did not publicly accuse Trump of personally committing the crime of insurrection; the transcript collapses those distinct claims.

    Sources

  14. Claim 14
    Accurate100% confidence▶ 5:58
    “where we are today in 2026 with the second term Trump.”

    Donald Trump is serving a second presidential term in 2026.

    Trump was sworn in as the 47th president on January 20, 2025, beginning his second, nonconsecutive term; 2026 falls within that term.

    Sources

  15. Claim 15
    Accurate99% confidence▶ 6:25
    “you did Jubilee and it was really entertaining and you did a good job and you did and it went viral.”

    Sam Seder appeared on Jubilee as a progressive, and the appearance became viral.

    Jubilee published the episode as a debate featuring Sam Seder as the lone progressive against 20 Trump supporters. Contemporary coverage described the video as going viral, and the episode accumulated millions of views.

    Sources

  16. Claim 16
    Accurate94% confidence▶ 7:13
    “the last Air America show I did was Breakroom Live with Marc Maron and I went down not far from our studio to interview people who are protesting Letterman.”

    Sam Seder's Air America program with Marc Maron covered a protest against David Letterman.

    Breakroom Live with Maron & Seder was an Air America webcast, and contemporary coverage confirms that Seder went to report on the 'Fire David Letterman' protest. The available career chronology also places the program at the end of his Air America work.

    Sources

    • 1Break Room Live videos

      SupportsAir America Media (www.airamerica.com), a progressive media company, has launched a daily video political talk and comedy show featuring Marc Maron and Sam Seder.

    • 2Sam Seder Talks To Letterman Protesters

      SupportsOur buddy, Sam Seder, decided to go check out the protest talk show hack (and professional potty-mouthed angry person) John Ziegler organized to take David Letterman off the air in light of his joke about Sarah Palin's daughter

    • 3Breakroom Live with Maron & Seder

      SupportsAir America Media cancelled Breakroom Live with Maron & Seder in July 2009.

  17. Claim 17
    Unverifiable86% confidence▶ 8:08
    “It's 2 and 1/2 hours with one toilet break.”

    The Jubilee session lasted two and a half hours and included one toilet break.

    The claim concerns the participants' unedited experience, but the public episode and reporting establish only the published video's length, not whether the recording lasted two and a half hours or included exactly one toilet break.

    Sources

  18. Claim 18
    Misleading90% confidence▶ 8:36
    “you got like 20 white supremacists waiting for you in a circle.”

    There were approximately 20 white supremacists waiting in the room for the speaker.

    The episode involved 20 Trump supporters, and reporting characterized the participants as young conservatives or far-right conservatives. Some participants expressed extremist positions, but the available evidence does not support labeling every participant a white supremacist.

    Omits: The statement omits that the episode was presented and reported as involving 20 Trump supporters or young conservatives with varied far-right views, rather than establishing that all 20 were white supremacists.

    Sources

  19. Claim 19
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 8:51
    “this was the most viral.”

    The Jubilee episode described as the most viral was the most viral among the relevant videos or clips.

    The superlative 'most viral' has no defined comparison set or metric—such as views, shares, or reach—and the available reporting does not establish that this was Jubilee's single most viral moment.

    Sources

  20. Claim 20
    False99% confidence▶ 9:07
    “Every every private and public sector gets tax cuts when you hire a person of color.”

    Every private- and public-sector employer receives a tax cut when hiring a person of color.

    The federal hiring credit is limited to certified members of specified targeted groups facing employment barriers; it is not available to every employer for hiring any person of color. The IRS also says tax-exempt employers have additional restrictions, including eligibility generally only for hiring qualified veterans.

    Sources

  21. Claim 21
    False98% confidence▶ 9:12
    “Government agencies don't pay taxes.”

    Government agencies do not pay taxes.

    Government entities are generally exempt from federal income tax on public-function income, but the blanket statement that they do not pay taxes is false. The IRS expressly identifies employment-tax obligations for government entities.

    Sources

  22. Claim 22
    Unverifiable94% confidence▶ 10:07
    “And then uh had to eliminate all of her social media because she had an affair with another”

    The woman discussed deleted all of her social-media accounts because she had an affair with another conservative figure.

    The transcript does not identify the woman or the alleged conservative figure, and no reliable source located for this review establishes the claimed affair or that it caused her to delete all social media. Because the referents are insufficiently identified, the claim cannot be reliably judged.

    Sources: none found for this claim.

  23. Claim 23
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 11:17
    “Well, they persecuted the church a little bit. I'm not a fan of that, but”

    The Nazis persecuted the church to only a small extent.

    Historical evidence documents Nazi pressure and repression against parts of Germany's Catholic and Protestant churches, including the arrest of more than 700 pastors, but “a little bit” is an undefined degree that cannot be objectively assessed as stated.

    Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Misleading and the second Unverifiable. Recorded as Unverifiable.

    Sources

    • 1The German Churches and the Nazi State

      BackgroundWhen a protest statement was read from the pulpits of Confessing churches in March 1935, for example, Nazi authorities reacted forcefully by briefly arresting over 700 pastors.

  24. Claim 24
    Accurate100% confidence▶ 11:27
    “But, you don't condemn Nazi persecution of the Jews.”

    The Nazis persecuted Jews.

    This historical assertion is well established. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum describes the Holocaust as systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million European Jews by Nazi Germany and its allies and collaborators.

    Sources

  25. Claim 25
    Unverifiable96% confidence▶ 12:36
    “I recorded mine literally a week or so after the uh inauguration.”

    The speaker recorded his debate approximately one week after Donald Trump's inauguration.

    The 2025 inauguration occurred on January 20, 2025, and the Jubilee episode was later published, but the available public sources do not establish when the debate was recorded. Publication timing cannot verify the speaker's claimed recording date.

    Sources

  26. Claim 26
    Unverifiable82% confidence▶ 13:30
    “people think of racist or MAGA people in this country as like old white men in Alabama. Right. And these are young Gen Zers in a studio in LA. Yeah. Right.”

    The Jubilee debate participants were young Gen Z people filmed in a Los Angeles studio.

    Independent coverage describes the participants as young people and identifies the setting as a studio in Los Angeles, but the available sources do not establish that all or most participants were members of Gen Z. The age and location portions are supported, while the categorical Gen Z description is not independently verifiable.

    Sources

  27. Claim 27
    Accurate88% confidence▶ 13:41
    “There is a lot of young MAGA people”

    There are many young people who support MAGA.

    The claim is a broad existence claim rather than a precise estimate. AP VoteCast found that Americans ages 18 to 29 shifted toward Trump in 2024 and formed part of his coalition, supporting the speaker's assertion that a substantial group of young Trump/MAGA supporters exists.

    Sources

  28. Claim 28
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 15:11
    “Choosing Avocado is one of the most sustainable choices you can make, made with natural, certified organic materials that are responsibly sourced”

    Avocado mattresses are made with natural and certified organic materials that have responsible-sourcing certifications.

    The comparative phrase “one of the most sustainable choices” has no defined benchmark or scope, so it cannot be reliably tested against an agreed standard.

    Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Unverifiable. Recorded as Unverifiable.

    Sources

    • 12025 Impact Report

      BackgroundZero Waste refers to the elimination of wood manufacturing scrap in this collection's production process, not a claim of zero environmental impact across the full product lifecycle.

  29. Claim 29
    Misleading50% confidence▶ 16:02
    “mosque, which wasn't a mosque and wasn't at ground zero, yeah. And it wasn't at ground zero.”

    The Park51 project was not itself simply a mosque and was not located at Ground Zero.

    The location portion is accurate: Park51 was near, but not at, Ground Zero. However, saying it “wasn't a mosque” omits that the planned cultural center included a mosque or Muslim prayer space, so the combined framing gives a misleading impression.

    Omits: The project was a larger Islamic cultural center that included a mosque or Muslim prayer space; it was about one-tenth of a mile, or two blocks, from Ground Zero rather than at the site itself.

    Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Misleading and the second Accurate. Recorded as Misleading.

    Sources

  30. Claim 30
    Accurate98% confidence▶ 16:18
    “my producer from the the Majority Report on Air America and I wrote a book called FUBAR”

    The speaker co-wrote the book F.U.B.A.R. with his producer, and the book was published in 2006.

    F.U.B.A.R.: America's Right-Wing Nightmare is credited to Sam Seder and Stephen Sherrill and was published by HarperCollins in 2006. Sherrill was associated with Seder’s Air America program, matching the speaker’s description of his co-author as his producer.

    Sources

  31. Claim 31
    Unverifiable90% confidence▶ 17:05
    “back in 2016, when people were analyzing how Trump destroyed these mainstream rivals, what, 16, 17 of them?”

    Trump faced approximately 16 or 17 mainstream rivals in the 2016 Republican primary and defeated them.

    The 2016 Republican field did include 17 major candidates, but “mainstream rivals” and “destroyed” are undefined terms. The available evidence confirms the approximate field size, not the speaker’s characterization of those candidates or the meaning of “destroyed.”

    Sources

  32. Claim 32
    Unverifiable86% confidence▶ 17:17
    “he sent Dan Scavino and all these guys on his team to go listen to AM radio, to go hear what Joe Arpaio was saying in Arizona. And they realized the border, immigration, the wall, that is what gets you out in front of all these people.”

    Trump’s campaign sent Dan Scavino and others to listen to AM radio and hear Joe Arpaio’s views, using that information to identify immigration and the border as winning issues.

    The transcript gives a specific account of campaign activity and internal strategy, but I found no reliable independent source confirming that Scavino and other aides were specifically sent to listen to AM radio and Arpaio for this purpose.

    Sources: none found for this claim.

  33. Claim 33
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 17:35
    “but he employs migrants to this day at Mar-a-Lago.”

    Trump’s business employed foreign or migrant workers at Mar-a-Lago, including through temporary-worker programs.

    The Washington Post documented an undocumented immigrant who worked at Mar-a-Lago, but that evidence does not establish that Trump was still employing migrant workers when this statement was made or that he does so currently.

    The intensifier “to this day” makes this a current-status claim; the available evidence establishes past employment, not employment on the date of the video or at the present time.

    Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Unverifiable. Recorded as Unverifiable.

    Sources

  34. Claim 34
    Accurate97% confidence▶ 17:40
    “he was a pro-choice Democratic donor, etc., etc.”

    Trump had previously described himself as pro-choice and had donated to Democratic politicians or causes.

    Trump publicly said in 1999 that he was “very pro-choice,” and campaign-finance records show substantial donations to Democrats, especially before 2012. The statement is historically accurate when referring to his earlier political positions and donations.

    Sources

  35. Claim 35
    Misleading50% confidence▶ 17:54
    “Mitt Romney in the 2012 election came to New York and made a big show of kissing uh Donald Trump's ring at that time.”

    Mitt Romney went to New York during the 2012 primary to seek Donald Trump's endorsement, but the meeting was private rather than a public show of deference.

    Romney did seek Trump's endorsement in the 2012 Republican primary and went to Trump Tower, but contemporary reporting described the encounter as a private meeting. Calling it a 'big show' creates a misleading impression about its public character.

    Omits: The meeting at Trump Tower was described as a private, closed-door meeting, not a public spectacle; the 'kissing Trump's ring' language is metaphorical.

    Sources

    • 1Trump: Romney 'Begged' For My Endorsement in 2012

      RefutesHe then went on to note that Romney sought his endorsement in the 2012 primary, coming to Trump Tower for a private meeting.

    • 2'Go get 'em': Trump makes Romney endorsement official

      BackgroundThe meeting between the pair, one of whom said recently he likes to have the ability to fire people if necessary, the other of whom has coined the reality-show slogan “You’re fired!” took place Wednesday in a curtained-off area off the marble-and-chandeliered lobby of Trump International, Trump’s posh hotel off the Las Vegas Strip.

  36. Claim 36
    Misleading50% confidence▶ 18:11
    “Paul Ryan at the time talking, you know, the these made up stories about kids don't want uh a brown uh kids don't want a free lunch. They want a brown bag lunch.”

    Paul Ryan repeated an anecdote in which a boy supposedly preferred a brown-bag lunch to a free school lunch, but the account was based on a misstatement and an unverified source.

    Ryan did tell the brown-bag-lunch story, and fact-checking found that the story as presented was not reliable. However, the available evidence does not establish that Ryan personally fabricated it; he repeated an anecdote attributed to Anderson and later acknowledged failing to verify it.

    Omits: Ryan attributed the anecdote to Eloise Anderson, who later said she had misspoken and was referring to a television interview; Ryan said he regretted failing to verify the story's original source.

    Sources

  37. Claim 37
    Accurate50% confidence▶ 18:38
    “when Donald Trump came down the escalator”

    Donald Trump descended a golden escalator at Trump Tower when he launched his 2016 presidential campaign.

    Trump's June 16, 2015 campaign announcement began with his descent on a golden escalator at Trump Tower in New York.

    Sources

  38. Claim 38
    Accurate50% confidence▶ 19:36
    “Keith Ellison went on ABC, George Stephanopoulos, and Trump would win, and they all laughed at him.”

    Keith Ellison appeared on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, predicted that Donald Trump could win the Republican nomination, and was met with laughter from Stephanopoulos and other panelists.

    The Washington Post identified the appearance as ABC's This Week in July 2015, reported that Ellison said Trump had a chance to win the Republican nomination, and confirmed that Stephanopoulos and another panelist laughed.

    Sources

  39. Claim 39
    Accurate99% confidence▶ 20:49
    “you know, at one point, Biden, it wasn't just MAGA, it was extreme MAGA.”

    Joe Biden used the phrase "extreme MAGA" rather than only "MAGA."

    Biden repeatedly referred to "extreme MAGA Republicans" and an "extreme MAGA philosophy" in official statements and speeches.

    Sources

  40. Claim 40
    Accurate99% confidence▶ 21:20
    “Abdul El-Sayed being the biggest primary win of 2026 by a country mile, winning a Senate primary narrowly, yes, but some would argue doesn't matter how narrow it was.”

    Abdul El-Sayed narrowly won the 2026 Democratic Senate primary in Michigan.

    El-Sayed won Michigan's Democratic Senate primary by a narrow margin. The sources do not establish the subjective comparison that it was the year's biggest primary win by a wide margin.

    The intensifier "biggest primary win of 2026 by a country mile" is not judged as an objective ranking; the verdict applies to the checkable assertion that El-Sayed narrowly won the Michigan Senate primary.

    Sources

  41. Claim 41
    Misleading50% confidence▶ 21:34
    “He took out $60 million of spending, the endorsements of the entire party establishment.”

    Outside groups spent about $60 million opposing Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate primary.

    Reporting supports the core description that El-Sayed overcame more than $60 million in spending and an establishment-backed opponent. However, "the endorsements of the entire party establishment" overstates the evidence and omits that the spending was mostly outside spending and that prominent Democrats later endorsed or praised El-Sayed.

    Omits: The spending was primarily outside spending on behalf of Haley Stevens, and the record shows support from prominent establishment Democrats rather than literally every member or institution of the party establishment; after the primary, even Schumer and Gillibrand praised El-Sayed.

    The intensifier "entire" is judged as stated; the narrower claim that Stevens had major establishment backing and that El-Sayed overcame more than $60 million in spending is supported.

    Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Misleading. Recorded as Misleading.

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  42. Claim 42
    Misleading50% confidence▶ 21:34
    “the endorsements of the entire party establishment.”

    The entire Democratic Party establishment endorsed El-Sayed's opponent.

    El-Sayed faced substantial establishment opposition, including endorsements for Haley Stevens from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Sen. Gary Peters and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. But "the entire party establishment" is too absolute: Sen. Chris Van Hollen publicly endorsed El-Sayed, so the party establishment was not unanimous.

    Omits: The claim omits prominent Democratic figures who endorsed El-Sayed, including Sen. Chris Van Hollen, as well as progressive Democratic figures and organizations that supported him.

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  43. Claim 43
    Misleading50% confidence▶ 21:37
    “He wins, Chris Robb wins in Pennsylvania, Mel King wins in Colorado. Claire Valdez and Brad Lander.”

    Chris Rabb won a Pennsylvania primary and Melat Kiros won a Colorado primary in 2026; Claire Valdez and Brad Lander also won congressional primaries.

    The underlying election pattern is substantially correct: Chris Rabb won Pennsylvania's Democratic congressional primary, Melat Kiros won Colorado's Democratic congressional primary, and Claire Valdez and Brad Lander won New York congressional primaries. However, two names in the spoken claim do not match the actual candidates.

    Omits: The transcript misstates two candidates' names: the Pennsylvania winner was Chris Rabb, not "Chris Robb," and the Colorado winner was Melat Kiros, not "Mel King."

    Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Misleading and the second False. Recorded as Misleading.

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  44. Claim 44
    Misleading50% confidence▶ 21:46
    “seven DSA members are going to be congress people this year.”

    Seven DSA members will be members of Congress in 2026.

    A contemporary DSA tracker reported seven DSA-backed candidates had won their primaries. That is not identical to seven DSA members, and primary victories alone do not guarantee that all seven will win general elections.

    Omits: The available reporting establishes that seven DSA-backed candidates had won primaries, but it does not establish that all seven were DSA members or that all had already secured general-election victories.

    The phrase "are going to be congress people this year" is judged as a projection about the 2026 general elections, not as a claim that they were already serving in Congress.

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  45. Claim 45
    Unverifiable86% confidence▶ 21:51
    “I think it's nine total self-professed socialists cuz Brad Lander is no longer DSA, but he does identify as a Democratic Socialist. So you've got about nine socialists will be in the house in January by Prem's count.”

    There will be about nine self-professed socialists in the House in January, according to Prem Thakker's count, and Brad Lander identifies as a democratic socialist despite no longer being in DSA.

    The claim depends on an undefined and changing roster of "self-professed socialists" and on a count attributed to Prem Thakker for which no authoritative public list was located. Brad Lander's political identification and former DSA status do not by themselves verify the total of nine.

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  46. Claim 46
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 23:37
    “Yes, there's a far right and yes, there's a far left. The far right wants Nazism and ethnic cleansing, the far left wants Medicare for all. That is not the same thing.”

    The far right wants Nazism and ethnic cleansing, while the far left wants Medicare for all.

    The claim treats "the far right" and "the far left" as singular, clearly bounded groups and assigns uniform goals to each, but neither category has an agreed membership or a single authoritative platform. The specific policies mentioned exist in different movements, but that does not verify the universal characterization.

    Sources: none found for this claim.

  47. Claim 47
    Accurate93% confidence▶ 24:25
    “And so even even in the context of that analysis, what you're seeing is really a return to the roots of the Democratic Party of the modern Democratic Party, which was uh the New Deal.”

    The New Deal was a foundational root of the modern Democratic Party.

    The New Deal substantially reshaped the Democratic Party and created the coalition that dominated national politics for decades. Although the party’s origins predate Franklin Roosevelt, describing the New Deal as a central root of the modern party is historically supported.

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  48. Claim 48
    Accurate94% confidence▶ 25:10
    “they're trying to go back to like 1890s and you know, uh, programs in South Carolina uh, against black politicians.”

    South Carolina in the 1890s saw Democratic actions that suppressed Black political participation and displaced Black or Republican officeholders.

    In the post-Reconstruction period, white Democrats in South Carolina and across the South used violence, disenfranchisement, and legal restrictions to remove Republican officeholders and suppress Black political participation. The transcript’s wording is vague about the specific “programs,” but the historical substance is supported.

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  49. Claim 49
    Misleading50% confidence▶ 26:34
    “She won't vote for any kind of restrictions on aid when even people like Nancy Pelosi are voting on restrictions to aid.”

    Haley Stevens opposed restrictions on U.S. aid to Israel, while Nancy Pelosi supported or joined efforts to restrict weapons transfers.

    The record supports the contrast in their broader positions: Stevens consistently supported continued military aid, while Pelosi joined a 2024 call to halt weapons transfers. However, the wording implies Pelosi was voting for restrictions while Stevens was not; on the July 15, 2026 House amendment to block aid, both Pelosi and Stevens voted No.

    Omits: Nancy Pelosi signed a 2024 congressional letter urging President Biden to halt weapons transfers to Israel, but she voted against the July 15, 2026 Massie amendment to block U.S. aid to Israel; Haley Stevens also voted against that amendment.

    The intensifier "any kind" is judged as a claim about all relevant aid-restriction measures, not merely one particular vote.

    Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Misleading and the second Accurate. Recorded as Misleading.

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  50. Claim 50
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 26:56
    “I was one of the first people to interview her when she first went viral with that speech in the State House calling out the Republicans.”

    The speaker was among the first people to interview Mallory McMorrow after her viral Michigan statehouse speech criticizing Republicans.

    McMorrow’s speech and its viral status are documented, but the transcript does not identify the speaker clearly enough to verify the speaker’s personal claim about being one of the first interviewers.

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  51. Claim 51
    Accurate98% confidence▶ 26:56
    “when she first went viral with that speech in the State House calling out the Republicans.”

    Mallory McMorrow went viral after giving a speech on the Michigan Senate floor criticizing a Republican lawmaker.

    Contemporary and later reporting confirms that McMorrow’s 2022 Michigan Senate floor speech criticizing a Republican colleague went viral.

    Sources

  52. Claim 52
    Accurate86% confidence▶ 27:16
    “If you look at the polls, I know correlation is not causation, but look at the timeline. That's when she starts dropping in the polls.”

    Mallory McMorrow began declining in polling after she attacked Hasan Piker.

    Published Michigan primary polls show McMorrow near the top in April, at 17% in a May poll, and at 6% in a June poll, while reporting ties El-Sayed’s rise to endorsements and media attention involving Hasan Piker. The polling sequence supports the claimed timing, but does not establish that the attack caused the decline.

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  53. Claim 53
    False94% confidence▶ 28:20
    “a woman who called Zaran Momdani an advocate of global jihad”

    Kirsten Gillibrand called Zohran Mamdani an advocate of global jihad.

    Reporting on Gillibrand’s statement quotes her as referring to Mamdani’s alleged “references to global jihad.” That is different from calling Mamdani an advocate of global jihad, and the alleged references were not substantiated.

    Sources

  54. Claim 54
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 28:24
    “and still never publicly apologized to him or to the Muslim community.”

    Gillibrand had not publicly apologized to Mamdani or the Muslim community at the time of the discussion.

    The available reporting describes Gillibrand’s apology as a private phone call with Mamdani and does not report a public apology to Mamdani or the broader Muslim community. The claim is limited to a public apology, not whether she apologized privately.

    Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second False. Recorded as Unverifiable.

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  55. Claim 55
    Accurate94% confidence▶ 28:31
    “she apparently accused McMorrow of being in the DSA.”

    Kirsten Gillibrand accused Mallory McMorrow of being a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

    CNN reported that Gillibrand suggested to several donors that McMorrow had been a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, while also stating that McMorrow was not a member.

    Sources

  56. Claim 56
    False98% confidence▶ 29:49

    Joe Biden was a communist.

    PolitiFact found that Biden did not advocate nationalizing industries and described his positions as those of a moderate Democrat, not a socialist. Communism is a stronger claim than socialism and is not supported by Biden's stated views or policies.

    Sources

  57. Claim 57
    False99% confidence▶ 29:49

    Kamala Harris is a Marxist.

    Experts interviewed by PolitiFact unanimously rejected the characterization of Harris as communist or Marxist. Her campaign described her stance as capitalist, and her policies assume privately owned, market-driven economic activity.

    Sources

  58. Claim 58
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 29:51
    “These people are center right under any European political system. These are center center right capitalist politicians.”

    Obama, Pelosi, Biden, and Harris are center-right capitalist politicians under every European political system.

    The capitalist characterization is broadly supported for Biden and Harris, but the universal comparison across "any European political system" is not operationally defined. Available assessments instead describe Harris as mainstream left-of-center and Biden as a form of Christian democrat, making the exact universal claim uncheckable.

    The intensifier is "under any European political system." I judged the claim as stated; Europe has multiple political systems and no single agreed cross-European standard for classifying politicians as center-right.

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  59. Claim 59
    False98% confidence▶ 30:19

    Abdul El-Sayed is a communist.

    El-Sayed publicly rejects the socialist label and identifies himself as a capitalist whose preferred system is regulated capitalism. That does not support calling him a communist under the conventional definition.

    Sources

  60. Claim 60
    Accurate99% confidence▶ 30:24
    “He doesn't identify as a socialist.”

    Abdul El-Sayed does not identify as a socialist.

    In a 2026 interview, El-Sayed was asked what distinguished him from a Democratic Socialist and replied that he was not a socialist and believed in capitalism. This directly supports the claim about his self-identification.

    Sources

  61. Claim 61
    False99% confidence▶ 30:26
    “The idea that you would have universal health care and that's communism.”

    Universal health care is communism.

    Universal health care describes access and coverage, not a communist economic or political system. Australia officially describes Medicare as universal health care while also operating a private health system, and WHO notes that countries can pursue universal coverage through public or private providers.

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  62. Claim 62
    Misleading90% confidence▶ 33:05
    “Russ Vought destruction of the IRS, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the CDC, the FTC, the FDA. These agencies have been so decimated”

    The Republican and conservative movement, including Russ Vought, destroyed or severely weakened the IRS, CFPB, CDC, FTC, and FDA.

    Reliable sources document major proposed or implemented cuts, especially at the CFPB, FDA, and CDC, but they describe restructuring, workforce reductions, or an attempted dismantling rather than the destruction of all five agencies. The wording creates the impression that every listed agency had already been decimated to the same degree.

    Omits: The agencies were not uniformly destroyed: the administration described the FDA and CDC changes as workforce reductions and restructuring, while the CFPB was substantially reduced but not eliminated; the transcript does not establish comparable destruction of all five agencies, especially the FTC and IRS.

    Sources

    • 1Fact Sheet: HHS’ Transformation to Make America Healthy Again

      BackgroundFDA will decrease its workforce by approximately 3,500 full-time employees, with a focus on streamlining operations and centralizing administrative functions. This reduction will not affect drug, medical device, or food reviewers, nor will it impact inspectors.

    • 2White House scales back plans to dismantle consumer financial watchdog

      BackgroundThe Trump administration has scaled back its plans to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, laying out a plan for an agency that would be significantly smaller than it was under President Joe Biden but still bigger than the one President Donald Trump envisioned right after he took office.

    • 3CFPB Dropped Enforcement Actions July 2026 Update

      SupportsTrump’s acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) director, Russell Vought, has repeatedly attempted to gut the only federal consumer financial law enforcement agency, including by dismantling its enforcement program.

  63. Claim 63
    Accurate99% confidence▶ 34:10
    “some of these agencies have existed for for you know, 100 years, decades”

    Some of the agencies mentioned have existed for about 100 years or longer.

    The claim says only that some agencies have existed for 100 years or decades, which is correct. The FTC was created in 1914, and the institutional predecessors and regulatory functions of the FDA date to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

    Sources

    • 1Our History

      SupportsThe Federal Trade Commission was created on September 26, 1914, when President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Trade Commission Act into law.

    • 2Background: Research Tools on FDA History

      SupportsThe origins of the Food and Drug Administration can be traced back to 1862, when President Lincoln appointed chemist Charles M. Wetherill to head the Chemical Division in the new U. S. Department of Agriculture.

  64. Claim 64
    Accurate97% confidence▶ 34:23
    “Joe Kent and Marjorie Taylor Greene was seen in a picture with Tucker Carlson in his home recently in Maine.”

    Joe Kent, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Tucker Carlson were recently pictured together at Carlson’s home in Maine.

    Contemporary reporting confirms that Greene, Kent, and Carlson met at Carlson’s Maine cabin and that the gathering was represented by a group photograph. Other attendees, including Thomas Massie and spouses, were also present.

    Sources

  65. Claim 65
    Accurate99% confidence▶ 34:43
    “Joe Kent, former uh national counterterrorism director for Donald Trump, quit over Iran, blamed Israel.”

    Joe Kent was Trump’s former National Counterterrorism Center director, resigned over the Iran war, and blamed Israel for the decision to start it.

    Kent served as director of the National Counterterrorism Center under Trump and resigned over opposition to the Iran war. In his resignation letter and subsequent statements, he attributed the war to pressure from Israel and its American lobby.

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  66. Claim 66
    Accurate98% confidence▶ 34:48
    “He has been accused of all sorts of white supremacist neo-Nazi ties when he was running for Congress.”

    Joe Kent faced accusations and documented associations involving white supremacist and neo-Nazi figures during his congressional campaigns.

    Reporting documented Kent’s campaign interactions and associations with figures identified as white supremacist, neo-Nazi, or far-right, including Nick Fuentes and a neo-Nazi streamer. The transcript accurately says he was accused of such ties; it does not claim that every allegation was legally established.

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  67. Claim 67
    Accurate98% confidence▶ 34:55
    “he talked about how they went there to try and persuade Tucker to run for president as the leader of a new third party.”

    Joe Kent appeared on Cenk Uygur’s Young Turks podcast and said the group tried to persuade Tucker Carlson to run for president as a third-party candidate.

    Reporting on Kent’s appearance with Cenk Uygur states that the group pushed Carlson to run as a third-party candidate. This matches the transcript’s account of both the podcast appearance and its subject.

    Sources

  68. Claim 68
    Accurate50% confidence▶ 36:17
    “He's made it very clear he loves J.D. Vance.”

    Tucker Carlson has clearly expressed that he loves J.D. Vance.

    Carlson publicly said, “I love JD Vance,” and described Vance as an outstanding and unusually thoughtful politician. This directly supports the attribution that Carlson has clearly expressed affection for Vance.

    Sources

  69. Claim 69
    Accurate98% confidence▶ 36:36
    “Third party until he suddenly Trump, suddenly mega.”

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ran as an independent or third-party candidate before endorsing Donald Trump and joining his political coalition.

    Kennedy initially pursued the Democratic nomination, switched to an independent campaign in October 2023, and suspended that campaign in August 2024 while endorsing Trump and joining his campaign. The wording is colloquial, but its substantive timeline is accurate.

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  70. Claim 70
    Accurate99% confidence▶ 37:18
    “he ran at the beginning when he ran against Biden people forget that he was almost the he was running in the Democratic nomination.”

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. initially ran against Joe Biden for the Democratic presidential nomination.

    Kennedy announced his 2024 candidacy as a Democrat and challenged Biden for the Democratic nomination before leaving the party and running as an independent.

    Sources

  71. Claim 71
    Misleading50% confidence▶ 37:36
    “And then he basically admits, I offered, you know, Harris my support if she would give me what I wanted.”

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offered Kamala Harris his support in exchange for something he wanted from her administration.

    News reports support that Kennedy approached Harris’s campaign about possibly serving in her administration, and one source characterized his broader conduct as seeking a job in exchange for an endorsement. But the available reporting does not establish that he admitted making Harris a definite support-for-concession offer, and Kennedy publicly denied plans to endorse her.

    Omits: The reported contact was described as an attempt to discuss a possible administration role, not as a confirmed offer by Kennedy to endorse Harris in exchange for that role; Harris’s campaign did not offer a meeting or show interest, and Kennedy publicly said he had no plans to endorse her.

    Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Misleading and the second Accurate. Recorded as Misleading.

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  72. Claim 72
    Accurate50% confidence▶ 38:06
    “Bassem went on Candace Owens' show”

    Bassem Youssef appeared on Candace Owens’s show.

    A transcript of Candace Owens’s episode with Bassem Youssef documents that the two appeared together on her show.

    Sources

  73. Claim 73
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 38:26
    “but it's a genocide”

    The situation in Gaza constitutes genocide.

    The UN Commission of Inquiry concluded in September 2025 that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza, while the Israeli government has categorically rejected that characterization. The claim therefore reflects an active institutional dispute over the application of the legal definition, with the ICJ proceedings not yet constituting a final merits ruling in the sources reviewed.

    The checker found this claim contested — credible institutions have reached opposing conclusions and no ruling has settled it. This site is not yet publishing that verdict, so it is recorded as unverifiable rather than judged either way.

    Sources

  74. Claim 74
    Accurate99% confidence▶ 38:52
    “Trita Parsi was on recently talking about Iran.”

    Trita Parsi had recently appeared on Tucker Carlson's show to discuss Iran.

    The Tucker Carlson Show published an episode featuring Trita Parsi focused on the Iran war and related issues. The transcript's claim that Parsi was recently on the show talking about Iran is supported.

    Sources

  75. Claim 75
    Accurate99% confidence▶ 38:57
    “Cenk Uygur's been on.”

    Cenk Uygur had appeared on Tucker Carlson's show.

    The Tucker Carlson Show has an episode explicitly titled with Cenk Uygur's name and describes the conversation as one in which Uygur explains his views.

    Sources

  76. Claim 76
    Accurate50% confidence▶ 38:57
    “Ana Kasparian's been on.”

    Ana Kasparian had appeared on Tucker Carlson's show.

    Tucker Carlson's site identifies a full conversation with Ana Kasparian, confirming that she appeared on his show.

    Sources

  77. Claim 77
    False98% confidence▶ 41:14
    “This is I'm talking like '04. I'm old. Tucker had a show on that program.”

    Tucker Carlson had a show on MSNBC in 2004.

    The date and network combination is incorrect. Carlson did host a television program in 2004, but it was Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered on PBS; his MSNBC show began in 2005.

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  78. Claim 78
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 41:20
    “And he would have Buchanan fill in for him.”

    Pat Buchanan filled in as host for Tucker Carlson's show.

    Available records confirm that Pat Buchanan appeared as a guest on Carlson's MSNBC program, but the sources located do not establish that he served as a substitute host for Carlson. The claim therefore cannot be confirmed from reliable independent evidence.

    Sources

    • 1Tucker (2005 TV program)

      BackgroundThere were rotating guests, including MSNBC political analyst Pat Buchanan, The Hill associate editor A.B. Stoddard, Democratic strategist Peter Fenn, Newsweek magazine's Richard Wolffe and Democratic analyst Hilary Rosen.

  79. Claim 79
    Unverifiable90% confidence▶ 41:26
    “And Buchanan would invite [clears throat] me on when he wanted to criticize Israel.”

    Pat Buchanan invited the speaker onto his show when he wanted to criticize Israel.

    This is a specific personal recollection, but the speaker's identity and the relevant program are not identified in the excerpt, and no reliable independent source was found documenting the alleged invitation or its purpose.

    Sources: none found for this claim.

  80. Claim 80
    Misleading50% confidence▶ 44:54
    “Like Donald Trump hosted Nick Fuentes for dinner at his house.”

    Donald Trump hosted Nick Fuentes for dinner at Mar-a-Lago, his Florida resort and residence.

    Trump did host or attend a dinner with Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago in November 2022. Calling the location simply “his house” creates a misleading impression because reliable reports identify it as his Mar-a-Lago resort and club.

    Omits: The dinner was held at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, a private club and residence, rather than being clearly documented as taking place in his private home.

    Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Misleading. Recorded as Misleading.

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  81. Claim 81
    Accurate96% confidence▶ 45:03
    “Nixon is probably the other person who was anti-Semitic very clearly if you look at listen to the tapes.”

    Richard Nixon made clearly antisemitic remarks on the White House tapes.

    Released Nixon tapes document repeated antisemitic remarks, including comments blaming Jews for anti-war activity and discussing Jewish employees in conspiratorial terms. The evidence supports the speaker's characterization that Nixon's antisemitism is apparent from the tapes.

    Sources

  82. Claim 82
    Misleading90% confidence▶ 46:01
    “Donald Trump is uh ethnically cleansing Gaza.”

    Donald Trump was ethnically cleansing Gaza.

    Trump proposed transferring Palestinians out of Gaza and having the United States take over the territory; Human Rights Watch said that, if implemented, this would amount to forced displacement and ethnic cleansing. The categorical present-tense wording goes beyond the cited evidence, which describes a proposal and its potential consequences.

    Omits: The statement omits that rights groups characterized Trump's proposal as a call or intended escalation of ethnic cleansing, often conditionally phrased as what it would amount to if implemented, rather than establishing that Trump had already carried out ethnic cleansing.

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  83. Claim 83
    Accurate99% confidence▶ 47:25
    “he also ran as a third party candidate etc.”

    Patrick Buchanan ran as a third-party presidential candidate.

    Buchanan was the Reform Party's presidential candidate in 2000, after earlier seeking the Republican nomination. That constitutes a third-party presidential candidacy.

    Sources

    • 1Patrick J. Buchanan

      SupportsPatrick J. Buchanan was a senior advisor to three American Presidents, ran twice for the Republican nomination in 1992 and 1996, and was the Reform Party’s Presidential candidate in 2000.

  84. Claim 84
    Accurate50% confidence▶ 47:53
    “There's I think there's a line from Max Boot, the Washington Post columnist,”

    Max Boot is a Washington Post columnist.

    The Washington Post identifies Max Boot as a weekly columnist for the newspaper.

    Sources

    • 1Max Boot - The Washington Post

      SupportsHe is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a weekly columnist for The Washington Post.

  85. Claim 85
    Misleading50% confidence▶ 47:59
    “the Republican Party used to be a right-wing party with a white supremacist fringe, and now it's a white supremacist party with a right-wing fringe.”

    Max Boot described the Republican Party as having shifted from a right-wing or conservative party with a white-nationalist fringe to a white-nationalist party with a conservative or right-wing fringe.

    Boot did make a materially similar characterization in a 2018 CNN interview, but the exact formulation attributed here differs in two significant terms: "white nationalist" became "white supremacist," and "conservative" became "right-wing."

    Omits: The wording attributed to Boot changes his reported terms: the sourced version says "a conservative party with a white nationalist fringe, now it's a white nationalist party with a conservative fringe," not "right-wing" and "white supremacist."

    Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second Misleading. Recorded as Misleading.

    Sources

    • 1CNN.com - Transcripts: Max Boot interview

      BackgroundSo, Max, you wrote that the Republican Party used to be "A conservative party with a white nationalist fringe, now it's a white nationalist party with a conservative fringe."

    • 2Max Boot - The Washington Post

      SupportsHe is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a weekly columnist for The Washington Post.

  86. Claim 86
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 49:45
    “Joe Biden's big failure was his inability, I mean, put Gaza to one side, of course, if you can, put a genocide to one side.”

    The speaker refers to Israel's conduct in Gaza as a genocide.

    The statement is a characterization of the Gaza conflict as genocide. The UN Commission of Inquiry and Amnesty International have concluded that genocide occurred, while Israel's government explicitly rejects that conclusion; the issue remains contested rather than finally adjudicated on the merits by the ICJ.

    The checker found this claim contested — credible institutions have reached opposing conclusions and no ruling has settled it. This site is not yet publishing that verdict, so it is recorded as unverifiable rather than judged either way.

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  87. Claim 87
    Accurate97% confidence▶ 50:13
    “half of child poverty in a year.”

    U.S. child poverty fell by about half in one year.

    The Census Bureau reported that the Supplemental Poverty Measure child-poverty rate fell 46% in 2021, from 9.7% to 5.2%, which is reasonably described as nearly halving in one year. The decline was associated in part with the expanded Child Tax Credit and other pandemic-era measures.

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  88. Claim 88
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 50:41
    “He's opening a community swimming pool. He doesn't put out a press release. He goes jumps in the pool in his suit.”

    An unidentified person opened a community swimming pool, avoided issuing a press release, and jumped into the pool wearing a suit.

    The transcript does not identify the person, location, or date of this anecdote, so the event cannot be independently verified from the available information.

    Sources: none found for this claim.

  89. Claim 89
    False99% confidence▶ 52:14
    “Again, they passed the American Rescue Act in February of 2020”

    The American Rescue Act was passed in February 2020.

    The federal measure commonly called the American Rescue Plan was enacted in March 2021, not February 2020. The CARES Act was enacted in March 2020, but it was a different law.

    Sources

  90. Claim 90
    Accurate50% confidence▶ 52:50
    “I mean even Obama did four.”

    Barack Obama served four years in the U.S. Senate before becoming president.

    Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004, served beginning January 3, 2005, resigned in November 2008 after winning the presidency, and was inaugurated in January 2009—commonly described as four years in the Senate.

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  91. Claim 91
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 52:57
    “the morning after Barack Obama won in 2004, the very first question at his very first press conference was are you running for president in 2008?”

    The morning after Obama won his 2004 Senate election, the first question at his first press conference concerned whether he would run for president.

    A PBS Frontline interview with biographer David Remnick recounts that the morning after Obama won his Senate seat, the first question at his press conference was when he would run for president. The transcript's wording specifies 2008, consistent with the reported question.

    Checked twice, independently: the first pass returned Accurate and the second False. Recorded as Unverifiable.

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  92. Claim 92
    Accurate98% confidence▶ 53:22
    “The first guy had to drop out because of a scandal with his ex-wife. Then it was Alan Keyes”

    Jack Ryan withdrew from the 2004 Illinois Senate race because of a scandal involving his ex-wife, and Alan Keyes replaced him as the Republican nominee.

    Republican nominee Jack Ryan withdrew after allegations from his ex-wife became public, and the Illinois Republican Party selected Alan Keyes to replace him in the race against Obama.

    Sources

    • 1Republican Ryan Quits Senate Race in Illinois

      SupportsWith his campaign reeling from a sex scandal, Illinois Republican senatorial nominee Jack Ryan withdrew from the race yesterday, setting off a frantic scramble to find another candidate to run against heavy odds favoring a Democrat to win the seat.

    • 22004 United States Senate election in Illinois

      SupportsSix weeks later, the Illinois Republican State Central Committee chose former Diplomat Alan Keyes to replace Ryan as the Republican candidate.

  93. Claim 93
    False99% confidence▶ 53:33
    “in 2004 there was no social media.”

    There was no social media in 2004.

    Social media was much smaller and less politically influential in 2004, but it did exist. Facebook launched in February 2004, and other social-networking services also predated or existed during that year.

    Sources

    • 1Facebook launches

      RefutesOn February 4, 2004, a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg launches The Facebook, a social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one another.

    • 2Web History Timeline

      RefutesSocial networking site Friendster.com launches, but is quickly overtaken by Facebook.

  94. Claim 94
    Accurate50% confidence▶ 53:35
    “You had Fox, of course.”

    Fox News existed during the 2004 election period.

    Fox News Channel launched in October 1996 and was operating during the 2004 election.

    Sources

  95. Claim 95
    Accurate98% confidence▶ 55:37
    “I did a couple episodes. I was hired as a a sign language interpreter for the mayor.”

    Sam Seder appeared in two episodes of Spin City and played a sign-language interpreter for the mayor.

    Credits list Sam Seder in two Spin City episodes, including “Deaf Becomes Her,” whose plot centers on the mayor’s inept new sign-language interpreter. The episode cast identifies Seder as the interpreter character, “Bogus Temp.”

    Sources

  96. Claim 96
    Accurate97% confidence▶ 55:48
    “It's a political comedy by the way. About a mayor in New York.”

    Spin City is a comedy series about the mayor’s office in New York.

    Spin City is categorized as a comedy and is set around the fictionalized New York City mayor’s office.

    Sources

  97. Claim 97
    Accurate99% confidence▶ 56:05
    “I was on Sex and the City back in the day.”

    Sam Seder appeared on Sex and the City.

    Sam Seder is credited as Lew in the Sex and the City episode “Sex and Another City,” which aired in 2000.

    Sources

  98. Claim 98
    Accurate99% confidence▶ 56:09
    “I am still a voice on Bob's Burgers. Yes, I play Hugo the health inspector um and a couple other voices.”

    Sam Seder continued voicing Hugo, the health inspector, and other characters on Bob’s Burgers.

    Bob’s Burgers credits list Sam Seder as a voice actor for Hugo and other characters, with credits continuing through the show’s later seasons. Hugo is identified as a health inspector.

    Sources

  99. Claim 99
    Unverifiable50% confidence▶ 56:27
    “I'm on a I'm a guest on a on a pretty high-profile show that's in its second season.”

    Sam Seder was a guest on an unnamed show that was in its second season.

    The claim does not identify the show, and “pretty high-profile” has no agreed operational definition. Without the program’s name or another identifying detail, the assertion cannot be reliably confirmed or refuted.

    Sources: none found for this claim.

  100. Claim 100
    Accurate99% confidence▶ 57:11
    “You can watch Sam Seder on the Majority Report co-hosted by Emma Vigeland”

    Sam Seder hosts The Majority Report, and Emma Vigeland co-hosts it.

    The Majority Report’s official about page identifies Sam Seder as its host and Emma Vigeland as its co-host.

    Sources

  101. Claim 101
    Accurate96% confidence▶ 57:16
    “every day on YouTube or on Twitch. Uh we go live at noon”

    The Majority Report airs daily on YouTube or Twitch and goes live at noon.

    The show's official materials describe it as a daily program, and its channel description says it airs Monday through Friday at 12 p.m. Eastern on YouTube while also listing Twitch as an outlet.

    Sources

  102. Claim 102
    Accurate99% confidence▶ 57:25
    “We're also as a podcast.”

    The Majority Report is available as a podcast.

    The show's official website states that the main program is available via podcast and can be downloaded from podcast platforms.

    Sources

    • 1The Majority Report — About

      SupportsThe main show, which is available to everyone live and via podcast, is 40 minutes packed full of news, insightful commentary and intelligent interviews with some of the most respected minds in politics and world affairs.

  103. Claim 103
    Accurate98% confidence▶ 57:41
    “to become a paid subscriber so you can get episodes of We're Not Kidding as soon as they drop.”

    Zeteo paid subscribers can get episodes of We're Not Kidding when they are released.

    Zeteo has stated that paid subscribers can watch new We're Not Kidding episodes without a paywall at the moment they are released.

    Sources