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Alex Wilts is a spring 2015 reporting intern for the Austin American-Statesman's state desk and PolitiFact Texas.

Featured Statements

Bernie Sanders
stated on June 4, 2015 in a post on Twitter:

"The gap between the very rich and everyone else in America is wider today than at any time since the 1920s."

By Miles Adair • June 18, 2015
Texas Organizing Project
stated on March 5, 2015 in a press release:

"The unemployment rate among blacks in Texas is 9.5% -- far more than double white unemployment -- and wages have fallen for black workers in Texas since 2000."

By Alex Wilts • April 23, 2015
Tim Cook
stated on March 29, 2015 in an oped column:

"Legislation being considered in Texas would strip the salaries and pensions of clerks who issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples — even if the Supreme Court strikes down Texas’ marriage ban later this year."

By Alex Wilts • April 15, 2015
Jerry Falwell Jr.
stated on March 23, 2015 in a speech introducing Ted Cruz at Liberty University:

Ted Cruz was "the longest-serving solicitor general in the history of Texas."

By Alex Wilts • March 25, 2015
Rick Perry
stated on February 27, 2015 in a web ad:

"At this particular point in time, looking at the field, there’s only one individual that’s ever had the uniform of his country on—and that’s me."

By W. Gardner Selby • March 4, 2015
Dave Claunch
stated on January 14, 2015 in a meeting of the West Lake Hills City Council:

"Austin has more lobbyists working for it than any other municipality in Texas."

By Alex Wilts • February 16, 2015
Ted Cruz
stated on January 20, 2015 in an interview with Fox News:

"Today the top 1 percent earn a higher share of our national income than any year since 1928."

By Alex Wilts • January 30, 2015

Ted Cruz's first fact checks as presidential hopeful

By W. Gardner Selby • March 27, 2015
Rick Perry alone among presidential prospects in military service?

By W. Gardner Selby • March 25, 2015
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By Alex Wilts • March 18, 2015
Luck of the Irish on the Truth-O-Meter

By Alex Wilts • March 17, 2015
Luck of the Irish on the Truth-O-Meter

By Alex Wilts • March 17, 2015