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PolitiFact - Spanberger voted to send stimulus checks to inmates. So did Republicans

One thing is missing from a GOP television ad that accuses Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., of voting to send COVID-19 st → Read More

PolitiFact | Youngkin's claim that Virginia protects same-sex marriage is flawed

Gov. Glenn Youngkin was elusive when recently asked if he would take action to guarantee same sex-marriage under Virgini → Read More

PolitiFact | The U.S. is the only industrialized nation with no paid family leave plan

Sweeping legislation that would have established a paid family leave program for Virginia employees was recently killed → Read More

PolitiFact - Are overdose drug deaths finally going down, as Conway says?

PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter. → Read More

Again, Trump boasted that he called to take out Osama bin Laden in 2000. He didn’t

After President Donald Trump announced that terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was dead, Trump repeated an inaccurate boast that he called for taking out Osama bin Laden before the Sept. 11 attacks. Trump said that he made the warning in his January 2000 book → Read More

62% of U.S. gun deaths are suicides

Del. Jason Miyares, R-Virginia Beach, has offered a compromise red-flag bill that would take firearms away from people deemed dangerous to themselves or others. While the gun-control debate has largely focused on stopping mass shootings, Miyares says the biggest value of his bill could be that it would stop some people from shooting themselves. → Read More

Van Cleave in ballpark on criminals who had gun background checks

Beefing up background checks on gun buyers won’t reduce crime, says Philip Van Cleave, a Virginia gun lobbyist. Van Cleave is president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League. During an Aug. 8 interview on WRVA Radio in Richmond, he was dismissive of calls for stronger background checks in the wake of fatal mass shootings this year in Virginia and other states. → Read More

Northam wrongly says report confirms he wasn't in racist photo

Gov. Ralph Northam says an investigation has "confirmed" he didn’t appear in a racist photo on his personal page in his 1984 medical school yearbook. "I think it confirmed what I said all along, that I’m not in that offensive picture," Northam, a Democrat, said during a May 23 television interview on WHSV of Harrisonburg. We fact checked the governor’s statement, examining his two assertions: •… → Read More

Del. Bob Thomas misstates provision in Virginia abortion bill

During a recent radio interview, Del. Bob Thomas, R-Stafford, predicted abortion will be a major issue this fall when all 140 seats in the General Assembly will be on the ballot. He said Republicans need to campaign on a failed bill introduced by a Democratic legislator winter this that would have repealed some of Virginia’s abortion restrictions. Thomas said the laws → Read More

PolitiFact - Bobby Scott says women earn 80 percent pay of white men for 'similar' jobs

PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter. → Read More

Trump falsely claims Northam said he'd let doctors 'execute' newborns

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is facing national scorn for a racist photo that appears by his name in his 1984 medical school yearbook. President Donald Trump has been deriding the Democrat, but for a different reason. Here’s what Trump said during a Feb. 11 rally in El Paso, Texas: → Read More

PolitiFact - Trump falsely claims Northam said he'd let doctors 'execute' newborns

PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter. → Read More

Clean Virginia tells half the story about state's high energy bills

Virginians pay high power bills largely because the state’s regulatory system is "rigged," in favor of energy companies, according to Clean Virginia, an advocacy group seeking reforms. The group notes on its website that the state’s two dominant power companies - Dominion Energy and Appalachian Power Co., who, together provide 82 percent of Virginia’s power and have contributed $12 million to… → Read More

In context: Dave Brat's comments to jailed addicts

U.S. Rep. Dave Brat, R-Va., is attracting wide attention for comments he made to incarcerated addicts, relating their struggles in recovery to his strife seeking reelection. → Read More

Pants on Fire: Larry Pratt says Obama hasn't decried killings of police

Larry Pratt, the longtime leader of Gun Owners of America, says President Barack Obama has been nonchalant about ambush shootings targeting police. → Read More

McAuliffe wrongly links vetoed Virginia bill to North Carolina's bathroom law

Gov. Terry McAuliffe recently took credit for saving Virginia from passing a law similar to North Carolina’s HB2 act that dictates which public restrooms transgender people can use. → Read More

Don Beyer wrongly says U.S. has surpluses with all of its trade agreement nations

U.S. Rep. Don Beyer, D-8th, made a pitch for free-trade agreements early on election night, a few hours before Republican Donald Trump’s victory in the presidential race put those pacts in jeopardy. Beyer was interviewed by PJ Media, a conservative online news outlet and blog. If Democrat Hillary Clinton won the presidency, he was asked, what would Democrats do to gain the support of those who… → Read More

Pat Robertson absurdly says Sanger, King conspired in black genocide

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson recently said that Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. partnered in a conspiracy to promote black genocide. → Read More

NRA weakly claims that Clinton said gun confiscation is 'worth considering'

A National Rifle Association flier shows the jaws of a crane dumping hundreds of rifles into a landfill. → Read More

Mike Pence says Tim Kaine tried to raise Virginia taxes by $4 billion

Republican Mike Pence accused Democrat Tim Kaine of being a big taxer during the 2016 vice-presidential debate. → Read More