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False Claim: California undermines federal immigration law for violent criminals
FALSE: Gov. Gavin Newsom is forcing low income housing in neighborhoods destroyed by the LA fires.
False: Governor Newsom is withholding official activation orders for the National Guard, effectively withholding their paychecks.
FALSE: Screenshots have circulated Craigslist ads purportedly seeking to pay people to protest in Los Angeles.
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False: Videos from Los Angeles prove National Guard and Marines needed to stop violence
These videos are from separate events, not June 2025 in Los Angeles.


President Trump DID NOT tell the Governor to “get his ass in gear” during his phone call on June 7th, 2025.
The President did not mention sending the National Guard into California at any point.


False: On June 10, President Trump told press he spoke with the Governor “a day ago”
President Trump called the Governor once, on the night of Friday, June 7 – not “a day ago.”


False Claim: President Trump’s Federalized National Guard De-escalated the situation in Los Angeles
The National Guard President Trump federalized was not deployed on the ground when he posted this.

FALSE: California’s transgender athlete policies are out of line with other states.
The California Legislature passed a bill in 2013 (becoming 1 of 22 states) that allows transgender students to participate in sports consistent with their gender identity.


FALSE CLAIM: New ‘report’ claims no firetrucks in The Palisades & no high-wind warnings during LA Firestorms
With the National Weather Service issuing multiple alerts leading up to the devastating LA fires, and throughout, response vehicles were prepositioned & additional resources and personnel were added in the hours and days after.
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Facts About LA Fires
The LA wildfires gave rise to an extraordinary amount of misinformation and disinformation -- worst of all President Trump saying they were fought "without a token of defense."
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FALSE: There has been nothing to show for the billions of dollars in bonds Californians passed under Prop 1 back in 2014 for new water storage
Approximately $7.519 billion (99.7%) of funds have been committed, creating 20 programs and funding 1,897 projects.


FALSE CLAIM: California is spending $500 million to DESTROY a dam that supplies water to 600,000 people.
False. PG&E made their own business decision to decommission THEIR dam.


No, Gavin Newsom & his allies DID NOT just force 12 historic family farms & dairies out of Point Reyes National Seashore.
This is a FEDERAL deal, not state.


No, In-N-Out is not leaving California
In-N-Out’s HQ is moving from one part of Los Angeles to another.