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Joe Kent was threatened with an FBI investigation after the Iran war began.

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Israel has no natural resources.

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It is against the law to criticize Israel.

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Hundreds of people have been arrested in Great Britain for criticizing Israel.

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About 500 of the 535 members of Congress take money from AIPAC.

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Race is a biological reality.

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Race is not a social construct.

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The 2025 United States-Israel military operation against Iran is the first joint military operation by the United States and Israel against a Muslim country.

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Mike Huckabee has called for killing people and their children.

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Ted Cruz has called for killing people who did nothing wrong.

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Donald Trump launched a war with Iran.

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Some Americans have been killed in the 2025 United States military conflict with Iran.

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President Trump spent years saying the Iraq invasion was a terrible idea.

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President Trump declared a ceasefire three to four weeks into the Iran war.

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Iran said one condition for a ceasefire in the Iran war was that Israel pull back from southern Lebanon.

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Israel killed civilians in Lebanon within hours of President Trump's ceasefire announcement in the Iran war.

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Donald Trump threatened to murder civilians in a social media post on Easter Sunday 2025.

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Joe Kent is the head of the National Counterterrorism Center.

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Joe Kent said the FBI told him that he could not investigate Charlie Kirk's murder.

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Tucker Carlson's son was not forced out of his role working for Vice President JD Vance.

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In the United States, capital gains tax rates are about half of ordinary income tax rates.

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Use of the term “racist” increased sharply in New York Times stories after Occupy Wall Street.

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Use of the term “racism” increased sharply in New York Times stories after Occupy Wall Street.

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President Trump wanted the Nobel Peace Prize during his second term.

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Israel has about 9 million people.

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Donald Trump mocked Islam in a social media post on Easter Sunday 2025.

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Two-thirds of the examples in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism are criticism of Israel.

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Charlie Kirk was murdered by a lone gunman on September 10, 2025.

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Erika Kirk condemned the theory that Israel was linked to Charlie Kirk's death.

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The person arrested in connection with Charlie Kirk's murder was handed over to authorities by his father.

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The overwhelming majority of newly created jobs in the United States in the past five years have gone to foreign-born workers.

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Tucker Carlson's interview with Nick Fuentes has 25 million views.

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Donald Trump dismantled USAID.

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The Persian Gulf is the source of about one-fifth of the world's energy.

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Marco Rubio has said that Iran is the greatest threat the United States faces.

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An operation in Venezuela removed Nicolás Maduro from office.

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Donald Trump threatened Iran's civilian infrastructure in a Truth Social post on Easter Sunday 2025.

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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion influenced Nazi ideology.

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Donald Trump Jr. supported Tucker Carlson's new media venture.

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The United States is in a war with Iran.

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Tucker Carlson wrote in a text message that Donald Trump is good at destroying things.

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Use of the term “white supremacy” increased sharply in New York Times stories after Occupy Wall Street.

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No one responsible for the global financial crisis went to jail.

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Tucker Carlson publicly opposed President Trump's decision to go to war with Iran.

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Tucker Carlson said he regrets supporting President Trump.

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Iran controls the greatest span of coastline along the Persian Gulf.

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Israel bombed downtown Beirut during the Iran war.

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Israel used explosive pagers against Hezbollah.

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The United States has about 350 million people.

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Donald Trump killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in 2020.

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Hundreds of Americans have been wounded in the 2025 United States military conflict with Iran.

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Donald Trump did not put his hand on the Bible during his 2025 presidential swearing-in ceremony.

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Donald Trump sent out a picture depicting himself as Jesus.

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Fewer than 10 million Jews live in the United States.

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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was written in the early 20th century.

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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a Tsarist forgery.

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Forty governments have adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism.

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Charlie Kirk founded Turning Point USA.

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Israel denied theories that Israel was linked to Charlie Kirk's death.

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Nick Fuentes wants America to be a white Christian nation.

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Nick Fuentes is a white nationalist.

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Nick Fuentes has denied the Holocaust.

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The Holocaust began with the dehumanization of Jews before the gassing of Jews.

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Vice President JD Vance led negotiations with Iran.

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Tucker Carlson's son left his job working for Vice President JD Vance.

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Sending Americans overseas to risk their lives for regime change in another country is unpopular in the United States.

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Tucker Carlson wrote in a text message that Donald Trump could easily destroy Fox News if Fox News played it wrong.

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Graham Platner is a Democrat seeking to be the U.S. Senate candidate in Maine.

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The middle class was no longer the majority in the United States after 2015.

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Hugo Chávez was a left-wing populist who took power in Venezuela.

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Hillary Clinton laughed about Muammar Gaddafi’s death.

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Joe Kent resigned as head of the counterterrorism center shortly after the Iran war began.

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Iran is a contiguous neighbor of Iraq.

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Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982.

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Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah.

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Some of Tucker Carlson's text messages became public through Dominion Voting Systems' lawsuit against Fox News.

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Tucker Carlson wrote in a text message that he hated Donald Trump passionately.

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Tucker Carlson wrote in a text message that there really is not an upside to Donald Trump.

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Mike Huckabee is the United States ambassador to Israel.

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Israel is a member state of the United Nations.

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The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism lists 11 examples of antisemitism.

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No proof has been presented that Israel was linked to Charlie Kirk's death.

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Nick Fuentes has called Hitler "effing cool."

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JD Vance is fronting negotiations with Iran.

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Tucker Carlson's son worked for Vice President JD Vance.

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Nick Fuentes called JD Vance a race traitor because of JD Vance's marriage to Usha Vance.

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Usha Vance is Indian-American.

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Occupy Wall Street arose after the global financial crisis.

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Tucker Carlson left Fox News.

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A war with Iran is unpopular in the United States.

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Donald Trump posted about Tucker Carlson on Truth Social.

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Tucker Carlson said immigrants make the United States poorer, dirtier, and more divided.

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Tucker Carlson warned that immigrants are going to replace “legacy Americans.”

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Tucker Carlson called Iraqis “semi-literate primitive monkeys” in 2008.