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    {
      "label": "House Clerk — July 22, 2026, H.R. 7008 passage, Roll Call 280",
      "url": "https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026280",
      "type": "Primary official record"
    },
    {
      "label": "House Rules Committee — H.R. 7008 text and legislative materials",
      "url": "https://rules.house.gov/bill/119/hr-7008",
      "type": "Primary official record"
    },
    {
      "label": "House Clerk — Hinson annual financial disclosure for 2025",
      "url": "https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial-pdfs/2025/10076278.pdf",
      "type": "Primary official record"
    },
    {
      "label": "House Clerk — Hinson annual financial disclosure for 2024",
      "url": "https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial-pdfs/2024/10066620.pdf",
      "type": "Primary official record"
    },
    {
      "label": "KCRG / Gray — independent review of the Outrageous ad",
      "url": "https://www.kcrg.com/2026/09/05/fact-check-did-ashley-hinson-vote-ban-stock-trading-congress/",
      "type": "Independent Iowa journalism"
    },
    {
      "label": "Unusual Whales — 2025 congressional-trading methodology and report",
      "url": "https://unusualwhales.com/congress-trading-report-2025",
      "type": "Original private research; not an official finding"
    },
    {
      "label": "Iowa Legislature — official House daily journals",
      "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/journals/house",
      "type": "Primary official record"
    },
    {
      "label": "KCRG / Gray — full-session floor-vote comparison and candidate replies",
      "url": "https://www.kcrg.com/2026/08/26/checking-josh-turek-ashley-hinsons-missed-votes-claims-against-each-other/",
      "type": "Independent Iowa journalism"
    },
    {
      "label": "USDA — 2024 AFIDA foreign landholding report, released January 2026",
      "url": "https://www.fsa.usda.gov/sites/default/files/2026-01/AFIDAYR2024ReportWithPageNumbers.pdf",
      "type": "Primary official record"
    },
    {
      "label": "Iowa Legislature — 2026 Code section 9I.3, foreign agricultural ownership restrictions",
      "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2026/9I.3.pdf",
      "type": "Primary official record"
    },
    {
      "label": "U.S. GAO — institutional investors in single-family rental homes",
      "url": "https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106643",
      "type": "Primary official record"
    },
    {
      "label": "Iowa Revenue — data-center sales and use tax incentives",
      "url": "https://revenue.iowa.gov/taxes/tax-guidance/sales-use-excise-tax/data-centers",
      "type": "Primary official record"
    },
    {
      "label": "Iowa Utilities Commission — July 2026 large-load cost protections and risks",
      "url": "https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/IACIO/bulletins/421fed2",
      "type": "Primary official record"
    },
    {
      "label": "Kansas Reflector — Lahn residence and voter-registration chronology, with his response",
      "url": "https://kansasreflector.com/2026/05/29/co-founder-of-wichita-private-school-contending-for-iowa-gops-gubernatorial-nomination/",
      "type": "Independent reporting"
    },
    {
      "label": "Iowa Capital Dispatch — October 6 debate, residence and education rebuttals",
      "url": "https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/10/06/sand-lahn-trade-attacks-on-residency-family-at-first-iowa-gubernatorial-debate/",
      "type": "Independent Iowa journalism"
    },
    {
      "label": "Iowa Education — Students First Education Savings Accounts requirements",
      "url": "https://educate.iowa.gov/pk-12/educational-choice/education-savings-accounts",
      "type": "Primary official record"
    },
    {
      "label": "Iowa Capital Dispatch — Lahn on ESA expansion and school competition",
      "url": "https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/08/01/lahn-advocates-for-privatized-medicaid-defends-attack-ad-against-sand/",
      "type": "Independent Iowa journalism"
    },
    {
      "label": "State Auditor — Tama County Human Resources special investigation, February 3, 2026",
      "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/ADRPT/1596897.pdf",
      "type": "Primary official record"
    },
    {
      "label": "State Auditor — McCausland special investigation, November 19, 2025",
      "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/ADRPT/1544365.pdf",
      "type": "Primary official record"
    },
    {
      "label": "International Paralympic Committee — Joshua Turek results",
      "url": "https://www.paralympic.org/joshua-turek",
      "type": "Primary sports governing-body record"
    },
    {
      "label": "International Paralympic Committee — Turek’s 2004 and 2012 participation",
      "url": "https://www.paralympic.org/news/us-men-s-wheelchair-basketball-squad-reduced-16",
      "type": "Primary sports governing-body record"
    },
    {
      "label": "Des Moines Register — USA television announcement, syndicated copy",
      "url": "https://bluewaterhealthyliving.com/news/national-news/iowa/josh-turek-airs-first-general-election-tv-ads-in-iowas-us-senate-race/",
      "type": "Independent Iowa journalism; syndicated copy"
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    {
      "label": "Federal Highway Administration — Interstate 35, Laredo to Duluth",
      "url": "https://highways.dot.gov/highway-history/interstate-system/dwight-d-eisenhower-system-interstate-and-defense-highways/part-4",
      "type": "Primary official record"
    },
    {
      "label": "Iowa Legislature — SF 2340, enrolled legislation and official history",
      "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=90&ba=SF2340",
      "type": "Primary official record"
    },
    {
      "label": "Eighth Circuit — United States v. Iowa, January 24, 2025 court opinion (Justia mirror)",
      "url": "https://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/ca8/24-2265/24-2265-2025-01-24.pdf?ts=1737736224",
      "type": "Primary official record"
    },
    {
      "label": "Iowa Legislature — SF 2340 enrolled text",
      "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/LGE/90/SF2340.pdf",
      "type": "Primary official record"
    },
    {
      "label": "Iowa House — March 19, 2024 journal, SF 2340 passage and Turek Yea vote",
      "url": "https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/HJNL/20240319_HJNL.pdf",
      "type": "Primary official record"
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    {
      "label": "U.S. House — Miller-Meeks official biography",
      "url": "https://millermeeks.house.gov/about",
      "type": "Primary official record"
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    {
      "label": "Bleeding Heartland — health-care ads in Iowa’s first district, August 4, 2026",
      "url": "https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2026/08/04/health-care-shaping-up-as-central-issue-in-ia-01-campaign/",
      "type": "Iowa journalism and political analysis; viewpoint identified"
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    {
      "label": "Ashley Hinson campaign — Outrageous",
      "url": "https://ashleyhinson.com/hinson-releases-new-ad-outrageous/",
      "type": "Campaign source; establishes wording and sponsorship, not truth"
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    {
      "label": "Ashley Hinson campaign — Matters",
      "url": "https://ashleyhinson.com/hinson-releases-new-ad-matters/",
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    {
      "label": "Rob Sand campaign — Neighbor",
      "url": "https://robsand.com/news/new-ad-rob-sand-calls-to-keep-iowa-homes-and-land-in-iowa-hands/",
      "type": "Campaign source; establishes wording and sponsorship, not truth"
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      "label": "Rob Sand campaign — On Call",
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      "label": "Rob Sand campaign — Heart",
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      "type": "Campaign source; establishes wording and sponsorship, not truth"
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      "label": "Rob Sand campaign — Uncovered",
      "url": "https://robsand.com/news/new-ad-uncovered-highlights-rob-sands-career-uncovering-record-amounts-of-misspent-tax-money-as-state-auditor/",
      "type": "Campaign source; establishes wording and sponsorship, not truth"
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      "label": "Josh Turek campaign — USA",
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    {
      "label": "Josh Turek campaign — I-35",
      "url": "https://turek4iowa.com/news/new-josh-turek-for-iowa-releases-new-ad-i-35/",
      "type": "Campaign source; establishes wording and sponsorship, not truth"
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      "label": "Mariannette Miller Meeks campaign — The Doctor in the House",
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      "type": "Campaign source; establishes wording and sponsorship, not truth"
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          "title": "Members of Congress beat the S&P 500 by nearly 18% through stock trades.",
          "text": "Members of Congress beat the S&P 500 by nearly 18% through stock trades.",
          "hogwash_meter": 4,
          "rating_label": "4 · Context Needed",
          "context": "The ad gives no comparison year, portfolio population or calculation. Gray could not independently reproduce this figure. The 2025 Unusual Whales report models disclosed portfolios and reports several different individual, party and ETF returns; those are not a single verified return for all members. Neither modeled outperformance nor a disclosure establishes insider trading.",
          "sources": [
            "https://www.kcrg.com/2026/09/05/fact-check-did-ashley-hinson-vote-ban-stock-trading-congress/",
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          "rating_label": "2 · Mostly Supported",
          "context": "The narrow claim about personally trading individual publicly listed shares is consistent with Gray’s disclosure review. Her household filings still list fund and ETF transactions and a spouse’s private insurance-company interest. Owning funds, holding private equity and actively trading individual public stocks are different activities; this is not a claim that her household has no investments. A yearly filing cannot establish every transaction through the ad’s date.",
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          "title": "Hinson voted for a congressional stock-trading ban.",
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          "context": "The official Clerk records Hinson voting Yea on H.R. 7008, House passage on July 22, 2026, Roll Call 280. The bill’s restrictions and exceptions must be read in its text. A vote for House passage establishes this action; it does not establish that the proposal was already enacted law or that it covers every investment vehicle.",
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      "source_url": "https://ashleyhinson.com/hinson-releases-new-ad-matters/",
      "claims": [
        {
          "title": "Turek missed roughly half the Iowa House votes in the 2026 session.",
          "text": "Turek missed roughly half the Iowa House votes in the 2026 session.",
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          "rating_label": "2 · Mostly Supported",
          "context": "The audio includes Turek’s own approximate admission. Gray’s review of official daily journals found 58.1% absent or not voting across 2026 House floor votes, the second-highest rate in that chamber. This measures that session’s floor roll calls; it excludes committees, subcommittees and other representative duties. Gray also carried Turek’s explanation that he was meeting Iowans and his campaign’s separate career-wide attendance claim.",
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          "title": "Missing half the floor votes means skipping work half the time.",
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          "context": "The numerator concerns floor roll calls, not working hours or every legislative duty. The underlying absences are real, but this broader conclusion is not measured by the journals.",
          "sources": [
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          "title": "Turek thinks Iowans do not care about his absences.",
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          "rating_label": "5 · Getting Muddy",
          "context": "The creative’s own interview excerpt expresses uncertainty about whether missed votes matter to Iowans. It does not establish a categorical belief that voters do not care. This assessment concerns the ad’s inference from the quoted response, not a finding about his private thoughts.",
          "sources": [
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      "limits": "Campaign sponsorship and original video verified. The release says statewide airing but does not explicitly identify television; qualifying broadcast documentation remains pending.",
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          "title": "Too often, Iowa neighbors are hedge-fund-owned homes.",
          "text": "Too often, Iowa neighbors are hedge-fund-owned homes.",
          "hogwash_meter": 4,
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          "context": "GAO documents institutional investment nationally, varying definitions and concentration in particular markets. It does not establish this creative’s Iowa-wide frequency. A corporate or LLC owner is not automatically a hedge fund. The claim needs identified Iowa ownership records and a denominator before its prevalence can be verified; absence of those records here does not prove no such purchases occur.",
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          "title": "Too often, Iowa neighbors are farms owned by China.",
          "text": "Too often, Iowa neighbors are farms owned by China.",
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          "rating_label": "4 · Context Needed",
          "context": "Iowa Code generally restricts foreign acquisition of agricultural land and provides exceptions and grandfathered holdings. USDA’s AFIDA report covers foreign interests, including long-term leases, and warns that reporting categories and indirect ownership can complicate country attribution. Total foreign-held Iowa acreage is not Chinese government ownership. The ad names no farm or ownership chain that establishes its suggested prevalence.",
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          "title": "Data centers receive large tax breaks while households face rising bills.",
          "text": "Data centers receive large tax breaks while households face rising bills.",
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          "rating_label": "3 · Leaning Supported",
          "context": "Iowa Revenue confirms substantial qualifying sales/use exemptions and partial refunds, including a full exemption tier requiring at least $200 million invested within six years. The ad gives no household bill, utility or period for the second part. IUC recognizes large-load cost-shifting risks and describes proposed protections. This supports the tax-benefit premise and a real policy concern, not a finding that a particular center caused a family’s rate increase.",
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          "wording_type": "Paraphrase of original creative",
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          "chart_countable": true
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        {
          "title": "Sand would change ownership and tax policies to lower costs.",
          "text": "Sand would change ownership and tax policies to lower costs.",
          "hogwash_meter": null,
          "rating_label": "Not scored — opinion, promise or unresolved verification",
          "context": "Future policy commitment and value judgment, not an achieved cost reduction.",
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    {
      "key": "rob-sand-on-call-20260817",
      "slug": "rob-sand",
      "title": "On Call",
      "release_date": "2026-08-17",
      "youtubeId": "HUqZCTYH2fg",
      "source_url": "https://robsand.com/news/new-ad-if-disaster-strikes-where-will-zach-lahn-be/",
      "claims": [
        {
          "title": "Lahn lives in Kansas rather than being a full-time Iowan.",
          "text": "Lahn lives in Kansas rather than being a full-time Iowan.",
          "hogwash_meter": 4,
          "rating_label": "4 · Context Needed",
          "context": "Reporting documents substantial Kansas ties and earlier Kansas voter participation, while Lahn says he moved to Iowa in 2023. His more recent Iowa registration and his response must be included. Multiple properties or travel do not settle exclusive domicile, daily whereabouts or constitutional eligibility. The ad’s categorical shorthand goes beyond what the reviewed chronology alone resolves.",
          "sources": [
            "https://kansasreflector.com/2026/05/29/co-founder-of-wichita-private-school-contending-for-iowa-gops-gubernatorial-nomination/",
            "https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/10/06/sand-lahn-trade-attacks-on-residency-family-at-first-iowa-gubernatorial-debate/"
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        {
          "title": "Flight records show Lahn’s private plane traveling to and from Wichita for campaigning.",
          "text": "Flight records show Lahn’s private plane traveling to and from Wichita for campaigning.",
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          "rating_label": "4 · Context Needed",
          "context": "The campaign attributes this to flight records, but this review did not obtain a reproducible complete tail-number/date/passenger ledger. Aircraft movements alone do not prove that Lahn was aboard, why a trip occurred or where he lived between flights. His Kansas business and family ties are independently reported; the precise campaign-travel inference remains unresolved.",
          "sources": [
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