<span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s time to stop looking at our time as the era of “fake news” and start looking at it as the era of “fact-checking.” It can be difficult to distinguish fact from fiction in the digital age, so it is our responsibility to not always take headlines and viral memes at face value. We at Vote Smart want to help arm you with the tools and resources to do this.</span> <br> <br style="font-size: 12.8013px;"> <p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8013px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;">Misinformation online is abundant. </span><a href="http://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/2017/09/28/social-media-news-and-political-information-during-the-us-election-was-polarizing-content-concentrated-in-swing-states/" style="font-size: 12.8013px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-line: underline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oxford University</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"> found that in 2016 “Twitter users got more misinformation, polarizing and conspiratorial content than professionally produced news.” That means that </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">more people read manipulation and falsehoods than facts.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span> </p> <br style="font-size: 12.8013px;"> <p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8013px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sensationalized, misleading, or simply false headlines flooded our news feeds in 2016 and 2017, and Vote Smart is here to help you weed out the garbage. By browsing our database of public statements, key votes, and more, you can see if a published claim is truth or trash. We also provide you with the ability to fact-check politicians to see if they have followed up their words with action.</span> </p>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-164b90aa-264c-4a1a-2f95-22a606411521" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;">Renewable energy has grown increasingly popular as evidence of </span><a href="http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; white-space: pre-wrap;">human-caused global climate change</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"> accumulates. Solar, hydroelectric, and wind energies make up a large majority of the renewable energy sector, and are seen by some as preferable alternatives to fossil fuel and nuclear energies.</span></span>

<span id="docs-internal-guid-b1e5922d-c78e-ee7f-155e-0b9b29a753b7" style="font-weight:normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;">Use of renewable energy sources is definitely a contentious issue in some states, with some passing legislation, and other states’ governors taking things into their own hands and signing agreements having to do with energy.</span></span>

<span style='background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;'>Multiple “religious freedom” bills are currently capturing the attention of state legislatures across the country.</span> <font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">“Religious freedom” bills are proposed legislation that call for religious organizations, businesses, and individuals to be protected from penalties for declining to provide services to individuals whose lifestyle conflicts with their sincerely held religious beliefs.</font>

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Today, Vote Smart released the results of the National Political Courage Test to VoteEasy at VoteSmart.org, giving New Hampshire voters an invaluable resource for identifying their best political match November 4th. Fifty-one of the congressional, state legislative and gubernatorial candidates passed the 2014 Political Courage Test.

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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> Immigration: it's an issue that's been on the minds of a lot of prominent people involved in politics lately. </p>

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<span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">New Jersey's senior senator, Frank R. Lautenberg decided today that he will not seek reelection.</span>

With new technology comes new debates and in 2012 many state legislatures attempted to regulate a relatively new industry they did not know much about.&nbsp;

In August 2011, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued an interim final rule concerning contraception.

States across America considered legislation in their most recent sessions that would change voting and voter registration requirements.

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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> Over the past few years, the country has witnessed an abundance of legislation on both the state and national levels regarding same-sex marriage. </p>

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As expected, the Iowa Caucus, the first nominating contest of the 2012 election season, proved to shake things up inside the GOP race.

“It shouldn’t take courage for a politician to complete a survey regarding positions on issues. Yet seemingly it does.” – South Bend Tribune

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