The Epoch Times

Facts Matter

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"Facts Matter" investigates complex issues based on the principles of traditional journalism: no spin, no favorites. We give you the facts—you decide the rest.

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Jul 10, 2026

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3 Supreme Court Justices Recuse Themselves | Facts Matter 30.05.2024

In a rare move within the U.S. Supreme Court, three justices recused themselves from a case related to the 2020 presidential election. Specifically, all three liberal justices of the court—Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayer, and Ketanji Brown Jackson—recused themselves from a case that was aimed at them. Let’s go through the details together. 🇺🇸 Epoch Times 25¢ Sale: https://ept.ms/RomanSale1 🇺🇸Roman's...

Weaponization of Water Rights Is Squeezing Farmers Off Their Land | Facts Matter 26.05.2024

In recent years, local governments have begun to use water rights in the name of saving the environment as well as “endangered species.” However, the local farmers and ranchers who depend on the water are getting squeezed out, with their operations heavily impacted and the value of their properties significantly decreased. While on the West Coast, we sat down with Lane Roelle, a farmer/rancher fro...

Man Sentenced to Jail for Elaborate Voter Fraud Scheme | Facts Matter 25.05.2024

In California, a man who was a former member of a city council was convicted and sentenced to jail for running an elaborate voter fraud scheme. Specifically, using his deep connections within the local community, this man falsified voter registration documents and pressured people into voting during the 2020 election cycle. However, with this story, not everything is as it seems. Therefore, to exp...

$80 Million to Install Election Workers at the Local Level | Facts Matter 24.05.2024

There are groups in America working overtime—not to influence who people vote for, but rather to influence how the underlying election system actually operates. To be more specific, I am referring to two separate, big-money operations that are both ready to spend about $80 million each in order to determine how local elections throughout the entire country are run. This might sound like hyperbole,...

Millions of Americans May Get 2nd Amendment Rights Back | Facts Matter 23.05.2024

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has just ruled that banning all felons from being able to own guns is unconstitutional. This now flings the door wide open for potentially upwards of 20 million people to try and restore their right to keep and bear arms. However, it’s worth mentioning that there is a lot of nuance to this story—and so, let’s go through it together. 🇺🇸 Epoch Times 25¢ Sale: https:/...

Supreme Court Rules 9–0 Against the Pentagon | Facts Matter 22.05.2024

Five days ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision, and in so doing, expanded the rights of Americans to sue the federal government. Let’s go through the details together. 🇺🇸 Epoch Times 25¢ Sale: https://ept.ms/RomanSale1 🇺🇸Roman's Special Offer👉 https://ept.ms/RomanSpecialOffer ⭕️ Support our fight for the truth👉 https://donorbox.org/facts_matter

Supreme Court Issues Surprise 7–2 Ruling on Federal Reserve Funding | Facts Matter 21.05.2024

Three days ago, in a split 7–2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a victory for the administrative state. Specifically, this ruling allows for a certain government agency to continue getting its funding—not from the Treasury, but instead, from the Federal Reserve Bank. In other words, it allows the government to use the Federal Reserve (which is a quasi-private bank) to fund their pet proj...

Rise of ‘Scientism’ and the ‘Junk’ Climate Models Used by Government to Take Farmers’ Land | Facts Matter 19.05.2024

Last year, while traveling around the Netherlands and speaking with the farmers getting kicked off their land, we also wanted to answer a fundamental underlying question. The Dutch farmers were getting off their land because the government ostensibly wanted to reduce nitrogen emissions, with the thinking being that if they didn’t reduce emissions, the environment will be ruined. However, is that r...

Former Election Official Convicted for Ballot Tampering | Facts Matter 18.05.2024

In Michigan, a woman who was both a county elections official and a former township clerk was convicted of tampering with ballots during the 2020 election cycle. Specifically, during a recount process, she, using her official access, spoiled a batch of ballots in order to make them ineligible to be counted. However, her punishment might surprise you. Let’s go through the details together. 🇺🇸 Epoch...

State Supreme Court Ruled Drop Boxes Are Illegal, but Liberal Justices Poised to Overturn | Facts Matter 17.05.2024

With the upcoming presidential election only 24 weeks away, we’re seeing last-minute efforts to try and change the voting rules across many states. For instance, take the case of Wisconsin. Its state Supreme Court recently flipped from a conservative majority to a liberal majority—and now, as a result, the Wisconsin state Supreme Court is looking poised to reverse its earlier ruling regarding ball...

Trump Invokes Long-Lost Executive Power to Gut Administrative State | Facts Matter 16.05.2024

In a campaign speech, former President Donald Trump gave the country a glimpse into the specific method that he’ll use to try and gut the administrative state—if he gets elected again. Essentially, President Trump proposed a new policy centered around a little-known executive power—a power that was used by presidents for over 150 years before being stripped about a half-century ago. However, accor...

Gold at $4,000 an Ounce? Geopolitics Pushes Gold to New Record Highs | Facts Matter 15.05.2024

With multiple wars raging across the world, federal money printing is leading to inflation that’s eating away at the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar. As central banks around the world are in the process of implementing digital currencies, the price of gold has skyrocketed, reaching all-time record highs. And so, in order to get an insider’s look at the industry, what the demand and supply real...

Personal Carbon Tracking Tied to Digital Money That Can Be Turned Off by AI: The Dangers of Globalist Government | Facts Matter 14.05.2024

Last year, while we were traveling around the world shooting our documentary “No Farmers No Food,” we stopped in the Netherlands to speak with the farmers there. Those farmers were feeling the brunt of the European Union’s goal of “saving the planet.” Because, as a practical matter, the Dutch government’s plan would result in something like 30 to 45 percent of Dutch farmers having to give up their...

Jack Smith Admits to Misleading Judge, Case Forced to Go on Indefinite Hiatus | Facts Matter 11.05.2024

Former President Donald Trump just scored a huge victory in his legal battle against special counsel Jack Smith. 🇺🇸 Epoch Times 25¢ Sale: https://ept.ms/RomanSale1 Shortly after President Trump’s home was raided by the FBI, a photo was released to the public by the agency, showing a variety of documents strewn out on the floor. Looking at it, most people were shocked that these documents were clea...

Exposing the UN’s Secret Plan Fueling the Migrant Crisis | Facts Matter 10.05.2024

Unbeknownst to most people, the United Nations is actively helping and supporting the millions of migrants coming up through Central America and making their way to the United States. 🇺🇸 Epoch Times 25¢ Sale: https://ept.ms/RomanSale1 For those coming to the United States from the huge continent of South America, there are many different paths to take. However, if you look at a map, you’ll notice...

A Supreme Court Rules 7–0, Puts More Restrictions on Police | Facts Matter 09.05.2024

Amid the backdrop of millions of illegal immigrants coming into the United States, as well as a crime wave happening in most major cities—the State Supreme Court of California just handed down a new ruling, saying that both police officers and sheriff’s deputies are no longer allowed to detain people on the street just because those people are trying to avoid the police. 🇺🇸 Epoch Times 25¢ Sale: h...

After FDA Approval, States Move to Ban Lab-Grown Meat From Sale | Facts Matter 08.05.2024

Aside from the push for people to eat bugs and insects as a viable alternative source of protein, there is actually a second simultaneous push to get people to eat lab-grown meat. 🇺🇸 Epoch Times 25¢ Sale: https://ept.ms/RomanSale1 The thinking goes that since the world is ending due to climate change, and since the agricultural sector contributes to climate change, we can do away with farms and ra...

Only 0.3 Percent of COVID Vaccine Injury Claims Compensated by US Program | Facts Matter 05.05.2024

Earlier this week, here on Facts Matter, we published an episode detailing how—for the first time—lawyers for AstraZeneca admitted in court documents that its vaccine can cause a rare blood clot disorder in those who got the shot. 🇺🇸 Epoch Times 25¢ Sale: https://ept.ms/RomanSale1 This admission was the result of a three-year-long legal battle, with upwards of 50 people suing the company to get co...

Ballot Fraud Scheme Caught on Video Leads to Convictions, Jail Time for Former Mayor | Facts Matter 04.05.2024

The former mayor of San Luis, Arizona, pled guilty to ballot fraud and was subsequently sent to jail after she was videotaped illegally collecting and filling out ballots right outside of a polling place during the 2020 election cycle.🇺🇸 Epoch Times 25¢ Sale: https://ept.ms/RomanSale1 But this story has a bit of a twist—because even more surprising than the former mayor going to jail for ballot fr...

$6.5-Billion ‘Baby Powder-Cancer’ Settlement Proposal Pushed Forward by Johnson and Johnson | Facts Matter 03.05.2024

Headquartered in New Jersey, Johnson and Johnson is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. It’s also one of the handful of companies that made a windfall during the pandemic with their vaccine. In fact, the Janssen shot was making the company upwards of $740 million dollar per quarter—that was, of course, before the shot was pulled off the market due to an elevated risk of serio...

Vaccine Manufacturer Finally Admits to Stroke Side Effect | Facts Matter 01.05.2024

A legal document has just been made public, in which AstraZeneca admits that its COVID-19 vaccine can cause a deadly blood-clotting condition. Let’s go through what this condition—thrombocytopenia syndrome—actually is, as well as what this admission means to the 51 people suing AstraZeneca for financial compensation. 🇺🇸 Epoch Times 25¢ Sale: https://ept.ms/RomanSale1 🇺🇸Roman's Special Offer👉 http...

New State-Level Laws Forbid Illegal Immigrants From Crossing State Borders | Facts Matter 30.04.2024

As the Southern Border crisis continues to spiral out of control—with illegal immigrants flooding into America, and with no end in sight—you’re beginning to see individual conservative states take matters into their own hands. 🇺🇸 Epoch Times 25¢ Sale: https://ept.ms/RomanSale1 Specifically, while individual states don’t have the authority to administer the national border, they do have the authori...

The Secretive “Emergency Powers” that US Presidents Possess | Facts Matter 28.04.2024

According to newly released White House documents from 2004, it turns out that the George W. Bush administration was conducting a classified review of the president’s secret emergency powers—which they believed granted the president the ability to turn off American passports, as well as to have access to a “kill switch” which could turn off internet access to all (or most) Americans. Let’s go thro...

Woman Found Guilty of 52 Counts of Voter Fraud, Sentenced to Prison | Facts Matter 27.04.2024

In Iowa, a woman has just been found guilty, and sentenced to prison, for having committed over 50 counts of voter fraud across two separate elections in 2020. Let’s break down what she did, why she did it, and ultimately, how she got caught by the feds. 🇺🇸 Epoch Times 25¢ Sale: https://ept.ms/RomanSale1   ---- Views expressed are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect...

CDC Publishes Study Showing Vaccine Protection in Kids Nosedives Within Months | Facts Matter 26.04.2024

Last Thursday, without any fanfare and pretty much no coverage by the media, the CDC quietly published a study in its weekly report. Perhaps among the reasons that this study wasn’t given much publicity is because it showed that children who received an original COVID-19 vaccine had little protection against hospitalization just months after getting the shots. Specifically, according to the result...

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