Mia Osmonbekov

Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting • 17th April 2026

FACT BRIEF: Did Mark Kelly vote against funding the Artemis moon mission?

This is a mischaracterization. Mark Kelly voted against the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” primarily because of its cuts to Medicaid and food assistance programs, not to defund NASA or the Artemis mission.

Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting • 17th April 2026

FACT BRIEF: Are Turning Point USA clubs mandated in Arizona high schools?

Nothing in Arizona State Board of Education policy or  state law requires high schools to host Turning Point USA clubs. Arizona follows the Equal Access Act, a federal law that prohibits public schools from discriminating against clubs based on political or religious viewpoints.

PolitiFact • 30th October 2024

Kari Lake misleads on Ruben Gallego’s police support

Gallego has backed several bills since 2019 that provide added funding for recruitment and retention of police officers.

However, this is not only a different issue but it occurred the year before "defund the police" became a rallying cry for some progressives.

PolitiFact • 18th October 2024

Gallego distorts Project 2025 plan for Social Security

Lake’s opponent, U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., claims Project 2025 aims to raise the age for receiving retirement benefits, but its 900-page policy plan doesn’t mention such a plan for Social Security.

PolitiFact • 18th October 2024

Gallego’s first bill was about veterans, not immigrants

The CHANGE Act was the 118th bill, resolution or amendment Gallego co-sponsored, not the first.

The legislation would have prohibited federal agencies from using the terms "alien" and "illegal alien" to refer to noncitizens or immigrants in the country illegally.

PolitiFact • 18th October 2024

Ruben Gallego misled on Kari Lake’s child tax credit stance

Lake has supported child tax credits and "baby bonuses" to reduce abortions and increase the U.S. birth rate.

Although Kari Lake, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate, criticized the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, she did not single out the child tax credit portion.

PolitiFact • 18th October 2024

Fact-checking Gallego, Lake in Arizona’s Senate debate

In the only scheduled debate for Arizona’s open U.S. Senate race, Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego sought to cast Republican Kari Lake as having extreme views. Lake said Gallego had undergone an "extreme makeover" to make his liberal views more palatable to moderate and conservative voters.