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A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center### Players Guide 2026](https://www.factcheck.org/2026/08/players-guide-2026/)### Oz’s Medicaid Fraud Claims About California and Minnesota Lack Context### RFK Jr.’s Falsehood-Filled CNN Interview### Major Driver of Worsening Canadian Wildfires Is Climate Change, Not Forest Mismanagement### One Big Beautiful Bill Not (Yet) Driving ACA, Medicaid Declines### Players Guide 2026Every election cycle since 2010, we have published profiles of some of the many outside groups trying to influence who gets elected to Congress and the White House. Today, we’re launching our latest Players Guide with write-ups of eight of the biggest spenders so far for the 2026 midterms.Announcing a pause on more than $1 billion in Medicaid funding to Minnesota and California last month, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz accused state officials of being too lax about fraud, citing among other things the results of a provider verification process in Minnesota and the rapid growth of a California home care program. But he left out important context in both cases.### Trump Overstates Magnitude of Noncitizen Voting in New JerseyNew Jersey’s governor announced that “a software error” in the state’s motor vehicle registration system resulted in 6,600 noncitizens being improperly added to the state’s voter registration list. The state’s preliminary investigation found that up to 400 votes were cast by noncitizens, far fewer than the “thousands of votes” claimed by President Donald Trump.### Trump’s Cherry-Picked Inflation BoastIn one month, from May to June, overall inflation in the U.S. dropped at the “fastest rate in more than six years,” as President Donald Trump said in late July remarks. But he has repeatedly cited the statistic while wrongly suggesting that the inflation rate is now “way down” from when he took office. It’s not.