Back in February, I was visiting with one of my relatives, and we were talking about politics. I knew from previous conversations that she was much more conservative than I am (while I’m not a registered Democrat, I’m pretty left leaning politically), especially when it came to immigration. We talked a bit about Trump and Bernie, and not much about Hillary, since she can’t talk about Hillary without her face getting all red. She pulled out her laptop and showed me a couple of videos which I strongly disagreed with. We debated back and forth a bit.

The conversation ended with her telling me that she often wanted to include me on the things she forwarded via email to other friends and family, but didn’t because she thought I’d be upset with her. I told her to go ahead and add me to her list. I’d be interested to see what she sent, and while I probably wouldn’t agree with it most of the time, it wouldn’t make me angry with her or love her less.

A couple of weeks later I got my first email. It was sent to 47 people. My first reaction was, “I don’t think there’s any email I could write that I’d send to 47 people.” My second reaction, after reading just the subject line was, “this can’t possibly be true.” I checked. It wasn’t.

I get at least one email a week from her, sometimes more. Many of them I read, shake my head at, and ignore. Some I take the time to Google or check on Snopes, and send her back the link showing why it’s not true. And once in a while, I get a message from her that I just feel the need to explain in detail why it’s factually wrong and/or why I disagree with it.

I wanted to share some of that last group with you. They’ll be here, collected under the ConservativeDebunking tag.