Democracy doesn’t fall.
It cascades.
4288 verified events. 7,682 named actors. Court records, government filings, investigative reporting — sourced and indexed from 1142 to today.
Which capture lane was dominant when?
Each year normalized to 100% — the bands show which mechanisms of institutional capture were most prominent across 56 years of record. Hover a band to isolate it. Click any year to enter that year.
On this day · June 10
CFPB Enforcement Chief Resigns, Condemns Trump Administration's Agency Deconstruction
2025 · June 10ICE Worksite Raids Resume Nationwide: Mass Arrests Across Multiple States
2025 · June 10Justice Dept. Issues Narrow Guidelines for Prosecuting Corporate Bribery Abroad
2025 · June 10Musk's Starlink Installed on White House Roof Raises Cybersecurity and Conflict of Interest Concerns
2020 · June 10Amazon announces one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition after George Floyd protests
2015 · June 10Reddit Bans r/FatPeopleHate and Hate Subreddits: Deplatforming Pushes Users to Voat and 8chan, Accelerating Radicalizati
Recent additions to the record
GENIUS Act AML/Sanctions Comment Period Closes 11:59 PM ET — WLF Verified Absent at Docket Closure; July 18 Final Rule Statutory Deadline
CNN Investigation Links Bari Weiss CBS Firings Directly to Paramount-WBD Merger Timeline; Bonta Investigation Active
Iran Ceasefire Breaks Down June 7-8; US Navy Attacks MT Marivex Tanker in Gulf of Oman; Iran Establishes Dual-Chokepoint Security Belt
Blanche AG Confirmation Faces GOP Resistance; Grassley Confirms Receipt; Hearing Not Scheduled; Summer Timeline Uncertain
Blanche Nominated Permanent AG; Senate Testimony Reveals Anti-Weaponization Fund Scrapped
Bondi Epstein Transcript Released: Privilege Invoked on Trump Conversations; Blanche Named 30+ Times
Colorado Signs HB 1276: State Gets Unannounced Inspection Authority Over ICE Detention
DHS Approves EO 14399 State Citizenship Lists; SAVE Portal Operational by June 30 Before Midterm Cycle
Curated timelines
Hand-picked swimlane views — pick a thread and read the cascade as it built. Each is a story you can read in five minutes and share as a URL.
Eleven named figures, one think tank, and a transition team blueprint that became governance in real time.
From Reagan-era founding through the six-three majority — the named architects and the justices they …
The Roberts Court ruling on January 21, 2010 — and the cascade of dark money, super PACs, and constitutional …
Two corporations, one agency, and a quarter-century of building the infrastructure that 2025 weaponized.
Both terms on one chart. The first term was chaotic, the second is operational. The difference is the …
Jeffrey Epstein's operation depended on institutional cooperation — from a U.S. Attorney's secret …
Built to be used
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Pick actors. Set a year range. Filter by lane. The chart re-renders live; the URL is the citation. Every event has stable IDs and a JSON endpoint.
For journalistsPatterns, not anecdotes.
Twelve capture lanes show coordination across decades. Actor pages plot every event on a swimlane. Source tiers tell you what is court-record solid.
For citizensRead it as history.
Walk decade by decade. Every event has plain-language context: what happened, why it matters, where it fits in the cascade.
The most-documented actors
The patterns become unmistakable when you put them in order.
This timeline is the data layer for an ongoing investigation. The reporting traces how each captured institution enables the next.