Heritage Foundation
Heritage Foundation is named in 73 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 1973 to 2025.
Heritage Foundation on the timeline
73 events · 1973–2025 · click any marker
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-09 | Heritage Foundation promotes 'Heritage 2.0' 2026 policy priorities (document released March 2025) — no personnel pillar; Project 2025 four-pillar architecture not continued
3 src Heritage Foundation · Kevin Roberts | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-10 | Heritage Foundation Board Members Resign Over Kevin Roberts Defending Tucker Carlson's Fuentes Interview
3 src Kevin Roberts · Robert P. George · Shane McCullar · Abby Spencer Moffat · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-27 | Tucker Carlson Interviews Nick Fuentes, Exposing Republican Rift Over Antisemitism
3 src Tucker Carlson · Nick Fuentes · Ben Shapiro · Ted Cruz · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-09-11 | Trump Administration Threatens National Guard Deployment to Chicago
3 src Donald Trump · Heritage Foundation · Chicago City Government · Stephen Miller · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-09 | Heritage Foundation Publishes 800-Page Constitutional Guide as Trump's Judicial Roadmap
3 src Heritage Foundation · Justice Samuel Alito · Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court | reported | |
| 2025-09-04 | Trump Fires Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner After Unfavorable Jobs Report
2 src Donald Trump · Erika McEntarfer · EJ Antoni · Bureau of Labor Statistics · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-09-01 | Mass Inspector General Firings Implement Project 2025 Plan
3 src Donald Trump · Chuck Grassley · Chuck Schumer · Elizabeth Warren · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-11 | Trump Nominates Partisan Heritage Foundation Economist to Lead Bureau of Labor Statistics
3 src E.J. Antoni · Donald Trump · Bureau of Labor Statistics · Heritage Foundation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-07 | Trump Issues 202 Executive Orders with Two-Thirds Matching Project 2025 Blueprint
3 src Donald Trump · Heritage Foundation · Project 2025 · Federal Register | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-15 | Climate Programs Dismantled - NOAA Faces 27% Budget Cut
4 src NOAA · Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research · U.S. Global Change Research Program · Heritage Foundation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | First Federal School Voucher Program Signed into Law — Tax Credit Scholarships for Private and Religious Schools in One Big Beautiful Bill
7 src Donald Trump · Linda McMahon · Heritage Foundation · ALEC | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-17 | DDoSecrets releases 13,726 Project 2025 applicant questionnaire submissions — unredacted version enables first recommendation-to-placement spot-checks
3 src Distributed Denial of Secrets · SiegedSec · Heritage Foundation · Paul Ingrassia | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-20 | Trump Signs Executive Order Directing Dismantlement of Department of Education
6 src Donald Trump · Linda McMahon · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-18 | Trump Asserts Unitary Executive Control Over DOJ, Echoing Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre
3 src Donald Trump · Michael C. Dorf · Department of Justice · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | ALEC Publishes 'Essential Policy Solutions 2025' Playbook - State-Level Corporate and Income Tax Elimination Agenda, Coordination with Federal Project 2025
54 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Lisa Nelson · Arthur Laffer · State Policy Network · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | Schedule F Implementation Targets 50,000 Federal Workers
4 src Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Russell Pekala · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Brendan Carr chairs FCC after writing Project 2025 FCC chapter
4 src Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission · Trump Administration · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Time finds nearly 65% of early executive actions mirror Project 2025 proposals
4 src Donald Trump · Russ Vought · Heritage Foundation · Paul Dans | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Executive Order 14171: Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions (Schedule F)
5 src Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025: Trump Administration Launches Massive Federal Civil Service Restructuring
3 src Donald Trump · Heritage Foundation · Kevin Roberts · Paul Dans · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Systematic Coordination Emerges in Federal Worker Purge and Civil Service Dismantling
4 src Trump Administration · Heritage Foundation · Office of Personnel Management · Federal Employee Unions · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-13 | JD Vance Writes Foreword for Project 2025 Architect's Book
3 src JD Vance · Kevin Roberts · Heritage Foundation · Paul Dans · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-30 | Paul Dans departs as Project 2025 director amid campaign controversy
4 src Paul Dans · Kevin Roberts · Heritage Foundation · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-01 | Heritage Foundation launches Project 2025 initiative
4 src Heritage Foundation · Kevin Roberts · Paul Dans · Mark Meadows · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-01 | Project 2025 Presidential Personnel Database launches — Heritage Foundation 'conservative LinkedIn' with ideological screening for 20,000 vetted candidates
3 src Heritage Foundation · Paul Dans · John McEntee · James Bacon | confirmed | |
| 2023-02-01 | Project 2025 launches Presidential Administration Academy — Heritage Foundation training pipeline for future conservative political appointees
2 src Heritage Foundation · Paul Dans · Roger Severino · Spencer Chretien | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | CNP Members Lead Project 2025 Coalition Organizations - Coordination Infrastructure for Trump Return
2 src Council for National Policy · Heritage Foundation · Edwin Meese III · William L. Walton · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-01 | Heritage Foundation Launches 2 Million Project 2025 Initiative
3 src Heritage Foundation · Kevin Roberts · Paul Dans · Steven Groves | confirmed | |
| 2021-05-13 | Leaked Video Exposes Heritage Action's $24 Million Voter Suppression Campaign Coordinating State Legislation
4 src Heritage Action · Jessica Anderson · Heritage Foundation · Hans von Spakovsky · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-01 | 440 Voter Restriction Bills Introduced in 49 States - ALEC's Largest Suppression Wave
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Heritage Foundation · Heritage Action · Republican state legislators · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-01 | ALEC Develops New Model Election Bills to Implement Trump's "Big Lie"
2 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Heritage Foundation · Heritage Action · State Policy Network · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-21 | Trump Issues Original Schedule F Executive Order: Civil Service Protection Elimination
3 src Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management · Heritage Foundation · Project 2025 · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-04-01 | CNP Coordinates National COVID-19 Anti-Lockdown Protest Movement
2 src Council for National Policy · CNP Action · Stephen Moore · Heritage Foundation · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2017-12-22 | Trump Signs Tax Cuts and Jobs Act - Corporate Rate Permanently Slashed from 35% to 21%, Pass-Through Deduction, Estate Tax Exemption Doubled, $1.9 Trillion Added to Deficit
10 src Donald Trump · Paul Ryan · Mitch McConnell · Kevin Brady · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2017-05-02 | Ed Feulner Returns as Heritage Foundation Interim President After DeMint Ousted for Management Failures
4 src Edwin Feulner · Jim DeMint · Heritage Foundation · Heritage Foundation Board of Trustees · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-20 | Heritage Foundation Staffs Trump Admin, Implements 64% of Agenda
3 src Heritage Foundation · Donald Trump · Mick Mulvaney · Scott Pruitt · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2016-05-18 | Trump Promises All Supreme Court Picks Will Come From Federalist Society
3 src Donald Trump · Leonard Leo · Don McGahn · Neil Gorsuch · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2014-07-04 | Richard Mellon Scaife Dies After Investing $620 Million in Conservative Movement Infrastructure
4 src Richard Scaife · Sarah Scaife Foundation · Carthage Foundation · Allegheny Foundation · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2013-04-03 | Edwin Feulner Retires as Heritage Foundation President After 36 Years Building Conservative Movement Infrastructure
4 src Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation · Jim DeMint · Richard Scaife · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2011-01-01 | 34 States Introduce ALEC Voter ID Bills in Coordinated Suppression Campaign
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Republican state legislators · Heritage Foundation · State Policy Network | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | Corporate-Funded Think Tanks Testify to Congress While Hiding Donor Conflicts of Interest
3 src Heritage Foundation · American Enterprise Institute · Koch brothers · General Electric · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2010-01-01 | DonorsTrust Organizational Profile: Dark Money ATM Enabling Anonymous Billionaire Political Spending
4 src DonorsTrust · Donors Capital Fund · Whitney Lynn Ball · Kimberly Dennis · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2009-07-17 | ALEC Creates Model Voter ID Legislation Following Obama Election
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Hans von Spakovsky · Heritage Foundation · ALEC Public Safety and Elections Task Force | confirmed | |
| 2009-06-26 | Koch Network Mobilizes to Kill Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade Climate Bill
3 src Koch brothers · Charles Koch · David Koch · Americans for Prosperity · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2008-01-01 | Hans von Spakovsky Joins Heritage Foundation to Lead Voter Suppression Infrastructure Development
4 src Hans von Spakovsky · Heritage Foundation · American Legislative Exchange Council · Council for National Policy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-08-29 | Hurricane Katrina Enables .4B No-Bid Disaster Capitalism Takeover
3 src Dick Cheney · Halliburton · Bechtel · Shaw Group · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2004-01-22 | DC Opportunity Scholarship Program - First Federally-Funded School Voucher System
3 src President George W. Bush · Speaker Dennis Hastert · Senator Judd Gregg · DC Public Schools · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2003-05-28 | Bush Signs JGTRRA - Dividend and Capital Gains Rates Slashed to 15%, Massively Favoring Investment Income Over Wages
4 src George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · Bill Thomas · Charles Grassley · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2003-05-01 | Powell-WHIG Template Establishes Crisis-Accelerated Institutional Capture Blueprint for Ongoing Democratic Transformation
3 src George W. Bush · Powell Memorandum Institutional Network · White House Iraq Group · Heritage Foundation · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2003-01-01 | State Policy Network Organizational Profile: Coordinating 66 State Think Tanks for Synchronized Corporate Capture
4 src State Policy Network · Thomas A. Roe · Bradley Foundation · DonorsTrust · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-02 | Heritage Foundation Coordinates with WHIG for Crisis-Accelerated Implementation of Powell Memorandum Blueprint
3 src Heritage Foundation · White House Iraq Group · Edwin Feulner · Paul Weyrich · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2002-09-01 | Think Tank Network Coordinates Iraq War Support Following Powell Memo Template
3 src American Enterprise Institute · Heritage Foundation · Dick Cheney · Paul Wolfowitz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2001-06-07 | Bush Signs EGTRRA Tax Cuts - Top Rate Reduced from 39.6% to 35%, Estate Tax Phased Out, Beginning $1.5 Trillion Debt Increase
4 src George W. Bush · Dick Cheney · Paul O'Neill · Dennis Hastert · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1997-01-01 | Koch Industries Launches Massive Climate Denial Funding Network
3 src Koch Industries · Charles Koch · David Koch · Koch Family Foundations · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1994-11-08 | Republicans Win Historic Midterm Election with Contract with America
3 src Newt Gingrich · Dick Armey · Richard Mellon Scaife · Joseph Coors · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1987-01-01 | Heritage Foundation Budget Reaches $14.3 Million - Scale of Corporate Policy Investment
3 src Heritage Foundation · Joseph Coors · Richard Mellon Scaife · Edwin Feulner · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1986-01-01 | State Policy Network (Madison Group) Founded - State-Level Think Tank Coordination
3 src Thomas A. Roe · American Legislative Exchange Council · Heritage Foundation · South Carolina Policy Council · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1985-01-01 | Bradley Foundation Transformation - Coordinated Conservative Infrastructure Funding
3 src Michael S. Joyce · Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation · Heritage Foundation · Federalist Society · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1983-04-26 | A Nation at Risk Report Launches Education Reform Industry, Lays Groundwork for Privatization
3 src National Commission on Excellence in Education · Secretary of Education Terrel Bell · Ronald Reagan · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 1983-01-01 | Heritage Foundation Expands to 100+ Staff with $10 Million Budget During Reagan Administration Peak Influence
3 src Heritage Foundation · Edwin Feulner · Ronald Reagan · Richard Scaife · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1981-12-01 | CNP Completes "Three-Legged Stool" with Heritage and ALEC - Coordination Infrastructure Operational
2 src Council for National Policy · Heritage Foundation · American Legislative Exchange Council · Paul Weyrich | confirmed | |
| 1981-08-13 | Reagan Signs Economic Recovery Tax Act (ERTA) - Top Rate Slashed from 70% to 50%, Corporate Tax Cuts Total $150 Billion Over Five Years
5 src Ronald Reagan · Jack Kemp · William Roth · David Stockman · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1981-01-01 | Heritage Foundation's "Mandate for Leadership" Becomes Reagan Administration Blueprint
4 src Heritage Foundation · Ronald Reagan · Edwin Meese · James Watt · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1980-11-04 | Ronald Reagan Elected President, Conservative Infrastructure Achieves Powell Memo Goals
3 src Ronald Reagan · Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1980-07-01 | Reagan Aide Edwin Meese Coordinates with Heritage on "Mandate for Leadership"
2 src Edwin Meese III · Ronald Reagan · Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1980-01-01 | Charles Heatherly Produces "Mandate for Leadership" Outline, Assembling 300 Contributors
2 src Charles Heatherly · Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 1979-01-01 | Heritage Foundation Begins "Mandate for Leadership" Preparation for Reagan Transition
2 src Edwin Feulner · Jack Eckerd · Robert Krieble · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 1977-01-01 | Edwin Feulner Becomes Heritage Foundation President, Beginning 36-Year Tenure Building Conservative Policy Infrastructure
4 src Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Richard Scaife · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1976-01-01 | Richard Mellon Scaife Becomes Heritage Foundation's Primary Donor
3 src Richard Mellon Scaife · Heritage Foundation · Scaife Family Charitable Trust · Joseph Coors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1974-01-01 | Richard Scaife Begins Major Funding of Heritage Foundation as Primary Donor
3 src Richard Mellon Scaife · Scaife Family Charitable Trust · Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1973-02-16 | Heritage Foundation Founded by Conservative Activists and Business Leaders
3 src Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · Joseph Coors · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 1973-02-16 | Heritage Foundation Organizational Profile: Conservative Policy Infrastructure and Corporate Capture Mechanism
4 src Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · Joseph Coors · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1973-01-01 | ALEC Founded to Coordinate Corporate Model Legislation Across State Legislatures
3 src Paul Weyrich · Henry Hyde · American Legislative Exchange Council · Heritage Foundation · +2 | confirmed |
Appears in curated timelines
2008–2026
Citizens United and what came after
How one decision restructured American politics in fifteen years
1982–2026The Federalist Society pipeline to SCOTUS
Forty years of court-packing as a deliberate institutional project
2018–2026The Project 2025 architects
How a Heritage Foundation document became an operating system
Network neighbors
Donald Trump
19× shared
American Legislative Exchange Council
13× shared
Edwin Feulner
13× shared
State Policy Network
10× shared
Kevin Roberts
9× shared
Paul Dans
9× shared
Paul Weyrich
8× shared
Joseph Coors
7× shared
Council for National Policy
6× shared
Ronald Reagan
6× shared
American Enterprise Institute
5× shared
Federalist Society
5× shared
Richard Mellon Scaife
5× shared
Americans for Prosperity
4× shared
Dick Cheney
4× shared
Edwin Meese
4× shared
Edwin Meese III
4× shared
Republican state legislators
4× shared
Richard Scaife
4× shared
George W. Bush
3× shared
Hans von Spakovsky
3× shared
Heartland Institute
3× shared
Heritage Action
3× shared
Koch Industries
3× shared
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