2020s
The 2020s contain 2575 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-17 | Mass Firing of Inspectors General Signals Systematic Government Oversight Erosion Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Paul Martin · Michael Missal | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-17 | Thiel's Founders Fund Leads $260M Round for Hadrian Defense Manufacturing Startup Hadrian Automation · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · Lux Capital · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-16 | Trump Calls Issue "Jeffrey Epstein Hoax" and Attacks Own Supporters Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-16 | Trump Calls Own Supporters "Weaklings" and "Selfish People" After Demanding Epstein File Transparency Donald Trump · Tucker Carlson · Laura Loomer · Marjorie Taylor Greene · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-15 | Benjamin Song Captured After 11-Day Manhunt Following Prairieland ICE Shooting Benjamin Song · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Joy Gibson · Lynette Sharp · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-15 | Climate Programs Dismantled - NOAA Faces 27% Budget Cut NOAA · Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research · U.S. Global Change Research Program · Heritage Foundation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-15 | Grok AI Suffers Catastrophic Safety Failure, Exposing Critical AI Governance Gaps Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-15 | Pentagon Awards $295 Million Guam Defense Contract as Military Buildup Strains Local Housing Market U.S. Department of Defense · Core Tech-HDCC-Kajima LLC · Missile Defense Agency · Robert Rasch | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-15 | Trump demands Texas conduct mid-cycle redistricting for 5 new GOP seats Donald Trump · Greg Abbott · Texas Legislature | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-14 | Defense Department Awards $200M Contract to Elon Musk's xAI for Grok AI Elon Musk · xAI · U.S. Department of Defense · Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-14 | Pam Bondi ousts DOJ ethics director Joseph Tirrell amid mass prosecutor dismissal Pam Bondi · Joseph Tirrell · Donald Trump · Jack Smith · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-14 | Supreme Court 6-3 Stay Authorizes Mass Federal Workforce Reductions at 22 Agencies U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration · American Federation of Government Employees | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-13 | Christ Kirk DC Inaugural Service: Wilson's CREC Denomination Plants in Capitol Hill Building Owned by Conservative Partnership Institute; Hegseth and Solheim in Pews Doug Wilson · Jared Longshore · Pete Hegseth · Nick Solheim · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-12 | Bondi Fires 20 Justice Department Employees Tied to Trump Prosecutions Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Trump Prosecutors · January 6 Prosecutors · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-12 | Trump Calls Own Supporters "Weaklings" and "Selfish People" After Demanding Epstein File Transparency Donald Trump · Tucker Carlson · Laura Loomer · Marjorie Taylor Greene · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-12 | Trump Organization Launches Luxury Tower Project in Romania Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Ștefan Berciu | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-11 | Federal court restrains LAPD use of less-lethal force against journalists U.S. District Court · LAPD · Journalists | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-11 | Federal judge orders stop to "indiscriminate" ICE raids in Los Angeles Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · U.S. District Court Central District of California · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-10 | DOGE 2.0: Institutional Capture Continues After Musk's Direct Involvement Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · DOGE Operatives | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-10 | Senate Appropriators Reject House Proposal to Halve GAO Budget US Senate · Senate Appropriations Committee · Government Accountability Office (GAO) | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-10 | Trump Foreign Aid Policy Sparks Global Lobbying Surge Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Marco Rubio · US Lobbying Firms | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-10 | Trump's Inaugural Fund Received $19M from Fossil Fuel Industry Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Chevron · ExxonMobil · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-10 | White House Officials Own Cryptocurrency Assets in Proposed National Crypto Reserve Donald Trump · Ian Kelley · White House Staff | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-08 | Musk Floods X with 35+ Posts Attacking Trump Over Epstein "Cover-up" Elon Musk · Donald Trump · X/Twitter · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-08 | Navy Activates WEXMAC 2.2 TITUS as Domestic Detention Procurement Vehicle With $10B Ceiling, Repurposing Afghanistan Logistics Contract for ICE US Navy · Naval Supply Systems Command · Department of Homeland Security · ICE · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-08 | Supreme Court lifts injunctions, enables mass firings at 19 federal agencies U.S. Supreme Court · Federal Agencies · General Services Administration · Department of Government Efficiency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-07 | Bovino Leads Military-Style Raid on MacArthur Park as Children Flee, Defies Mayor Bass Gregory Bovino · Karen Bass · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-07 | DOJ blocks further Epstein file releases Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Laura Loomer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-07 | DOJ Releases Memo Declaring No Epstein "Client List" Exists Department of Justice · Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-07 | Ghana Launches Democracy Capture Index Revealing Widespread Institutional Capture in Africa Ghana Centre for Democratic Development · CDD-Ghana researchers · African presidents · Government agencies across 10 African countries | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-05 | Vance Receives Claremont Institute Statesmanship Award; Delivers Integrating Intellectual Scaffolding Speech Rejecting Creedal Citizenship JD Vance · Claremont Institute · Ryan P. Williams · Charlie Kirk · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | 2.4 million Americans projected to lose SNAP benefits from expanded work requirements Trump Administration · USDA · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | Budget Bill Allocates $45 Billion for Private Immigration Detention Centers, 308% Increase Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) · Private prison contractors | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | Budget Bill Attempts Schedule F Through Financial Coercion of Federal Employees House Republicans · Senate Republicans · American Federation of Government Employees · Partnership for Public Service | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | Congress Eliminates $1.1 Billion in NPR and PBS Funding to "Silence Accurate Reporting" Republican Congress · Donald Trump · Anna Gomez · NPR · +1 | 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 Donald Trump · Linda McMahon · Heritage Foundation · ALEC | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | Musk's Lobbying Team Secures Sweeping Legislative Wins in Texas Elon Musk · SpaceX Lobbyists · Tesla Lobbyists · Greg Abbott · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | One Big Beautiful Bill Act Transfers $3.4 Trillion Upward Through Tax Cuts and Slush Funds Donald Trump · Mike Johnson · Republican Congress · Office of Management and Budget · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | Protest at Prairieland ICE Detention Center Ends in Shooting of Alvarado Police Officer Benjamin Song · Alvarado Police Department · Lt. Thomas Gross · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | Trump Signs 'One Big Beautiful Bill' Into Law: $911 Billion in Medicaid Cuts, 11.8 Million Projected to Lose Coverage Donald Trump · JD Vance · Rand Paul · Susan Collins · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-04 | Trump Signs "One Big Beautiful Bill" Slashing $863 Billion from Medicaid, Devastating US Territories Donald Trump · US Congress · Stacey Plaskett · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-02 | CDC Deactivates H5N1 Emergency Response Despite Ongoing Outbreak Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-02 | Joe Rogan Publicly Criticizes Trump's "Insane" ICE Raids, Says Feels "Betrayed" - Eight Months After Trump Endorsement Joe Rogan · Donald Trump · Bernie Sanders · Bono | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-02 | Paramount Pays $16M to Settle Trump's 60 Minutes Lawsuit Donald Trump · Kamala Harris · Paramount Global · CBS News · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-02 | Trump’s finances were shaky. Then he began to capitalize on his comeback Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | BlackRock Completes $12B Acquisition of HPS Investment Partners, Creating $190B Private Credit Franchise BlackRock · HPS Investment Partners · Larry Fink · Scott Kapnick · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | DHS ends sensitive locations policy allowing ICE arrests at churches and schools DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | DOGE Pushes SEC to Loosen Wall Street Regulations on SPACs and Reporting Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Department of Government Efficiency · Securities and Exchange Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | Florida opens "Alligator Alcatraz" tent detention camp in Everglades at $450 million annual cost Florida Division of Emergency Management · James Uthmeier · Ron DeSantis · Donald Trump · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | New Jersey Becomes Official Sanctuary State as States Escalate Legislative Resistance to Federal Immigration Enforcement New Jersey Legislature · Governor Phil Murphy · California Legislature · Colorado Legislature · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | Tennessee Enacts Broad Healthcare Refusal Law Allowing Denial of Contraception Tennessee Legislature · Tennessee Governor | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | Texas Democrats Flee State to Block Trump-Requested Mid-Cycle Gerrymandering Greg Abbott · Donald Trump · Texas House Democrats · Texas Legislature | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | USAID Completely Shuttered - Exceeds Project 2025 Timeline United States Agency for International Development · State Department · Marco Rubio · Project 2025 Implementation Team · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-01 | Vance Casts Tiebreaker Passing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Enabling Event for Project 2025 Treasury/Tax Chapter and Endowment-Tax Implementation JD Vance · Donald Trump · Rand Paul · Susan Collins · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-30 | Federal Judiciary Admits Systemic Failure in Presidential Accountability Mechanisms Federal Judiciary Leadership · Chief Justice · Judicial Conference · Senate Judiciary Committee | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-30 | Federal Judiciary Develops New Constitutional Enforcement Mechanisms Federal Judiciary · Judicial Conference · Administrative Office of U.S. Courts · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-30 | Kristi Noem Secretly Took $80,000 from Dark Money Group Without Disclosure Kristi Noem · Trevor Stanley · American Resolve Policy Fund | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-30 | Senate Passes $4.5 Trillion Tax Cuts with $1 Trillion Medicaid Cuts, 12 Million to Lose Insurance United States Senate · J.D. Vance · Ron Wyden · Congressional Budget Office | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-30 | Trump Launches 'Victory 45-47' Fragrance Line, Sparking Ethical Questions Donald Trump · Karoline Leavitt · Donald Trump Jr. | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-30 | U.S. Election Assistance Commission releases 2024 EAVS report U.S. Election Assistance Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-27 | House bill proposes nearly 50% cut to GAO; Senate rejects House Appropriations Committee · GAO (Government Accountability Office) · Senate Appropriations Committee · House Republicans · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-27 | Supreme Court Restricts Nationwide Injunctions in Trump v. CASA, Expanding Executive Power U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration · CASA de Maryland | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-26 | Anthropic Claude in Amazon Bedrock Cleared for FedRAMP High and DoD IL-4/5 in AWS GovCloud Anthropic · Amazon Web Services · U.S. Federal Government · Department of Defense · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-26 | Brookings warns on legal limits of putting soldiers on Los Angeles streets Brookings Institution · Legal scholars · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-25 | FHFA Directs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to Consider Cryptocurrency as Mortgage Assets Donald Trump · William J. Pulte · Fannie Mae · Freddie Mac · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-25 | Trump Organization Explores Tel Aviv Hotel Branding Despite Geopolitical Tensions Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Nitsba Holdings | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-24 | Bernie Sanders Returns to Joe Rogan, Warns of Trump Authoritarianism and Media Intimidation - Contributes to Rogan's Subsequent Trump Criticism Bernie Sanders · Joe Rogan · Donald Trump · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-24 | Emergency contractor donates $10,000 to Florida GOP, receives $6.2 million in contracts hours later IRG Global Emergency Management · Ron DeSantis · Republican Party of Florida · Access Restoration Services (ARS) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-24 | Trump Brokers Israel-Iran Ceasefire Ending Twelve-Day War Donald Trump · JD Vance · Benjamin Netanyahu · Qatar | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-24 | Trump Fires Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner, Raising Concerns About Regulatory Capture Donald Trump · Christopher Hanson · Trent Morse · Nuclear Regulatory Commission | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-23 | House Proposes Nearly 50% Budget Cut for GAO US House of Representatives · Government Accountability Office (GAO) · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-23 | Supreme Court 6-3 Allows Third-Country Deportations Without Due Process U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Sonia Sotomayor | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-22 | US Launches 'Operation Midnight Hammer' Strikes on Iran's Fordow and Natanz Nuclear Facilities Donald Trump · US Air Force · US Navy · Rafael Grossi | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-21 | ‘This presidency is a brand-franchise’: Trump has taken the commercialization of politics to a new level Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-21 | Trump systematically dismantles post-Watergate institutional safeguards Donald Trump · Trump Administration · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-20 | Ninth Circuit Again Allows Trump to Retain Control of CA Guard Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · Donald Trump · California National Guard | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-20 | Ninth Circuit extends stay keeping LA Guard/Marine deployment in place U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-20 | Trump Family Launches World Liberty Financial Cryptocurrency Venture Donald Trump · Barron Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-19 | Trump Company Reduces Stake in Crypto Venture World Liberty Financial Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Zach Witkoff · Justin Sun · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-18 | State Department orders expanded visa screening protocols at all consulates Department of State · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-17 | Pentagon Transfers Greenland from European Command to Northern Command Donald Trump · Pentagon | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-17 | Wyden, Goldman, Velázquez Letter to Palantir CEO Karp Demands Answers on ICE Surveillance Tools Ron Wyden · Daniel Goldman · Nydia Velázquez · Alex Karp · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-16 | Trump Media seeks SEC approval for bitcoin and ethereum ETF Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Crypto.com · Yorkville America Digital | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-16 | Trump Organization Announces Trump Mobile: $499 Smartphone and $47.45 Monthly Plan Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr. | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-15 | 128,709 federal workers laid off or targeted for layoffs Trump Administration · Office of Personnel Management · Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-15 | Federal Judicial System Faces Unprecedented Integrity Challenge Margaret Satterthwaite · UN Special Rapporteur · Supreme Court Justices · Sen. Cory Booker · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-15 | Legal Resistance Digital Coordination Platform Tech for Justice · Legal Resistance Network · Digital Rights Organizations | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-15 | Trump Military Parade Sponsored by Companies with Close Political Ties, Raising Ethical Concerns Donald Trump · Norman Eisen · Dana White | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-15 | Trump Officials' Extensive Financial Conflicts Exposed in Comprehensive Report Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Sean Duffy · Lori Chavez-DeRemer · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-14 | "No Kings" protests draw 5 million people in 2,100+ locations Civil Society Organizations · Protest movements · American Civil Liberties Union · MoveOn · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-14 | Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and Husband Assassinated, Senator John Hoffman and Wife Wounded Melissa Hortman (victim, killed) · Mark Hortman (victim, killed) · John Hoffman (victim, wounded) · Yvette Hoffman (victim, wounded) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-13 | Israel Launches Operation Rising Lion: Major Strikes on Iran's Nuclear Facilities Israeli Defense Forces · Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps · Benjamin Netanyahu · Rafael Mariano Grossi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-13 | Israel's 'Operation Red Wedding' Kills 30 Iranian Generals in Coordinated Decapitation Strike Israeli Defense Forces · Mossad · Benjamin Netanyahu · Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-13 | Ninth Circuit Stays District Court Ruling Against LA Deployment Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · Judge Charles Breyer · California National Guard · US Marines | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-13 | Trump Discloses $57 Million in Crypto Earnings from World Liberty Financial Donald Trump · Trump Administration · World Liberty Financial | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-13 | Trump Signs 2025 Annual OGE 278e Disclosing $1.6B+ in Assets, $600M+ Income, $57M WLFI Token Sales, Direct Dar Al Arkan Licensing from Saudi Arabia, Dubai, and Oman Donald Trump · World Liberty Financial · Dar Al Arkan · Dar Global · +8 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-12 | Ex-Congressman Billy Long Confirmed as IRS Commissioner Despite Controversy Donald Trump · Billy Long · Ron Wyden · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-12 | Federal judge says Los Angeles Guard/Marine deployment likely unlawful U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal.) · State of California · Governor Gavin Newsom · U.S. Department of Defense · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-12 | IAEA Board Declares Iran in Breach of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Obligations IAEA Board of Governors · Rafael Grossi · Iran | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-12 | Israel Conducts Major Strikes on Iran Nuclear Infrastructure Israeli Defense Forces · Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps · Netanyahu administration · Iranian nuclear scientists · +4 | confirmed |