2020s
The 2020s contain 2567 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-20 | Initial Rescissions order revokes 78 Biden-era executive orders Donald Trump · White House | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | J.D. Vance Inaugurated as 50th Vice President J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | JD Vance Sworn In as 50th Vice President, Positioned for Potential Constitutional Crisis Management JD Vance · Brett Kavanaugh · Donald Trump · Usha Vance · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Justin Sun Becomes First White House Crypto Dinner Guest After $75 Million Investment Justin Sun · Donald Trump · Trump Family · Securities and Exchange Commission · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Justin Sun's $75 Million Crypto Investment Signals Complex Trump Financial Network Justin Sun · World Liberty Financial · Securities and Exchange Commission · Donald Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Pam Bondi Rescinds Journalist Protection Safeguards as AG Pam Bondi · U.S. Department of Justice · Merrick Garland · News Outlets · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Project 2025: Trump Administration Launches Massive Federal Civil Service Restructuring Donald Trump · Heritage Foundation · Kevin Roberts · Paul Dans · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Systematic Coordination Emerges in Federal Worker Purge and Civil Service Dismantling Trump Administration · Heritage Foundation · Office of Personnel Management · Federal Employee Unions · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump cabinet worth $450 billion, most concentrated wealth in US history Trump cabinet · Elon Musk · Howard Lutnick · Warren Stephens | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Declares National Energy Emergency on First Day to Bypass Environmental Regulations Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Declares Nine National Emergencies in First 100 Days, More Than Any Modern President Donald Trump · Elizabeth Goitein · Brennan Center for Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump designates Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations Donald Trump · Secretary of State · Department of the Treasury · Department of Justice · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump eliminates ethics requirements and lobbying restrictions Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Office of Government Ethics · Public Citizen · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Establishes Department of Government Efficiency via Executive Order, Names Musk Leader | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Implements Unprecedented Wave of Project 2025 Executive Orders Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Project 2025 authors · Tom Homan · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Issues Blanket Pardons and Commutations for ~1,500 January 6 Defendants Donald Trump · Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Issues Mass Pardons to 1,500 January 6 Defendants Including Violent Offenders Donald Trump · Enrique Tarrio · Joe Biggs · Proud Boys · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Replaces Lina Khan with Andrew Ferguson, Signals Antitrust Rollback Donald Trump · Andrew Ferguson · Lina Khan · Federal Trade Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Signs 'Unleashing American Energy' EO on Day One: Lifts LNG Export Pause, Opens Federal Lands, Targets EV Mandates Donald Trump · Chris Wright · Doug Burgum | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump signs 37 executive orders on first day, implementing Project 2025 priorities Donald Trump · Elon Musk · White House · United Nations · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Signs Comprehensive Immigration Executive Orders Package: Ends Asylum, Reinstates Remain in Mexico, Kills Parole Programs, Declares Border 'Invasion' Donald Trump · Department of Homeland Security · Customs and Border Protection · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Signs EO 14168: 'Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism,' Mandating Federal Recognition of Only Two Sexes Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management · Department of Education · Department of Health and Human Services · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump signs Executive Order 14148 rescinding 78 Biden directives Donald Trump · JD Vance · Domestic Policy Council · National Economic Council | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Signs Unconstitutional Executive Order Challenging Birthright Citizenship Donald Trump · Department of Justice · U.S. Supreme Court · Asian Law Caucus · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Young Black Lawyers Organizing Coalition (YBLOC) Legal Resistance Summit Abdul Dosunmu · Marc Morial · Clarence Okoh · Jessica Paige · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-19 | Melania Trump launches $MELANIA coin with suspicious trading netting insiders $99.6M Melania Trump · Cryptocurrency traders · World Liberty Financial · Sen. Chris Murphy | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-17 | Crypto firms pour $18 million into Trump inauguration Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Coinbase · Kraken · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-17 | RFK Jr. Absent from CDC Bird Flu Pandemic Preparedness Exercise During Transition Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-17 | Trump launches crypto memecoin days before inauguration Donald Trump · Melania Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-15 | Grok AI Demonstrates Major Safety and Misinformation Vulnerabilities Elon Musk · xAI · AI Ethics Watchdog Groups · SaferAI · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-15 | Louisiana Grand Jury Indicts New York Physician for Providing Medication Abortion Louisiana Grand Jury · New York Physician · Louisiana Attorney General | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-15 | Northern Mariana Islands in "Very Dire" Fiscal Crisis as Tourism Collapse and Federal Aid Ends Government Accountability Office (GAO) · Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Government · US Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-15 | Patrizia Cavazzoni's FDA to Pfizer Move Epitomizes Regulatory Capture Patrizia Cavazzoni · Food and Drug Administration · Pfizer · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-14 | Bondi OGE Form 278e (Nominee) Certified, Disclosing 106,250 DJT Shares + 31,250 DJT Warrants ($1M-$5M Each) From Renatus LLC Consulting Merger with DWAC-TMTG Pam Bondi · Office of Government Ethics · Trump Media & Technology Group · Digital World Acquisition Corp · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-14 | Defense Secretary Nominee Hegseth Declines to Rule Out Military Force Against Greenland and Panama Pete Hegseth · Mazie Hirono | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-14 | Jack Smith releases final report concluding Trump would have been convicted for January 6 crimes Jack Smith · Donald Trump · Mike Pence · Merrick Garland | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-14 | Pete Hegseth Dismisses Sexual Assault and Alcohol Abuse Allegations as "Smear Campaign" at Confirmation Hearing Pete Hegseth · Senate Armed Services Committee | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-13 | Bannon Vows to Destroy 'Truly Evil' Elon Musk, Declares MAGA Civil War Steve Bannon · Elon Musk · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-13 | Trump Inauguration Raises Record $245 Million with $161 Million from Corporations Facing Federal Enforcement Donald Trump · Trump Inaugural Committee · Amazon · Meta · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-10 | Trump Receives Unconditional Discharge for 34 Felony Convictions, Zero Penalties Donald Trump · Juan Merchan · New York State Courts | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-09 | DOJ Blocks Epstein File Releases, Pam Bondi Lies About "Client List" Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Jeffrey Epstein Estate · US Intelligence | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-07 | Donald Trump Jr. Makes Unofficial Visit to Greenland, Distributes MAGA Hats Donald Trump Jr. · Donald Trump · Greenland Government | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-07 | Meta Eliminates Fact-Checking Program Citing "Political Bias" After Trump Pressure Mark Zuckerberg · Meta · Donald Trump · Joel Kaplan | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-06 | First U.S. H5N1 Bird Flu Death Reported in Louisiana Patient Louisiana Department of Health · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Food and Drug Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-01 | ISIS-Inspired New Orleans Attack Kills 14 People on New Year's Day ISIS-inspired attacker · 14 victims | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-01 | Nine law firms capitulate to $940M extortion campaign Paul Weiss · Kirkland & Ellis · Latham & Watkins · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-01 | Systematic assault on judicial independence begins Trump Administration · Federal Judiciary · Law firms | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-01 | Trump's Second Term Tariff Exemptions Made in Secret Without Public Process Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Industry lobbyists · Reyes Holdings · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-31 | Healthcare Industry Spends Record $744 Million on Federal Lobbying in 2024, Pharmaceutical Sector Leads at $384 Million PhRMA · American Medical Association · American Hospital Association · Pharmaceutical Care Management Association · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-30 | Federal Appeals Court Upholds $5 Million Carroll Verdict Against Trump E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Second Circuit Court of Appeals | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-24 | H-1B Civil War Peaks - Musk vs Bannon/Loomer on Immigration Policy Elon Musk · Steve Bannon · Laura Loomer · Vivek Ramaswamy | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-23 | North Carolina Republicans Strip Governor's Power to Appoint Election Board Members North Carolina Legislature · Josh Stein (Governor-elect) · Roy Cooper (Governor) · Dave Boliek (State Auditor) | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-22 | Trump Declares Greenland 'Absolute Necessity' and Names PayPal Co-Founder as Denmark Ambassador Donald Trump · Ken Howery · Mette Frederiksen | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-19 | SEC Charges Cantor Fitzgerald $6.75 Million for Misleading SPAC Disclosures Securities and Exchange Commission · Cantor Fitzgerald · Howard Lutnick · View, Inc. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-18 | California Governor Newsom Declares State of Emergency Over H5N1 Bird Flu Outbreak Gavin Newsom · California Department of Food and Agriculture · California Department of Public Health | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-13 | McKinsey Agrees to $650 Million Criminal Settlement for Role in 'Turbocharging' Opioid Sales for Purdue Pharma McKinsey & Company · U.S. Department of Justice · Purdue Pharma · Martin Elling · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-11 | Trump Organization launches $530M Saudi Arabia tower weeks before inauguration Eric Trump · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Dar Global | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-10 | FTC Blocks Kroger-Albertsons $24.6B Grocery Merger, Citing Labor and Consumer Harm Federal Trade Commission · Kroger Company · Albertsons Companies · Judge Nelson | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-06 | McKinsey Pays $73 Million Final Settlement to South Africa in State Capture Resolution McKinsey & Company · South Africa National Prosecuting Authority · U.S. Department of Justice · McKinsey South Africa · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-06 | Palantir and Anduril Launch AI Defense Consortium, Later Expand to SpaceX, OpenAI, and Scale AI Palantir Technologies · Anduril Industries · Alex Karp · Palmer Luckey · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-06 | USDA Issues Federal Order Requiring Mandatory Raw Milk Testing for H5N1 USDA · APHIS · Food and Drug Administration · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-05 | McKinsey Africa Agrees to Pay $122 Million Settlement for Bribery of South African Officials McKinsey Africa · U.S. Department of Justice · Vikas Sagar · South African National Prosecuting Authority · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-05 | PayPal Mafia Member David Sacks Named White House AI & Crypto Czar David Sacks · Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Elon Musk · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-04 | OpenAI Partners with Anduril to Integrate AI into Weapons Systems OpenAI · Anduril Industries · U.S. Department of Defense · Palmer Luckey | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-04 | UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Assassinated in Manhattan, Exposing Public Rage at Health Insurance Industry Brian Thompson · Luigi Mangione · UnitedHealthcare · UnitedHealth Group | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-03 | South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol Declares Martial Law, Triggering Democratic Crisis Yoon Suk Yeol · South Korean National Assembly · South Korean protesters · Democratic Party | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-03 | South Korean Democratic Resistance Against Presidential Martial Law Yoon Suk Yeol · Lee Jae-myung · South Korean Parliament · Civil Society Organizations · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-01 | President Biden Issues Full Pardon for Son Hunter Despite Repeated Promises Not To Joe Biden · Hunter Biden · David Weiss · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-01 | Sophisticated Swatting Campaign Targets Over 50 Congress Members in December Thomasz Szabo · 50+ Congress members (victims) · International swatting network | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-27 | Donald Trump Jr. Joins Unusual Machines Advisory Board, Receives 200,000 Shares, Stock Triples Donald Trump Jr. · Unusual Machines · Allan Evans · Donald Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-26 | Varda Space Industries Wins $48M AFRL "Prometheus" Contract for Military Hypersonic Reentry Testing Varda Space Industries · Air Force Research Laboratory · Founders Fund · Peter Thiel · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-24 | Vitali Klitschko Confronts Joe Rogan for Promoting Russian Propaganda on Ukraine, Rogan Defends Kremlin Narratives Joe Rogan · Vitali Klitschko · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · RT (Russia Today) | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-22 | Judge Merchan Grants Indefinite Postponement of Trump Sentencing After Election Victory Juan Merchan · Donald Trump · Alvin Bragg | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-19 | Texas offers Trump 1,402 acres for deportation facilities in "Jocelyn Initiative" Dawn Buckingham (TX Land Commissioner) · Donald Trump · Tom Homan · Greg Abbott · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-15 | Anthropic Secures Comprehensive FedRAMP High Certification for Government AI Deployment Anthropic · Palantir · U.S. intelligence agencies · Defense agencies · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-14 | Crypto Industry Advances Self-Regulatory Framework Amid Global Compliance Push Cryptocurrency Industry Consortium · Financial Stability Board · European Securities and Markets Authority · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-14 | Milo Yiannopoulos Launches Tarantula Management Firm Offering Trump Administration Access Milo Yiannopoulos · Kanye West · Martin Shkreli · Marjorie Taylor Greene · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-13 | NLRB Rules Captive Audience Meetings Are Illegal Employer Coercion (Likely Reversed 2025) National Labor Relations Board · Biden Administration · Workers · Union organizers | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-06 | Private Prison Stocks Soar After Trump's 2024 Victory: CoreCivic Up 29%, GEO Group Up 42% in Single Session Donald Trump · CoreCivic · GEO Group · Tom Homan · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-05 | Puerto Rico Votes 58.6% for Statehood in Non-Binding Referendum as Congress Ignores Colonial Status Puerto Rico State Commission on Elections · Jenniffer González-Colón · US Congress · Popular Democratic Party | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-05 | Record $1.9 Billion in Dark Money Floods 2024 Federal Election Cycle Dark money groups · Fidelity · Charles Schwab · Vanguard · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-04 | Joe Rogan Endorses Trump on Election Eve, Marking Major Podcast Influence on Political Discourse Joe Rogan · Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Kamala Harris · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-04 | Meta Provides Llama AI Models to US Government and Military Contractors Meta · Mark Zuckerberg · US government agencies · Lockheed Martin · +9 | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-31 | HHS Watchdog Finds Health Risk Assessments Drove $7.5 Billion in Medicare Advantage Overpayments Without Additional Patient Care Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Medicare Advantage insurers | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-31 | ICE detention chief Daniel Bible joins GEO Group days before election Daniel Bible · GEO Group · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Trump PACs | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-30 | Supreme Court Allows Virginia to Purge 1,600 Voters Days Before Election Despite Federal Law US Supreme Court · Glenn Youngkin (Governor) · Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-25 | Joe Rogan Gives Trump Unchallenged 3-Hour Platform 11 Days Before Election, Interview Reaches 50M+ Views and Cited as 'Deciding Factor' by Voters Joe Rogan · Donald Trump · Elon Musk · JD Vance | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-24 | Treasury Reveals $1.1 Billion in Epstein Wire Transfers to Russian Banks Jeffrey Epstein · Ron Wyden · U.S. Treasury Department · Russian banks | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-22 | Georgia Supreme Court blocks State Election Board's hand-count rule Georgia Supreme Court · Georgia State Election Board · Chief Justice Nels Peterson · NAACP Georgia | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-21 | Cochise County supervisor pleads guilty over 2022 certification refusal Peggy Judd · Kris Mayes · Tom Crosby · Arizona Attorney General | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-21 | Institute for Justice Files Lawsuit Challenging Flock Safety Mass Surveillance as Unconstitutional Institute for Justice · Lee Schmidt · Crystal Arrington · Norfolk Police Department · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-20 | Eight Washington State Poultry Workers Infected with H5N1 During Depopulation Operations Washington State Department of Health · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Benton-Franklin Health District · USDA | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-17 | Vance Claims Trump Did Not Lose 2020 Election J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · Joe Biden | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-16 | Raytheon Pays $950 Million to Settle Charges of Defrauding Pentagon, Bribing Qatar, and Patriot Contract Fraud Raytheon · Department of Justice · Qatar · U.S. Department of Defense · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-15 | Linda McMahon named in lawsuit alleging WWE covered up child sexual abuse Linda McMahon · Vince McMahon · Melvin Phillips · WWE | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-03 | NGA Awards BlackSky $290M Luno A Contract for AI-Powered Global Surveillance BlackSky Technology · National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency · Peter Thiel · Mithril Capital · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-01 | Musk Claims Billionaires "Terrified" of Epstein List on Tucker Carlson Show Elon Musk · Tucker Carlson | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-01 | Musk Coordinates Political Operations Through America PAC and X Platform Information Warfare Elon Musk · Donald Trump · America PAC · Twitter | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-30 | Biden Uses Emergency Drawdown Authority 55 Times to Send $31.7B in Weapons to Ukraine Joe Biden · Pentagon · U.S. Congress · Ukraine · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-30 | Guidance to Georgia officials on mass voter challenges Campaign Legal Center · ACLU of Georgia · Brennan Center for Justice · Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law · +2 | confirmed |