2020s
The 2020s contain 2812 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-22 | Georgia Supreme Court blocks State Election Board's hand-count rule
3 src 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
4 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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
4 src 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
3 src Linda McMahon · Vince McMahon · Melvin Phillips · WWE | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-03 | NGA Awards BlackSky $290M Luno A Contract for AI-Powered Global Surveillance
4 src 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
3 src Elon Musk · Tucker Carlson | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-01 | Musk Coordinates Political Operations Through America PAC and X Platform Information Warfare
3 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump · America PAC · Twitter | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-01 | Stanford Internet Observatory effectively wound down as standalone research operation — five-year academic infrastructure for platform accountability research dismantled under sustained political and legal pressure 9 src | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-30 | Biden Uses Emergency Drawdown Authority 55 Times to Send $31.7B in Weapons to Ukraine
4 src Joe Biden · Pentagon · U.S. Congress · Ukraine · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-30 | Guidance to Georgia officials on mass voter challenges
3 src Campaign Legal Center · ACLU of Georgia · Brennan Center for Justice · Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-28 | VP Candidate JD Vance Appears at Lance Wallnau's Courage Tour in Monroeville, PA, Framing Immigration Restriction as Christian Duty
5 src JD Vance · Lance Wallnau · Mario Murillo · Jason Howard | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-20 | FDA Commissioner Califf's Pharmaceutical Industry Revolving Door Scrutinized
3 src Robert Califf · Food and Drug Administration · Verily Life Sciences · Joe Manchin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-20 | FTC Sues Big Three PBMs for Artificially Inflating Insulin Prices Through Rebate Schemes
4 src Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · CVS Caremark · Express Scripts · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-20 | HHS Awards Palantir $12M SHARE BPA Task Order for ACF Unaccompanied Children Bureau Expansion — Task Order 75P00124F37005
4 src Palantir Technologies · Department of Health and Human Services · Administration for Children and Families · Office of Refugee Resettlement · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-19 | General Dynamics Virginia-Class Submarine Program Revealed to Be $17 Billion Over Budget with 2-3 Year Delays
3 src General Dynamics · Huntington Ingalls Industries · Ken Calvert · Carlos Del Toro · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-16 | Sean Combs arrested on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges
3 src Sean Combs · Department of Justice · SDNY · Federal Prosecutors | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-13 | State Department Exposes RT as Fully Integrated Russian Intelligence Operation with Embedded Cyber Capabilities
4 src State Department · Antony Blinken · RT (Russia Today) · U.S. Treasury Department · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-09 | Big Lots Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, Stranding Blue Owl-Owned Distribution Centers Later Sold to DHS for ICE Detention
3 src Big Lots · Blue Owl Capital · Oak Street Real Estate Capital · Nexus Capital Management · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-09 | Vance Spreads Debunked Anti-Haitian Immigrant Hoax in Springfield, Ohio
3 src J.D. Vance · Haitian immigrants · Springfield Police · Bryan Heck · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-06 | Dick Cheney Endorses Democrat Kamala Harris, Calls Trump 'Greatest Threat to Republic'
4 src Dick Cheney · Kamala Harris · Donald Trump · Liz Cheney | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-05 | Tenet Media Shuts Down, YouTube Terminates Channels, Blaze Media Fires Lauren Chen After DOJ Indictment Exposure
4 src Tenet Media · Tayler Hansen · Lauren Chen · Tim Pool · +9 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-04 | DOJ Unseals Indictment Revealing $10 Million Russian Funding of Tenet Media Influencers
4 src Department of Justice · RT (Russia Today) · Tenet Media · Tim Pool · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-04 | Justice Department Seizes 32 Russian Disinformation Domains Mimicking U.S. News Sites, Exposes Kremlin Operation Directed by Putin Aide
2 src Department of Justice · Merrick Garland · Sergei Kiriyenko · Vladimir Putin · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-01 | Anduril Deploys 300th Autonomous Surveillance Tower at U.S.-Mexico Border
2 src Anduril Industries · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Palmer Luckey | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-01 | Pennsylvania SCIPNet deploys Carbyne APEX across four counties, becoming first state NG911 system with $3.5 million contract
3 src South Central Inter-County Phone Network Pennsylvania · Carbyne · Adams County Pennsylvania · Cumberland County Pennsylvania · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-31 | OpenAI Signs AI Safety Institute Testing Agreement
3 src Sam Altman · OpenAI · U.S. AI Safety Institute · NIST · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-29 | Kylian Mbappé Twitter Account Hacked to Promote $464M Crypto Pump-and-Dump Scam
3 src Kylian Mbappé · Unknown Hackers · Sahil Arora | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-22 | Former Rep. Mike Gallagher Joins Palantir as Head of Defense After Resigning Congress
5 src Mike Gallagher · Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · Peter Thiel · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-20 | Defense Contractors Market Ukraine War as "Battle-Tested" Surveillance Technology Proving Ground
3 src Anduril Industries · Palantir Technologies · Clearview AI · Defense Industry | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-16 | Humana Pays $90 Million to Settle First-of-Its-Kind Medicare Part D Fraud Case for Fraudulent Bidding
3 src Humana · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Department of Justice · Steven Scott (whistleblower) | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-15 | Grok AI Implements Enhanced Safety Protocols After Regulatory Pressure
5 src Elon Musk · xAI · AI Ethics Review Board · U.S. AI Safety Institute | 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 | |
| 2024-08-09 | Oracle Agrees to $115 Million Settlement Over Mass Surveillance Data Brokerage
3 src Oracle · Judge Richard Seeborg · Irish Council for Civil Liberties | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-08 | Anduril Announces Arsenal-1: $1 Billion Weapons Manufacturing Facility in Ohio
2 src Anduril Industries · Palmer Luckey · State of Ohio | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-05 | Federal Judge Rules Google is Illegal Monopolist in Landmark Search Antitrust Decision
3 src Judge Amit Mehta · Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-03 | Trump Publicly Endorses Georgia Election Board Members at Atlanta Rally, Sparking Electoral Integrity Concerns
3 src Donald Trump · Janice Johnston · Rick Jeffares · Janelle King · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-01 | Larry Ellison Buys $277 Million Florida Resort Near Mar-a-Lago, $450M Total Investment
3 src Larry Ellison · Oracle · Donald Trump · Manalapan | 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 | |
| 2024-07-26 | Charlie Kirk Platforms Doug Wilson at TPUSA Faith Believers Summit, West Palm Beach — Reformed-Track Direct Receipt
6 src Charlie Kirk · Doug Wilson · TPUSA Faith | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-23 | House Oversight Releases Damning PBM Report After 32-Month Investigation: Anticompetitive Policies Exposed
2 src U.S. House Oversight Committee · James Comer · Adam Kautzner · David Joyner · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-20 | Vance White Nationalist Social Media Connections Exposed
3 src J.D. Vance · Raw Egg Nationalist · Bronze Age Pervert · Richard Hanania · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-18 | DaVita Pays $34 Million to Settle Third Kickback Case in Decade, Revealing Systematic Fraud Business Model
3 src DaVita · Dennis Kogod · Department of Justice · DaVita Rx | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-17 | SEC Files Securities Fraud Lawsuit Against Former DWAC CEO Patrick Orlando
4 src Securities and Exchange Commission · Patrick Orlando · Digital World Acquisition Corp · Trump Media & Technology Group | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-16 | xAI Faces Major Criticism Over Grok AI Safety Failures
3 src Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-15 | J.D. Vance Named Trump's VP Pick, Completing Thiel's Political Investment
3 src J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-15 | Judge Cannon dismisses Trump classified documents case, rules Jack Smith appointment unconstitutional
3 src Aileen Cannon · Jack Smith · Donald Trump · Clarence Thomas · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-15 | Trump Selects Vance as VP Running Mate
3 src Donald Trump · J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-15 | xAI Implements Comprehensive AI Safety Protocols in Response to Investigations
4 src Elon Musk · xAI · Samuel Marks · Boaz Barak · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-13 | X Algorithm Modified to Amplify Musk and Right-Wing Content Following Trump Endorsement
3 src Elon Musk · Donald Trump · Timothy Graham · Mark Andrejevic · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-12 | Georgia State Election Board Passes Illegal Rules to Disrupt 2024 Election
3 src Georgia State Election Board · Janelle King · Janice Johnston · Rick Jeffares · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-11 | Judge Merchan Postpones Trump Sentencing to September After Supreme Court Immunity Ruling
4 src Juan Merchan · Donald Trump · Alvin Bragg | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-09 | Brennan Center warns Georgia SB 189 spurs mass voter challenges
3 src Brennan Center for Justice · Georgia Legislature · True the Vote · Right-wing activists · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-09 | FTC Report Reveals PBM Oligopoly: Top 3 Control 80% of Market, Extract $7.3 Billion Through Markups
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · CVS Caremark · Express Scripts · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-08 | G42's Mandated China Divestment Is Absorbed by Tahnoon's Own Lunate Fund — Exposing the 'Divestment' as Portfolio Reorganization
5 src G42 · Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan · Lunate · Peng Xiao · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-08 | NatCon 4 Washington: Vance, Wilson, Mohler, Hazony, Orr, and Miller Share Programming Days Before Vance Named VP
4 src JD Vance · Doug Wilson · Albert Mohler · Yoram Hazony · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Paul Dans Departs Project 2025, Kevin Roberts Takes Leadership
3 src Paul Dans · Kevin Roberts · Donald Trump · Chris LaCivita · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Paul Pelosi Visa Stock Sale Controversy
4 src Paul Pelosi · Nancy Pelosi · Rick Scott · Visa Inc. · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Supreme Court Grants Broad Presidential Immunity in Trump v. United States, Creating King-Like Powers
15 src U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · Justice Samuel Alito · +10 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Supreme Court Trump Immunity Ruling Institutionalizes WHIG Constitutional Crisis Precedent into Permanent Oligarchic Governance Framework
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Chief Justice John Roberts · Donald Trump · Justice Clarence Thomas · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-30 | EU Regulators Launch Comprehensive Investigation into Grok AI Data Privacy Practices
3 src Elon Musk · xAI · Irish Data Protection Commission · European Data Protection Board · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-28 | SCOTUS overrules Chevron deference (Loper Bright v. Raimondo)
4 src Supreme Court of the United States · Chief Justice John Roberts · National Marine Fisheries Service | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-27 | SCOTUS limits SEC use of in-house tribunals for civil penalties (SEC v. Jarkesy)
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Securities and Exchange Commission · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Neil Gorsuch (concurring) · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-27 | SCOTUS stays EPA 'Good Neighbor Plan' for cross-state smog program
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Justice Neil Gorsuch · Justice Amy Coney Barrett (dissent) · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-27 | Supreme Court Rejects $6B Purdue Pharma Settlement Granting Sackler Family Immunity from Opioid Lawsuits
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-27 | Supreme Court Rejects Sackler Immunity in 5-4 Decision, Blocks Bankruptcy Shield
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · Ketanji Brown Jackson · Brett Kavanaugh · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-26 | Meta Fixes Bug in Political Content Filter on Instagram and Threads
4 src Meta · Instagram · Threads | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-26 | SCOTUS: Plaintiffs lack standing in social-media coercion case (Murthy v. Missouri)
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Justice Amy Coney Barrett · Justice Samuel Alito · Justice Clarence Thomas · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-18 | Boris Epshteyn Pleads Not Guilty to Nine Felony Counts in Arizona Fake Elector Case — Active Indictment Persists Through 2026
3 src Boris Epshteyn · Kris Mayes · Arizona Attorney General's Office · Rudy Giuliani · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-15 | Academic Evidence Reveals Systematic Corruption in Hurricane Katrina Education Privatization
3 src Louisiana State Legislature · Charter School Advocates · Right-Wing Think Tanks · New Orleans School Board | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-15 | xAI Implements Controversial AI Safety Framework Amid Industry Scrutiny
3 src Elon Musk · xAI · The Midas Project · AI Safety Experts · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-13 | SCOTUS: No standing in challenge to mifepristone changes (FDA v. AHM)
4 src Supreme Court of the United States · Food and Drug Administration | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-06 | David Sacks Hosts $12M Trump Pacific Heights Fundraiser — JD Vance as Operational Instigator, Six Weeks Before VP Selection
6 src David Sacks · Chamath Palihapitiya · JD Vance · Donald Trump · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-01 | Flock Safety Network Expands to 5,000+ Police Departments Performing 20 Billion Monthly Vehicle Scans
3 src Flock Safety · Garrett Langley · American Civil Liberties Union · Electronic Frontier Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-30 | Apprentice Producer Bill Pruitt's NDA Expires, Reveals Trump Used N-Word on Camera
3 src Bill Pruitt · Donald Trump · Mark Burnett | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-30 | Trump Convicted on All 34 Felony Counts - First Former President Convicted of Crimes in U.S. History
4 src Donald Trump · Juan Merchan · Alvin Bragg | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-29 | Alito formally refuses recusal from Trump immunity and Fischer January 6 cases; Roberts declines meeting with Senate Judiciary (May 30) 7 src | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-29 | Treasury Releases First NFT Illicit Finance Risk Assessment Warning of Money Laundering Vulnerabilities
3 src U.S. Treasury Department · FinCEN | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-22 | House Oversight Launches Comprehensive Investigation into Grok AI's Safety and Government Deployment
4 src Robert Garcia · Stephen Lynch · Elon Musk · xAI · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-22 | NYT publishes second Alito flag report: 'Appeal to Heaven' flag flew at New Jersey vacation home (July and September 2023) 4 src | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-22 | Regulatory Bodies Begin Investigating Grok AI Safety Practices
10 src Elon Musk · xAI · Senator Elizabeth Warren · Rep. Don Bacon · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-21 | Trump campaign begins accepting cryptocurrency donations
4 src Trump Campaign · Cryptocurrency industry | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-16 | NYT publishes photographic evidence of upside-down American flag at Alito's Alexandria home in January 2021 5 src | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-15 | xAI Announces Enhanced Safety Protocols for Grok Chatbot at AI Seoul Summit
3 src Elon Musk · xAI · AI Ethics Consultants · Boaz Barak · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-14 | DOJ Finds Boeing Breached Deferred Prosecution Agreement After Door Plug Blowout
3 src Department of Justice · Boeing · Federal District Court · Criminal Division Fraud Section · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-13 | French officials dispute Noem's claim about canceling Macron meeting
3 src Kristi Noem · Emmanuel Macron · Élysée Palace | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-13 | GAO report finds former CBP Critical Incident Team personnel reassigned to Evidence Collection and Management Inquiry Teams; OPR independence compromised
3 src Government Accountability Office · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · U.S. Border Patrol · CBP Office of Professional Responsibility · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-13 | Michael Cohen Testifies Trump Personally Directed Hush Money Scheme and Reimbursement Cover-Up
4 src Michael Cohen · Donald Trump · Allen Weisselberg · Juan Merchan | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-07 | Stormy Daniels Testifies in Graphic Detail About Sexual Encounter, Trump Visibly Angry
4 src Stormy Daniels · Donald Trump · Juan Merchan | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-06 | Steward Health Care Declares Bankruptcy After Private Equity Extracts $1.3 Billion, At Least 15 Patient Deaths Linked to Substandard Care
3 src Steward Health Care · Ralph de la Torre · Cerberus Capital Management · Medical Properties Trust · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-03 | Noem caught lying about meeting Kim Jong Un in memoir
3 src Kristi Noem · Kim Jong Un | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-01 | Second Boeing Whistleblower Joshua Dean Dies Suddenly at 45 from MRSA Infection
4 src Joshua Dean · Spirit AeroSystems · Boeing · John Barnett | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-26 | Noem reveals she killed 14-month-old dog and goat in memoir
3 src Kristi Noem | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-24 | Anduril Wins Air Force Contract for Autonomous Fighter Jet Program
2 src Anduril Industries · U.S. Air Force · U.S. Department of Defense · Palmer Luckey · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-24 | Chamber of Commerce Sues FTC to Block Non-Compete Ban, Challenging Agency Authority
3 src U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Business Roundtable | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-23 | Axon Releases Draft One AI System to Automate Police Report Writing from Body Camera Audio
5 src Axon · OpenAI · Microsoft · Electronic Frontier Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-23 | Biden Administration Finalizes Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Rule Despite Fierce Industry Opposition and Republican Backlash
4 src Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · American Health Care Association · LeadingAge · Kim Reynolds · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-23 | Justice Department Pays $138.7 Million Settlement Over FBI's Failure to Investigate Nassar Allegations
4 src U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · W. Jay Abbott · Michael Langeman · +4 | confirmed |