Decade of record

2020s

The 2020s contain 3456 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.

3456 events From Jan 1, 2020 To Sep 14, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2025-04-17Federal Judge Blocks DOGE From Social Security Data, Orders Deletion of Personal Records 2 srcconfirmed
2025-04-17Judge allows unions’ APA challenge to DOGE data access to proceed 4 src
Department of Government Efficiency · AFL-CIO · American Federation of Government Employees · SEIU · +5
confirmed
2025-04-17Judge Rules Google Operates Illegal Ad Tech Monopoly, Orders Divestiture of Ad Business 3 src
Leonie Brinkema · Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai
confirmed
2025-04-17Mass Layoffs Hit Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Judicial Intervention Emerges 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Amy Berman Jackson · Gavin Kliger · +1
confirmed
2025-04-17Musk's SpaceX is frontrunner to build Trump's Golden Dome missile shield 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-04-17Trump Appointee Sought IRS Audit Review for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-17Trump Team Targets Politically Connected Startup Ramp for $700B Government Payments Overhaul 3 src
Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Elon Musk · J.D. Vance
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2025-04-16Elon Musk Donates to GOP Lawmakers Targeting Judicial Oversight 4 src
Elon Musk · Chuck Grassley · Lauren Boebert
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2025-04-16Elon Musk installed his top lieutenants at a federal agency you probably haven’t heard of 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-16Trump Fires Democratic Board Members of the NCUA 4 src
Donald Trump · Karoline Leavitt
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2025-04-16Under Trump, consumer watchdog to slash industry supervision 5 src
Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Russell Vought · National Treasury Employees Union · +2
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2025-04-15EO 14271 Signed: Government-Wide Commercial-Preference Mandate Extends FASA to All Federal Agencies 5 src
Donald Trump · Russell Vought
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2025-04-15Press Freedom Tracker: White House wrests control of press pool structure 3 src
White House · White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) · Associated Press · Trump Administration
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2025-04-15Triple Canopy (Constellis/Blackwater lineage) operates ~$478M DHS Federal Protective Service domestic armed-guard portfolio at DC/MD/PA/CO federal buildings — Phase-4 paramilitary substrate at domestic federal property 6 src
Triple Canopy · Constellis Holdings
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2025-04-15Trump Donors Seek Greenland Investment Opportunities 3 src
Donald Trump · Mark Zuckerberg · Sam Altman · Jeff Bezos · +1
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2025-04-15Trump Launches Crypto Real Estate Video Game Venture 4 src
Donald Trump · Bill Zanker · Trump Administration
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2025-04-15US Removes Sanctions from Antal Rogán, Top Orbán Aide 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Viktor Orbán · Marco Rubio
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2025-04-15White House restructures press pool, removes permanent wire position 3 src
White House · White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA)
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2025-04-14Founders Fund Leads $50M Round for Enriched Uranium Startup General Matter; Peter Thiel Joins Board 6 src
Peter Thiel · Founders Fund · Department of Energy
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2025-04-14Greene bought market dip before Trump paused tariffs, profiting from the rally 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Marjorie Taylor Greene
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2025-04-14Pulte Appoints 1789 Capital's Omeed Malik to Fannie Mae Board; Nominating/Governance Committee Seat Paired with FHFA Director as Chair 15 src
Bill Pulte · Donald Trump Jr. · 1789 Capital · Fannie Mae · +1
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2025-04-14Trump Administration Restructures White-Collar Crime Enforcement Strategy 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-14Wolff Reports Trump Team's Media Leverage Attempt with Warner Bros. Discovery 3 src
Donald Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Michael Wolff
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2025-04-13ICE terminates $73 million no-bid contract after improper influence allegations 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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2025-04-12Trump Family Launches Comprehensive $5B Cryptocurrency Empire 4 src
Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · Trump Administration
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2025-04-12US and Iran Begin Indirect Nuclear Negotiations in Oman 2 src
Steve Witkoff · Abbas Araghchi · Oman
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2025-04-11Binance seeks to curb U.S. oversight while in deal talks with Trump’s crypto company 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-11CFPB Dismisses Lawsuit Against Comerica Bank Over Federal Benefits Card Program 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Rohit Chopra
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2025-04-11DOJ fires immigration attorney for refusing to lie to federal courts about deportations 3 src
Erez Reuveni · Emil Bove · Department of Justice · Pam Bondi
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2025-04-11Meta adds former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick to its board 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Mark Zuckerberg
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2025-04-11Musk's DOGE Team Gains Control of Federal Payment System 3 src
Elon Musk · Department of Government Efficiency · Chuck Schumer · Ron Wyden
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2025-04-11The US is turning a blind eye to crypto crimes 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-11Trump announces deals with more law firms for a combined $600 million 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-11Trump Directs Agencies to Quietly Repeal Regulations Without Public Notice 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Lee Zeldin · Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
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2025-04-11Trump megadonor drags of easy access to White House 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-11Trump Signs NSPM-4 Transferring Roosevelt Reservation to DoD as First 'National Defense Area' at Southern Border; 170-Mile NM Strip Becomes Military Installation Without Congressional Approval 6 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Army · Department of Homeland Security · +1
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2025-04-10Federal Judges Establish Precedent for Presidential Accountability 4 src
Federal Judiciary · U.S. Supreme Court · Department of Justice · Rebecca Slaughter · +3
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2025-04-10Fired US Federal Trade Commissioners Sound Alarm on Potential Data Access Misuse 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Rebecca Slaughter
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2025-04-10ICE cancels $3.8B Fort Bliss contract amid corruption concerns, awards to inexperienced firm 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Acquisition Logistics LLC · U.S. Department of Defense
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2025-04-10Judicial System Struggles with Presidential Accountability Mechanisms 3 src
Department of Justice
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2025-04-10Labor leaders fear Elon Musk and DOGE could gain access to whistleblower files 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · AFL-CIO · +1
confirmed
2025-04-10Mass Judicial Removal Attempt Triggers Constitutional Emergency 3 src
Trump Administration · Federal Judiciary · Department of Justice
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2025-04-10Supreme Court Unanimously Rules Government Must 'Facilitate' Abrego Garcia's Return 5 src
Supreme Court · John Roberts · Kilmar Abrego Garcia · Trump Administration · +2
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2025-04-10Trump Signs Bill Nullifying Expanded IRS Crypto Broker Rule 4 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Congress
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2025-04-10Trump White House Brokers Pro Bono Deals with Elite Law Firms 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Latham & Watkins · Kirkland & Ellis · +1
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2025-04-09Trump offers ‘buy’ tip on social media hours before tariff pause that made stocks soar 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-09Trump Reverses Course with 90-Day Tariff Pause After Bond Market Crisis; China Excluded, Tariffs Escalate to 145% 8 src
Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · Howard Lutnick · Trump Administration
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2025-04-09Trump Signs Memoranda Stripping Clearances and Ordering Probes of Krebs and Taylor, Sweeping In the University of Pennsylvania 4 src
Donald Trump · Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Department of Justice
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2025-04-09US DOGE Service Agreement with Department of Labor Reveals $1.3 Million Fee 3 src
Elon Musk · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Labor
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2025-04-09US-China Tariff Escalation Reaches 145% as Tit-for-Tat Retaliation Nears Total Decoupling 7 src
Donald Trump · Xi Jinping · Scott Bessent · Howard Lutnick
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2025-04-09USCIS to screen immigrants' social media for antisemitic activity 4 src
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Trump Administration
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2025-04-08Judge orders restoration of AP access to White House events 3 src
U.S. District Court · Associated Press · White House · Trump Administration
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2025-04-08Justice Department Disbands National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team 3 src
Donald Trump · Todd Blanche · Trump Administration
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2025-04-08SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in OPM v. AFGE lifts district-court order reinstating 16,000 probationary federal employees 3 src confirmed
2025-04-07Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft Pressured into $100M Pro Bono Deal by Trump White House 4 src
Donald Trump · Sheldon Whitehouse · Todd Blanche
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2025-04-07Dhillon Guts DOJ Voting Section: Reassigns Managers, Suspends Cases, Rewrites Mission to 'Voter Fraud' 6 src
Harmeet Dhillon · DOJ Civil Rights Division · Pam Bondi · Trump Administration
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2025-04-07SCOTUS 5-4 shadow-docket stay in Trump v. J.G.G. vacates TROs blocking Alien Enemies Act removals of Venezuelan nationals 3 src confirmed
2025-04-05Launch of Integrated Legal Technology Platform for Collaborative Resistance 3 src confirmed
2025-04-05Legal Resistance Tech Collaboration Platform Launch 4 src
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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2025-04-05Nationwide Legal Defense Network Expands Operational Capacity 3 src
AFL-CIO · Democracy Forward · National Treasury Employees Union
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2025-04-05Trump family’s cash registers ring as financial meltdown plays out 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-04‘Oligarchy’: Trump exempts big oil donors from tariffs package 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-04SCOTUS 5-4 shadow-docket stay in Department of Education v. California clears termination of DEI-flagged teacher-training grants 3 src confirmed
2025-04-04SpaceX wins $5.9 billion Space Force contract amid congressional conflict-of-interest investigation 4 src
SpaceX · Elon Musk · Stephen Lynch · Gerry Connolly · +1
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2025-04-04Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield Fired as U.S. Military Representative to NATO — 'Loss of Confidence' 2 src
Pete Hegseth
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2025-04-04World Liberty Financial Sells $25 Million in Tokens Days Before DOJ Crypto Unit Disbanded 5 src
Trump Family · World Liberty Financial · Department of Justice
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2025-04-03Challenger data shows DOGE drove 280,253 federal layoffs across 27 agencies 4 src
Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Federal Agencies
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2025-04-03Department of Education Issues "Dear Colleague Letter" Requiring Universities to Certify No DEI Programs or Lose Federal Funding 5 src
Department of Education · Office for Civil Rights · General Services Administration · Donald Trump
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2025-04-03FCC Chair Carr Proposes Section 230 Reinterpretation at DOJ "Big-Tech Censorship" Forum 6 src
Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission · Department of Justice Antitrust Division · Federal Trade Commission
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2025-04-03In-Q-Tel Reaches 800th Investment Milestone, Expanding Into AI and Quantum Computing 3 src
In-Q-Tel · Central Intelligence Agency
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2025-04-03Law firm Kirkland & Ellis in talks with White House to avoid executive order 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-04-03Liberation Day Market Crash: S&P 500 Drops 10.5% in Two Days, $6.6 Trillion Wiped Out in Largest Two-Day Loss in History 7 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Federal Reserve · Wall Street
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2025-04-03Resistance is futile, make a deal: Trump's tariff message to the world 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-03Trump Fires NSA Director Gen. Timothy Haugh and Deputy After Laura Loomer Oval Office Visit 5 src
Donald Trump · Laura Loomer · Pete Hegseth
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2025-04-02DOT announces enforcement grace period for new emissions standards 4 src
Department of Transportation · Trump Administration
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2025-04-02Judge Dale Ho Dismisses Eric Adams Corruption Case With Prejudice, Citing Apparent Quid Pro Quo With Trump DOJ 4 src
Dale Ho · Eric Adams · Donald Trump · Danielle Sassoon · +2
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2025-04-02Liberation Day Tariffs Cost Average Household $1,000 in 2025, Imported Goods Prices Rise 4% as Americans Bear 94% of Tariff Cost 4 src
Donald Trump
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2025-04-02Report: 34,000 Ohio ballots rejected in 2024 election after ID/process changes 4 srcconfirmed
2025-04-02SEC Restructures Enforcement Division Under Trump Administration 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Paul Atkins
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2025-04-02Shares in Trump social media company sink following concerns about insider selloff 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-02Top Anti-Corruption Officials Depart SEC Following Enforcement Pause 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-02Trump Administration Pressures Law Firms into Pro Bono Settlements 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-02Trump Invokes Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA) to Impose Unprecedented Reciprocal Tariffs 3 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court
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2025-04-02Trump just pardoned...a corporation? 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-02Two more law firms reach deals with Trump to avoid executive orders: 'they're all bending' 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-02U.S. lifts sanctions on wife of Putin’s childhood friend Boris Rotenberg 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-04-02Zuckerberg lobbies Trump to avoid Meta antitrust trial 5 src
Mark Zuckerberg · Meta · Donald Trump · Trump Administration · +1
confirmed
2025-04-01EPA reverses bans on TCE, asbestos, and ethylene oxide under industry executives 3 src
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · American Chemistry Council
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2025-04-01HHS Lays Off 10,000 Federal Health Workers at NIH, FDA, and CDC in RFK Jr. Restructuring 5 src
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · National Institutes of Health (NIH) · Food and Drug Administration · +1
confirmed
2025-04-01Multiple Pulitzer Prizes Awarded for Exposing Systematic Kleptocratic Corruption 3 src
Reuters · Wall Street Journal · Boston Globe · Elon Musk · +1
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2025-04-01Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's Mansion Set on Fire, Family Forced to Flee 3 src confirmed
2025-04-01Rural internet program on hold as Musk's satellites get new consideration 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · U.S. Department of Commerce · +1
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2025-04-01State Department plans $400 million payment to Tesla after regulatory firings 5 src
State Department · Tesla · Elon Musk · Donald Trump
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2025-04-01Trump announces deal with law firm that employs Doug Emhoff 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
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2025-03-31DOJ Drops Voting Rights Cases in Georgia, Virginia, and Alabama, Abandoning Federal Enforcement 6 src
Pamela Bondi · Department of Justice · Civil Rights Division · Brad Raffensperger
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2025-03-31Musk-funded political group spends big and goes door to door in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-03-31Trump Administration Continues Systematic DOJ Prosecutor Purge 3 src
Trump Administration · Department of Justice · James McHenry
confirmed
2025-03-31Trump Administration Freezes Title X Funding to Planned Parenthood Affiliates 3 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Planned Parenthood
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2025-03-31Trump commutes sentence of convicted fraudster who aided GOP impeachment effort 3 src
Donald Trump · Devon Archer
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2025-03-31Trump Family Launches American Bitcoin Corp. with Hut 8 3 src
Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr.
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