2020s
The 2020s contain 2812 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-30 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden Student Loan Forgiveness 6-3 - Protects Debt System Against Democratic Relief
3 src John Roberts · Joe Biden · Elena Kagan | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-29 | FBI Arrests Three in "Trust Social" Investigation for DWAC Insider Trading
3 src Michael Shvartsman · Gerald Shvartsman · Bruce Garelick · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-29 | Shvartsman Brothers and Bruce Garelick Charged in $22.9 Million DWAC Insider Trading Scheme
5 src Michael Shvartsman · Gerald Shvartsman · Bruce Garelick · Rocket One Capital · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-29 | Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action in College Admissions in Students for Fair Admissions Decisions
12 src U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · Justice Samuel Alito · +12 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-27 | Supreme Court Rejects Dangerous "Independent State Legislature" Theory in Moore v. Harper
3 src US Supreme Court · North Carolina Legislature · Democracy advocates | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-26 | SVB Executives Sold $84 Million in Stock Before Bank Collapse
4 src Greg Becker · Daniel Beck | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-26 | Unconfirmed Report of Trump, Musk, and MBS Meeting
2 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Mohammed bin Salman | reported | |
| 2023-06-23 | Jack Smith grants immunity to fake electors for testimony against Trump
3 src Jack Smith · Michael McDonald · Jim DeGraffenreid · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-20 | ProPublica Reveals Samuel Alito's Undisclosed Luxury Trip with Billionaire Paul Singer
3 src Samuel Alito · Paul Singer · Elliott Investment Management · Leonard Leo · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-20 | Shell Company Network Analysis Links Cryptocurrency to Kleptocracy Infrastructure
4 src BitMEX · Arthur Hayes · Ben Delo · Samuel Reed · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-15 | AT&T partners with Carbyne as authorized reseller, integrating Israeli surveillance tech into national telecom infrastructure
3 src AT&T · Carbyne · Ehud Barak · AT&T Ventures | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-14 | Commerce Department Designates Erik Prince's Frontier Services Group as National Security Threat for PLA Support—Five Years After Carbyne Co-Founder Worked There
3 src Bureau of Industry and Security · Frontier Services Group · Erik Prince · CITIC Group · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-08 | Allen v. Milligan reaffirms Voting Rights Act §2; orders additional majority-Black district in Alabama
5 src Supreme Court of the United States · State of Alabama · DOJ Civil Rights Division | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-08 | Trump indicted on 37 federal charges for classified documents
3 src Donald Trump · Jack Smith · Walt Nauta · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-02 | YouTube stops removing false claims about past U.S. elections
4 src YouTube · Google | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-01 | House Select Committee Exposes McKinsey Work for Chinese Military While Advising Pentagon
3 src McKinsey & Company · House Select Committee on the CCP · John Moolenaar · Marco Rubio · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-31 | FTC fines Ring $5.8 million for employees' illegal surveillance of customers' private videos
3 src Ring · Amazon · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-30 | Second Circuit Reverses District Court, Reinstates Sackler Immunity Deal
3 src U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · U.S. Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-17 | Sen. JD Vance Appears at 'Regime Change' Panel at Catholic University with Deneen and Heritage's Kevin Roberts, Calls His Political Goals 'Explicitly Anti-Elitist, Explicitly Anti-Regime'
4 src JD Vance · Patrick Deneen · Kevin Roberts · Daniel McCarthy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-10 | Senate Hearing Exposes PBM Insulin Profiteering: 75% of Sales Go to Rebates and Fees
3 src Bernie Sanders · Senate HELP Committee · Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen · Paul Hudson · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-09 | Jury Finds Trump Liable for Sexual Abuse and Defamation of E. Jean Carroll, Awards $5 Million
4 src E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Lewis Kaplan | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-09 | Tucker Carlson Announces Move to Twitter/X, Forgoes $25 Million to Break Non-Compete
4 src Tucker Carlson · Elon Musk · Twitter · X · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-04 | Proud Boys, Oath Keepers Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy for January 6
3 src Proud Boys · Oath Keepers · Enrique Tarrio · Stewart Rhodes · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-05-01 | Tennessee Renews $168 Million CoreCivic Prison Contract Despite Deaths and Fines, Exposing Corporate Capture
3 src CoreCivic · Bill Lee · Tennessee Department of Correction · Tennessee State Building Commission | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-26 | Ukraine Launches Brave1 State-Backed Defense and Surveillance Technology Platform
3 src Ukraine Ministry of Digital Transformation · Ukraine Ministry of Defence · Brave1 Cluster | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-22 | Palantir Partners with Ukraine Prosecutor to Process War Crimes Evidence Using AI
3 src Palantir Technologies · Ukraine Prosecutor General's Office · Andriy Kostin | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-19 | Trump Second NFT Collection Sells Out While Revealing Substantial Digital Asset Income
3 src Donald Trump · NFT INT LLC · CIC Digital LLC | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-12 | Yemeni Civilians File Lawsuit Against Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and General Dynamics for Enabling War Crimes
2 src Raytheon · Lockheed Martin · General Dynamics · Yemeni civilians · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-06 | ProPublica Exposes Two Decades of Undisclosed Thomas-Crow Gifts
4 src ProPublica · Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-06 | ProPublica reveals decades of luxury travel/gifts to Justice Thomas; 2023 Judicial Conference narrows hospitality exemption
4 src Justice Clarence Thomas · Harlan Crow · Judicial Conference of the United States | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-06 | Tennessee House Expels Two Black Lawmakers in Racist Suppression of Gun Control Protest
13 src Tennessee House Republicans · Justin Jones · Justin Pearson · Gloria Johnson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-04 | Trump Arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court, Pleads Not Guilty to 34 Felony Counts
4 src Donald Trump · Juan Merchan · Alvin Bragg | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-01 | Heritage Foundation launches Project 2025 initiative
4 src Heritage Foundation · Kevin Roberts · Paul Dans · Mark Meadows · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-30 | Trump Indicted by Manhattan DA on 34 Felony Counts - First Criminal Indictment of President in U.S. History
4 src Donald Trump · Alvin Bragg · Michael Cohen · Stormy Daniels | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-27 | X prioritizes verified accounts for recommendations and polls
5 src Elon Musk · X · Twitter | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-22 | Digital World Acquisition Corp Fires CEO Patrick Orlando Amid SEC Investigation
3 src Patrick Orlando · Digital World Acquisition Corp · DWAC · Trump Media & Technology Group · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-19 | Swiss Government Forces Emergency UBS Acquisition of Credit Suisse After Regulatory Failure, Ending 167 Years of Swiss Banking History
3 src Credit Suisse · UBS · FINMA · Swiss Federal Council · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-15 | DOJ Arrests Guo Wengui in Landmark $1 Billion Fraud Conspiracy
3 src Guo Wengui · Ho Wan Kwok · Kin Ming Je · Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-15 | Hill and Valley Forum Third Annual Dinner — TikTok-Ban Coalition Coordination, Speaker McCarthy, Pre-Shou Zi Chew Testimony Staging
5 src Jacob Helberg · Christian Garrett · Delian Asparouhov · Kevin McCarthy · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-13 | ProPublica Exposes Cigna's Automated PXDX System Denying 300,000 Claims in Two Months at 1.2 Seconds Per Case
2 src Cigna · ProPublica · House Committee on Energy and Commerce | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-10 | Silicon Valley Bank Collapses in $212 Billion Bank Run, Third-Largest U.S. Bank Failure Caused by Regulatory Rollback
3 src Silicon Valley Bank · Greg Becker · FDIC · Federal Reserve · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-08 | BB and Others v Doha Bank Ltd — Court of Appeal (Civil Division) Ruling on State-Immunity Defense ([2023] EWCA Civ 253)
2 src Doha Bank Ltd · Moutaz Al-Khayyat · Ramez Al-Khayyat · England and Wales Court of Appeal (Civil Division) | 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 | |
| 2023-02-15 | North Dakota Legislature Rejects Oil Royalty Protections, Creates Toothless Oversight Program
4 src North Dakota Legislature · Brad Bekkedahl · Don Longmuir · Ron Ness · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-02-03 | East Palestine Train Derailment: Norfolk Southern Hazardous Chemical Disaster
4 src Norfolk Southern Railway · National Transportation Safety Board · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Trump Administration · +1 | 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 | |
| 2023-01-31 | FTC Loses Challenge to Block Meta's VR Acquisition, Major Setback for Khan
3 src Federal Trade Commission · Meta Platforms · Judge Edward Davila · Lina Khan | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-25 | Vought Publicly Announces 'Sound Christian Nationalism' Scoping Operation with Wolfe, Webbon, and Deevers Network at CRA
4 src Russell Vought · William Wolfe · Joel Webbon · Dusty Deevers · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-24 | DOJ Sues Google Over Ad Tech Monopoly, Seeks Historic Breakup
4 src Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · Jonathan Kanter · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-13 | Anonymous Whistleblower Leaks 1.7 TB of Cellebrite Data Including Full Software Suite
3 src Cellebrite · Anonymous · Enlace Hacktivista | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-11 | Amazon Refuses to Negotiate with JFK8 Union After NLRB Certification - Stalls Contract for Over a Year
3 src Amazon · Amazon Labor Union · Christian Smalls · National Labor Relations Board | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-04 | Varsity Blues mastermind Rick Singer sentenced to 3.5 years, $19M forfeiture
2 src Rick Singer · Federal Prosecutors | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-03 | Federal Court Orders Unsealing of Jeffrey Epstein Case Documents
3 src Loretta Preska · Virginia Giuffre · Ghislaine Maxwell · Miami Herald · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-03 | X expands permitted political advertising in the U.S.
4 src X · Twitter · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | 90/10 Rule Loophole Closes, Ending For-Profit Colleges' Predatory Targeting of Veterans by Counting GI Bill and Military Tuition Assistance as Federal Aid
19 src U.S. Department of Education · Veterans Education Success · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Holly Petraeus · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | Amazon AWS Government Contracts Reach Multi-Billion Dollar Annual Scale
3 src Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Pentagon · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | Cancer Drug Shortage Crisis Enables Gray Market Profiteering - Carboplatin Price Jumps from $50 to $500 Per Vial
4 src Big Pharma · Teva Pharmaceuticals · Food and Drug Administration · Gray Market Vendors · +1 | 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 | |
| 2023-01-01 | Noem secretly accepts $80,000 from dark money nonprofit
4 src Kristi Noem · Lee Schoenbeck | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | SpaceX Wins $1.8 Billion Classified NRO Contract for Hundreds of Spy Satellites
2 src SpaceX · Elon Musk · National Reconnaissance Office · Pentagon | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | Treasury records reveal $1.1 billion in Epstein wire transfers through Russian banks
3 src Jeffrey Epstein · Senator Ron Wyden · U.S. Treasury Department · Russian banks | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-31 | Arabella Advisors Network Raises Record $1.35 Billion in Dark Money
3 src Arabella Advisors · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Hansjörg Wyss · Eric Kessler | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-30 | House Ways and Means Committee Releases Six Years of Trump Tax Returns
4 src House Ways and Means Committee · Richard Neal · Donald Trump · Internal Revenue Service · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-27 | ICE whistleblower faces retaliation after reporting weapons violations at detention facility
3 src Carlo Jimenez · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security OIG · Merit Systems Protection Board | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-23 | Bipartisan Inspector General protections enacted
4 src U.S. Congress · Inspectors General | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-22 | January 6th Committee Reveals Social Media Platforms Gave Special Treatment to Conservatives
3 src Twitter · X · Facebook · Meta · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-15 | Global Indigenous Democracy and Governance Summit
3 src Global Indigenous Leaders · Academic Researchers · Indigenous Governance Scholars | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-15 | Trump launches first NFT collection one month after campaign announcement
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Organization | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-15 | Trump Launches Massive NFT Collection Generating .4 Million in Initial Sales
4 src Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-12 | FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested, Charged with Campaign Finance Violations and $8 Billion Fraud
3 src Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · U.S. Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-12 | Sberbank Real Estate Fund Acquires PNK Park Rostov-on-Don Warehouse — Eight Months After OFAC SDN Designation of Sberbank
1 src Sberbank Asset Management · PNK Group (Russia) · NK Group (Russia, formerly PNK Group Russia) · Andrey Sharkov | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-09 | Twitter Files Release Exposes Systematic Government-Social Media Coordination Infrastructure for Information Control and Democratic Manipulation
3 src Elon Musk · X Corporation · Matt Taibbi · Bari Weiss · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-06 | Trump Organization Convicted on All 17 Criminal Counts in Tax Fraud Trial
4 src Trump Organization · Trump Corporation · Trump Payroll Corporation · Alvin Bragg · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-05 | Kendal Price Files Whistleblower Complaint on Jane Roberts Commission Income and Chief Justice Non-Recusal
6 src Kendal Price · Jane Sullivan Roberts · John Roberts · Dick Durbin · +3 | ||
| 2022-11-25 | FCC bans Huawei and ZTE as national security threats while Carbyne operates unchecked
4 src Federal Communications Commission · Huawei · ZTE Corporation · Jessica Rosenworcel · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-22 | Trump Hosts White Nationalist Nick Fuentes and Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago Dinner
3 src Donald Trump · Nick Fuentes · Kanye West | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-18 | Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Theranos Fraud, Exposing Regulatory Failures
3 src Elizabeth Holmes · Edward Davila · U.S. Department of Justice · Theranos · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-18 | Jack Smith appointed Special Counsel to investigate Trump
3 src Jack Smith · Merrick Garland · Donald Trump · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-15 | Global Civil Society Develops Standardized Resistance Documentation Protocol
3 src International NGO Alliance · Human Rights Watch · Amnesty International · United Nations Human Rights Council · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-11 | FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange Collapses in $32 Billion Fraud, Exposing Crypto Regulation Failure
3 src Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · Alameda Research · Changpeng Zhao · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-10 | New York Adult Survivors Act Creates Window for Carroll to Sue Trump for Battery
4 src E. Jean Carroll · Donald Trump · Kathy Hochul · Brad Hoylman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-10-27 | Elon Musk Completes Twitter Acquisition with Substantial Saudi and Qatari Investment
3 src Elon Musk · Prince Alwaleed bin Talal · Kingdom Holding Company · Qatar Investment Authority · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-10-19 | France Fines Clearview AI €20 Million for GDPR Violations and Unlawful Biometric Surveillance
3 src CNIL · Clearview AI · European Data Protection Board · France | confirmed | |
| 2022-10-12 | Alex Jones Ordered to Pay $965 Million in Sandy Hook Defamation Trial
3 src Alex Jones · Sandy Hook victim families · Connecticut Superior Court | confirmed | |
| 2022-10-07 | Senate Candidate JD Vance Delivers Closing Keynote at Postliberal Catholic Conference at Franciscan University, Tells Integralist Scholars 'I've Admired a Lot of You from Afar'
5 src JD Vance · Sohrab Ahmari · Patrick Deneen · Adrian Vermeule · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2022-10-01 | Elon Musk begins regular contact with Vladimir Putin
3 src Elon Musk · Vladimir Putin | confirmed | |
| 2022-10-01 | Sinclair Broadcasting Reaches 40% of US Households Through Local News Monopoly
3 src Sinclair Broadcast Group · David Smith · Chris Ripley · Local News Stations | confirmed | |
| 2022-09-22 | Federal Court Dismisses Abdulaziz Lawsuit, Rules McKinsey Had No Duty to Protect Dissident
3 src Omar Abdulaziz · McKinsey & Company · U.S. District Court Southern District of New York · Second Circuit Court of Appeals | confirmed | |
| 2022-09-21 | NY Attorney General Files $250 Million Fraud Lawsuit Against Trump Organization
4 src Letitia James · Donald Trump · Ivanka Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2022-09-01 | Pulitzer-Winning Journalists Publish 'When McKinsey Comes to Town' Exposing Authoritarian Consulting
3 src Walt Bogdanich · Michael Forsythe · McKinsey & Company · The New York Times · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-24 | Biden Announces $10K-$20K Student Loan Forgiveness Plan - 43 Million Borrowers Eligible
3 src Joe Biden · Miguel Cardona | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-22 | Ethics board finds Noem may have engaged in misconduct and conflict of interest
4 src Kristi Noem · South Dakota Government Accountability Board · Jason Ravnsborg | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-19 | Oracle Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over "Surveillance Machine" Tracking 5 Billion People
3 src Oracle · Irish Council for Civil Liberties · Johnny Ryan · Mike Katz-Lacabe · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-18 | Allen Weisselberg Pleads Guilty to 15 Felonies, Agrees to Testify Against Trump Organization
4 src Allen Weisselberg · Trump Organization · Alvin Bragg · Manhattan District Attorney · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-16 | Trump-Backed Harriet Hageman Defeats Liz Cheney in Wyoming GOP Primary by 37-Point Landslide
3 src Liz Cheney · Harriet Hageman · Donald Trump · Wyoming Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-08 | FBI executes search warrant at Mar-a-Lago
3 src Donald Trump · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Merrick Garland · Bruce Reinhart · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-08 | Treasury Sanctions Tornado Cash with Chainalysis Providing Analysis
3 src OFAC · Tornado Cash · Chainalysis · Lazarus Group · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-15 | Roger Stone settles DOJ civil lawsuit for $2.1 million
4 src Roger Stone · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-14 | DHS Inspector General Reveals Secret Service Deleted January 6th Texts After Oversight Request
3 src U.S. Secret Service · Joseph Cuffari · James Murray (Secret Service Director) · Bennie Thompson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-13 | Celsius Network Files Bankruptcy After Freezing $4.7 Billion in Customer Deposits, Exposing Crypto Regulatory Void
3 src Celsius Network · Securities and Exchange Commission · Federal Trade Commission · Three Arrows Capital · +2 | confirmed |