2020s
The 2020s contain 2812 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-26 | Supreme Court Strikes Down CDC Eviction Moratorium as Unauthorized Executive Action
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Joe Biden · Alabama Association of Realtors | confirmed | |
| 2021-08-15 | ShotSpotter Accuracy Crisis - Chicago Inspector General Report and Williams Case
3 src ShotSpotter · Michael Williams · Chicago Police Department | confirmed | |
| 2021-08-02 | NLRB Hearing Officer Rules Amazon Illegally Interfered in Bessemer Election, Recommends New Vote
3 src National Labor Relations Board · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-29 | Nikola Founder Trevor Milton Indicted for Securities Fraud, Exposing How SPAC Loophole Enabled Investor Deception
3 src Trevor Milton · Nikola Corporation · Securities and Exchange Commission · U.S. Department of Justice · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-27 | Daniel Hale Sentenced to 45 Months for Exposing Drone War Crimes
3 src Daniel Hale · National Security Agency · The Intercept · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-21 | Clearview AI Raises $30 Million Series B Funding Despite Widespread Privacy Violations
3 src Clearview AI · Kirenaga Partners · Peter Thiel · Naval Ravikant | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-21 | Trump shows classified Iran attack plan at Bedminster, admits can't declassify
3 src Donald Trump · Mark Meadows · Trump staffers | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-18 | Pegasus Project Exposes Global Surveillance of 50,000 Targets by NSO Group Clients
3 src Forbidden Stories · Amnesty International · Citizen Lab · The Guardian · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-09 | Biden Signs Executive Order 14036: 72 Competition Initiatives, Most Comprehensive Since FDR
3 src Joe Biden · Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice · White House Competition Council | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-06 | Pentagon Cancels $10B JEDI Contract, Creates Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability
3 src Pentagon · Microsoft · Amazon Web Services · Google · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-04 | Jason Miller Launches Gettr with Hidden Guo Wengui Funding
3 src Jason Miller · Guo Wengui · Gettr · Steve Bannon · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-01 | Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg Indicted for $1.7M Tax Fraud Scheme
4 src Allen Weisselberg · Trump Organization · Cyrus Vance Jr. · Manhattan District Attorney · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-01 | Twitter Permanently Suspends Nick Fuentes, Completing Major Platform Deplatforming
3 src Nick Fuentes | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-01 | Vance Announces Ohio Senate Campaign
3 src J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · Rob Portman · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-24 | Chainalysis Raises $100 Million at $4.2 Billion Valuation in Series E
2 src Chainalysis · Coatue | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-15 | Lina Khan Confirmed as FTC Chair at Age 32, Youngest Ever
3 src Lina Khan · Joe Biden · U.S. Senate · Federal Trade Commission | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-03 | FBI Investigates DeJoy Over Alleged Straw Donor Campaign Finance Scheme
4 src Louis DeJoy · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Carolyn Maloney · John Sarbanes | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-01 | LUMA Energy Assumes Control of Puerto Rico's Grid Amid Massive 'Fuera LUMA' Protests Against McKinsey-Designed Privatization
9 src LUMA Energy · Puerto Rico Labor Unions · Angel Figueroa Jaramillo · Jocelyn Velazquez Rodriguez · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-01 | Saudi PIF Commits $2 Billion to Kushner's Affinity Partners — Phase 4 Capital Manifestation Begins; Five Months Into Biden Administration
2 src Jared Kushner · Affinity Partners · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Public Investment Fund · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-01 | Trump calls Bitcoin 'a scam' competing with the dollar
5 src Donald Trump · Bitcoin | confirmed | |
| 2021-05-28 | Biden Nominates Frank Kendall for Air Force Secretary After $702,000 in Northrop Grumman Consulting Fees
3 src Frank Kendall · Northrop Grumman · U.S. Air Force · Joe Biden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-05-21 | Alden Global Capital Completes $633 Million Tribune Publishing Acquisition - "Vulture" Hedge Fund Becomes Second-Largest U.S. Newspaper Publisher
5 src Alden Global Capital · Tribune Publishing · Randall D. Smith · Chicago Tribune · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-05-18 | Amazon extends Rekognition police ban indefinitely as Congressional regulation stalls
4 src Amazon · AWS · Andy Jassy · Jeff Bezos | confirmed | |
| 2021-05-13 | Leaked Video Exposes Heritage Action's $24 Million Voter Suppression Campaign Coordinating State Legislation
4 src Heritage Action · Jessica Anderson · Heritage Foundation · Hans von Spakovsky · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2021-04-15 | Giuliani Associate Sought $2 Million Payment for Trump Pardons
4 src Rudy Giuliani · Lev Parnas · Igor Fruman · Harry Sargeant III · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-04-09 | Amazon Defeats Bessemer Union Vote 1,798 to 738 After Intensive Anti-Union Campaign
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union | confirmed | |
| 2021-04-06 | Stephen Miller Founds America First Legal to Challenge Biden Administration and Advance White Nationalist Agenda
3 src Stephen Miller · Mark Meadows · Matthew Whitaker | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-25 | Georgia SB 202 Enacts Comprehensive Voter Suppression with Multiple ALEC Provisions
3 src Governor Brian Kemp · Georgia Republican Legislature · Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger · American Legislative Exchange Council | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-18 | Cellebrite Halts Sales to Russia and Belarus After Human Rights Abuse Revelations
3 src Cellebrite · Eitay Mack | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-05 | Palantir and AWS Formalize Strategic Partnership for Government Data Analytics
3 src Palantir Technologies · Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-01 | Private Equity Firm ReGen Healthcare Invests $100M in Failing Genesis Healthcare, Beginning Four-Year Collapse to Bankruptcy
4 src Genesis Healthcare · ReGen Healthcare · Joel Landau · David Gefner · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-01 | South Dakota pays $200,000 to silence appraiser chief fired after Noem intervention
3 src Sherry Bren · Kristi Noem · South Dakota | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-15 | Republican State Parties Censure Senators Who Voted to Convict Trump
4 src Bill Cassidy · Richard Burr · Ben Sasse · Pat Toomey · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-13 | McConnell Says Trump "Practically and Morally Responsible" Minutes After Voting to Acquit
4 src Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · Senate Republicans | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-13 | Senate Acquits Trump 57-43 Despite Bipartisan Majority Finding Him Guilty
4 src Donald Trump · Mitt Romney · Richard Burr · Bill Cassidy · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-13 | Senate Votes 55-45 to Call Witnesses, Then Reverses After McConnell Threatens Delay
3 src Jaime Herrera Beutler · Kevin McCarthy · Donald Trump · Jamie Raskin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-10 | Impeachment Managers Present Devastating 13-Minute Video Compilation of January 6 Attack
4 src Jamie Raskin · Stacey Plaskett · Eric Swalwell · Eugene Goodman · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-09 | Second Impeachment Trial Begins with Constitutional Debate on Trying Former President
4 src Donald Trump · Patrick Leahy · Bruce Castor · David Schoen · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-08 | Amazon Launches Massive Anti-Union Campaign at Bessemer Alabama Warehouse
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union · Morgan Lewis | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-05 | Robinhood DTCC Collateral Waiver Revealed in GameStop Short Squeeze Fallout
3 src Robinhood Financial · DTCC · Dan Gallagher · U.S. House Committee on Financial Services | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-04 | Biden Administration Pauses $760 Million Raytheon and Boeing Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Over Yemen
4 src Joe Biden · Jake Sullivan · Raytheon · Boeing · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-03 | Canadian Privacy Commissioners Declare Clearview AI Represents "Mass Surveillance" of Citizens
2 src Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada · Clearview AI · RCMP | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-02 | Saudi Dissident Omar Abdulaziz's Lawsuit Against McKinsey Filed in Federal Court
3 src Omar Abdulaziz · McKinsey & Company · Mohammed bin Salman · Saudi Arabia · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-28 | Raytheon CEO Hayes Tells Investors "Peace Not Going to Break Out" in Middle East, Sees Solid Growth
3 src Greg Hayes · Raytheon · Saudi Arabia · Joe Biden | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-26 | Biden Signs Executive Order 14006 to End Federal Private Prison Contracts, But Excludes Immigration Detention
4 src Joe Biden · Department of Justice · Bureau of Prisons · U.S. Marshals Service · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-25 | Pelosi Transmits Impeachment Article to Senate After Biden Inauguration
4 src Nancy Pelosi · Jamie Raskin · Chuck Schumer · Mitch McConnell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-25 | Supreme Court Dismisses All Trump Emoluments Cases as Moot
3 src US Supreme Court · Donald Trump · CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) · District of Columbia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-21 | Biden Invokes Defense Production Act for Vaccine Production on First Full Day in Office
3 src Joe Biden · Jeff Zients | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-20 | Freedom House Downgrades US Democracy Score to 83/100
3 src Freedom House · United States · Donald Trump · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-20 | Trump Environmental Rollbacks Cause 80,000 Excess Deaths Per Decade
3 src Donald Trump · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · Scott Pruitt · Andrew Wheeler · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-19 | Navalny Investigation Reveals Putin's Palace Complex
4 src Vladimir Putin · Alexei Navalny · Arkady Rotenberg · Boris Rotenberg · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-19 | Trump's Final Day Pardon Spree - 73 Pardons Including Bannon and Broidy
4 src Donald Trump · Steve Bannon · Elliott Broidy · Ken Kurson · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-15 | PredPol Rebrands as Geolitica Amid Mounting Criticism of Racial Bias
3 src PredPol · Geolitica | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-15 | Russell Vought Founds Center for Renewing America, Christian Nationalist Policy Shop for Trump Return
3 src Russ Vought | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-14 | Rick Snyder Charged With Misdemeanors for Poisoning Thousands—First Governor Ever Criminally Charged
3 src Rick Snyder · Dana Nessel · Fadwa Hammoud | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-13 | House Impeaches Trump for Second Time on Single Charge of "Incitement of Insurrection"
3 src Donald Trump · Nancy Pelosi · Liz Cheney · Adam Kinzinger · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-13 | Trump Pardons Kwame Kilpatrick After Serving 7 of 28 Years for Detroit Corruption
4 src Donald Trump · Kwame Kilpatrick · Bobby Ferguson · Alveda King | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-07 | Boeing Pays $2.5 Billion in Deferred Prosecution Deal, Zero Executives Charged for 346 Deaths
4 src Department of Justice · Boeing · 346 crash victims · Victims' families · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-07 | Facebook Bans Trump Only After He Loses Power, Following January 6 Insurrection It Enabled
4 src Mark Zuckerberg · Donald Trump · Facebook · Facebook Oversight Board | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | At Least Six CNP Members Coordinate January 6 Rally - Conservative Network's Role in Insurrection
2 src Council for National Policy · Charlie Kirk · Jenny Beth Martin · Ali Alexander · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | FBI forensics show Trump watched TV and tweeted instead of stopping Capitol riot
3 src Donald Trump · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Jack Smith | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | Ginni Thomas Attends "Stop the Steal" Rally Before Capitol Attack, CNP Board Member at Insurrection
4 src Ginni Thomas · Clarence Thomas · Council for National Policy · CNP Action · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | January 6 Capitol Insurrection Represents Culmination of WHIG Constitutional Crisis Template Implementation for Oligarchic Governance Establishment
3 src Donald Trump · Proud Boys · Oath Keepers · Roger Stone · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | Nick Fuentes Rallies Supporters Outside Capitol During January 6 Insurrection
3 src Nick Fuentes · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | Stephen Miller Writes Trump's January 6 Ellipse Speech, Adds Language About Pence Overturning Election
3 src Stephen Miller · Donald Trump · Mike Pence | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | Trump says "So what?" when told Pence evacuated for safety during Capitol riot
5 src Donald Trump · Mike Pence · Nick Luna · Dan Scavino | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-04 | Jeffrey Clark admits in Signal messages that classified briefing yielded "nothing helpful" for Trump
4 src Jeffrey Clark · Scott Perry · Donald Trump · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-03 | Jeffrey Clark Attempts DOJ Coup to Overturn Election
6 src Jeffrey Clark · Donald Trump · Jeffrey Rosen · Richard Donoghue · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-02 | CNP Attorney Cleta Mitchell Joins Trump Call Pressuring Georgia Officials
2 src Cleta Mitchell · Donald Trump · Brad Raffensperger · Council for National Policy | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-02 | Trump Calls Georgia Secretary of State to Find 11,780 Votes
3 src Donald Trump · Brad Raffensperger · Mark Meadows · Cleta Mitchell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-01 | 440 Voter Restriction Bills Introduced in 49 States - ALEC's Largest Suppression Wave
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Heritage Foundation · Heritage Action · Republican state legislators · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-01 | ALEC Develops New Model Election Bills to Implement Trump's "Big Lie"
2 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Heritage Foundation · Heritage Action · State Policy Network · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-01 | Barre Seid Donates $1.6 Billion to Leonard Leo Dark Money Network
4 src Barre Seid · Leonard Leo · Marble Freedom Trust | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-01 | Hospital Price Transparency Rule Takes Effect with Widespread Non-Compliance and Weak CMS Enforcement
3 src Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Hospital corporations · Northside Hospital | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-01 | Larry Ellison Donates $30 Million to Tim Scott's Super PAC Over 2021-2022
3 src Larry Ellison · Tim Scott · Oracle · Opportunity Matters Fund | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-31 | Wells Fargo Scandal Scorecard: 5,300 Workers Fired, Zero Execs Prosecuted
3 src Wells Fargo · John Stumpf · Carrie Tolstedt · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-27 | No Surprises Act Bans Surprise Medical Billing After Years of Private Equity Industry Obstruction
3 src U.S. Congress · TeamHealth · Envision Healthcare · Blackstone Group · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-27 | Trump tells acting AG "just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me"
4 src Donald Trump · Jeffrey Rosen · Richard Donoghue · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-23 | DOJ Secret Court Order Targets Washington Post Journalists Days Before Barr's Resignation
3 src William Barr · Michael R. Sherwin · U.S. Department of Justice · Federal Courts · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-23 | Trump Pardons Charles Kushner and 14 Others in Single-Day Corruption Spree
4 src Donald Trump · Charles Kushner · Jared Kushner · Paul Erickson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-23 | Trump Pardons Manafort, Stone, Flynn, Kushner in Corruption Spree
3 src Donald Trump · Paul Manafort · Roger Stone · Michael Flynn · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-22 | Trump Pardons Four Blackwater Contractors for Nisour Square Massacre
4 src Donald Trump · Erik Prince · Betsy DeVos · Nicholas Slatten · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-16 | Texas Leads 10-State Lawsuit: Google-Facebook "Jedi Blue" Collusion
4 src Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton · Google · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-14 | NBER Study Reveals Private Equity Nursing Home Ownership Increases Mortality 10%, Causes 20,000 Excess Deaths
4 src National Bureau of Economic Research · Private equity firms · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-14 | Trump Campaign Organizes Fake Electors in Seven States
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Campaign · Republican National Committee · Kenneth Chesebro · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-14 | Trump privately admits defeat saying "Can you believe I lost to this f'ing guy?"
4 src Donald Trump · Joe Biden · Mike Pence | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-10 | CNP Leadership Releases Letter Urging State Legislators to Reject 25 Million Votes
2 src Council for National Policy · Cleta Mitchell · Republican state legislators | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-09 | FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization Through Instagram and WhatsApp Acquisitions, Seeks Breakup
4 src Federal Trade Commission · Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Instagram · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-01 | DOJ Reveals Investigation into $2 Million Bribery-for-Pardon Scheme
4 src Donald Trump · Elliott Broidy · Lev Parnas · Rudy Giuliani | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-01 | Tesla Begins Purchasing Russian Aluminum from Rusal
3 src Tesla · Elon Musk · Oleg Deripaska · Rusal | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-01 | Trump Pardon Corruption - Systematic Monetization of Presidential Clemency Power
4 src Donald Trump · Rudy Giuliani · Jared Kushner · William Barr | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-30 | Giuliani admits to Arizona Speaker "We don't have evidence, but we have lots of theories"
3 src Rudy Giuliani · Rusty Bowers · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-25 | Trump Pardons Michael Flynn After Guilty Plea and Sidney Powell Conspiracy Theories
4 src Donald Trump · Michael Flynn · Sidney Powell · Emmet Sullivan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-20 | CIA Awards Multibillion-Dollar C2E Cloud Contract to Oracle, AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · Oracle · Amazon Web Services · Microsoft · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-12 | CNP Holds Post-Election Strategy Meeting - Planning Electoral College Challenge
2 src Council for National Policy · Cleta Mitchell · J. Christian Adams · Hans von Spakovsky · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-12 | Newsmax CEO Admits "We Have No Evidence" of Election Fraud, Airs Claims 23 More Times
4 src Christopher Ruddy · Newsmax · Smartmatic · 2020 Election · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-04 | Vance Begins Election Denial Rhetoric
3 src J.D. Vance · Joe Biden · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-03 | Facebook Rolls Back Election Safety Measures Immediately After 2020 Vote, Enabling "Stop the Steal" Misinformation
4 src Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Frances Haugen · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-03 | Judge Sullivan Orders Emergency USPS Ballot Sweeps, DeJoy Initially Defies Court Order
4 src Emmet Sullivan · Louis DeJoy · USPS · Federal Courts | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-26 | Senate Confirms Amy Coney Barrett 52-48 Eight Days Before Election, Creating 6-3 Conservative Supermajority
4 src Amy Coney Barrett · Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · Susan Collins · +2 | confirmed |