Decade of record

2020s

The 2020s contain 4339 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.

4339 events From Jan 1, 2020 To Nov 3, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2026-10-19Arizona Attorney General Moves to Recuse Corporation Commission Chairman Myers From the APS Rate Case 1 src
Kris Mayes
reported
2026-10-19Cleveland extends its data center moratorium through January while it writes permanent rules 1 srcconfirmed
2026-10-19DOJ and Education Department Agreement With UNC-Chapel Hill Closes 18 Education Dept. Civil Rights Investigations and One DOJ Compliance Review, No Payment; "Color-Blind" Admissions Required 10 src
U.S. Department of Justice
reported
2026-10-19DOJ Seeks a TRO in United States v. California With HSI and USCIS Declarations on the List of Just Over 20,000 Voters 6 src
U.S. Department of Justice · R. Trent McCotter · Homeland Security Investigations · Shirley Weber
confirmed
2026-10-19Empowering Black America PAC's $1.5 Million Anti-El-Sayed Ads Launch; Michigan Public Traces Them to Mercury Public Affairs 1 src
Abdul El-Sayed · Mike Rogers · Mercury Public Affairs
confirmed
2026-10-19Federal Judge Schroeder Denies Preliminary Injunction Against North Carolina Absentee-Ballot Sealing and Signature Memo (NC Alliance for Retired Americans v. State Board of Elections) 1 src
North Carolina State Board of Elections · Republican National Committee · North Carolina Republican Party
confirmed
2026-10-19GEO Group's Third-Quarter 2026 Lobbying Form Names ICE and Homeland Security Appropriations; Forms for CoreCivic and MTC Name ICE Funding and Facilities 3 src
The GEO Group, Inc. · Management and Training Corporation
reported
2026-10-19ICE Revised Justification Puts Amentum's Camp East Montana Contract at $2.8 Billion; Subaward Records Show Amentum and Akima Under Acquisition Logistics
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Amentum · Akima Global Services
reported
2026-10-19Judge Bryan Threatens ICE With Sanctions Over Release-Order Violation in Saltos Instant Re-Arrest Case in Minnesota 1 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-10-19Judge Sooknanan Grants Government Motion to Reassign Trujillo v. DHS (California Non-Citizen Voter Demand); Case Was Not Related to Earlier LWV v. DHS 2 src
Department of Homeland Security · Markwayne Mullin · Todd Blanche
reported
2026-10-19Operation Protect the Vote: Federal Prosecutors Charge 28 Lawful Permanent Residents in California and Arrest 11; DOJ Says All Are on Its List of More Than 20,000 8 src
U.S. Department of Justice · R. Trent McCotter · Homeland Security Investigations
confirmed
2026-10-19ProPublica Details Paxton's Anti-Abortion Legal Strategies and Their Spread Beyond Texas 1 src
Ken Paxton · James Talarico · ProPublica
confirmed
2026-10-19ProPublica: DHS Political Appointees Asked CISA to Secretly Acquire and Hack a Voting Machine, Former Officials Say 1 src
Department of Homeland Security · Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency · Department of Government Efficiency · White House
confirmed
2026-10-19Rep. Leger Fernández Introduces Bill to Let U.S. Citizens Sue Over Wrongful ICE Detentions, Citing ProPublica Reporting 1 src
Bonnie Watson Coleman · ProPublica · Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-10-19Talarico names Musk at Denton event: "Musk is trying to buy this Senate seat in Texas" 2 src
James Talarico · Elon Musk · Ken Paxton
confirmed
2026-10-19U.S. Attorney Aaron Reitz Posts Video as Texas Early Voting Gets Underway Warning Federal Election Law Violators in the Southern District 1 srcconfirmed
2026-10-19Wright, at Citadel Securities Event: 'We Are Converting Dark Tankers to Legitimate Tankers. There Is No Removing of Sanctions.' No OFAC Instrument Found 6 srcreported
2026-10-18CBS's Jan Crawford Deletes Post Praising El-Sayed's Caro Questioner, Apologizes for 'Violation of CBS News Standards' 2 src
CBS News · Abdul El-Sayed
confirmed
2026-10-18Dhillon Tells 60 Minutes Counting and Certifying Should Not Be Interrupted Absent Some Shocking Contingency 2 src
Harmeet Dhillon · Department of Justice
confirmed
2026-10-18Paige Adamson Dies in Point Roberts After a CBP Voter-Registration Stop and a Deportation Notice 2 src
Customs and Border Protection · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-10-18TSE Gives Meta 24 Hours to Prove Compliance With Equal-Treatment Order, Warning Daily Fine Will Rise to R$1 Million if It Does Not 1 src
Tribunal Superior Eleitoral · Marco Aurélio Bellizze · Meta
reported
2026-10-17Bloomberg Investigation (Baker and Bengani) Finds Matryoshka Bots Inflating View Counts on Fake Videos Against Democrats in 20 Senate and 29 Governor Races 2 src
Graphika · Bloomberg News · X
confirmed
2026-10-17Bloomberg Review: Russian Matryoshka Bot Network Inflates Fake Videos Targeting Democratic Candidates in Midterms 2 src
Bloomberg News · Graphika
confirmed
2026-10-17Caro Town Hall: 'Tommy' Asks El-Sayed to Disavow the Muslim Brotherhood; Questioner Is Hawley's Former Operations Director Thomas Teepell 5 src
Abdul El-Sayed · Josh Hawley
reported
2026-10-17CBS News Schedules Primetime Town Hall With Vice President Vance in Michigan 5 src
JD Vance · CBS News · Bari Weiss
reported
2026-10-17Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias, 56, Dies in ICE Custody at the GEO-Run Rio Grande Processing Center in Laredo; His Daughter Says Staff Would Not Give Him His Medications, and DHS Says He Received Proper Care 4 srcreported
2026-10-17ICE Agents Tase and Injure a U.S. Citizen on an E-Bike in North Long Beach; Neighbors Block Agents Until Police Arrive 2 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Robert Garcia · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-10-16ACLU of New Mexico Files FOIA Suit Against ICE Over CoreCivic Sole-Source Contracts at Torrance and Cibola Detention Facilities 1 src
CoreCivic · Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-10-16All Parties Tell Judge AliKhan Consolidation Is Appropriate in Three D.D.C. Polling-Place Suits Against DHS and ICE 1 src
Judge Loren L. AliKhan · Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement · League of United Latin American Citizens · +2
confirmed
2026-10-16Argentine Judge Lijo Expands ANDIS Disability-Agency Processing to Ex-Director Spagnuolo and 19 Others; Ruling Reported to Trace Supplier Payments to Aviation Firm Baires Fly 4 srcreported
2026-10-16California and LA County Oppose DOJ's Related-Case Notice, and Civil-Rights Groups Move to Intervene, in United States v. California 1 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Shirley Weber · Dean Logan · NAACP
confirmed
2026-10-16China Proposes Adding 40 Technologies, 23 of Them AI, to Its Export-Restriction Catalogue 2 srcconfirmed
2026-10-16China's Commerce Ministry Lists 40 Technologies, 23 in AI, for Export Control 2 srcconfirmed
2026-10-16DOJ Announces Charges Involving 16 Aliens for Illegal Voting in North Carolina, New York and Idaho 2 src
Department of Justice
reported
2026-10-16DOJ Files Notice of Appeal and Motion for Stay Pending Appeal of Sooknanan's Voter List Maintenance Vacatur in Common Cause v. DOJ 4 src
Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan · Department of Justice · Todd Blanche · Common Cause
confirmed
2026-10-16DOJ's D.C. Brief Says DHS Bought California's Voter Roll; HSI's Declaration in the California Case Says Its Office 'Received' a Roster 5 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · Markwayne Mullin
confirmed
2026-10-16DOJ's McCotter Writes LA County Counsel That Knowingly Tabulating Ballots of Voters Federal Agencies Flag as Noncitizens Risks Aiding and Abetting a Federal Crime 2 src
Trent McCotter · U.S. Department of Justice · Dean Logan · Shirley Weber
confirmed
2026-10-16Essayli Posts on X That the 20,000 California Names Are "Noncitizens Confirmed by a Review of Federal Databases," a Day After DOJ Called the Analysis Preliminary 1 src
Bill Essayli
confirmed
2026-10-16FIEL and Harris County DA Say ICE's Named Target Was Not in the Vehicle That Struck Parra Hernandez; FIEL Says ICE's Photo Shows a Man Who Died Years Ago 2 src
Sean Teare · Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-10-16Judge Sooknanan Rules LWV/EPIC/LULAC v. DHS Voter-Data Suit Is Not Related to Trujillo; Case Randomly Reassigned to Judge Chutkan 2 src
League of Women Voters · Electronic Privacy Information Center · League of United Latin American Citizens · Department of Homeland Security
reported
2026-10-16NAACP Sues Blanche, Dhillon and DOJ in D.D.C. Under Voting Rights Act Section 11(b) and the APA Over the "Poll Monitoring Program," Seeking to Bar Prosecutors and Agents From Serving as Monitors 8 src
NAACP · Todd Blanche · Harmeet Dhillon
confirmed
2026-10-16NAACP v. DHS: Plaintiffs' Reply Says Government Does Not Deny the Two Requested DHS Directives Exist; Opposition Does Not Say They Do 2 src
Judge Loren L. AliKhan · Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · NAACP
reported
2026-10-16National Design Studio and Cognition Launch American Forge, a Six-Month Engineering Residency Inside the Federal Government 3 src
National Design Studio
confirmed
2026-10-16Nebraska Supreme Court Rules 6-1 Against RNC Challenge to Overseas Voter Registration Law 1 src
Republican National Committee
confirmed
2026-10-16Sahan Journal: DHS Interim Rule Cuts Refugees' Window to Answer Termination Notices From 30 Days to 10; Minnesota Attorneys Say Response Is Now Impossible 1 src
Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
confirmed
2026-10-16Telegraph Reports, on Four Sources, That Musk Proposed the Ukraine Starshield Speed Cap to Trump; Trump Says Neither He Nor Musk Was Responsible 2 src
Elon Musk · Donald Trump · SpaceX
reported
2026-10-16Trump Executive Order Sets the Graham Act's Russia Duties and Waives Them in the Same Order Before the Statutory Deadline 2 srcconfirmed
2026-10-16Trump Posts "They Will All Go to Jail for a Long Period of Time!!!" on Truth Social Alongside DOJ's LA County Ballot Letter 2 src
Donald Trump · Trent McCotter · U.S. Department of Justice
confirmed
2026-10-16Washington Post Photographer Heidi Levine, a US Citizen, Beaten by Masked Israeli Settlers in the West Bank; US Officials Respond and Israeli Police Arrest 10 People Days Later 5 src
Mike Huckabee · Marco Rubio · Benjamin Netanyahu
confirmed
2026-10-16White House press secretary Katie Zacharia leaves post after five days; told Hannity she did not pass the bar exam 4 src
Donald Trump · Steven Cheung · Karoline Leavitt
reported
2026-10-15Anonymous ICE Officials Tell The Intercept the September 25 Arrest Stand-Down Lasted 4-5 Days 1 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Homeland Security Investigations · Ilhan Omar
confirmed
2026-10-15Ballard Partners Q3 Report for Aldyl Energia Shows $200,000 Income; Ketchel and LaRosa Listed as No Longer Expected to Lobby 2 src
Ballard Partners · Brian Ballard
reported
2026-10-15Burkman and Wohl's Firm Reports $163,000 from Rajendra Parikh, Sentenced in a Maryland Bank-Fraud Case, for 'Pursuing a Federal Pardon' 2 srcreported
2026-10-15CNN Reports US Military Has Developed Iran Strike Plans That Could Use the MOAB, Before or After the Midterms; Qatar Emir Says War Is Imminent 6 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Central Command · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · Qatar
confirmed
2026-10-15Detainees' Class Action Over Camp East Montana Reaches a Motion for Preliminary Injunction in W.D. Tex. 2 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · Department of War
confirmed
2026-10-15DOJ Files Statement of Interest in McQueer v. Benson, Michigan Court of Claims, on Pollbook Deletion and HAVA 3 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Harmeet K. Dhillon · Jocelyn Benson · Republican National Committee
confirmed
2026-10-15DOJ Press Release on California Suit Quotes DHS Secretary Mullin Calling the 20,000-Name Analysis "Preliminary" and the Review "Ongoing" 2 src
Markwayne Mullin · Todd Blanche · Trent McCotter · Bill Essayli · +2
confirmed
2026-10-15DOJ Sues California, Weber and LA County's Logan in C.D. Cal. to Bar Tabulating Mail Ballots of Over 20,000 Voters DHS Flags as Likely Noncitizens 2 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Shirley Weber · Dean Logan · R. Trent McCotter · +1
confirmed
2026-10-15Donor Eric Deters sues Guilfoyle and her lawyers in Kenton Circuit Court (KY) for defamation; says in video discovery will include Donald Trump Jr. and 'might just bring down the entire Trump administration' 2 src
Kimberly Guilfoyle · Donald Trump Jr.
reported
2026-10-15FEC Q3 reports confirm Musk's $158M to SLF, $82.8M cash to America PAC, $20M to CLF and $10M to Lone Star Liberty PAC; $74.8M more to America PAC Oct 6-14 3 src
Elon Musk · America PAC
confirmed
2026-10-15Fired FBI Employees Sue Patel and Blanche in D.D.C. (Bacon v. Patel, 1:26-cv-03604) 3 src
Kash Patel · Todd Blanche · Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Department of Justice · +1
reported
2026-10-15FT, Citing Four Unnamed People: Witkoff and Kushner Proposed in Miami That Europe Unfreeze Some Russian Sovereign Assets Into a Washington-Overseen Vehicle; Europeans Said No 3 srcreported
2026-10-15League of Women Voters, EPIC and LULAC Sue DHS Over Voter-Data Collection Policy; Complaint Alleges Voter Files From At Least 47 States 4 src
League of Women Voters · Electronic Privacy Information Center · League of United Latin American Citizens · Department of Homeland Security · +3
confirmed
2026-10-15Nevada's Aguilar Tells a Las Vegas TV Station: DHS Worksheet of About 6,400 Had No Names, and DHS Declined in Writing to Add Them 1 src
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
reported
2026-10-15Nine Senators (Shaheen, Tillis Lead) Write the Pentagon Inspector General Asking for an Investigation of the Ukraine Starlink/Starshield Restrictions and Intelligence-Sharing Disruptions; Letter Does Not Cite Sec. 1244 4 srcreported
2026-10-15Padilla, Durbin and Whitehouse Ask AG Blanche to Rule Out Seizing Ballots Before Certification, Answers Due Oct. 29 2 src
Alex Padilla · Dick Durbin · Sheldon Whitehouse · Todd Blanche · +1
confirmed
2026-10-15Patel Posts "From Russia, with Love" After MS NOW Report That He Was in Russia Is Corrected; He Was at Liberty University 1 srcreported
2026-10-15Reuters Exclusive on Anonymous Sources: Order to Limit Ukraine's Starshield Came from Inside the White House; a Senior US Official Says the President Made No Such Request 3 srcreported
2026-10-15Reuters, Citing an Unnamed US Official: Administration Considering Letting 'Legal Oil' Move on Previously Sanctioned Shadow-Fleet Tankers to Cut Freight Rates 3 srcreported
2026-10-15Safer Michigan Fund Absent From RAGA's Third-Quarter 2026 IRS Filing 4 srcreported
2026-10-15State Department Says Kristi Noem's Shield of the Americas Envoy Status Expired in September; She Is Now a Senior Adviser to Landau 1 src
Kristi Noem · Christopher Landau
reported
2026-10-15Trump posts that Hasan will die by firing squad 'as scheduled' but 'this event will not be streamed'; Pentagon says Hegseth is 'completely aligned' 4 src
Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Sean Parnell · Nidal Hasan
reported
2026-10-15TSE Justice Bellizze Orders Meta to Treat Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro Equally, With R$500,000-a-Day Fine; Plenary Referends Oct. 16 2 src
Tribunal Superior Eleitoral · Marco Aurélio Bellizze · Meta · Coligação Brasil Pronto pra Mais · +2
reported
2026-10-15WaPo publishes internal ballroom donor spreadsheet: 67 donations over $10,000, $333M, at least $77M anonymous; Apple, Nvidia, Adelson family, Ergen at $25M each 2 src
Nvidia · Apple
reported
2026-10-14Aaron Day's StarkFreedom PAC Says It Will Boost Third-Party Candidates to Cost the GOP the Senate 2 srcreported
2026-10-14Belgal Habeas Dismissed in S.D.N.Y. on Venue (ICE Says He Was in New Jersey), Refiled in E.D.N.Y.; Judge Gonzalez Issues Order to Show Cause 2 src
Oscar Belgal · Kenneth Genalo · Judge Hector Gonzalez · Make the Road New York
confirmed
2026-10-14CBS: US Officials Told Ukraine Its Missile-Launch Warning Failed Because of "Bad Weather"; Ukrainian Officials Accuse the US of "Playing" With the System 1 srcreported
2026-10-14Cloudflare Publishes Yandex-Outage Analysis: Search-Crawler Traffic Fell, Yandex.Cloud Automation Moved to Other Russian Hosts, No Social-Media Shift Seen in Its Data 1 srcreported
2026-10-14Cruz Says on Verdict Podcast an El-Sayed Win Poses an "Unprecedented National Security Risk" 1 src
Ted Cruz · Abdul El-Sayed
confirmed
2026-10-14D.C. Circuit Hears Appeal Over Trump's National Guard Deployment in Washington; Pillard Raises Posse Comitatus 2 src
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-10-14D.D.C. Hears Agency Witness Testimony on Guantanamo Immigration Detention; Government's Filed Authority Is the Removal Statute and the Secretary's General Power 7 src
ICE
confirmed
2026-10-14DHS Interim Final Rule Cuts Refugees' Response Period to a Termination Notice From Thirty to Ten Days, Effective on Publication, Without Prior Notice and Comment 3 src
Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
confirmed
2026-10-14DHS Rejects GAO Recommendation That ICE Adopt Automated Body-Camera Activation 1 src confirmed
2026-10-14DHS Says Parra Hernandez Was Not the Intended Target of the Houston Operation; He Is Still Hospitalized and Not Yet Processed by ICE 2 src
Department of Homeland Security · Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-10-14DNC's Joint Status Report in Its FOIA Suit Calls McCotter's California Letter a Plausible Threat of Warrant-Based Ballot Seizure; Criminal Division Reported No Responsive Records 3 src
Trent McCotter · Democratic National Committee · U.S. Department of Justice
reported
2026-10-14FTC Sends Civil Investigative Demands to Anthropic and OpenAI on AI Safety Incidents; Anthropic Later Confirms Receipt in Its IPO Filing 3 src
Federal Trade Commission · Andrew Ferguson · Anthropic · OpenAI
reported
2026-10-14Government Appeals CNN v. Trump Press-Pass Injunction to D.C. Circuit, No. 26-5356; No Stay Motion on District Docket 2 src
Donald Trump · Sean M. Curran · Susan Wiles · Steven Cheung · +4
reported
2026-10-14Investigation: Meta Monetization Pays at Least 29 Accounts With Anti-LGBTQ Histories 2 src
Meta · Tucker Carlson
confirmed
2026-10-14Judge Cardone's Memorandum Opinion Rests the Big Bend Wall Injunction on the Major Questions Doctrine 6 src
Center for Biological Diversity · Department of Homeland Security · Markwayne Mullin
confirmed
2026-10-14NRSC and DSCC File Millions in Party Coordinated Spending in Michigan After NRSC v. FEC; DSCC Backs Talarico in Texas and NRSC Files None for Paxton 6 src
National Republican Senatorial Committee · Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee · Mike Rogers · Abdul El-Sayed · +2
reported
2026-10-14One of Two Detainees in the ICE SUV Identified as Witness; DA Seeks Statements and Calls Both Material Witnesses 2 src
Sean Teare · Harris County District Attorney · Miguel Parra-Hernandez · FIEL Houston
confirmed
2026-10-14ProPublica: ICE Detained Immigrant Domestic Violence Victims at Michigan Facility After Kent County Jail Handoffs 1 src
ProPublica · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
confirmed
2026-10-14SG's Universal-Vacatur Petition Is No. 26-491, HHS v. Texas Medical Association: A No Surprises Act Rule Case From the Fifth Circuit En Banc, Response Due Nov. 13 2 src
D. John Sauer · U.S. Supreme Court
confirmed
2026-10-14Supreme Court Stays Fourth Circuit Order Giving FCC 48 Hours to Decide Candidates' Ad-Rate Challenge 2 src
Federal Communications Commission · Sherrod Brown · National Republican Congressional Committee · Sonia Sotomayor · +1
confirmed
2026-10-14The 19th and Marshall Project: Pregnant Detainee Held Six Months at Bluebonnet Describes Undercooked Food; Her Records Show Gestational Diabetes 2 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Management and Training Corporation (MTC) · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-10-14Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Limit Courts' Power to Vacate Agency Rules Universally 1 src
D. John Sauer · U.S. Supreme Court
confirmed
2026-10-14Ukraine Says SpaceX Capped Starshield Terminals at About 100 mph Without Warning; Musk Says Starshield Limits Are Set by the US Military and Ultimately the President 6 srcreported
2026-10-14Van Buren Township Planning Commission Approves Project Cannoli Final Site Plan 5-1confirmed
2026-10-14WSJ Reports Bo Hines Kept a Stake in Nxum, Which Took About $6.3 Million Under a Tether Marketing Deal; Only the First Payment Came During His Government Service 4 src
Bo Hines · Tether
reported
2026-10-14WSJ Reports, on Anonymous Sourcing, That the Omar Probe Aims at Revoking Her Citizenship; Grand Jury Subpoenas Reach Relatives, Passport and Devices Reportedly Seized 5 src
Ilhan Omar · Homeland Security Investigations · U.S. Department of Justice
reported