2020s
The 2020s contain 2567 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-12 | Senator Tillis Announces Opposition to All Trump Fed Nominees Over Powell Investigation Thom Tillis · Donald Trump · Jerome Powell · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-12 | Treasury Secretary Bessent Tells Trump Powell Criminal Investigation 'Made a Mess' Scott Bessent · Donald Trump · Jerome Powell | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-10 | ACA Subsidy Extension Passes House via Discharge Petition 230-196 Brian Fitzpatrick · Mike Lawler · Marc Molinaro · David Valadao · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-10 | Choctaw Nation Tribal Council Unanimously Rejects ICE Detention Facility in Durant; City Passes Emergency Ordinance Restricting Sales Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma · Choctaw Nation Tribal Council · Regina Mabray · Gary Batton · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-10 | DOJ Issues Grand Jury Subpoenas to Federal Reserve in Unprecedented Powell Criminal Investigation Jerome Powell · Jeanine Pirro · Pam Bondi · Anna Paulina Luna · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-10 | DOJ Serves Fed Chair Powell with Grand Jury Subpoena in Unprecedented Criminal Investigation Jerome Powell · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · Bill Pulte · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-10 | ICE Detains Five Native Americans in Minneapolis Based on Appearance, Tribal Leaders Condemn Racial Profiling Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Oglala Sioux Tribe · Red Lake Nation · Frank Star Comes Out · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-09 | Dan Bongino Resigns as FBI Deputy Director After Less Than a Year, Replaced by Career Agent Dan Bongino · Kash Patel · Christopher Raia · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-09 | Exxon CEO Tells Trump Venezuela Is 'Uninvestible' at White House Oil Summit Donald Trump · Darren Woods · Marco Rubio · Chris Wright · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-09 | PNK Sells Social Circle, GA Warehouse to DHS for $128.5M at 4x Cost Basis in Four-Day Closing for 10,000-Bed ICE Detention Conversion PNK S1 LLC · PNK Group · Andrey Sharkov · Department of Homeland Security · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-09 | Supreme Court Narrows AEDPA Bar on Federal Habeas Claims U.S. Supreme Court · Sonia Sotomayor · Neil Gorsuch · John Roberts | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-09 | Trump Threatens to Take Greenland 'The Hard Way' as Greenlandic Parties Unite in Opposition Donald Trump · Mute Egede · Greenland Political Parties | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | Border Patrol Agent Shoots Two People in Portland, Oregon, Over 270 Miles From Border U.S. Border Patrol · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Luis David Nico Moncada · Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | CBP Agents Tackle and Detain Two U.S. Citizen Teenagers at Richfield Target Store U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Jonathan Aguilar Garcia · Christian Miranda Romano | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | DHS Announces Operation Salvo Results in New York City Kristi Noem · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | DNI Tulsi Gabbard Excluded from Venezuela Operation Planning - Aides Joke 'Do Not Invite' Tulsi Gabbard · Donald Trump · Marco Rubio | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | FBI Revokes State Access to Evidence in Renee Good Shooting, Blocks Minnesota Investigation Federal Bureau of Investigation · Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension · Bob Jacobson · JD Vance · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | Fifth Federal Judge Rules Trump-Appointed U.S. Attorney Unlawfully Installed Lorna Schofield · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Edward Sarcone · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | Fifth Federal Prosecutor Appointed by AG Bondi Ruled Serving Unlawfully by Federal Judge Pam Bondi · John Sarcone III · Lorna Schofield · U.S. Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | House Democrats File Impeachment Articles Against DHS Secretary Noem Over ICE Shooting Kristi Noem · Robin Kelly · Kevin Mullin · Brad Schneider · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | House Passes ACA Subsidy Extension 230-196 with 17 Republicans Crossing Party Lines Mike Lawler · Brian Fitzpatrick · Mike Johnson · John Thune · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | Iranian Security Forces Massacre Thousands of Protesters in Largest Killing Since 1979 Revolution Ali Khamenei · Ali Larijani · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | Minneapolis Public Schools Cancel Classes, Offer Remote Learning Through February Due to ICE Operations Minneapolis Public Schools · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | Senate Votes 52-47 to Limit Trump's Military Action in Venezuela, Five Republicans Cross Party Lines Tim Kaine · Rand Paul · Susan Collins · Lisa Murkowski · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | Vance Announces DOJ Anti-Fraud Position to Be 'Run Out of the White House' JD Vance · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · Tim Walz | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | Border Patrol Agents Pepper Spray Students at Roosevelt High School During Dismissal U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Roosevelt High School · Minneapolis Public Schools | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | DHS Secretary Noem Announces 500 Miles of Rio Grande Buoy Barriers Kristi Noem · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | General Matter Wins $900M DOE Contract for HALEU Uranium Enrichment at Paducah General Matter · Department of Energy · Peter Thiel · Founders Fund · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | GOP Senator Tillis Calls Miller's Greenland Comments 'Insane,' Demands He Be Fired Thom Tillis · Stephen Miller · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | House Oversight Committee Holds Minnesota Social Services Fraud Hearing House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform · James Comer · Kristin Robbins · Walter Hudson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | ICE Agent Kills Legal Observer Renee Nicole Good During Minneapolis Raid Jonathan Ross · Renee Nicole Good · Greg Bovino · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | National Guard Troops Return Home After Supreme Court Blocks Trump Deployment to Chicago, Portland, LA Donald Trump · Gavin Newsom · Brandon Johnson · U.S. Northern Command · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | RFK Jr Releases New Dietary Guidelines: 'Most Significant Reset of Federal Nutrition Policy in History' Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Brooke Rollins · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · USDA | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | Stephen Miller Articulates 'Might Makes Right' Foreign Policy Doctrine on Venezuela and Greenland Stephen Miller · Thom Tillis · CNN | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | US Navy Seizes Two Venezuelan Oil Tankers Including Russian-Flagged Vessel Near Iceland Donald Trump · US Navy · Navy SEALs · Russia · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | Vice President Vance Announces ICE Will Go 'Door to Door' for Mass Deportations JD Vance · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Fox News | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | World Liberty Financial Applies for OCC Bank Charter World Liberty Financial · Trump Organization · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-06 | Denmark Announces $13.8 Billion Defense Spending to Rearm Greenland in Response to US Threats Mette Frederiksen · Jens-Frederik Nielsen · Denmark · Greenland | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-06 | DHS Announces "Largest Immigration Operation Ever" Deploying 2,000 Agents to Minneapolis Kristi Noem · Todd Lyons · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-06 | DHS Deploys 2,000 Federal Agents to Minneapolis in 'Largest Immigration Operation Ever' Kristi Noem · Stephen Miller · Todd Lyons · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-06 | DOJ Admits Less Than 1% of Epstein Files Released, 48 Days After Law's Deadline Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Chuck Schumer | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-06 | Massie and Khanna Ask Federal Judge to Appoint Special Master Over Epstein File Release Thomas Massie · Ro Khanna · Paul Engelmayer · Pam Bondi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-06 | Seven NATO Allies Issue Joint Statement Defending Greenland's Sovereignty Against US Threats North Atlantic Treaty Organization · Mette Frederiksen · Emmanuel Macron · Olaf Scholz · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-06 | White House Declares Military Force 'Always an Option' to Acquire Greenland Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · Karoline Leavitt · Mette Frederiksen · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-05 | CDC Slashes Childhood Vaccine Schedule from 17 to 11 Diseases, Bypassing Advisory Committee Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Jim O'Neill · Donald Trump · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-05 | Danish PM Frederiksen Warns US Attack on Greenland Would Mean 'End of Everything' Mette Frederiksen · Donald Trump · North Atlantic Treaty Organization | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-05 | Defense Secretary Hegseth Moves to Cut Senator Mark Kelly's Military Rank and Retirement Pay Pete Hegseth · Mark Kelly · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-05 | Israeli Security Cabinet Approves 'Operation Iron Strike' Against Iran Benjamin Netanyahu · Israeli Security Cabinet · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-05 | Judge Emma Kelly Dismisses BB v Doha Bank UK Terrorism-Financing Suit on Procedural Grounds (Failure to Prosecute) Judge Emma Kelly · Doha Bank Ltd · Moutaz Al-Khayyat · Ramez Al-Khayyat · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-04 | Trump Declares US Will 'Run' Venezuela After Military Invasion Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · JD Vance · Nicolas Maduro | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-04 | Worldwide Protests Condemn U.S. Invasion of Venezuela, Over 100 U.S. Cities Plan Demonstrations Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-03 | DOJ Misses 15-Day Deadline to Explain Redactions, Provide List of Named Officials Chuck Schumer · Thomas Massie · Department of Justice · Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-03 | ICE Announces Workforce Doubled to 22,000 Agents Through "Defend Your Culture" Recruitment Campaign Kristi Noem · ICE · Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-03 | US Military Invades Venezuela, Captures President Maduro in Predawn Raid Donald Trump · Nicolas Maduro · Pete Hegseth · Delta Force · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-02 | DOJ Demands Minnesota Voter Registration Records in Attack on Same-Day Registration Harmeet Dhillon · Steve Simon · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-02 | Trump Threatens Military Intervention in Iran Protests, Says US 'Locked and Loaded' Donald Trump · Iranian Government | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-01 | ACA Enhanced Subsidies Expire, Premiums Double for 22 Million Americans Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · U.S. Congress · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-01 | Medicaid Expansion Funding Cuts Take Effect, Threatening 1.3 Million Donald Trump · Congressional Republicans | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-01 | Trump Administration Sets Quota to Strip Citizenship from Over 1,000 Naturalized Americans in 2026 Stephen Miller · U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · Ilhan Omar · Zohran Mamdani | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-31 | DOJ Expands Epstein Document Review to 5.2 Million Pages, Enlisted 400 Attorneys Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Thomas Massie · Ro Khanna | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-31 | Ninth Circuit Forces Trump to Return California National Guard Control to State Donald Trump · Gavin Newsom · Charles Breyer | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-31 | Off-Duty ICE Officer Shoots and Kills Keith Porter in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve Keith Porter · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · LAPD | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-31 | US Press Freedom Tracker Documents 170 Assaults on Journalists in 2025, 160 by Law Enforcement U.S. Press Freedom Tracker · Freedom of the Press Foundation · Federal law enforcement · ICE · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-30 | Bannon Reveals He Is Organizing 'Irish National Party,' Promises 'Irish Trump' Steve Bannon | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-30 | DHS Announces Record Immigration Enforcement Numbers, Promotes Self-Deportation Incentive U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Kristi Noem | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-30 | US Military Strikes Three-Vessel Convoy in Pacific, 11 Killed as Survivors Left in Deadly Seas US Military · US Coast Guard · SOUTHCOM | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-29 | Bannon Turns Against Vice President JD Vance Amid Escalating MAGA Civil War Steve Bannon · JD Vance | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-29 | Trump Administration Replaces H-1B Visa Lottery with Wage-Based Selection Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-28 | ICE Agents Enter Minneapolis Hospital Without Warrant, Handcuff Patient to Bed for 24 Hours Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Hennepin County Medical Center | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-28 | Mass Protests Erupt Across Iran as Economic Collapse Triggers Largest Uprising Since 1979 Iranian Bazaari Merchants · Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps · Ali Khamenei | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-28 | Washington Post Analysis Reveals ICE Shift from Jail Arrests to Community Raids U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-27 | Russia Launches Massive Attack on Kyiv with 500 Drones and 40 Missiles Vladimir Putin · Volodymyr Zelenskyy | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-26 | DHS Implements Mandatory Biometric Collection for All Non-Citizens at U.S. Borders U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Kristi Noem | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-25 | US Launches Christmas Day Strikes on Nigerian Villages, ISIS Claims Questioned by Residents and Analysts Donald Trump · Bola Tinubu · AFRICOM · Nigerian Armed Forces · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-24 | 12 Bipartisan Senators Demand Inspector General Audit of DOJ Epstein Files Compliance Richard Blumenthal · Lisa Murkowski · Jeff Merkley · Chuck Schumer · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-24 | CIA Conducts First Land Strike in Venezuela, Destroying Drug Boat Loading Facility Central Intelligence Agency · Venezuela | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-24 | DOJ Announces Discovery of Over 1 Million Additional Epstein Documents on Christmas Eve Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Thomas Massie · Ro Khanna | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-24 | Trump Declares Support for Rate Cuts 'Litmus Test' for Fed Chair Nominees Donald Trump · Jerome Powell · Kevin Hassett · Kevin Warsh | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-23 | Botched DOJ Redactions Allow Public to Copy-Paste Hidden Epstein File Text Department of Justice · Richard Indyke · Virgin Islands · Jeffrey Epstein | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-23 | Supreme Court Blocks Trump National Guard Deployment to Chicago, Ruling 'Regular Forces' Means Military U.S. Supreme Court · Donald Trump · John Roberts · Brett Kavanaugh · +9 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-22 | Trump Appoints Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as Special Envoy to Greenland Donald Trump · Jeff Landry · Ken Howery · Lars Lokke Rasmussen | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-22 | Venezuela Naval Blockade Kills 105 in 29 Strikes as Trump Refuses to Rule Out War Donald Trump · Nicolas Maduro · Stephen Miller · Pete Hegseth · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-21 | Bannon Declares Conservative Movement Civil War at AmericaFest, Attacks Ben Shapiro as 'Cancer' Steve Bannon · Ben Shapiro · Mark Levin · Turning Point USA | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-21 | CBS News Editor Bari Weiss Pulls 60 Minutes CECOT Prison Abuse Segment Hours Before Broadcast Bari Weiss · CBS News · 60 Minutes · Sharyn Alfonsi · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-21 | DOJ Exposes Epstein Victims' Names While Over-Redacting Perpetrator Information Department of Justice · Brad Edwards · Brittany Henderson | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-20 | Defense Secretary Hegseth Orders 'Operation Hawkeye Strike': Massive Retaliatory Strikes Against ISIS in Syria Pete Hegseth · Donald Trump · Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar · William Nathaniel Howard · +2 | reported | |
| 2025-12-20 | DOJ Removes 15+ Epstein Files After Release, Including Trump-Maxwell Photo Department of Justice · Donald Trump · Ghislaine Maxwell · Jeffrey Epstein · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-20 | Marjorie Taylor Greene Explores Motion to Vacate Johnson Over ACA Dispute and Leadership Failures Marjorie Taylor Greene · Mike Johnson · Donald Trump · Hakeem Jeffries · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-12-19 | Bipartisan Lawmakers Accuse DOJ of Violating Epstein Files Transparency Act Ro Khanna · Thomas Massie · Chuck Schumer · Marjorie Taylor Greene · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-19 | DHS Releases Year-End Report Claiming 'Most Secure Border in History' While Touting 2.5 Million Departures and Record Drug Seizures Department of Homeland Security (DHS) · Kristi Noem · Donald Trump · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-19 | DHS Secretary Noem Suspends Diversity Visa Lottery Program Following Brown University Mass Shooting Kristi Noem · Donald Trump · Marco Rubio · Claudio Manuel Neves Valente | reported | |
| 2025-12-19 | DOJ Releases Heavily Redacted Epstein Files, 550+ Pages Completely Blacked Out Department of Justice · Todd Blanche · Pam Bondi · Jeffrey Epstein · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-19 | Epstein Victims' Attorneys Confirm DOJ Released Zero Financial Documents Brad Edwards · Brittany Henderson · Department of Justice · Jeffrey Epstein | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-19 | Noem Increases Self-Deportation Incentive to $3,000, Promotes 'Home for the Holidays' Kristi Noem · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-19 | Supreme Court Rejects Trump Administration Emergency Request to Silence Immigration Judges, First Major Loss on Shadow Docket Supreme Court of the United States · Donald Trump · National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ) · Department of Justice · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-18 | Border Patrol Academy Reaches Highest Enrollment Since 2009 With 1,100 Trainees as Trump Administration Militarizes Enforcement Training U.S. Border Patrol · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Donald Trump · Department of Homeland Security (DHS) | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-18 | DOJ's Secret "Confidential MOUs" for Voter Purges Exposed by States and Journalists Department of Justice · Colorado Secretary of State · Wisconsin · Texas · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-18 | FY 2026 NDAA Repeals 1991 and 2002 Iraq AUMFs — First War-Authorization Repeal Since 1971 Serves as Cover for Capture-Relevant Bundle U.S. Congress · 119th Congress · Tim Kaine · Todd Young · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-18 | FY 2026 NDAA Section 1085 Eliminates Congressional Notification for AUKUS Defense Trade, DDTC Final Rule Effective December 30 U.S. Congress · 119th Congress · Senate Armed Services Committee · House Armed Services Committee · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-18 | FY 2026 NDAA Section 8335 Codifies EO 14033 Western Balkans Sanctions, Creates Regulatory Frame Around Kushner Belgrade/Sazan Architecture U.S. Congress · 119th Congress · Senate Foreign Relations Committee · Jeanne Shaheen · +14 | confirmed |