2020s
The 2020s contain 2812 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-17 | Trump Financial Disclosure Reveals Netflix and Warner Bros. Bond Purchases After Merger Announcement
3 src Donald Trump · Netflix · Warner Bros. Discovery · Office of Government Ethics | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-16 | DOJ Files Notice of Corrections in AFSCME v. SSA Admitting DOGE Unauthorized SSA Data Access — Key Prosecutorial Predicate for State Computer-Crime Charges
3 src American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) · Social Security Administration · Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-16 | DOJ Voter Data Seizure Lawsuits Expand to 24 States Plus DC, Targeting Sensitive Personal Information
4 src Department of Justice · Harmeet Dhillon · Brennan Center for Justice · State Democracy Research Initiative | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-16 | SSA Reveals DOGE Staffers Misused Social Security Data, Signed Secret Voter Roll Agreement While Under Court Order
3 src Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Steve Davis · Social Security Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-16 | Trump Announces Phase Two of Gaza Plan, Creates 'Board of Peace' with Himself as Chairman
4 src Donald Trump · Steve Witkoff · Benjamin Netanyahu · Jared Kushner · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-15 | ACLU Files Class Action Against ICE for Racial Profiling in Minnesota
3 src American Civil Liberties Union · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-15 | Bradford County FL Commissioners Vote 3-2 to Advance Sabot IGSA Proposal for 3,000-Bed ICE Detention Campus
5 src Bradford County Board of County Commissioners · Bradford County Sheriff · Sabot Consulting · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-15 | Federal Judge Rules ICE Violated Fourth Amendment by Breaking Into Minneapolis Home Without Judicial Warrant
4 src Jeffrey Bryan · Garrison Gibson · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Tricia McLaughlin | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-15 | Public Citizen Report Documents 159 Cancelled Corporate Enforcement Actions Worth $3.1 Billion
2 src Public Citizen · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-15 | Senate Armed Services Committee Holds NSA Nominee Confirmation Hearing
3 src Senate Committee on Armed Services · Joshua Rudd · Roger Wicker · Angus King | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-15 | Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act in Minneapolis, Calls Protesters 'Highly Paid Professionals'
2 src Donald Trump · Keith Ellison · Tim Walz | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-15 | Trump Unveils 'Great Healthcare Plan' - One-Page Framework with No Specifics, Fails to Address ACA Premium Crisis
4 src Donald Trump · Mehmet Oz · CMS | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-14 | FBI Raids Washington Post Reporter's Home, Seizes Devices in Unprecedented Press Freedom Violation
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Washington Post · Hannah Natanson · Pam Bondi · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-14 | House Democrats Introduce Articles of Impeachment Against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
2 src Kristi Noem · Robin Kelly · Angie Craig · Betty McCollum | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-14 | Supreme Court Rules 7-2 in Bost v. Illinois That Candidates Have Standing to Challenge Election Rules
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Ketanji Brown Jackson · Sonia Sotomayor · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-14 | Trump Imposes 25% Tariff on Advanced AI Semiconductors Under Section 232
2 src Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Commerce | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-13 | DHS Whistleblower Leaks Personal Data of 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol Agents
3 src DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Kristi Noem | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-13 | DOJ Civil Rights Division Leaders Mass Resign Over Refusal to Investigate Renee Good Killing
3 src Harmeet Dhillon · Joseph H. Thompson · Jim Felte · Todd Blanche · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-13 | Internal Documents Reveal ICE Agents Afraid of Minneapolis Deployment After Good Shooting
2 src DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-13 | RFK Jr Reshapes CDC Vaccine Panel with Anti-Vaccine Appointees: 'I Was Not Anti-Vaccine. I Am Now.'
2 src Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Kimberly Biss · Adam Urato · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-13 | Supreme Court Hears Transgender Sports Ban Cases, Signals Support for Restrictions
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Brett Kavanaugh · Samuel Alito · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-13 | Twelve Federal Prosecutors Resign Over DOJ Handling of Renee Good Shooting
5 src Joseph Thompson · Thomas Calhoun-Lopez · Melinda Williams · Todd Blanche · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-13 | Warren Presses OCC to Halt WLFI Bank Charter Review Until Trump Divests
1 src Elizabeth Warren · Jonathan Gould · Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · World Liberty Financial · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-12 | Minnesota Attorney General Ellison and Twin Cities Sue DHS Over Operation Metro Surge
3 src Keith Ellison · Kristi Noem · Minneapolis · Saint Paul · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-12 | Senator Tillis Announces Opposition to All Trump Fed Nominees Over Powell Investigation
2 src Thom Tillis · Donald Trump · Jerome Powell · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-12 | Treasury Secretary Bessent Tells Trump Powell Criminal Investigation 'Made a Mess'
2 src Scott Bessent · Donald Trump · Jerome Powell | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-11 | Trump Organization and Dar Global Unveil $10 Billion Saudi + Gulf Project Slate During Active Trump 2 Administration
8 src Eric Trump · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · Dar Global · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-10 | ACA Subsidy Extension Passes House via Discharge Petition 230-196
2 src 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
3 src 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
4 src 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
3 src 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
4 src 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
2 src 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
4 src 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
7 src 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
3 src 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
2 src 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
3 src 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
2 src 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
2 src Kristi Noem · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | DHS Secretary Noem Unveils "One of Ours, All of Yours" Collective Punishment Doctrine at One World Trade Center | ||
| 2026-01-08 | DNI Tulsi Gabbard Excluded from Venezuela Operation Planning - Aides Joke 'Do Not Invite'
2 src Tulsi Gabbard · Donald Trump · Marco Rubio | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | FBI Revokes State Access to Evidence in Renee Good Shooting, Blocks Minnesota Investigation
3 src 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
1 src 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
2 src 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
3 src 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
4 src 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
5 src Ali Khamenei · Ali Larijani · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-08 | Minneapolis Public Schools Cancel Classes, Offer Remote Learning Through February Due to ICE Operations
3 src 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
4 src 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'
3 src 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
3 src 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
2 src Kristi Noem · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | General Matter Wins $900M DOE Contract for HALEU Uranium Enrichment at Paducah
4 src 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
2 src Thom Tillis · Stephen Miller · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | House Oversight Committee Holds Minnesota Social Services Fraud Hearing
3 src 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
3 src 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
3 src 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'
3 src 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
4 src Stephen Miller · Thom Tillis · CNN | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | US Navy Seizes Two Venezuelan Oil Tankers Including Russian-Flagged Vessel Near Iceland
3 src 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
3 src JD Vance · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Fox News | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-07 | World Liberty Financial Applies for OCC Bank Charter
3 src 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
2 src Mette Frederiksen · Jens-Frederik Nielsen · Denmark · Greenland | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-06 | DHS Announces "Largest Immigration Operation Ever" Deploying 2,000 Agents to Minneapolis
3 src 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'
3 src 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
2 src 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
2 src 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
4 src 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
4 src 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
3 src 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'
2 src 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
3 src Pete Hegseth · Mark Kelly · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-05 | Israeli Security Cabinet Approves 'Operation Iron Strike' Against Iran
2 src 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)
2 src 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
3 src 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
2 src Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-03 | DOJ Misses 15-Day Deadline to Explain Redactions, Provide List of Named Officials
3 src Chuck Schumer · Thomas Massie · Department of Justice · Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-03 | ICE Announces 120% Workforce Increase to 22,000 After Recruiting 12,000 Agents in Under a Year | ||
| 2026-01-03 | ICE Announces Workforce Doubled to 22,000 Agents Through "Defend Your Culture" Recruitment Campaign
2 src Kristi Noem · ICE · Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-03 | US Military Invades Venezuela, Captures President Maduro in Predawn Raid
4 src 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
6 src Harmeet Dhillon · Steve Simon · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-02 | Trump Threatens Military Intervention in Iran Protests, Says US 'Locked and Loaded'
2 src Donald Trump · Iranian Government | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-01 | ACA Enhanced Subsidies Expire, Premiums Double for 22 Million Americans
3 src Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · U.S. Congress · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-01 | Medicaid Expansion Funding Cuts Take Effect, Threatening 1.3 Million
6 src Donald Trump · Congressional Republicans | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-01 | Trump Administration Sets Quota to Strip Citizenship from Over 1,000 Naturalized Americans in 2026
2 src 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
2 src 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
4 src 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
3 src 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
6 src 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'
2 src Steve Bannon | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-30 | DHS Announces Record Immigration Enforcement Numbers, Promotes Self-Deportation Incentive
4 src 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
3 src US Military · US Coast Guard · SOUTHCOM | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-29 | Bannon Turns Against Vice President JD Vance Amid Escalating MAGA Civil War
2 src Steve Bannon · JD Vance | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-29 | Trump Administration Replaces H-1B Visa Lottery with Wage-Based Selection
2 src 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
2 src 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
2 src 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
8 src 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
2 src Vladimir Putin · Volodymyr Zelenskyy | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-26 | China Sanctions Epirus and Palmer Luckey (Anduril) Over Taiwan Arms Sales — Third 8VC-Network Entity Hit in 12 Months After Saronic (Dec 2024)
8 src Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China · Epirus Inc · Palmer Luckey · Anduril Industries · +6 | confirmed |