Decade of record

2020s

The 2020s contain 3456 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.

3456 events From Jan 1, 2020 To Sep 14, 2026 Open in filter view →
DateEventLanesStatus
2026-04-26ICE FY2026 Removals on Pace to Exceed 460,000, Nearly 45% Above FY2025 and 85% Above FY2024 4 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · Trump Administration
confirmed
2026-04-25Communities Not Cages: 200+ National Actions Oppose ICE Warehouse Detention Expansion; Rep. Tlaib Introduces Ban Warehouse Detention Act 4 src
Indivisible · MoveOn · Public Citizen
confirmed
2026-04-25Gunman Cole Allen Attempts Assassination of Trump at White House Correspondents' Dinner; Secret Service Officer Shot 6 src
Donald Trump · Melania Trump · J.D. Vance · U.S. Secret Service · +4
confirmed
2026-04-25Politico's Dasha Burns Reports Senior White House Official Says Patel Removal Is 'Only a Matter of Time' 4 src
Kash Patel · Donald Trump · Karoline Leavitt
confirmed
2026-04-25Texas Federal Judge Halts Deportation of El Gamal Family After 10+ Months at Dilley Detention 1 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-04-24DOJ Abandons Criminal Probe of Fed Chair Powell, Clearing Warsh Confirmation as Fed Chair Successor 5 src
Jerome Powell · Kevin Warsh · Jeanine Pirro · Donald Trump · +4
confirmed
2026-04-24DOJ Intervenes Alongside xAI Against Colorado's AI Act — First Deployment of the EO 14365 Litigation Task Force 5 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Elon Musk
confirmed
2026-04-24Intercept Reports Palantir Paid $130M+ by IRS for 'Massive-Scale' Data Mining of Federal Databases 3 src
Palantir Technologies · Internal Revenue Service · The Intercept
confirmed
2026-04-24Intercept Surfaces Patel's 2005 Personnel File Disclosing Two Prior Alcohol-Related Arrests 1 src
Kash Patel · The Intercept
confirmed
2026-04-24Michigan AG Dana Nessel Calls DTE's Conditional Rate-Hike Pause Offer a 'Ransom Note' 4 src
Dana Nessel · DTE Energy · Michigan Public Service Commission
reported
2026-04-23Peter Thiel Temporarily Relocates Family to Buenos Aires, Meets Milei at Casa Rosada After a Week of Private Contacts with Argentine Government 5 src
Peter Thiel · Javier Milei
confirmed
2026-04-23ProPublica Disclosure Database Shows 144 Trump Administration Appointees with Palantir Holdings, Compensation, or Employment Ties 7 src
Donald Trump · Stephen Miller · Kash Patel · Jeanine Pirro · +6
confirmed
2026-04-22Federal Judge Grants Summary Judgment to Bill Maher and HBO, Dismissing Laura Loomer's Defamation Suit Over 2024 'Real Time' Joke 3 src
Laura Loomer · Marjorie Taylor Greene · Lindsey Graham · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-04-22Orange County FL Unanimously Terminates ICE Section of IGSA, Caps Detainee Holds at 48 Hours 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
confirmed
2026-04-22Warren Warns at Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator of Debt-Driven AI Bubble and Pre-Positioned Bailout Pathway 5 src
Elizabeth Warren
confirmed
2026-04-22Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority Passes 12-Month Water/Sewer Moratorium on Data Centers (Resolution 26-08) 4 src
University of Michigan
reported
2026-04-21ACLU of New Mexico Publishes 'The Invisible Military Bases at the Border' Report Documenting 4,600+ Federal Trespass Cases and 109,651 Acres of National Defense Areas in NM Alone 2 src
U.S. Department of Defense
confirmed
2026-04-21Cumberland County, Maine Votes 3-1 to Drop ICE From Jail's USMS Detainee Contract 7 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Marshals Service
confirmed
2026-04-21DOJ Indicts Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 Counts Including Wire Fraud, Bank Fraud, Money Laundering 5 src
Kash Patel · Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +2
confirmed
2026-04-21Justin Sun Sues Trump-Linked World Liberty Financial in N.D. Cal. (3:26-cv-03360) — Complaint Alleges Concealed Blacklist Function, $45M Investment, Threats by Co-Founder Chase Herro 2 src
Justin Sun · World Liberty Financial · Chase Herro
confirmed
2026-04-21Politico Reveals Keith Sonderling Was Running DOL All Along; Now Positioned as Indefinite Acting Secretary 5 src
Lori Chavez-DeRemer · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-04-20DiGenova Sworn In as AG Counselor Leading Brennan "Grand Conspiracy" Probe After Career Prosecutor Removed for Questioning Evidence 11 src
Todd Blanche · Kash Patel · Harmeet Dhillon · John Brennan · +2
confirmed
2026-04-20FBI Director Patel Sues The Atlantic and Reporter Fitzpatrick for $250M in Defamation 4 src
Kash Patel · Jeffrey Goldberg
confirmed
2026-04-20Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer Resigns Amid DOL Inspector General Misconduct Investigation 11 src
Lori Chavez-DeRemer · Jeanine Pirro · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-04-20WYPR Exposes WEXMAC Contracting Method Used for $102.4M Williamsport MD Warehouse Purchase With $113M Retrofit and Up to $650M in Potential Add-On Work 1 src
Todd Lyons · Elizabeth Warren · Jeanne Shaheen · Anthony Brown · +2
confirmed
2026-04-19NYT Investigation Reveals Qatari Billionaires Al-Khayyat Brothers 100% Own 'Sazan Operations' — The Entity Behind Kushner's $1.4B Albania Resort Project 7 src
Ramez Al-Khayyat · Mohamad Al-Khayyat · Jared Kushner · Ivanka Trump · +1
confirmed
2026-04-19US Navy Destroyer Disables and Seizes Iranian Cargo Ship Touska in Strait of Hormuz, Collapsing Islamabad Peace Talks 4 src
U.S. Navy · U.S. Marines · Iran · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-04-18NYT publishes Kantor/Liptak investigation of leaked 2016 SCOTUS memos documenting the origins of the modern shadow (interim) docket 8 src confirmed
2026-04-18Palantir Publishes 22-Point Manifesto Calling for Universal Military Service, AI Arms Race, and Attack on 'Regressive' Cultures 9 src
Alex Karp · Palantir Technologies
confirmed
2026-04-17Blue Owl 8-K Confirms Co-CEOs Removed All Firm Shares as Loan Collateral After Reports of Imminent Margin Calls — Three Days Before RAMM Publishes 'Blue Owl System' 2 src
Doug Ostrover · Marc Lipschultz · Blue Owl Capital
confirmed
2026-04-17San Antonio City Council Passes Ordinance Restricting New Private Detention Facilities, Exempts Planned ICE Warehouse 2 src
ICE · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-04-17Stateline Reveals DHS Scales Back Williamsport MD and Surprise AZ Warehouse Detention Plans from 1,500 to 542 Beds Each Amid State-Level Pushback 4 src
Markwayne Mullin · Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem · ICE · +2
confirmed
2026-04-17The Atlantic Publishes 'The FBI Director Is MIA' Citing 24+ Sources on Patel Drinking and Absences 3 src
Kash Patel · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Jeffrey Goldberg
confirmed
2026-04-16Bradford County FL Commissioners Table Sabot/Sheriff Smith ICE Detention Lease as Sabot/IGSA Model Fails First Public Test 4 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-04-16FERC misses DOE-ordered April 30 deadline on large-load interconnection Docket RM26-4-000 — issues Intent to Act order committing to June 2026 action 6 src
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission · Chris Wright · Department of Energy
confirmed
2026-04-16Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty Charges ICE Agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. with Two Counts of Second-Degree Assault — First State Criminal Charge Against Federal Immigration Agent During Operation Metro Surge 4 src
Mary Moriarty · Hennepin County Attorney's Office · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
confirmed
2026-04-15Federal Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction Halting Williamsport Maryland ICE Detention Construction Over NEPA Violations 3 src
State of Maryland · Anthony G. Brown · ICE · Department of Homeland Security · +2
confirmed
2026-04-15Jenn Budd Appears on Frank Figliuzzi Show, Discusses CBP Cover-Up Teams and CIT-to-OPR Personnel Rotation 6 src
Rodney Scott
confirmed
2026-04-15Judge Hurson's Maryland NEPA Preliminary Injunction Halts Williamsport ICE Construction, Cascades Directly to Bexar TX Warehouse Pause and Anchors Arizona and New Jersey Parallel Challenges 8 src
Anthony G. Brown · Kris Mayes · Mikie Sherrill · Jennifer Davenport · +2
confirmed
2026-04-15Objection.ai Launches: Thiel-Backed AI Tribunal Automates Journalist Targeting, D'Souza Explicitly Frames as Gawker-Model Industrialization
Peter Thiel
confirmed
2026-04-14DC Circuit Grants Mandamus Ordering Boasberg to Drop Criminal Contempt Inquiry Into Blanche and Bove 3 src
James Boasberg · Todd Blanche · Emil Bove
confirmed
2026-04-14HSI Special Operations Group Surveils St. John's Church in St. Paul, Runs License-Plate Checks on Meeting Attendees' Vehicles 3 src
Homeland Security Investigations · Katherine Wespetal · Hakan Catalan · Direct Action Minnesota
confirmed
2026-04-14VP Vance Rebukes Pope Leo XIV on Theology at Turning Point USA, USCCB Issues Corrective: Captured-Catholic-Tradition Operational Confrontation 19 src
J.D. Vance · Pope Leo XIV · Tom Homan · Patrick Deneen · +1
confirmed
2026-04-13Pentagon Misses Warren-Shaheen WEXMAC Deadline — No Public Response to 13 Armed Services Questions on Navy Detention Contracting 4 src
Elizabeth Warren · Jeanne Shaheen · Pete Hegseth · Department of Defense · +1
confirmed
2026-04-12Orbán Concedes Defeat After 16 Years, Ending Authoritarian Rule Despite Last-Minute Vance Campaign Visit 4 src
Viktor Orbán · J.D. Vance · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-04-12Trump Orders US Navy to Blockade Strait of Hormuz After 21-Hour Iran Peace Talks Collapse 4 src
Donald Trump · J.D. Vance · Jared Kushner · Steve Witkoff · +1
confirmed
2026-04-10FinCEN/OFAC open GENIUS Act AML/sanctions NPRM docket — WLF-benefiting rule enters comment period 4 src
Scott Bessent
confirmed
2026-04-10Trump Becomes First Sitting President to Endorse a Stock by Ticker on Truth Social, Promoting Palantir (PLTR) Amid 16% Freefall 7 src
Donald Trump · Palantir Technologies · Alex Karp · Mark Warner
confirmed
2026-04-09Houston ISD Soccer Captain Mauro Henriquez Deported to Honduras After Four Months in ICE Detention 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
confirmed
2026-04-09Human Rights Watch Documents Systematic Abuses in ICE's Expanding Warehouse Detention Network, Citing Arizona GardaWorld Contract 2 src
Human Rights Watch · ICE · GardaWorld Federal Services · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-04-09Melania Trump Issues Rare White House Statement Denying Epstein Ties, Calls for Congressional Survivor Hearings 5 src
Melania Trump · Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell
confirmed
2026-04-08HSI Inserts Undercover Agent Into Ann Arbor Church Sanctuary; ROI Names Reporting Agent Erin Herrgott and Approving RAC Darryl Pugh 6 src
Homeland Security Investigations · Department of Homeland Security · Kevin Riach
confirmed
2026-04-08ICE Appeals Pennsylvania DEP Administrative Orders Blocking Water-Sewer Hookups at Tremont and Upper Bern Warehouse Detention Sites 5 src
Department of Homeland Security · ICE
confirmed
2026-04-08ICE Data Reveals 1,300 'Collateral' Arrests During Operation Metro Surge -- 35% of All Minnesota Detentions 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-04-07Trump Threatens to Destroy Iranian Civilization Tonight: 8 PM Ultimatum to Destroy All Power Plants and Bridges 5 src
Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Iran
confirmed
2026-04-07US and Iran Agree to Two-Week Ceasefire After Trump Threatens to Destroy Iranian Civilization 3 src
Donald Trump · Iran · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
confirmed
2026-04-07VP Vance Campaigns for Orbán in Budapest Days Before Hungary Election, Securing $1.2B in Hungarian Arms and Oil Purchases 4 src
J.D. Vance · Viktor Orbán · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-04-0323 States Sue Trump Over Mail Voting Executive Order as Democratic AGs File 100th Lawsuit Against Administration 3 src
Keith Ellison · Letitia James · Chuck Schumer · Hakeem Jeffries
confirmed
2026-04-03French-Owned Container Ship Crosses Strait of Hormuz, Signaling Iran's Strategy to Fracture Western Alliance 5 src
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · France
confirmed
2026-04-03FY2027 Department of War Budget Requests $54.6B for DAWG Autonomous Warfare Group in SOCOM — Civilian-Harm Mitigation Zeroed 10 src
Pete Hegseth
confirmed
2026-04-03McConnell Joins Democrats to Defend US NATO Membership as Trump Considers Withdrawal 2 src
Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · Susan Collins · Lisa Murkowski · +2
confirmed
2026-04-03Michael Edison Hayden Reveals SPLC Gutted Its Intelligence Project Before Trump's Return, Leaving Far-Right Monitoring Degraded 3 src
Southern Poverty Law Center · Kash Patel · FBI
confirmed
2026-04-03Trump Requests Record $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget for FY2027, Largest Year-Over-Year Increase Since WWII 6 src
Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Congress
confirmed
2026-04-03US F-15E Fighter Jet Shot Down Over Iran, One Crew Member Rescued, Second Missing 6 src
U.S. Air Force · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · U.S. Central Command · Pete Hegseth
confirmed
2026-04-03Washington Post Data Analysis: ICE Still Arresting Immigrants Without Criminal Records at 70%+ Rate Despite Administration Pledge to Target Criminals 2 src
ICE · Department of Homeland Security · Washington Post
confirmed
2026-04-02Blue Owl Caps Private Credit Fund Redemptions at 5% After Investors Demand $5.4 Billion Back From OCIC and OTIC in a Single Quarter 3 src
Blue Owl Capital · Doug Ostrover · Marc Lipschultz
confirmed
2026-04-02Hegseth Fires Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George During Iran War, Installs Former Personal Aide 7 src
Pete Hegseth · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-04-02PNK Group Proposes Up to Four AI Data Centers at Allenwood, PA Campus — Same Site as ModCorr Modular-Prison-Cell Factory; Zoning Fight Begins 4 src
PNK Group · Andrey Sharkov
confirmed
2026-04-02Trump Fires Attorney General Pam Bondi, Installs Personal Lawyer Todd Blanche as Acting AG 5 src
Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Lee Zeldin
confirmed
2026-04-02Trump Imposes 100% Tariffs on Branded Pharmaceutical Imports via Section 232 Executive Order 6 src
Donald Trump · Department of Health and Human Services · Department of Commerce
confirmed
2026-04-02US Bombs Bridge Near Tehran Killing Eight Civilians, Trump Posts Collapse Video on Truth Social 5 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · Iran
confirmed
2026-04-02US Intelligence Assesses Iran Retains Roughly Half Its Missile Launchers After Five Weeks of Strikes 4 src
U.S. Intelligence Community · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps · U.S. Central Command · Pete Hegseth
confirmed
2026-04-01ImmigrationOS: ICE's $30M Palantir Platform Expands to Track U.S. Citizens via Medicaid, IRS, DMV Data 3 src
Palantir Technologies · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · American Immigration Council
confirmed
2026-04-01OCC final rule amending 12 CFR 5.20 takes effect, replacing 'fiduciary activities' with 'operations of a trust company and activities related thereto' for national trust bank charters 8 src
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency · Jonathan Gould · U.S. Department of the Treasury
confirmed
2026-04-01Supreme Court Hears Birthright Citizenship Arguments; Gorsuch Exposes Government's Inability to Protect Native American Citizenship 9 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Neil Gorsuch · D. John Sauer · Donald Trump · +1
confirmed
2026-03-31Air Force Awards BlackSky Sole-Source $99M Contract for Next-Gen Satellite Surveillance 4 src
BlackSky Technology · Peter Thiel · Mithril Capital
confirmed
2026-03-31Judge Randolph Moss Strikes Down EO 14290 as Unconstitutional Viewpoint Discrimination Against NPR and PBS 6 src
NPR · PBS · Donald Trump
confirmed
2026-03-31Trump Issues Executive Order Directing USPS to Refuse Delivery of Mail Ballots to Non-Approved Voters 3 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Postal Service
confirmed
2026-03-31Trump Signs Executive Order Directing Creation of National Verified Voter List and USPS Mail Ballot Control 6 src
Donald Trump · DHS · Social Security Administration · USPS · +1
confirmed
2026-03-3014th ICE Detainee Dies in 2026 as Detention System on Track for Deadliest Year Since 2004
2026-03-30Adelanto GEO Detention Facility Records Fourth Death in Seven Months — California's Highest Detention Death Rate 5 src
GEO Group · ICE
confirmed
2026-03-30Liberation Day Tariff Anniversary: 89,000 Manufacturing Jobs Lost, SCOTUS Ruled Tariffs Illegal
2026-03-29Iran-Backed Houthis Enter War, US Personnel Wounded at Saudi Base as Conflict Expands
2026-03-29Netanyahu Orders Expansion of Lebanon Invasion Toward Litani River, Largest Israeli Ground Operation Since 2006 6 src
Benjamin Netanyahu · Israel Defense Forces
confirmed
2026-03-29Palantir Awarded $75M No-Bid USDA Contract to Surveil Federal Workers Return-to-Office Compliance
2026-03-29Warren, Raskin Lead 52 Lawmakers in Formal Inquiry to Six Detention Contractors and Real Estate Firms Over Trump Warehouse Detention Buildout 6 src
Elizabeth Warren · Jamie Raskin · Andrey Sharkov · PNK Group · +9
confirmed
2026-03-28No Kings III Protest Announced for March 28 as Movement Plans Third Nationwide Mobilization 4 src
Indivisible · American Civil Liberties Union
reported
2026-03-28Yemen's Houthis Launch Missiles at Israel, Raising Fears of Renewed Red Sea Shipping Attacks 6 src
Israel Defense Forces · Islamic Republic of Iran
confirmed
2026-03-27DOGE One-Year Assessment: 300,000 Federal Jobs Cut, $215B Savings Claim Unverified
2026-03-26Ohio House Passes "Indecent Exposure Modernization Act" That Critics Say Could Criminalize Sports Bras and Cheerleading Uniforms 4 srcconfirmed
2026-03-26Sacks Departs White House AI/Crypto Czar Role; No Successor Named; Policy Disperses to OSTP's Kratsios, PCAST, and Witt at PCADA 9 src
David Sacks · Marc Andreessen
confirmed
2026-03-2572 Lawmakers Demand DHS IG Investigate Warrantless Location-Data Purchases by ICE 3 src
Ron Wyden · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · Department of Homeland Security · DHS Office of Inspector General · +1
confirmed
2026-03-25Choctaw Nation Purchases Former Big Lots Warehouse in Durant, Permanently Removing 8,500 Potential ICE Detention Beds From Federal Market 4 src
Blue Owl Capital · ICE · Department of Homeland Security
confirmed
2026-03-25EIA launches three voluntary pilot field studies on data-center energy use — first federal data-collection attempt since the 2024 crypto-mining survey was litigated away, but data-center-wide rather than crypto-specific 3 src
U.S. Energy Information Administration · Department of Energy
confirmed
2026-03-25Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Surfaces — NSA Intercept Naming Kushner Buried for Eight Months 4 src
Tulsi Gabbard · Jared Kushner · Susie Wiles
confirmed
2026-03-25Iran Rejects Trump's 15-Point Peace Plan as 'Excessive and Unrealistic,' Demands Lebanon Ceasefire as Precondition 7 src
Donald Trump · Abbas Araghchi · Masoud Pezeshkian
confirmed
2026-03-25NPR Documents the Data-Broker Loophole as FISA 702 Reauthorization Nears; Patel Declines to Rule Out Location Buys 4 src
Kash Patel · Ron Wyden · Warren Davidson · Mike Lee · +6
confirmed
2026-03-24Markwayne Mullin Sworn In as DHS Secretary After 54-45 Senate Confirmation; Immediately Pauses WEXMAC-TITUS Warehouse Detention Buildout 8 src
Markwayne Mullin · Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · John Fetterman · +5
confirmed
2026-03-24Michigan AG Nessel and City of Romulus Sue DHS/ICE Over $34.7M Romulus Warehouse Detention Conversion; DHS Under New Secretary Mullin Opens Review April 2 6 src
Dana Nessel · Department of Homeland Security · ICE · Markwayne Mullin
confirmed
2026-03-24Minnesota AG Ellison, Hennepin County Attorney Moriarty, BCA Superintendent Evans Sue DOJ and DHS in DC Federal Court for Evidence Blockade in Good, Pretti, Sosa-Celis Shootings 4 src
U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Alex Pretti · Renee Good
confirmed