Capture lane

Civil Rights Suppression

The Civil Rights Suppression capture lane traces 319 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

319 events From Mar 26, 1790 To Apr 9, 2026 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
2025-05-19DOJ Civil Rights Division Mass Exodus: ~400 Employees Depart as Dhillon Rewrites Mission to Target Trans Rights, Promote 'Anti-Christian Bias' Agenda
Harmeet Dhillon · DOJ Civil Rights Division · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump
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2025-05-15FBI Disbands Washington Public Corruption Squad Amid Broader Investigative Reorganization
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Kash Patel · Chuck Grassley · +2
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2025-05-09ICE arrests Newark Mayor during congressional oversight visit to detention facility
Ras Baraka · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Rep. LaMonica McIver · Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman · +2
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2025-05-01DOJ Sues Aetna, Humana, Elevance for Paying Illegal Medicare Advantage Kickbacks and Discriminating Against Disabled Beneficiaries
Department of Justice · Aetna · CVS Health · Humana · +5
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2025-05-01Texas Sheriff Uses Flock Safety's 83,000 Camera Network to Track Woman Who Had Abortion
Johnson County Sheriff Adam King · Flock Safety · Electronic Frontier Foundation · Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi · +1
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2025-04-21Operation Tidal Wave arrests 1,120 in Florida in largest single-state ICE operation
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Madison Sheahan · Ron DeSantis · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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2025-04-03Department of Education Issues "Dear Colleague Letter" Requiring Universities to Certify No DEI Programs or Lose Federal Funding
Department of Education · Office for Civil Rights · General Services Administration · Donald Trump
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2025-03-31DOJ Drops Voting Rights Cases in Georgia, Virginia, and Alabama, Abandoning Federal Enforcement
Pamela Bondi · Department of Justice · Civil Rights Division · Brad Raffensperger · +1
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2025-03-31Trump Administration Freezes Title X Funding to Planned Parenthood Affiliates
Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Planned Parenthood · National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association
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2025-03-24FBI launches task force investigating violent attacks on Tesla
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Elon Musk · Kash Patel · +1
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2025-03-17First Criminal Charges Filed Under Texas Abortion Ban: Midwife Faces 20 Years
Maria Margarita Rojas · Jose Ley · Texas Attorney General · Ken Paxton
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2025-03-13ICE makes 32,809 arrests in first 50 days of Trump administration
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem · Donald Trump · +1
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2025-03-12EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Eliminates Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights
Lee Zeldin · Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Donald Trump · +1
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2025-03-0928-year-old political operative appointed ICE Deputy Director despite lacking required experience
Madison Sheahan · Kristi Noem · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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2025-02-20Study Finds 50% Spike in Pregnancy-Related Sepsis and Deaths in Texas After Abortion Ban
Texas Department of Health · Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health · University of Texas
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2025-02-15Multi-Organizational Civil Rights Litigation Coordination Summit
Lawyers for Civil Rights · Brennan Center · EarthJustice · American Civil Liberties Union · +4
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2025-02-14DOJ Public Corruption Division Systematic Dismantling Coordinated Across Agencies
Emil Bove · Danielle Sassoon · Hagan Scotten (Assistant US Attorney) · Eric Adams · +1
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2025-01-31DOE Reverts Title IX to Trump-Era 2020 Rules, Narrowing Sexual Harassment and Gender Identity Protections
Department of Education · Donald Trump
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2025-01-29Pentagon Ends Travel Reimbursement for Military Members Seeking Abortion Care
Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense · Lloyd Austin · Donald Trump
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2025-01-24DOJ Orders Limits on FACE Act Enforcement, Weakening Abortion Clinic Protection
Department of Justice · Chad Mizelle · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · +1
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2025-01-21Trump Signs EO 14173 'Ending Illegal Discrimination' — Foundational Anti-DEI Order Requiring Federal Contractor Certification
Donald Trump · Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
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2025-01-20Trump Signs Comprehensive Immigration Executive Orders Package: Ends Asylum, Reinstates Remain in Mexico, Kills Parole Programs, Declares Border 'Invasion'
Donald Trump · Department of Homeland Security · Customs and Border Protection · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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2025-01-20Trump Signs EO 14168: 'Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism,' Mandating Federal Recognition of Only Two Sexes
Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management · Department of Education · Department of Health and Human Services · +1
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2025-01-15Louisiana Grand Jury Indicts New York Physician for Providing Medication Abortion
Louisiana Grand Jury · New York Physician · Louisiana Attorney General
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2024-12-24H-1B Civil War Peaks - Musk vs Bannon/Loomer on Immigration Policy
Elon Musk · Steve Bannon · Laura Loomer · Vivek Ramaswamy
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2023-06-30Supreme Court Allows Religious Exemptions from Anti-Discrimination Laws in 303 Creative v. Elenis
U.S. Supreme Court · Justice Neil Gorsuch · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · +12
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2023-06-29Supreme Court Ends Affirmative Action in College Admissions in Students for Fair Admissions Decisions
U.S. Supreme Court · Chief Justice John Roberts · Justice Clarence Thomas · Justice Samuel Alito · +12
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2022-12-27ICE whistleblower faces retaliation after reporting weapons violations at detention facility
Carlo Jimenez · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Department of Homeland Security OIG · Merit Systems Protection Board
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2022-06-24Dobbs v. Jackson: Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade — The 49-Year Institutional Capture Project Succeeds
Samuel Alito · Leonard Leo · Federalist Society · Neil Gorsuch · +2
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2021-07-18Pegasus Project Exposes Global Surveillance of 50,000 Targets by NSO Group Clients
Forbidden Stories · Amnesty International · Citizen Lab · The Guardian · +3
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2020-06-10Amazon announces one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition after George Floyd protests
Amazon · AWS · Jeff Bezos
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2020-06-09FBI Expands Dataminr Contract During George Floyd Protests for Social Media Surveillance of Demonstrations
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Dataminr · NYPD · LAPD · +2
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2020-06-06Boogaloo Movement Kills Two Law Enforcement Officers: Chan Meme Culture Produces Armed Paramilitary Network
Steven Carrillo
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2020-05-15Puerto Rico Selects LUMA Energy for $1.5 Billion Grid Privatization Following McKinsey's Recommendations, Quanta Services Connection Raises Questions
LUMA Energy · Quanta Services · Canadian Utilities Limited · Puerto Rico Public-Private Partnership Authority · +2
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2020-04-18CatalanGate Reveals Systematic Pegasus Targeting of 65 Catalan Independence Leaders
Citizen Lab · NSO Group · Pere Aragonès · Quim Torra · +3
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2019-11-12SPLC Exposes Stephen Miller White Nationalist Emails: 900 Messages Promoting Racist Literature and Hate Sites
Stephen Miller
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2019-05-01Academic Studies Document PredPol's Racial Bias and Ineffectiveness
PredPol · LAPD
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2018-11-15Mexican Journalists Targeted with Pegasus Days After Colleague's Assassination
Javier Valdez Cárdenas · Andrés Villarreal · Ismael Bojórquez · Citizen Lab · +2
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2018-11-06Florida Voters Approve Amendment 4 Restoring Voting Rights to 1.4 Million with Felony Convictions
Florida voters · Desmond Meade · Florida Rights Restoration Coalition
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2018-10-27Tree of Life Synagogue Massacre: Gab-Radicalized Gunman Kills 11 in Deadliest Antisemitic Attack in US History
Robert Bowers · HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) · Tree of Life Congregation
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2018-10-22Trump Adopts 'Invasion' Rhetoric Mainstreaming Great Replacement Theory Before Midterms
Donald Trump · Republican Party
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2018-07-26ACLU test reveals Amazon Rekognition misidentified 28 Congress members as criminals, showing racial bias
American Civil Liberties Union · Amazon · AWS · John Lewis · +1
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2018-04-22UAE Installs Pegasus Spyware on Khashoggi's Wife's Phone Months Before His Murder
Hanan Elatr · Jamal Khashoggi · UAE Government · NSO Group · +2
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2018-03-10Zeynep Tufekci Exposes YouTube as "The Great Radicalizer": Recommendation Algorithm Systematically Pushes Users Toward Extremism
Zeynep Tufekci · Guillaume Chaslot · YouTube · Google
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2018-01-11Trump Calls Haiti and African Nations 'Shithole Countries' in Bipartisan Immigration Meeting
Donald Trump · Dick Durbin · U.N. Human Rights Office · African Union
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2017-08-01Courts Strike Down North Carolina Racial Gerrymandering, Legislature Redraws With Explicit Partisan Intent
North Carolina General Assembly · David Lewis · Robert Rucho · Republican Party
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2017-07-28Trump Weaponizes MS-13 Gang to Demonize Central American Immigrants and Justify Mass Deportations
Donald Trump · MS-13
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2017-03-06Trump Signs Travel Ban 2.0 (Executive Order 13780) - Revised Muslim Ban After Courts Block Original
Donald Trump · Derrick Watson · Doug Chin · Rudy Giuliani
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2017-01-27Trump Signs Muslim Ban (Executive Order 13769) Causing Airport Chaos and Mass Visa Revocations
Donald Trump · Rudy Giuliani · Jim Mattis · State Department
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2016-11-20Law Enforcement Attacks Standing Rock Protesters With Water Cannons in Subfreezing Temperatures
Morton County Sheriff's Department · Standing Rock Sioux Tribe · Mandan Rural Fire Department · Standing Rock Medic and Healer Council · +4
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2016-11-19Richard Spencer's NPI Conference: "Hail Trump, Hail Our People" — The Alt-Right Goes Public
Richard Spencer · National Policy Institute
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2016-10-08Rumors Surface of Apprentice Outtakes Showing Trump Using N-Word, Burnett Refuses Release
Donald Trump · Mark Burnett
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2016-08-10UAE Targets Human Rights Defender Ahmed Mansoor with NSO Pegasus Spyware
Ahmed Mansoor · Citizen Lab · NSO Group · UAE Government · +1
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2016-06-02Trump Attacks Federal Judge Curiel as "Mexican" Despite Indiana Birth, Paul Ryan Calls It "Textbook Racism"
Donald Trump · Gonzalo Curiel · Paul Ryan
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2015-06-29NBC Fires Trump from The Apprentice Following Racist Comments About Mexican Immigrants
Donald Trump · NBC
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2015-06-17White Supremacist Dylann Roof Murders Nine Black Worshippers at Historic Charleston Church - Confederate Flag Controversy Exposes South Carolina's Institutional Racism
Dylann Roof · Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church · Clementa C. Pinckney · Nikki Haley · +1
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2015-06-16Trump Descends Escalator with "Rapists" Speech: Breitbart Pivots to Full Campaign Organ
Donald Trump · Steve Bannon · Breitbart News
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2015-06-16Trump Launches Presidential Campaign Calling Mexican Immigrants 'Rapists' and Criminals
Donald Trump
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2014-10-13GM Plant Stops Using Flint Water After It Corrodes Car Parts—But Residents Must Keep Drinking It
General Motors · Darnell Earley · Flint City Government
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2014-07-21Human Rights Watch Report - FBI Terrorism Prosecutions "Often An Illusion"
Federal Bureau of Investigation · Human Rights Watch · Department of Justice
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2014-06-25Supreme Court Rules Warrantless Cell Phone Searches Unconstitutional in Riley v. California
U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts
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2014-06-21Trump: Central Park Five Still Guilty Despite DNA Exoneration
Donald Trump · Yusef Salaam · Korey Wise · Antron McCray · +2
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2014-04-25Flint Switches to Corrosive River Water to Save Money, Poisoning Entire City
Darnell Earley · Flint Department of Public Works · Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
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2014-01-01Flint Water Crisis (2014-2024) - 12,000 Children Poisoned, Zero Accountability
Rick Snyder · Darnell Earley · Mona Hanna-Attisha · LeeAnne Walters · +1
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2013-08-01Chicago Police Launch Strategic Subject List "Heat List" Predictive Policing Program
Chicago Police Department
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2013-03-11Federal Court Rules Texas 2011 Redistricting Intentionally Discriminated Against Latino Voters
Texas Legislature · Republican Party · MALDEF
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2013-01-02Obama Signs American Taxpayer Relief Act Making 82% of Bush Tax Cuts Permanent - 'Fiscal Cliff' Deal Locks in $2.8 Trillion in Tax Cuts for Wealthy
Barack Obama · Joe Biden · Mitch McConnell · John Boehner · +4
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2012-10-01Reddit's "Manosphere" Reaches Critical Mass: r/TheRedPill and r/MensRights Become Gateway to White Nationalist Radicalization
Reddit Inc.
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2012-06-01New Orleans Police Launch Secret Palantir Predictive Policing Program
NOPD · Palantir Technologies · Mitch Landrieu · Peter Thiel
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2012-04-06Magnitsky Act Passed by US Congress
Sergei Magnitsky · Bill Browder · Benjamin Cardin · John McCain · +1
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2012-01-15PredPol Predictive Policing Company Founded
George Mohler · Jeff Brantingham
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2011-09-01LAPD Launches Operation LASER Predictive Policing Program with Palantir
LAPD · Palantir Technologies · Craig Uchida · Peter Thiel
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2011-01-01North Carolina Republicans Begin Aggressive Racial Gerrymandering
North Carolina General Assembly · Republican Party · Robert Rucho · David Lewis
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2004-11-02Ohio Evangelical Turnout Delivers Bush Reelection: "Values Voters" Become the Decisive Electoral Bloc
George W. Bush · Ken Blackwell · Rod Parsley · Russell Johnson
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2003-06-23Grutter v. Bollinger - Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action but Sets 25-Year Limit
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor · Justice Clarence Thomas · University of Michigan Law School · Lee Bollinger · +1
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2002-08-01DynCorp Bosnia Trafficking Scandal: Contractor Employees Purchase Women and Girls for Sexual Slavery, Face No Criminal Prosecution
DynCorp International · Kathryn Bolkovac · United Nations
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2000-03-01Subprime Lending Explodes as Predatory Practices Spread to Minority Communities
Household Finance Corporation · Associates First Capital · Citigroup · Ameriquest · +1
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2000-01-01Florida Disenfranchises 1.4 Million Citizens Through Felony Voting Bans, Highest Rate in Nation
Florida Legislature · The Sentencing Project
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1997-10-01287(g) Program Created, Deputizing Local Police for Immigration Enforcement
U.S. Congress · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Department of Justice · Local law enforcement agencies
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1996-09-30Clinton Signs IIRIRA Expanding Deportation, Retroactive Aggravated Felonies
Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Immigration and Naturalization Service
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1996-04-24Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act Expands Deportation, Strips Judicial Review
Bill Clinton · U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · Immigration and Naturalization Service
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1996-01-28Hillary Clinton Delivers "Super-Predators" Speech Supporting 1994 Crime Bill
Hillary Clinton · Bill Clinton
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1994-10-01Operation Gatekeeper Launches Clinton Border Militarization, Funneling Migrants to Deadly Terrain
Bill Clinton · Janet Reno · Doris Meissner · Immigration and Naturalization Service · +1
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1994-09-13Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act Fuels Mass Incarceration
Bill Clinton · Joe Biden · Jack Brooks
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1993-01-22Zoe Baird Nomination Collapses Over Undocumented Nanny, Launching Immigration Enforcement Politicization
Bill Clinton · Zoe Baird · U.S. Senate · Kimba Wood · +1
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1992-06-13Clinton Uses 'Sister Souljah Moment' to Distance Democrats from Black Community
Bill Clinton · Sister Souljah · Jesse Jackson · Rainbow Coalition · +1
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1992-05-01Los Angeles Riots Trigger Immigration Enforcement Intensification, 1,000 Deportations
Immigration and Naturalization Service · Los Angeles Police Department · Pete Wilson · George H.W. Bush
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1991-06-05Trump Plaza Fined $200,000 for Removing Black Employees from Gaming Floor
Donald Trump · Robert LiButti · Kip Brown
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1990-11-29Immigration Act of 1990 Expands Legal Immigration, Creates Diversity Visa Lottery
George H.W. Bush · Edward Kennedy · Alan Simpson · U.S. Congress
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1990-10-29Jesse Helms 'White Hands' Ad Weaponizes Affirmative Action Against Black Senate Candidate
Jesse Helms · Harvey Gantt · Alex Castellanos · Carter Wrenn · +1
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1989-05-01Trump Demands Death Penalty in $85,000 Ads Against Central Park Five
Donald Trump · Yusef Salaam · Korey Wise · Antron McCray · +2
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1988-11-18Anti-Drug Abuse Act Creates "Aggravated Felony" Category, Merging War on Drugs with Deportation
Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · Immigration and Naturalization Service
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1987-09-16Senate Resolution Acknowledges Haudenosaunee Influence on Constitution During Bicentennial Celebrations
U.S. Senate · Haudenosaunee Confederacy · Six Nations
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1986-10-27Anti-Drug Abuse Act Establishes 100-to-1 Crack-Cocaine Sentencing Disparity
Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress
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1983-10-09James Watt Resigns After Racist Remarks: Interior Department Corruption Ends
James Watt · Ronald Reagan · Department of Interior · Beach Boys
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1981-09-29Reagan Orders Coast Guard Interdiction of Haitian Refugees, Establishing Maritime Asylum Denial
Ronald Reagan · U.S. Coast Guard · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Jean-Claude Duvalier · +1
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1980-08-03Reagan Launches General Election Campaign with 'States' Rights' Speech Near Civil Rights Murder Site
Ronald Reagan · Republican Party
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1980-04-21Mariel Boatlift Exposes Racist Double Standards as Cubans Welcomed While Haitians Detained
Jimmy Carter · Fidel Castro · Cuban refugees · Haitian refugees · +2
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1980-03-17Refugee Act of 1980 Establishes Systematic Asylum Process, Becomes Target of Enforcement Capture
Jimmy Carter · Edward Kennedy · U.S. Congress · United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees · +1
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1978-08-22IRS Tightens Private School Tax Exemption Rules Catalyzing Religious Right Political Mobilization
Internal Revenue Service · Paul Weyrich · Richard Viguerie · Bob Jones University · +1
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