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Democratic Erosion

The Democratic Erosion capture lane traces 471 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

471 events From Jan 1, 1142 To May 27, 2026 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
2026-05-27CBS News Declines to Renew Sharyn Alfonsi's Contract After CECOT Segment Conflict with Bari Weiss 6 src
Sharyn Alfonsi · Bari Weiss · CBS News · 60 Minutes · +6
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2026-05-22Federal Judge in Nashville Dismisses Human-Smuggling Case Against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Finding DOJ Reverse-Engineered Charges to Retroactively Justify Wrongful Deportation 7 src
Kilmar Abrego Garcia · Judge Waverly Crenshaw · Todd Blanche · Aakash Singh · +3
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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 · Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. · Hennepin County Attorney's Office · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · +1
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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
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2026-03-28No Kings III Protest Announced for March 28 as Movement Plans Third Nationwide Mobilization 4 src
No Kings Movement · Indivisible · American Civil Liberties Union · American Association of University Professors
reported
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 · +6
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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
Keith Ellison (Minnesota Attorney General) · Mary Moriarty (Hennepin County Attorney) · Drew Evans (BCA Superintendent) · U.S. Department of Justice · +6
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2026-03-2321 State AGs Sue to Block USDA "2026 Conditions" Tying Food Assistance to Ideological Compliance 3 src
AG Letitia James · 20 other AGs
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2026-03-22Sanders Confirmed as Headliner for Flagship No Kings Rally at Minnesota State Capitol 4 src
Sen. Bernie Sanders · Peggy Flanagan · Keith Ellison · Jane Fonda · +4
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2026-03-1924 States and 15 Local Governments Sue EPA Over Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding 4 src
AG Letitia James · EPA · Trump administration
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2026-03-19Freedom House Reports U.S. at Lowest Score Ever, Net Decline of 12 Points Since 2005 3 src
Freedom House
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2026-03-19Nearly 100 Solidarity Schools Organizing Nationwide for May Day General Strike 3 src
May Day Strong Coalition · Chicago Teachers Union · NEA · NNU · +1
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2026-03-1818 State AGs Demand Congress Pass Legislation Requiring Refunds of $166B in Unlawful IEEPA Tariffs 3 src
AG Letitia James · AG Rob Bonta · AG Keith Ellison · 15 other AGs
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2026-03-18No Kings Coalition Confirms 3,000+ Events for March 28, Targeting 9 Million Participants 3 src
No Kings Movement · Indivisible · MoveOn · ACLU · +3
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2026-03-18V-Dem Downgrades U.S. from Liberal Democracy to Electoral Democracy in Historic Report 3 src
V-Dem Institute · University of Gothenburg
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2026-03-18Win Without War Places 168 Children's Backpacks on Capitol Lawn Memorializing Minab School Victims 4 src
Win Without War · Sen. Chris Van Hollen · Rep. Pramila Jayapal · Rep. Sara Jacobs
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2026-03-17Maryland Senate Committee Advances "No Kings Act" Making Federal Agents Liable for Civil Rights Violations 3 src
Maryland General Assembly
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2026-03-17Senate Six Democrats Prepare to Grind Chamber to Halt Over Iran War Oversight 2 src
Sen. Adam Schiff · Sen. Cory Booker · Sen. Tim Kaine · Sen. Chris Murphy · +2
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2026-03-17Social Circle, Georgia Shuts Off Water to Planned 10,000-Bed ICE Mega-Center 3 src
Social Circle City Council · DHS · ICE
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2026-03-16Last Person Detained in Trump Campus Protest Crackdown Released from ICE Custody on $100K Bond 3 src
Leqaa Kordia · ICE · Judge Tara Naslow
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2026-03-13120+ House Democrats Demand Pentagon Explain AI's Role in Selecting Minab School Target That Killed 170+ 3 src
Rep. Sara Jacobs · Pete Hegseth · House Democrats
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2026-03-13Al-Quds Day Demonstrations in New York, Houston, and Chicago Denounce US-Israeli Strikes 3 src
ANSWER Coalition · AMP · CodePink · Black Alliance for Peace · +1
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2026-03-12AI Industry Super PACs Pour $125 Million Into 2026 Midterms to Block Regulation, Targeting Candidates With Hidden Influence Campaign 7 src
OpenAI · Anthropic · Andreessen Horowitz · Marc Andreessen · +7
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2026-03-1117 State AGs Challenge Education Dept Demand for Seven Years of College Admissions Data 3 src
AG Letitia James · AG Andrea Campbell · AG Bob Ferguson · 14 other AGs
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2026-03-11Bipartisan Senators Request GAO Audit of DOJ Handling of Epstein Files 4 src
U.S. Senate · Dick Durbin · Ben Ray Lujan · Jeff Merkley · +4
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2026-03-11Iran Sets Ceasefire Conditions as China and Russia Launch Diplomatic Intervention 5 src
Masoud Pezeshkian · Kazem Gharibabadi · Wang Yi · Zhai Jun · +7
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2026-03-11No Kings Coalition Announces Nationwide March 28 Protests, Aims to Be Largest in U.S. History 4 src
Indivisible · ACLU of Massachusetts · AFL-CIO · No Kings Coalition
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2026-03-11Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to End Deportation Protections for 350,000 Haitians 5 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem · U.S. Supreme Court
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2026-03-10Public Citizen Report Finds Trump Removed More Inspectors General Than All Prior Presidents Combined 4 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Office of Inspector General · Public Citizen
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2026-03-10Senate Democrats Demand Public Hearings on Iran War After Closed Briefing Raises Alarms 3 src
Chuck Schumer · Elizabeth Warren · Jacky Rosen · Pete Hegseth · +3
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2026-03-10U.S. Records Sharpest Press Freedom Drop in Americas, Falls from 4th to 11th Place 3 src
Donald Trump · Inter American Press Association · Voice of America
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2026-03-10Washington Post Investigation Details How ICE Systematically Defied Court Orders During Minneapolis Enforcement Surge 4 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Department of Justice · Patrick Schiltz · +1
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2026-03-09Anthropic Files Dual Federal Lawsuits Challenging Pentagon's Supply Chain Risk Designation as Unconstitutional Retaliation 8 src
Anthropic · Dario Amodei · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · +3
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2026-03-09DOJ Appeals Blocked Executive Orders Targeting Law Firms, Claims Judges "Bent Over Backwards" to Rule Against Trump 4 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · Perkins Coie · WilmerHale · +3
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2026-03-09DOJ Public Integrity Section Gutted from 36 to 2 Lawyers, Stripped of Authority to File Cases 4 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump
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2026-03-09DOJ Pursues Retaliatory Investigations of Democratic Officials and Federal Reserve Chair 4 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Jeanine Pirro · Jerome Powell · +4
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2026-03-09Senate Democrats Demand Hegseth and Rubio Testify on Iran War, Threaten Repeated War Powers Votes 5 src
Pete Hegseth · Marco Rubio · Tim Kaine · Chris Murphy · +8
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2026-03-08EFF and The Intercept Find OpenAI's Pentagon Deal Surveillance Guardrails Unenforceable, Warning of AI-Powered Domestic Surveillance Risk 5 src
OpenAI · Sam Altman · U.S. Department of Defense · Electronic Frontier Foundation · +1
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2026-03-08Trump Threatens Legislative Blockade Until Congress Passes SAVE America Voter ID Act 4 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Congress · Senate Republicans · Senate Democrats
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2026-03-07DOJ Appeals Four Court Rulings Blocking Trump Executive Orders Targeting Political Opponent Law Firms 3 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Jenner and Block · Perkins Coie · Susman Godfrey · +2
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2026-03-07OpenAI Robotics Chief Caitlin Kalinowski Resigns Over Pentagon Deal, Citing Surveillance and Autonomous Weapons Concerns 6 src
OpenAI · Caitlin Kalinowski · Sam Altman · U.S. Department of Defense
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2026-03-07Stand Up for Science Holds Nationwide 'Rally to Take Back Science' at 46+ Locations 3 src
Stand Up for Science · U.S. National Institutes of Health · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · U.S. Department of Energy
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2026-03-07Trump Administration Escalates Campaign to Strip Federal Judges of Power to Block Presidential Orders 4 src
Trump Administration · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. House of Representatives
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2026-03-0629 Congress Members Demand DOD Inspector General Investigate Commanders Framing Iran War as Biblical Armageddon 4 src
Rep. Jared Huffman · Rep. Jamie Raskin · Rep. Chrissy Houlahan · Military Religious Freedom Foundation · +2
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2026-03-06DOJ and FBI National Security Divisions Decimated by Purges as U.S. Confronts Iran War 2 src
U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation · Kash Patel · Donald Trump · +1
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2026-03-06DOJ Public Integrity Section Collapses to Two Lawyers, Gutting Federal Anti-Corruption Enforcement 3 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · U.S. Public Integrity Section
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2026-03-0524 State Attorneys General Sue Trump Over New Tariffs After Supreme Court Struck Down Previous Ones 3 src
New York Attorney General Letitia James · U.S. Court of International Trade · U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration
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2026-03-05DOJ Releases Previously Withheld Epstein Files Containing Sexual Assault Allegations Against Trump 5 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · +1
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2026-03-05House Judiciary Committee Passes Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act, Threatening Federal Funding Cuts 4 src
Tom McClintock · House Judiciary Committee · U.S. House of Representatives · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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2026-03-05Labor Unions and Activist Groups Escalate May Day 2026 General Strike Organizing Nationwide 4 src
AFL-CIO · Socialist Alternative · Indivisible · Labor Notes · +1
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2026-03-05Second Minnesota Federal Judge Threatens Contempt Against Feds Over ICE Detainees' Missing Property 2 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Justice · Patrick Schiltz · Jeffrey Bryan
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2026-03-05Trump Fires DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Names Sen. Markwayne Mullin as Replacement 7 src
Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · Markwayne Mullin · U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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2026-03-04Democratic State AGs File Record 71 Lawsuits Against Trump Administration in First Year of Second Term 3 src
Democratic State Attorneys General · New York Attorney General Letitia James · California Attorney General Rob Bonta · American Immigration Council
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2026-03-04Environmental Groups Press Legal Challenge Against EPA's Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding 4 src
Earthjustice · Clean Air Task Force · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · +1
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2026-03-04Judge Bryan Weighs Contempt for U.S. Attorney Rosen Over ICE Property Seizures 2 src
Jeffrey Bryan · Daniel Rosen · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Justice
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2026-03-04OPM Data Confirms Federal Workforce Shrunk 12% Under DOGE, 386,000 Positions Eliminated 4 src
Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Donald Trump · U.S. Office of Personnel Management · +2
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2026-03-03AI Industry Super PAC Backed by OpenAI Insiders and Palantir Pours Millions Into Blocking AI-Regulation Candidate Alex Bores 5 src
OpenAI · Palantir Technologies · Greg Brockman · Joe Lonsdale · +5
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2026-03-03DOJ Drops Then Rapidly Reverses Course on Law Firm Retaliation Cases in Chaotic 24-Hour Reversal 4 src
U.S. Department of Justice · Jenner and Block · Perkins Coie · WilmerHale · +2
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2026-03-03Kash Patel Fires FBI Counterintelligence Unit That Tracked Iran, Days Before U.S. Strikes 3 src
Kash Patel · U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Department of Justice · Donald Trump
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2026-03-03New Jersey Federal Judge Threatens Criminal Contempt After ICE Violates Transfer Orders 17 Times 3 src
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Justice · Baljinder Kumar
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2026-03-03Senate Republicans Block Four Democratic Resolutions Condemning Trump Foreign Emoluments and Crypto Conflicts 4 src
U.S. Senate · Richard Blumenthal · Brian Schatz · Senate Republican Caucus · +2
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2026-02-16FBI Formally Denies Minnesota BCA Access to Any Evidence in Alex Pretti Killing; BCA Superintendent Evans: 'Never Encountered' Federal Evidence Blockade in 20-Plus Years 2 src
FBI · Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) · Drew Evans (BCA Superintendent) · Alex Pretti · +2
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2026-02-14DHS Shutdown Begins But Immigration Enforcement Continues 3 src
DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Chuck Schumer
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2026-02-13Noem Terminates Temporary Protected Status for Yemen 2 src
Kristi Noem · DHS (Department of Homeland Security)
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2026-02-12Homan Announces End to Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota 3 src
Tom Homan · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Tim Walz · +1
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2026-02-06DOJ Admits Epstein Redaction Errors as Victim Advocates Demand Website Shutdown 2 src
Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Brad Edwards · Brittany Henderson
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2026-02-02Deputy AG Blanche Announces No Further Epstein Prosecutions 4 src
Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Ro Khanna
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2026-02-02RFK Jr. Announces $100 Million STREETS Initiative for Homelessness and Addiction Treatment 2 src
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration · Administration for Children and Families
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2026-02-01NATO Tariff Deadline Passes After Trump Greenland Framework Agreement 2 src
Donald Trump · North Atlantic Treaty Organization · Denmark · Mark Rutte
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2026-01-30DOJ Epstein Files Release Exposes 43+ Survivor Names in Historic Privacy Violation 3 src
Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche
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2026-01-30Federal Courts Issue Multiple Permanent Injunctions Blocking Trump's Anti-Voting Executive Order 5 src
U.S. District Court · American Civil Liberties Union · Brennan Center for Justice · Democracy Docket · +3
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2026-01-29Trump Creates Great American Recovery Initiative for Addiction Crisis 3 src
Donald Trump · White House · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Kathryn Burgum · +1
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2026-01-29Trump Declares Cuba National Emergency, Threatens Tariffs on Oil Trading Partners 3 src
Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Commerce · Department of State
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2026-01-28Ninth Circuit Rules DHS Exceeded Authority Terminating Venezuelan TPS 3 src
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · Kristi Noem · National TPS Alliance · American Civil Liberties Union
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2026-01-24Border Patrol Agents Kill Alex Pretti, Second Legal Observer Shot in Minneapolis in Three Weeks 5 src
Alex Pretti · U.S. Border Patrol · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Todd Blanche · +7
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2026-01-23Minnesota General Strike Becomes Largest in State's History, Spreads to 300 Cities Nationwide 4 src
Minnesota AFL-CIO · Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 · SEIU Local 26 · UNITE HERE Local 17 · +5
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2026-01-22Whistleblowers Reveal Secret ICE Memo Authorizing Agents to Enter Homes Without Judicial Warrants 4 src
Todd Lyons · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Kristi Noem · Richard Blumenthal · +1
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2026-01-21Supreme Court Hears Trump v. Cook, Justices Skeptical of Presidential Power to Fire Federal Reserve Governors 4 src
Donald Trump · Lisa Cook · U.S. Supreme Court · Brett Kavanaugh · +2
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2026-01-21Trump Announces Greenland "Framework," Backs Off Tariffs at Davos 3 src
Donald Trump · Mark Rutte · North Atlantic Treaty Organization · Denmark · +1
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2026-01-21Trump Threatens Tariffs on Eight NATO Allies at Davos Over Greenland, Blasts Europe as 'Not Recognizable' 4 src
Donald Trump · Mark Rutte · Emmanuel Macron · Mark Carney · +1
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2026-01-20DOJ Serves Grand Jury Subpoenas to Governor Walz, Mayor Frey, and AG Ellison Over Immigration Enforcement 4 src
Tim Walz · Jacob Frey · Keith Ellison · Pam Bondi · +2
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2026-01-20Free America Walkout Draws Hundreds of Thousands Nationwide on Trump Inauguration Anniversary 3 src
Women's March · Donald Trump · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
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2026-01-19ICE Announces 3,000 Arrests in Operation Metro Surge 3 src
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem
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2026-01-18EU Convenes Emergency Meeting on Trump Greenland Tariff Threats 2 src
European Union · Donald Trump · Denmark
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2026-01-17Trump Announces 10% Tariffs on Eight NATO Allies Over Greenland 3 src
Donald Trump · Denmark · Norway · Sweden · +6
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2026-01-16SSA 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
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2026-01-16Trump 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
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2026-01-15Federal 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
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2026-01-15Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act in Minneapolis, Calls Protesters 'Highly Paid Professionals' 2 src
Donald Trump · Keith Ellison · Tim Walz
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2026-01-13DOJ 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
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2026-01-13Twelve Federal Prosecutors Resign Over DOJ Handling of Renee Good Shooting 5 src
Joseph Thompson · Thomas Calhoun-Lopez · Melinda Williams · Todd Blanche · +2
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2026-01-12Minnesota Attorney General Ellison and Twin Cities Sue DHS Over Operation Metro Surge 3 src
Keith Ellison · Kristi Noem · Minneapolis · Saint Paul · +1
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2026-01-12Senator Tillis Announces Opposition to All Trump Fed Nominees Over Powell Investigation 2 src
Thom Tillis · Donald Trump · Jerome Powell · Department of Justice
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2026-01-10ACA Subsidy Extension Passes House via Discharge Petition 230-196 2 src
Brian Fitzpatrick · Mike Lawler · Marc Molinaro · David Valadao · +4
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2026-01-10ICE 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
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2026-01-08CBP 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
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2026-01-08DHS 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
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2026-01-08Minneapolis 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)
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2026-01-07Border 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
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2026-01-07GOP Senator Tillis Calls Miller's Greenland Comments 'Insane,' Demands He Be Fired 2 src
Thom Tillis · Stephen Miller · Donald Trump
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