Democratic Erosion
The Democratic Erosion capture lane traces 465 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | Trump Signs Executive Order Directing Creation of National Verified Voter List and USPS Mail Ballot Control Donald Trump · DHS · Social Security Administration · USPS · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-28 | No Kings III Protest Announced for March 28 as Movement Plans Third Nationwide Mobilization No Kings Movement · Indivisible · American Civil Liberties Union · American Association of University Professors | reported | |
| 2026-03-24 | Markwayne Mullin Sworn In as DHS Secretary After 54-45 Senate Confirmation; Immediately Pauses WEXMAC-TITUS Warehouse Detention Buildout Markwayne Mullin · Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · John Fetterman · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-23 | 21 State AGs Sue to Block USDA "2026 Conditions" Tying Food Assistance to Ideological Compliance AG Letitia James · 20 other AGs | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-22 | Sanders Confirmed as Headliner for Flagship No Kings Rally at Minnesota State Capitol Sen. Bernie Sanders · Peggy Flanagan · Keith Ellison · Jane Fonda · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-19 | 24 States and 15 Local Governments Sue EPA Over Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding AG Letitia James · EPA · Trump administration | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-19 | Freedom House Reports U.S. at Lowest Score Ever, Net Decline of 12 Points Since 2005 Freedom House | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-19 | Nearly 100 Solidarity Schools Organizing Nationwide for May Day General Strike May Day Strong Coalition · Chicago Teachers Union · NEA · NNU · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-18 | 18 State AGs Demand Congress Pass Legislation Requiring Refunds of $166B in Unlawful IEEPA Tariffs AG Letitia James · AG Rob Bonta · AG Keith Ellison · 15 other AGs | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-18 | No Kings Coalition Confirms 3,000+ Events for March 28, Targeting 9 Million Participants No Kings Movement · Indivisible · MoveOn · ACLU · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-18 | V-Dem Downgrades U.S. from Liberal Democracy to Electoral Democracy in Historic Report V-Dem Institute · University of Gothenburg | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-18 | Win Without War Places 168 Children's Backpacks on Capitol Lawn Memorializing Minab School Victims Win Without War · Sen. Chris Van Hollen · Rep. Pramila Jayapal · Rep. Sara Jacobs | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-17 | Maryland Senate Committee Advances "No Kings Act" Making Federal Agents Liable for Civil Rights Violations Maryland General Assembly | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-17 | Senate Six Democrats Prepare to Grind Chamber to Halt Over Iran War Oversight Sen. Adam Schiff · Sen. Cory Booker · Sen. Tim Kaine · Sen. Chris Murphy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-17 | Social Circle, Georgia Shuts Off Water to Planned 10,000-Bed ICE Mega-Center Social Circle City Council · DHS · ICE | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-16 | Last Person Detained in Trump Campus Protest Crackdown Released from ICE Custody on $100K Bond Leqaa Kordia · ICE · Judge Tara Naslow | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-13 | 120+ House Democrats Demand Pentagon Explain AI's Role in Selecting Minab School Target That Killed 170+ Rep. Sara Jacobs · Pete Hegseth · House Democrats | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-13 | Al-Quds Day Demonstrations in New York, Houston, and Chicago Denounce US-Israeli Strikes ANSWER Coalition · AMP · CodePink · Black Alliance for Peace · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-12 | AI Industry Super PACs Pour $125 Million Into 2026 Midterms to Block Regulation, Targeting Candidates With Hidden Influence Campaign OpenAI · Anthropic · Andreessen Horowitz · Marc Andreessen · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | 17 State AGs Challenge Education Dept Demand for Seven Years of College Admissions Data AG Letitia James · AG Andrea Campbell · AG Bob Ferguson · 14 other AGs | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Bipartisan Senators Request GAO Audit of DOJ Handling of Epstein Files U.S. Senate · Dick Durbin · Ben Ray Lujan · Jeff Merkley · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Iran Sets Ceasefire Conditions as China and Russia Launch Diplomatic Intervention Masoud Pezeshkian · Kazem Gharibabadi · Wang Yi · Zhai Jun · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | No Kings Coalition Announces Nationwide March 28 Protests, Aims to Be Largest in U.S. History Indivisible · ACLU of Massachusetts · AFL-CIO · No Kings Coalition | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to End Deportation Protections for 350,000 Haitians Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Kristi Noem · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-10 | Public Citizen Report Finds Trump Removed More Inspectors General Than All Prior Presidents Combined Donald Trump · U.S. Office of Inspector General · Public Citizen | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-10 | Senate Democrats Demand Public Hearings on Iran War After Closed Briefing Raises Alarms Chuck Schumer · Elizabeth Warren · Jacky Rosen · Pete Hegseth · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-10 | U.S. Records Sharpest Press Freedom Drop in Americas, Falls from 4th to 11th Place Donald Trump · Inter American Press Association · Voice of America | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-10 | Washington Post Investigation Details How ICE Systematically Defied Court Orders During Minneapolis Enforcement Surge U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Department of Justice · Patrick Schiltz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | Anthropic Files Dual Federal Lawsuits Challenging Pentagon's Supply Chain Risk Designation as Unconstitutional Retaliation Anthropic · Dario Amodei · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | DOJ Appeals Blocked Executive Orders Targeting Law Firms, Claims Judges "Bent Over Backwards" to Rule Against Trump Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · Perkins Coie · WilmerHale · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | DOJ Public Integrity Section Gutted from 36 to 2 Lawyers, Stripped of Authority to File Cases U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | DOJ Pursues Retaliatory Investigations of Democratic Officials and Federal Reserve Chair U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Jeanine Pirro · Jerome Powell · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | Senate Democrats Demand Hegseth and Rubio Testify on Iran War, Threaten Repeated War Powers Votes Pete Hegseth · Marco Rubio · Tim Kaine · Chris Murphy · +8 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-08 | EFF and The Intercept Find OpenAI's Pentagon Deal Surveillance Guardrails Unenforceable, Warning of AI-Powered Domestic Surveillance Risk OpenAI · Sam Altman · U.S. Department of Defense · Electronic Frontier Foundation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-08 | Trump Threatens Legislative Blockade Until Congress Passes SAVE America Voter ID Act Donald Trump · U.S. Congress · Senate Republicans · Senate Democrats | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-07 | DOJ Appeals Four Court Rulings Blocking Trump Executive Orders Targeting Political Opponent Law Firms U.S. Department of Justice · Jenner and Block · Perkins Coie · Susman Godfrey · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-07 | OpenAI Robotics Chief Caitlin Kalinowski Resigns Over Pentagon Deal, Citing Surveillance and Autonomous Weapons Concerns OpenAI · Caitlin Kalinowski · Sam Altman · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-07 | Stand Up for Science Holds Nationwide 'Rally to Take Back Science' at 46+ Locations Stand Up for Science · U.S. National Institutes of Health · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · U.S. Department of Energy | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-07 | Trump Administration Escalates Campaign to Strip Federal Judges of Power to Block Presidential Orders Trump Administration · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. House of Representatives | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-06 | 29 Congress Members Demand DOD Inspector General Investigate Commanders Framing Iran War as Biblical Armageddon Rep. Jared Huffman · Rep. Jamie Raskin · Rep. Chrissy Houlahan · Military Religious Freedom Foundation · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-06 | DOJ and FBI National Security Divisions Decimated by Purges as U.S. Confronts Iran War U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation · Kash Patel · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-06 | DOJ Public Integrity Section Collapses to Two Lawyers, Gutting Federal Anti-Corruption Enforcement U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · U.S. Public Integrity Section | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-05 | 24 State Attorneys General Sue Trump Over New Tariffs After Supreme Court Struck Down Previous Ones New York Attorney General Letitia James · U.S. Court of International Trade · U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-05 | DOJ Releases Previously Withheld Epstein Files Containing Sexual Assault Allegations Against Trump U.S. Department of Justice · Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-05 | House Judiciary Committee Passes Shut Down Sanctuary Policies Act, Threatening Federal Funding Cuts Tom McClintock · House Judiciary Committee · U.S. House of Representatives · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-05 | Labor Unions and Activist Groups Escalate May Day 2026 General Strike Organizing Nationwide AFL-CIO · Socialist Alternative · Indivisible · Labor Notes · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-05 | Second Minnesota Federal Judge Threatens Contempt Against Feds Over ICE Detainees' Missing Property U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Justice · Patrick Schiltz · Jeffrey Bryan | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-05 | Trump Fires DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Names Sen. Markwayne Mullin as Replacement Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · Markwayne Mullin · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | Democratic State AGs File Record 71 Lawsuits Against Trump Administration in First Year of Second Term Democratic State Attorneys General · New York Attorney General Letitia James · California Attorney General Rob Bonta · American Immigration Council | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | Environmental Groups Press Legal Challenge Against EPA's Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding Earthjustice · Clean Air Task Force · U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | Judge Bryan Weighs Contempt for U.S. Attorney Rosen Over ICE Property Seizures Jeffrey Bryan · Daniel Rosen · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | OPM Data Confirms Federal Workforce Shrunk 12% Under DOGE, 386,000 Positions Eliminated Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Donald Trump · U.S. Office of Personnel Management · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-03 | AI Industry Super PAC Backed by OpenAI Insiders and Palantir Pours Millions Into Blocking AI-Regulation Candidate Alex Bores OpenAI · Palantir Technologies · Greg Brockman · Joe Lonsdale · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-03 | DOJ Drops Then Rapidly Reverses Course on Law Firm Retaliation Cases in Chaotic 24-Hour Reversal U.S. Department of Justice · Jenner and Block · Perkins Coie · WilmerHale · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-03 | Kash Patel Fires FBI Counterintelligence Unit That Tracked Iran, Days Before U.S. Strikes Kash Patel · U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Department of Justice · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-03 | New Jersey Federal Judge Threatens Criminal Contempt After ICE Violates Transfer Orders 17 Times U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Justice · Baljinder Kumar | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-03 | Senate Republicans Block Four Democratic Resolutions Condemning Trump Foreign Emoluments and Crypto Conflicts U.S. Senate · Richard Blumenthal · Brian Schatz · Senate Republican Caucus · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-14 | DHS Shutdown Begins But Immigration Enforcement Continues DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Chuck Schumer | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-13 | Noem Terminates Temporary Protected Status for Yemen Kristi Noem · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-12 | Homan Announces End to Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota Tom Homan · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Tim Walz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-06 | DOJ Admits Epstein Redaction Errors as Victim Advocates Demand Website Shutdown Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Brad Edwards · Brittany Henderson | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-02 | Deputy AG Blanche Announces No Further Epstein Prosecutions Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Ro Khanna | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-02 | RFK Jr. Announces $100 Million STREETS Initiative for Homelessness and Addiction Treatment Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration · Administration for Children and Families | confirmed | |
| 2026-02-01 | NATO Tariff Deadline Passes After Trump Greenland Framework Agreement Donald Trump · North Atlantic Treaty Organization · Denmark · Mark Rutte | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-30 | DOJ Epstein Files Release Exposes 43+ Survivor Names in Historic Privacy Violation Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-30 | Federal Courts Issue Multiple Permanent Injunctions Blocking Trump's Anti-Voting Executive Order U.S. District Court · American Civil Liberties Union · Brennan Center for Justice · Democracy Docket · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-29 | Trump Creates Great American Recovery Initiative for Addiction Crisis Donald Trump · White House · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Kathryn Burgum · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-29 | Trump Declares Cuba National Emergency, Threatens Tariffs on Oil Trading Partners Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Commerce · Department of State | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-28 | Ninth Circuit Rules DHS Exceeded Authority Terminating Venezuelan TPS Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · Kristi Noem · National TPS Alliance · American Civil Liberties Union | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-24 | Border Patrol Agents Kill Alex Pretti, Second Legal Observer Shot in Minneapolis in Three Weeks Alex Pretti · U.S. Border Patrol · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Todd Blanche · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-23 | Minnesota General Strike Becomes Largest in State's History, Spreads to 300 Cities Nationwide Minnesota AFL-CIO · Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 · SEIU Local 26 · UNITE HERE Local 17 · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-22 | Whistleblowers Reveal Secret ICE Memo Authorizing Agents to Enter Homes Without Judicial Warrants Todd Lyons · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Kristi Noem · Richard Blumenthal · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-21 | Supreme Court Hears Trump v. Cook, Justices Skeptical of Presidential Power to Fire Federal Reserve Governors Donald Trump · Lisa Cook · U.S. Supreme Court · Brett Kavanaugh · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-21 | Trump Announces Greenland "Framework," Backs Off Tariffs at Davos Donald Trump · Mark Rutte · North Atlantic Treaty Organization · Denmark · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-21 | Trump Threatens Tariffs on Eight NATO Allies at Davos Over Greenland, Blasts Europe as 'Not Recognizable' Donald Trump · Mark Rutte · Emmanuel Macron · Mark Carney · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-20 | DOJ Serves Grand Jury Subpoenas to Governor Walz, Mayor Frey, and AG Ellison Over Immigration Enforcement Tim Walz · Jacob Frey · Keith Ellison · Pam Bondi · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-20 | Free America Walkout Draws Hundreds of Thousands Nationwide on Trump Inauguration Anniversary Women's March · Donald Trump · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-19 | ICE Announces 3,000 Arrests in Operation Metro Surge Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kristi Noem | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-18 | EU Convenes Emergency Meeting on Trump Greenland Tariff Threats European Union · Donald Trump · Denmark | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-17 | Trump Announces 10% Tariffs on Eight NATO Allies Over Greenland Donald Trump · Denmark · Norway · Sweden · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-16 | SSA Reveals DOGE Staffers Misused Social Security Data, Signed Secret Voter Roll Agreement While Under Court Order 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 Donald Trump · Steve Witkoff · Benjamin Netanyahu · Jared Kushner · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-15 | Federal Judge Rules ICE Violated Fourth Amendment by Breaking Into Minneapolis Home Without Judicial Warrant Jeffrey Bryan · Garrison Gibson · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Tricia McLaughlin | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-15 | Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act in Minneapolis, Calls Protesters 'Highly Paid Professionals' Donald Trump · Keith Ellison · Tim Walz | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-13 | DOJ Civil Rights Division Leaders Mass Resign Over Refusal to Investigate Renee Good Killing Harmeet Dhillon · Joseph H. Thompson · Jim Felte · Todd Blanche · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-13 | Twelve Federal Prosecutors Resign Over DOJ Handling of Renee Good Shooting Joseph Thompson · Thomas Calhoun-Lopez · Melinda Williams · Todd Blanche · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-12 | Minnesota Attorney General Ellison and Twin Cities Sue DHS Over Operation Metro Surge Keith Ellison · Kristi Noem · Minneapolis · Saint Paul · +1 | confirmed | |
| 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 | |
| 2026-01-10 | ACA Subsidy Extension Passes House via Discharge Petition 230-196 Brian Fitzpatrick · Mike Lawler · Marc Molinaro · David Valadao · +4 | 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 | |
| 2026-01-08 | 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 | 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 | |
| 2026-01-07 | 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 | GOP Senator Tillis Calls Miller's Greenland Comments 'Insane,' Demands He Be Fired Thom Tillis · Stephen Miller · Donald Trump | 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 | |
| 2026-01-04 | Worldwide Protests Condemn U.S. Invasion of Venezuela, Over 100 U.S. Cities Plan Demonstrations Donald Trump | 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 | |
| 2025-12-30 | Bannon Reveals He Is Organizing 'Irish National Party,' Promises 'Irish Trump' Steve Bannon | confirmed |