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Democratic Erosion

The Democratic Erosion capture lane traces 522 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

522 events From Jan 1, 1142 To Jun 18, 2026 Open in filter view →
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DateEventLanesStatus
2026-06-18SCOTUS Unanimously Strikes Down Drug-User Gun Ban (US v. Hemani) — Bruen Extension Narrows Federal Criminal Firearms Law 3 src
Neil Gorsuch · Donald Trump · Supreme Court
confirmed
2026-06-17Judge Talwani Lets 24-State Challenge to Trump's Mail-Ballot EO Proceed, Rejecting the 'Postpone Review' Argument as the Election Window Narrows 4 src
Rob Bonta · Donald Trump · USPS · Markwayne Mullin
confirmed
2026-06-16Data Leak Exposes Membership of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society — Bessent, Cruz, Booker, Musk, a NATO Commander, and a Stanford President on the List 4 src
Peter Thiel · Scott Bessent · Ted Cruz · Cory Booker · +4
confirmed
2026-06-05DOJ Files Supplemental Response to Mehta's Oath Keepers Order; Response Described by Critics as Insufficient 4 src
Judge Amit Mehta · Todd Blanche · DOJ · Stewart Rhodes · +2
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2026-05-29Judge Mehta Blocks DOJ Motion to Dismiss Oath Keepers Cases with Prejudice; Orders DOJ Explain Public Interest by June 5 5 src
Judge Amit Mehta · Todd Blanche · DOJ · Stewart Rhodes · +2
confirmed
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 · Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Trump Administration
confirmed
2026-05-07Pentagon CDAO Quintuples Scale AI Contract to $500M Using No-Bid OTA — Eight Months After Original Award 6 src
Scale AI · Pete Hegseth · Emil Michael · Alexandr Wang
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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
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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 · Hennepin County Attorney's Office · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
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2026-04-15Jenn Budd Appears on Frank Figliuzzi Show, Discusses CBP Cover-Up Teams and CIT-to-OPR Personnel Rotation 6 src
Rodney Scott
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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
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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
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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
2026-04-07US and Iran Agree to Two-Week Ceasefire After Trump Threatens to Destroy Iranian Civilization 3 src
Donald Trump · Iran · Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
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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
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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
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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
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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
Indivisible · American Civil Liberties Union
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 · +5
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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
U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Alex Pretti · Renee Good
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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
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2026-03-22Sanders Confirmed as Headliner for Flagship No Kings Rally at Minnesota State Capitol 4 src
Bernie Sanders · Keith Ellison · AFL-CIO · SEIU · +1
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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
NEA
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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
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2026-03-18No Kings Coalition Confirms 3,000+ Events for March 28, Targeting 9 Million Participants 3 src
Indivisible · MoveOn · ACLU · AFT · +2
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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
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2026-03-18Win Without War Places 168 Children's Backpacks on Capitol Lawn Memorializing Minab School Victims 4 src
Chris Van Hollen · Pramila Jayapal
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2026-03-17Maryland Senate Committee Advances "No Kings Act" Making Federal Agents Liable for Civil Rights Violations 3 src confirmed
2026-03-17Senate Six Democrats Prepare to Grind Chamber to Halt Over Iran War Oversight 2 src
Adam Schiff · Cory Booker · Tim Kaine · 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
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
ICE
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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
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 srcconfirmed
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 · +4
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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
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2026-03-11Bipartisan Senators Request GAO Audit of DOJ Handling of Epstein Files 4 src
U.S. Senate · Dick Durbin · Jeff Merkley · Lisa Murkowski · +3
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2026-03-11Iran Sets Ceasefire Conditions as China and Russia Launch Diplomatic Intervention 5 src
Masoud Pezeshkian · Vladimir Putin · Donald Trump · Islamic Republic of Iran · +1
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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 · 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 · 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 · Pete Hegseth · Marco Rubio · +1
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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 · 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
confirmed
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 · +1
confirmed
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
confirmed
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 · 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
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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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
Jamie Raskin · Chrissy Houlahan · U.S. Department of Defense · Pete Hegseth
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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 · Kash Patel · Donald Trump · Pam Bondi
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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
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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
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 · Indivisible
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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
New York Attorney General Letitia James · California Attorney General Rob Bonta · American Immigration Council
confirmed
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
confirmed
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
confirmed
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. Department of the Treasury · +1
confirmed
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 · +3
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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
confirmed
2026-03-03Kash Patel Fires FBI Counterintelligence Unit That Tracked Iran, Days Before U.S. Strikes 3 src
Kash Patel · U.S. Department of Justice · Donald Trump
confirmed
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
confirmed
2026-03-03Senate Republicans Block Four Democratic Resolutions Condemning Trump Foreign Emoluments and Crypto Conflicts 4 src
U.S. Senate · Richard Blumenthal · Donald Trump · World Liberty Financial
confirmed
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 · Alex Pretti · Hennepin County Attorney's Office · Mary Moriarty
confirmed
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
confirmed
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
confirmed
2026-02-11Body Camera Footage and Agent Texts Released in Marimar Martinez Case, Showing CBP Steered Into Her Vehicle and Bragged About Shooting 3 src
Marimar Martinez · Charles Exum · Judge Georgia Alexakis · Gregory Bovino
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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
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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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2026-01-31'ICE Out of Everywhere' Protests Hit All 50 States at ICE Facilities and Congressional Offices 4 src
Women's March
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2026-01-31154 Episcopal bishops sign 'Whose Dignity Matters?' letter naming Renee Good and Alex Pretti as victims of state-sanctioned violence 3 src
Alex Pretti
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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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2026-01-30Second National Shutdown and 'Day of Truth and Freedom' Draws Tens of Thousands Against ICE 5 srcconfirmed
2026-01-29Trump Creates Great American Recovery Initiative for Addiction Crisis 3 src
Donald Trump · White House · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
confirmed
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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2026-01-28Bovino sidelined from Minneapolis command and sent back to El Centro as Homan takes over; DHS disputes 'removed' framing 4 src
Gregory Bovino · Tom Homan · Rodney Scott · Tricia McLaughlin · +3
confirmed
2026-01-28Ninth Circuit Rules DHS Exceeded Authority Terminating Venezuelan TPS 3 src
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · Kristi Noem · American Civil Liberties Union
confirmed
2026-01-27Stella Carlson, Witness Whose Video Contradicted Official Pretti Claims, Tells CNN the FBI Has Not Contacted Her 4 src
Alex Pretti · CNN · Anderson Cooper
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2026-01-26GOP Candidate Chris Madel Quits Minnesota Governor Race, Calls Operation Metro Surge an 'Unmitigated Disaster' 5 src
Jonathan Ross · Renee Good
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2026-01-25Fox's Bartiromo and CNN's Bash both publicly press administration officials over the Pretti shooting narrative 4 src
Kash Patel · Gregory Bovino · Kristi Noem
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2026-01-25Over 60 Minnesota CEOs sign Chamber of Commerce open letter calling for de-escalation of Operation Metro Surge 3 srcconfirmed
2026-01-24At Pretti Killing Scene, DHS Blocks Minnesota BCA Despite Judge-Signed Warrant; Police Chief O'Hara Says Scene Was Contaminated and HSI Takes Over Self-Investigation 5 src
Alex Pretti · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · Kash Patel · U.S. Border Patrol
confirmed
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 · +4
confirmed