| 2016-08-18 | Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates Issues Memo to Phase Out Federal Private Prisons, Citing Safety Problems and High Costs
3 src Sally Yates · Department of Justice · Bureau of Prisons · CoreCivic · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2016-06-28 | Hillbilly Elegy Published - Vance as Trump Critic
4 src J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · ABC News |
| confirmed |
| 2016-03-29 | Seventeen State Attorneys General Announce ExxonMobil Climate Fraud Investigations
4 src Eric Schneiderman · ExxonMobil · New York Attorney General |
| confirmed |
| 2016-01-01 | YouTube Algorithm Optimizes for Watch Time, Systematically Amplifies Extremism
4 src YouTube · Google |
| confirmed |
| 2015-09-16 | InsideClimate News Launches
4 src ExxonMobil · Columbia University |
| confirmed |
| 2015-06-25 | Supreme Court Rejects King v. Burwell Challenge to ACA Subsidies in Federal Exchanges
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Antonin Scalia |
| confirmed |
| 2015-06-09 | Maine Governor LePage Threatens to Withhold School Funding to Block Political Opponent's Hiring
7 src | | confirmed |
| 2014-12-16 | Marco Rubio's Risk Corridor Amendment Triggers ACA Insurance Market Destabilization
4 src Marco Rubio · U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| confirmed |
| 2014-07-26 | Orbán Names the Project: 'The New State We Are Building in Hungary Is an Illiberal State'
10 src Viktor Orbán |
| reported |
| 2014-07-04 | Richard Mellon Scaife Dies After Investing $620 Million in Conservative Movement Infrastructure
4 src Richard Scaife · Heritage Foundation · Federalist Society · State Policy Network · +2 | | confirmed |
| 2014-03-18 | Annexation of Crimea: Putin's Strategic Asset Seizure
4 src Vladimir Putin |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-25 | ALEC States Immediately Implement Voter Restrictions After Shelby County Decision
3 src North Carolina Legislature · American Legislative Exchange Council · U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 2013-06-25 | Shelby County Decision Guts Voting Rights Act Preclearance
5 src Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · John Roberts |
| confirmed |
| 2013-05-21 | Senate Investigates Google Tax Avoidance, Exposes 2.4% Foreign Tax Rate
4 src Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations · Carl Levin · John McCain · Google · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2012-10-22 | Climate Scientist Michael Mann Files Defamation Lawsuit Against Climate Denial Writers
4 src Michael Mann · Competitive Enterprise Institute |
| confirmed |
| 2012-06-28 | Supreme Court Makes ACA Medicaid Expansion Optional, Enabling State Obstruction
5 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Republican Governors |
| confirmed |
| 2012-06-07 | 38 Studios Files Chapter 7 Bankruptcy After $75 Million Rhode Island Loan Guarantee, Leaving Taxpayers with $38.6 Million Loss
4 src Wells Fargo · Securities and Exchange Commission |
| confirmed |
| 2012-03-02 | Iowa Governor Branstad Signs Nation's First Modern Ag-Gag Law Criminalizing Undercover Documentation of Agricultural Facility Abuses, Using ALEC Model Legislation to Shield Corporate Factory Farms from Whistleblower Investigations
4 src American Legislative Exchange Council |
| confirmed |
| 2012-02-27 | WikiLeaks Publishes 5 Million Stratfor Emails Revealing Private Intelligence Firm's Surveillance of Activists and Corporate Espionage
4 src WikiLeaks · Julian Assange · Anonymous · Lockheed Martin · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2011-01-01 | 34 States Introduce ALEC Voter ID Bills in Coordinated Suppression Campaign
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Republican state legislators · Heritage Foundation · State Policy Network |
| confirmed |
| 2010-06-24 | DISCLOSE Act Passes House But GOP Blocks Senate Vote on Citizens United Response
4 src Chuck Schumer · Chris Van Hollen · Mitch McConnell · Barack Obama · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2010-05-28 | Anastasio Hernandez Rojas Beaten and Tasered to Death by Border Patrol at San Ysidro; CIT Cover-Up Begins Same Day
8 src Rodney Scott |
| confirmed |
| 2010-01-27 | Obama Criticizes Citizens United at State of Union, Alito Responds 'Not True'
4 src Barack Obama · Samuel Alito · John Roberts · Ruth Bader Ginsburg · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-09-12 | 9/12 Taxpayer March on Washington Demonstrates Koch Network Mobilization Power
3 src FreedomWorks · Americans for Prosperity · Dick Armey · David Koch · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 2009-07-17 | ALEC Creates Model Voter ID Legislation Following Obama Election
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Hans von Spakovsky · Heritage Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 2009-02-19 | Rick Santelli CNBC Rant Triggers Immediate Koch Network Tea Party Response
3 src David Koch · Charles Koch · Americans for Prosperity · FreedomWorks · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2008-09-11 | Kids for Cash Scandal Exposed: Pennsylvania Judges Accepted $2.8 Million in Kickbacks to Fill Private Juvenile Detention Centers
4 src |
| confirmed |
| 2004-07-22 | Koch Network Restructures: CSE Splits into FreedomWorks and Americans for Prosperity
3 src David Koch · Charles Koch · Dick Armey · FreedomWorks · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2004-01-22 | DC Opportunity Scholarship Program - First Federally-Funded School Voucher System
3 src George W. Bush · Heritage Foundation · American Federation for Children |
| confirmed |
| 2002-10-25 | WHIG Coordinates Post-Vote Intelligence Suppression Campaign
3 src White House Iraq Group · Dick Cheney · Karl Rove · Condoleezza Rice · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2002-06-27 | Zelman v. Simmons-Harris - Supreme Court Upholds School Vouchers for Religious Schools
3 src William Rehnquist · Sandra Day O'Connor · Clarence Thomas · Institute for Justice · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | ALEC Membership Reaches 2,000+ State Legislators - Represents One-Quarter to One-Third of All State Legislators Nationwide
5 src American Legislative Exchange Council |
| confirmed |
| 2000-01-01 | Indigenous Consensus Decision-Making: A Democratic Innovation Framework
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1999-08-09 | Putin Appointed Prime Minister by Yeltsin
3 src Vladimir Putin · Boris Yeltsin |
| confirmed |
| 1998-10-01 | Electronic Industries Alliance Blacklisting - K Street Project Enforcement
3 src Tom DeLay · Newt Gingrich · Jack Abramoff · Grover Norquist |
| confirmed |
| 1998-04-01 | American Petroleum Institute Drafts Secret Climate Denial Strategy Document
3 src American Petroleum Institute · ExxonMobil · Chevron |
| confirmed |
| 1994-11-08 | Republicans Win Historic Midterm Election with Contract with America
3 src Newt Gingrich · Dick Armey · Richard Mellon Scaife · Joseph Coors · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1994-07-01 | Wackenhut Corrections (Later GEO Group) Goes Public on NASDAQ, Second Major Private Prison Company Enters Wall Street
3 src GEO Group · George C. Zoley · Wackenhut Corporation · Nasdaq |
| confirmed |
| 1992-11-03 | Oregon Voters Defeat Measure 9, Anti-LGBTQ Constitutional Amendment Backed by Christian Right
4 src Christian Coalition |
| confirmed |
| 1992-10-29 | FDA Prescription Drug User Fee Act Creates Financial Dependence on Pharmaceutical Industry
3 src Food and Drug Administration · PhRMA · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1990-03-27 | Milwaukee Parental Choice Program Creates First Publicly-Funded Private School Vouchers
3 src Bradley Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 1988-01-01 | Maxwell Acquires Macmillan Publishers, Expanding US Media Empire at Massive Cost
3 src Robert Maxwell |
| confirmed |
| 1987-09-16 | Senate Resolution Acknowledges Haudenosaunee Influence on Constitution During Bicentennial Celebrations
2 src U.S. Senate · Haudenosaunee Confederacy |
| confirmed |
| 1987-01-01 | Wackenhut Corrections Wins First Federal Immigration Detention Contract in Aurora, Colorado
4 src Wackenhut Corporation · George C. Zoley · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Reagan Administration |
| confirmed |
| 1986-10-01 | Corrections Corporation of America Goes Public on NASDAQ at $9 Per Share, Wall Street Bets on Mass Incarceration
3 src Corrections Corporation of America · Thomas W. Beasley · Nasdaq |
| confirmed |
| 1984-01-22 | First Fully Privatized Prison Opens in Houston Under CCA Contract with Immigration and Naturalization Service
3 src Corrections Corporation of America · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Thomas W. Beasley |
| confirmed |
| 1983-01-28 | Corrections Corporation of America Founded in Nashville, Launching Modern Private Prison Industry
3 src Thomas W. Beasley · Corrections Corporation of America |
| confirmed |
| 1982-01-01 | Federalist Society Founded to Capture Conservative Legal Pipeline
3 src Steven Calabresi · David McIntosh · Lee Liberman Otis · Yale Law School |
| confirmed |
| 1980-01-01 | Banking Industry Launches Systematic Campaign to Erode Glass-Steagall Act
3 src Federal Reserve Board · Alan Greenspan |
| confirmed |
| 1979-06-01 | Falwell and Weyrich Found Moral Majority, Fusing Religious Right with Corporate Agenda
5 src Jerry Falwell · Paul Weyrich · Richard Viguerie · Howard Phillips · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1978-12-31 | Corporate Lobbying Presence Quintuples in Washington DC
3 src U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Lewis Powell |
| confirmed |
| 1978-01-01 | Jude Wanniski Publishes "The Way the World Works," Supply-Side Economics Manifesto
2 src Jude Wanniski · Arthur Laffer · Wall Street Journal |
| confirmed |
| 1978-01-01 | Robert Bork Publishes "The Antitrust Paradox," Revolutionizing Corporate Power
3 src Robert Bork · Aaron Director · Chicago School of Economics |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | Charles Koch Founds Cato Institute with $500,000, Expanding Libertarian Infrastructure
3 src Charles Koch · Murray Rothbard · Koch Industries |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | Milton Friedman Begins Development of "Free to Choose" PBS Series on Free Markets
4 src Milton Friedman |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | William E. Simon Becomes Olin Foundation President, Launching Strategic Conservative Funding
2 src John M. Olin · John M. Olin Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 1975-04-28 | Church Committee Exposes Psychological Manipulation Techniques in Government Operations
4 src Frank Church · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community · National Security Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1975-01-01 | Paul Weyrich Becomes First Director of ALEC, Consolidating State Legislative Strategy
3 src Paul Weyrich · American Legislative Exchange Council · Henry Hyde |
| confirmed |
| 1974-12-01 | Arthur Laffer Sketches Curve on Napkin with Rumsfeld and Cheney, Creating Supply-Side Icon
2 src Arthur Laffer · Jude Wanniski · Donald Rumsfeld · Dick Cheney |
| confirmed |
| 1974-01-01 | American Enterprise Institute Establishes Center for Health Policy Research
2 src American Enterprise Institute |
| confirmed |
| 1974-01-01 | Richard Butler Establishes Aryan Nations Compound in Hayden Lake, Idaho
11 src Ku Klux Klan | | confirmed |
| 1974-01-01 | Richard Scaife Begins Major Funding of Heritage Foundation as Primary Donor
3 src Richard Mellon Scaife · Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner |
| confirmed |
| 1974-01-01 | Weyrich Founds Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, Expanding Infrastructure
2 src Paul Weyrich · Joseph Coors |
| confirmed |
| 1973-06-25 | Opus Dei: Canonical Recognition and Unique Ecclesiastical Status
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1973-02-16 | Heritage Foundation Founded by Conservative Activists and Business Leaders
4 src Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · Joseph Coors · Heritage Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 1973-01-22 | Supreme Court Decides Roe v. Wade, Triggering Conservative Backlash and Mobilization
2 src U.S. Supreme Court |
| confirmed |
| 1973-01-01 | Paul Weyrich Begins Official Coalition Meetings, Coordinating Conservative Movement
3 src Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · Joseph Coors · Richard Viguerie | | confirmed |
| 1970-04-22 | First Earth Day Mobilizes 20 Million Americans, Launches Modern Environmental Movement
3 src Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1970-01-01 | John Olin Activates Foundation to Fund Law and Economics Programs at Elite Universities
3 src John M. Olin · John M. Olin Foundation | | confirmed |
| 1970-01-01 | Maxwell Establishes Eastern Bloc Scientific Literature Publishing Network
3 src Robert Maxwell |
| confirmed |
| 1970-01-01 | Richard Viguerie Pioneers Computerized Direct Mail, Revolutionizing Conservative Fundraising
3 src Richard Viguerie · Paul Weyrich · Howard Phillips · Terry Dolan |
| confirmed |
| 1969-12-04 | FBI and Chicago Police Assassinate Black Panther Leader Fred Hampton in Pre-Dawn Raid
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Chicago Police Department · Black Panther Party |
| confirmed |
| 1968-06-05 | Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated in Los Angeles After California Primary Victory
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · LAPD |
| confirmed |
| 1968-03-01 | Kerner Commission Report Identifying White Racism as Riot Cause Rejected by LBJ and Ignored Sparking Law-and-Order Backlash
4 src Lyndon B. Johnson · Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1967-07-28 | Reagan Signs Mulford Act Gun Control Law With NRA Support to Disarm Black Panthers Armed Patrols
4 src Ronald Reagan · National Rifle Association · Black Panther Party · California State Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 1966-07-04 | Freedom of Information Act Signed After Decade of Executive Branch Opposition
3 src Lyndon B. Johnson | | confirmed |
| 1966-06-13 | Miranda v. Arizona Decision Requiring Rights Warnings Sparks Law Enforcement Backlash and Conservative Law-and-Order Politics
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Earl Warren · Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1966-01-01 | Wackenhut Corporation Acquires HUAC Staffer's Files, Claims Dossiers on 4+ Million Americans
4 src Wackenhut Corporation · House Un-American Activities Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1964-06-21 | Mississippi Burning Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner During Freedom Summer Voter Registration
3 src Ku Klux Klan · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 1963-10-10 | Attorney General Robert Kennedy Authorizes FBI Wiretapping of Martin Luther King Jr.
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Martin Luther King Jr. · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 1962-12-31 | William Volker Fund Closes After Financing Chicago School and Mont Pelerin Society
3 src Hoover Institution · Aaron Director · Milton Friedman · Murray Rothbard | | confirmed |
| 1958-11-04 | AFL-CIO Defeats Right-to-Work Campaigns in Five of Six States, Major Democratic Resistance Victory
3 src AFL-CIO · National Right to Work Committee | | confirmed |
| 1957-06-17 | Yates v. United States Limits Smith Act Prosecutions, Supreme Court Begins Retreat from McCarthyism
6 src Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · Communist Party USA · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 1957-03-01 | Indiana Passes Right-to-Work Law, So Unpopular It's Repealed Within Eight Years
3 src Republican Party · Democratic Party · National Right to Work Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1956-11-13 | Supreme Court Affirms Montgomery Bus Segregation Unconstitutional, Boycott Ends in Victory
3 src Martin Luther King Jr. · U.S. Supreme Court · NAACP Legal Defense Fund | | confirmed |
| 1956-08-28 | FBI Director Hoover Launches COINTELPRO to Target Communist Party and Domestic Dissent
6 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Communist Party USA |
| confirmed |
| 1954-04-22 | Army-McCarthy Hearings Begin as Military Charges Senator with Improper Pressure for Aide
3 src Joseph McCarthy · Roy Cohn · U.S. Army · Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations | | confirmed |
| 1952-01-01 | Hollywood Blacklist Reaches Peak with Over 300 Industry Professionals Banned
3 src House Un-American Activities Committee · American Legion · Federal Bureau of Investigation · J. Edgar Hoover |
| confirmed |
| 1950-06-22 | Red Channels Published, Launching Broadcasting Blacklist and Corporate "Smear and Clear" Racket
3 src NBC · CBS |
| confirmed |
| 1947-11-25 | Waldorf Statement Launches Hollywood Blacklist, Studio Executives Pledge to Fire Hollywood Ten
3 src Paramount Pictures |
| confirmed |
| 1947-10-20 | HUAC Hollywood Hearings Begin, Studio Executives Cooperate as "Friendly Witnesses"
6 src House Un-American Activities Committee · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1947-04-10 | Mont Pelerin Society Founded with Volker Fund Support, Launching International Free-Market Network
3 src Milton Friedman | | confirmed |
| 1946-05-01 | Operation Dixie Launched to Unionize the South, Met with Violent Corporate Resistance
3 src Congress of Industrial Organizations · United Auto Workers · Ku Klux Klan |
| confirmed |
| 1946-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Launches Massive Anti-Union Propaganda Campaign After Strike Wave
7 src National Association of Manufacturers · General Motors · U.S. Steel · General Electric · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1945-01-03 | HUAC Made Permanent Standing Committee, Institutionalizes Political Persecution
3 src U.S. House of Representatives · House Un-American Activities Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1944-07-21 | Democratic Convention Ousts Henry Wallace, Party Bosses Install Truman
3 src Harry Truman · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Democratic National Committee | | confirmed |
| 1943-01-01 | American Enterprise Association Moves to Washington to Oppose New Deal, Precursor to AEI Think Tank
3 src Eli Lilly |
| confirmed |
| 1928-08-27 | Kellogg-Briand Pact Outlaws War While Preserving Imperial Prerogatives
3 src Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 1919-11-07 | Palmer Raids Begin: Attorney General and J. Edgar Hoover Arrest 6,000 in 36 Cities, Deport 249 on "Soviet Ark"
4 src A. Mitchell Palmer · J. Edgar Hoover · U.S. Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1919-07-27 | Red Summer: Chicago Race Riot Erupts as White Mobs Attack Black Neighborhoods, 38 Killed
3 src Chicago Police Department |
| confirmed |