Electoral Manipulation
The Electoral Manipulation capture lane traces 425 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
Top 10 actors in this lane
10 actors · 1787–2026
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | Northrop Grumman Spends $10.86 Million on Lobbying with 29 Revolving Door Officials
3 src Northrop Grumman · U.S. Congress · Senate Armed Services Committee · House Armed Services Committee | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-12 | Trump Launches Third 'Mugshot' NFT Collection Generating $9.9 Million Revenue
3 src Donald Trump · NFT INT LLC | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-08 | Tenet Media Officially Launches Conservative Content Network with Tim Pool, Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson and Others
2 src Tenet Media · Lauren Chen · Liam Donovan · Tim Pool · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-29 | X reverses 2019 ban, allows U.S. political ads; verified accounts prioritized in recommendations
4 src X · Twitter · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-14 | Fulton County DA Fani Willis Indicts Trump and 18 Co-Defendants on Georgia RICO Charges
4 src Donald Trump · Fani Willis · Rudy Giuliani · Mark Meadows · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-01 | Jack Smith Indicts Trump on 4 Federal Counts for January 6 Conspiracy to Overturn Election
4 src Donald Trump · Jack Smith · Mike Pence · Rudy Giuliani · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-31 | Joe Rogan Promotes January 6 False Flag Conspiracy Theory, Claims FBI Orchestrated Insurrection to Frame Trump
2 src Joe Rogan · Ray Epps · Federal Bureau of Investigation · House Select Committee on January 6 | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-23 | Twitter Transformed to X with Systematic Content Moderation Rollback and Political Weaponization
3 src Elon Musk · Twitter · X · Center for Countering Digital Hate · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-07-01 | Amazon Refuses to Bargain with JFK8 Union, Pioneering Refuse-to-Bargain Union-Busting Tactic
3 src Amazon · Amazon Labor Union · National Labor Relations Board · Chris Smalls | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-30 | Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden Student Loan Forgiveness 6-3 - Protects Debt System Against Democratic Relief
3 src John Roberts · Joe Biden · Elena Kagan | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-27 | Supreme Court Rejects Dangerous "Independent State Legislature" Theory in Moore v. Harper
3 src US Supreme Court · North Carolina Legislature · Democracy advocates | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-23 | Jack Smith grants immunity to fake electors for testimony against Trump
3 src Jack Smith · Michael McDonald · Jim DeGraffenreid · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-08 | Allen v. Milligan reaffirms Voting Rights Act §2; orders additional majority-Black district in Alabama
5 src Supreme Court of the United States · State of Alabama · DOJ Civil Rights Division | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-02 | YouTube stops removing false claims about past U.S. elections
4 src YouTube · Google | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-11 | Amazon Refuses to Negotiate with JFK8 Union After NLRB Certification - Stalls Contract for Over a Year
3 src Amazon · Amazon Labor Union · Christian Smalls · National Labor Relations Board | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-03 | X expands permitted political advertising in the U.S.
4 src X · Twitter · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | CNP Members Lead Project 2025 Coalition Organizations - Coordination Infrastructure for Trump Return
2 src Council for National Policy · Heritage Foundation · Edwin Meese III · William L. Walton · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-31 | Arabella Advisors Network Raises Record $1.35 Billion in Dark Money
3 src Arabella Advisors · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Hansjörg Wyss · Eric Kessler | confirmed | |
| 2022-12-12 | FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested, Charged with Campaign Finance Violations and $8 Billion Fraud
3 src Sam Bankman-Fried · FTX · U.S. Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-22 | Trump Hosts White Nationalist Nick Fuentes and Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago Dinner
3 src Donald Trump · Nick Fuentes · Kanye West | confirmed | |
| 2022-09-21 | NY Attorney General Files $250 Million Fraud Lawsuit Against Trump Organization
4 src Letitia James · Donald Trump · Ivanka Trump · Donald Trump Jr. · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-24 | Biden Announces $10K-$20K Student Loan Forgiveness Plan - 43 Million Borrowers Eligible
3 src Joe Biden · Miguel Cardona | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-07 | FTC Launches Bipartisan Investigation into PBM Market Concentration and Drug Pricing
2 src Federal Trade Commission · Lina Khan · Chuck Grassley · Maria Cantwell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-02 | Amazon Defeats Second Staten Island Union Vote at LDJ5 Facility 618 to 380
3 src Amazon · Christian Smalls · Amazon Labor Union | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-15 | Trump Endorses Vance Following Thiel's $15 Million Strategic Political Investment
3 src Donald Trump · J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel · Donald Trump Jr. · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-01 | Amazon JFK8 Workers Vote to Form Company's First U.S. Union in Historic Victory
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Christian Smalls · Amazon Labor Union | confirmed | |
| 2021-11-09 | Office of Special Counsel Report Documents Hatch Act Violations by 13 Senior Trump Officials, Finding "Willful Disregard" for Federal Law
4 src Mike Pompeo · Chad Wolf · Kellyanne Conway · Jared Kushner · +9 | confirmed | |
| 2021-08-02 | NLRB Hearing Officer Rules Amazon Illegally Interfered in Bessemer Election, Recommends New Vote
3 src National Labor Relations Board · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union | confirmed | |
| 2021-06-03 | FBI Investigates DeJoy Over Alleged Straw Donor Campaign Finance Scheme
4 src Louis DeJoy · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Carolyn Maloney · John Sarbanes | confirmed | |
| 2021-05-13 | Leaked Video Exposes Heritage Action's $24 Million Voter Suppression Campaign Coordinating State Legislation
4 src Heritage Action · Jessica Anderson · Heritage Foundation · Hans von Spakovsky · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2021-04-09 | Amazon Defeats Bessemer Union Vote 1,798 to 738 After Intensive Anti-Union Campaign
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union | confirmed | |
| 2021-04-06 | Stephen Miller Founds America First Legal to Challenge Biden Administration and Advance White Nationalist Agenda
3 src Stephen Miller · Mark Meadows · Matthew Whitaker | confirmed | |
| 2021-03-25 | Georgia SB 202 Enacts Comprehensive Voter Suppression with Multiple ALEC Provisions
3 src Governor Brian Kemp · Georgia Republican Legislature · Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger · American Legislative Exchange Council | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-15 | Republican State Parties Censure Senators Who Voted to Convict Trump
4 src Bill Cassidy · Richard Burr · Ben Sasse · Pat Toomey · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-13 | McConnell Says Trump "Practically and Morally Responsible" Minutes After Voting to Acquit
4 src Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · Senate Republicans | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-13 | Senate Acquits Trump 57-43 Despite Bipartisan Majority Finding Him Guilty
4 src Donald Trump · Mitt Romney · Richard Burr · Bill Cassidy · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-13 | Senate Votes 55-45 to Call Witnesses, Then Reverses After McConnell Threatens Delay
3 src Jaime Herrera Beutler · Kevin McCarthy · Donald Trump · Jamie Raskin · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-10 | Impeachment Managers Present Devastating 13-Minute Video Compilation of January 6 Attack
4 src Jamie Raskin · Stacey Plaskett · Eric Swalwell · Eugene Goodman · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-09 | Second Impeachment Trial Begins with Constitutional Debate on Trying Former President
4 src Donald Trump · Patrick Leahy · Bruce Castor · David Schoen · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2021-02-08 | Amazon Launches Massive Anti-Union Campaign at Bessemer Alabama Warehouse
3 src Jeff Bezos · Amazon · Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union · Morgan Lewis | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-25 | Pelosi Transmits Impeachment Article to Senate After Biden Inauguration
4 src Nancy Pelosi · Jamie Raskin · Chuck Schumer · Mitch McConnell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-20 | Freedom House Downgrades US Democracy Score to 83/100
3 src Freedom House · United States · Donald Trump · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-13 | House Impeaches Trump for Second Time on Single Charge of "Incitement of Insurrection"
3 src Donald Trump · Nancy Pelosi · Liz Cheney · Adam Kinzinger · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | At Least Six CNP Members Coordinate January 6 Rally - Conservative Network's Role in Insurrection
2 src Council for National Policy · Charlie Kirk · Jenny Beth Martin · Ali Alexander · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | January 6 Capitol Insurrection Represents Culmination of WHIG Constitutional Crisis Template Implementation for Oligarchic Governance Establishment
3 src Donald Trump · Proud Boys · Oath Keepers · Roger Stone · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-06 | Stephen Miller Writes Trump's January 6 Ellipse Speech, Adds Language About Pence Overturning Election
3 src Stephen Miller · Donald Trump · Mike Pence | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-04 | Jeffrey Clark admits in Signal messages that classified briefing yielded "nothing helpful" for Trump
4 src Jeffrey Clark · Scott Perry · Donald Trump · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-03 | Jeffrey Clark Attempts DOJ Coup to Overturn Election
6 src Jeffrey Clark · Donald Trump · Jeffrey Rosen · Richard Donoghue · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-02 | CNP Attorney Cleta Mitchell Joins Trump Call Pressuring Georgia Officials
2 src Cleta Mitchell · Donald Trump · Brad Raffensperger · Council for National Policy | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-02 | Trump Calls Georgia Secretary of State to Find 11,780 Votes
3 src Donald Trump · Brad Raffensperger · Mark Meadows · Cleta Mitchell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-01 | 440 Voter Restriction Bills Introduced in 49 States - ALEC's Largest Suppression Wave
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Heritage Foundation · Heritage Action · Republican state legislators · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-01 | ALEC Develops New Model Election Bills to Implement Trump's "Big Lie"
2 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Heritage Foundation · Heritage Action · State Policy Network · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-01 | Barre Seid Donates $1.6 Billion to Leonard Leo Dark Money Network
4 src Barre Seid · Leonard Leo · Marble Freedom Trust | confirmed | |
| 2021-01-01 | Larry Ellison Donates $30 Million to Tim Scott's Super PAC Over 2021-2022
3 src Larry Ellison · Tim Scott · Oracle · Opportunity Matters Fund | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-27 | No Surprises Act Bans Surprise Medical Billing After Years of Private Equity Industry Obstruction
3 src U.S. Congress · TeamHealth · Envision Healthcare · Blackstone Group · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-27 | Trump tells acting AG "just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me"
4 src Donald Trump · Jeffrey Rosen · Richard Donoghue · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-14 | Trump Campaign Organizes Fake Electors in Seven States
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Campaign · Republican National Committee · Kenneth Chesebro · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-14 | Trump privately admits defeat saying "Can you believe I lost to this f'ing guy?"
4 src Donald Trump · Joe Biden · Mike Pence | confirmed | |
| 2020-12-10 | CNP Leadership Releases Letter Urging State Legislators to Reject 25 Million Votes
2 src Council for National Policy · Cleta Mitchell · Republican state legislators | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-30 | Giuliani admits to Arizona Speaker "We don't have evidence, but we have lots of theories"
3 src Rudy Giuliani · Rusty Bowers · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-25 | Trump Pardons Michael Flynn After Guilty Plea and Sidney Powell Conspiracy Theories
4 src Donald Trump · Michael Flynn · Sidney Powell · Emmet Sullivan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-12 | CNP Holds Post-Election Strategy Meeting - Planning Electoral College Challenge
2 src Council for National Policy · Cleta Mitchell · J. Christian Adams · Hans von Spakovsky · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-12 | Newsmax CEO Admits "We Have No Evidence" of Election Fraud, Airs Claims 23 More Times
4 src Christopher Ruddy · Newsmax · Smartmatic · 2020 Election · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-04 | Vance Begins Election Denial Rhetoric
3 src J.D. Vance · Joe Biden · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-03 | Facebook Rolls Back Election Safety Measures Immediately After 2020 Vote, Enabling "Stop the Steal" Misinformation
4 src Facebook · Mark Zuckerberg · Frances Haugen · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-11-03 | Judge Sullivan Orders Emergency USPS Ballot Sweeps, DeJoy Initially Defies Court Order
4 src Emmet Sullivan · Louis DeJoy · USPS · Federal Courts | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-26 | Senate Confirms Amy Coney Barrett 52-48 Eight Days Before Election, Creating 6-3 Conservative Supermajority
4 src Amy Coney Barrett · Mitch McConnell · Donald Trump · Susan Collins · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-14 | FBI Enables Social Media Suppression of Hunter Biden Laptop Story Despite Knowing Authenticity
4 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · Twitter · Facebook · Yoel Roth · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2020-10-02 | Trump Tests Positive for COVID-19, Hospitalized at Walter Reed with Experimental Treatments
3 src Donald Trump · Melania Trump · Sean Conley · Mike Pence · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-26 | Rose Garden Amy Coney Barrett Ceremony Becomes White House COVID Superspreader Event
3 src Donald Trump · Amy Coney Barrett · Melania Trump · Mike Lee · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-26 | Trump Nominates Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court, Religious Conservative to Replace Liberal Icon Ginsburg
4 src Donald Trump · Amy Coney Barrett · Mitch McConnell · Ruth Bader Ginsburg | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-14 | HHS Spends $300 Million in Taxpayer Funds on "Defeating Despair" COVID Ad Campaign Timed to Promote Trump Before Election
4 src Michael Caputo · Donald Trump · Dennis Quaid · CeCe Winans · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-09-01 | CNP September 2020 Membership Directory Leaked - Current Network Exposed
2 src Council for National Policy · Documented | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-25 | Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf Violates Hatch Act by Staging White House Naturalization Ceremony as RNC Campaign Content
4 src Chad Wolf · Donald Trump · Henry Kerner · Bennie Thompson | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-24 | Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue Violates Hatch Act by Campaigning for Trump at Official USDA Event
3 src Sonny Perdue · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-24 | DeJoy House Testimony Refuses to Restore Mail Sorting Machines Despite Court Concerns
4 src Louis DeJoy · Carolyn Maloney · Ro Khanna · Harley Rouda · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-21 | DeJoy Senate Testimony Denies Sabotage as Gary Peters Details Severe Mail Delays
4 src Louis DeJoy · Gary Peters · Ron Johnson · USPS | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-21 | Trump Speaks at CNP Meeting - President Addresses Conservative Coordination Hub
2 src Donald Trump · Council for National Policy · Bob McEwen · Kelly Shackelford · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-21 | USPS OIG flags service declines after mid-July changes; independent datasets show sharp on-time drops
4 src U.S. Postal Service · USPS Office of Inspector General · U.S. Senate HSGAC (minority staff) · U.S. House Oversight Committee | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-15 | Trump Says He Will "Take a Look" at Pardoning Snowden, Ultimately Does Not Grant Pardon
3 src Donald Trump · Edward Snowden · Mike Pompeo · Glenn Greenwald | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-13 | Trump Explicitly Admits Blocking USPS Funding to Restrict Mail Voting
4 src Donald Trump · Louis DeJoy · USPS | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-13 | USPS Removes Mailboxes in Democratic Areas, Reverses After Public Outcry
4 src Louis DeJoy · USPS · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2020-08-01 | DeJoy Removes 711 Mail Sorting Machines During Mail-In Voting Surge
3 src Louis DeJoy · USPS · Donald Trump · Federal Courts | confirmed | |
| 2020-07-04 | Trump Holds Mt. Rushmore Rally with 7,500 Packed, Maskless Attendees During Pandemic Surge
3 src Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · Kimberly Guilfoyle | confirmed | |
| 2020-06-15 | Louis DeJoy Begins Serving as Postmaster General Despite Conflicts of Interest
4 src Louis DeJoy · Donald Trump · USPS Board of Governors | confirmed | |
| 2020-03-13 | Trump Declares National Emergency for COVID-19 After Weeks of Denialism and Delay
3 src Donald Trump · Alex Azar · Mike Pence | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-20 | Trump Fires Acting DNI Joseph Maguire After Intelligence Briefing That Russia Prefers Trump in 2020
4 src Joseph Maguire · Donald Trump · Shelby Pierson · Richard Grenell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-19 | Larry Ellison Hosts Trump Fundraiser at California Estate, Raises $7 Million
3 src Larry Ellison · Donald Trump · Oracle · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2020-02-05 | Senate Acquits Trump Despite Proven Abuse of Power; Romney Only Republican to Convict
4 src Mitch McConnell · Mitt Romney · Donald Trump · Senate Republicans | confirmed | |
| 2020-01-31 | Senate Votes 51-49 to Block Witnesses in Impeachment Trial, Ensuring Trump Acquittal
3 src Mitch McConnell · Mitt Romney · Susan Collins · Senate Republicans · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-12-13 | Conservative Lawsuit Forces Wisconsin to Purge 200,000 Voters Before 2020 Election
4 src Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty · Wisconsin Elections Commission | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-17 | Zuckerberg Georgetown Speech Announces Facebook Will Not Fact-Check Political Ads, Licensing Trump Campaign Lies
4 src Mark Zuckerberg · Facebook · Donald Trump · Joe Biden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2019-10-01 | Anne Nelson Publishes "Shadow Network" - Exposing CNP as Conservative Coordination Hub
2 src Anne Nelson · Council for National Policy | confirmed | |
| 2019-09-24 | Trump Freezes Ukraine Military Aid Demanding Biden Investigation
5 src Donald Trump · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Rudy Giuliani · William Barr · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2019-08-06 | Bernie Sanders Appears on Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan Later Endorses Sanders for President
3 src Joe Rogan · Bernie Sanders | confirmed | |
| 2019-08-03 | El Paso Walmart Massacre: 8chan Terrorist Targets Latinos, "Response to Hispanic Invasion"
3 src Patrick Crusius · 8chan | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-25 | Russell Vought Freezes Ukraine Aid on Trump Order, Triggering First Impeachment
3 src Russ Vought · Donald Trump · Volodymyr Zelenskyy | confirmed | |
| 2019-07-25 | Trump Pressures Zelensky in Phone Call - "I Would Like You to Do Us a Favor Though"
3 src Donald Trump · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Rudy Giuliani | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-28 | Florida Legislature Enacts "Poll Tax" Requiring Payment of Fines to Undermine Amendment 4
4 src Ron DeSantis · Florida Legislature · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-27 | Supreme Court blocks 2020 Census citizenship question as 'contrived'; filings tie rationale to Hofeller partisan plan
3 src U.S. Department of Commerce · U.S. Census Bureau · Supreme Court of the United States · Thomas Hofeller | confirmed |