Capture lane

Executive Power Expansion

The Executive Power Expansion capture lane traces 819 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.

819 events From Nov 29, 1864 To May 16, 2026 Open in filter view →
Top 10 actors in this lane 10 actors · 1864–2026
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DateEventLanesStatus
2025-10-03Supreme Court Uses Emergency Docket to Expand Presidential Power 3 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration
reported
2025-10-01DOJ Fires Top National Security Prosecutor Michael Ben'Ary Based on False Social Media Post 3 src
Department of Justice · U.S. Attorney's Office Eastern District of Virginia · Trump Administration
reported
2025-10-01Pope Leo XIV: Inhuman Treatment of Immigrants 'Not Pro-Life' 3 src
Pope Leo XIV · Trump Administration · White House · Dick Durbin · +1
confirmed
2025-10-01Trump Administration Fires Federal Employees During Government Shutdown, Courts Order Reinstatement as Unions Win Injunctions 4 src
AFGE · AFSCME · Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management
confirmed
2025-10-01White House Defunds Council of Inspectors General, Disabling Federal Oversight 2 src
Office of Management and Budget · White House · Susan Collins · Chuck Grassley
reported
2025-09-30Trump Signs Pediatric Cancer AI Executive Order After Cutting Billions in Research Funding 3 src
Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
reported
2025-09-29ProPublica Reveals Russell Vought as 'Shadow President' Orchestrating Government Dismantling 2 src
Russell Vought · Donald Trump · Office of Management and Budget · Project 2025
reported
2025-09-29Trump Grants Qatar Unprecedented NATO-Like Security Guarantee via Executive Order 3 src
Donald Trump · White House · Benjamin Netanyahu
reported
2025-09-29YouTube Pays Trump $24.5M to Settle Suspension Lawsuit, $22M for White House Ballroom 2 src
Donald Trump · YouTube · Google · Meta · +1
reported
2025-09-25POGO Exposes Ballard Partners Clients Winning No-Bid ICE Biometric Surveillance Contracts 3 src
Ballard Partners · Pam Bondi · Susie Wiles · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
reported
2025-09-25Trump Signs Executive Order Approving TikTok Deal with Oracle Partnership 3 src
Donald Trump · White House · Oracle · ByteDance · +1
reported
2025-09-25Trump Signs NSPM-7 Labeling Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Christianity, and 'Anti-Americanism' as Domestic Terrorism Indicators 5 src
Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Federal Bureau of Investigation · American Civil Liberties Union · +1
confirmed
2025-09-21Charlie Kirk Memorial Service - Trump and Musk Publicly Reconcile 3 src
Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Turning Point USA · Charlie Kirk
confirmed
2025-09-20Eastern District of Virginia US Attorney Erik Siebert Resigns Under Trump Pressure to Charge Letitia James 2 src
Erik Siebert · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · Letitia James · +1
reported
2025-09-19Trump Signs 'Gold Card' Visa Executive Order Requiring $1-2 Million Payments 2 src
Donald Trump · White House · U.S. Department of Commerce
reported
2025-09-08SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo permits ICE to use ethnicity, Spanish fluency, location, and occupation as reasonable-suspicion factors 3 src confirmed
2025-09-05Trump Creates 'State Sponsor of Wrongful Detention' Designation via Executive Order 3 src
Donald Trump · White House · Department of State
reported
2025-09-05Trump Signs Executive Order Renaming Pentagon as 'Department of War' 3 src
Trump · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Department of Defense
confirmed
2025-09-03Military Jets Drown Out Epstein Survivors Press Conference at Capitol 3 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Air Force · White House
confirmed
2025-09-02Federal Judge Charles Breyer Rules Trump's LA National Guard Deployment Violated Posse Comitatus Act in Bench-Trial Decision
Charles Breyer · Gavin Newsom · Rob Bonta · Donald Trump · +2
confirmed
2025-09-01Mass Inspector General Firings Implement Project 2025 Plan 3 src
Donald Trump · Chuck Grassley · Chuck Schumer · Elizabeth Warren · +2
confirmed
2025-08-28Trump Executive Order Mandates Classical Architecture for Federal Buildings 2 src
Donald Trump · White House · General Services Administration
reported
2025-08-27US Imposes 50% Tariff on India for Buying Russian Oil, Exempts Apple 3 src
Donald Trump · Russia
confirmed
2025-08-25Trump Creates Specialized National Guard Units for Domestic Deployment 4 src
Donald Trump · National Guard
confirmed
2025-08-25Trump Orders Prosecution of Flag Burning Despite Supreme Court Ruling 3 src
Donald Trump · White House · Department of Justice
confirmed
2025-08-25Trump Signs Executive Order Creating Specialized DC National Guard Unit Deputized to Enforce Federal Law and Standing Nationwide Quick Reaction Force
Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Stephen Miller · D.C. National Guard
confirmed
2025-08-25Trump Signs Executive Orders Eliminating Cashless Bail, Threatening Federal Funds 3 src
Donald Trump · White House · Department of Justice · Pam Bondi
confirmed
2025-08-21EO 14338 Creates National Design Studio — ndstudio.gov Registered Same Morning Before Formal Signing (Pre-EO Infrastructure Positioning) 5 src
Donald Trump · Susie Wiles
confirmed
2025-08-21SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in NIH v. American Public Health Association clears DEI-flagged grant terminations (Tucker Act routing) 3 src confirmed
2025-08-15Trump Attempts DC Police Takeover with Loyalist, Blocked by Federal Judge 3 src
Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · DC Metropolitan Police
confirmed
2025-08-14Trump Eliminates SpaceX Environmental Safeguards via Executive Order 3 src
Donald Trump · Elon Musk · SpaceX · Department of Transportation · +1
confirmed
2025-08-11Military preparing to activate hundreds of D.C. National Guard members 4 src
Donald Trump · D.C. National Guard
confirmed
2025-08-08EPA Terminates Union Contracts Following Appellate Stays 3 src
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-08-08White House announces increased federal law-enforcement presence in Washington, D.C. 3 src
Trump Administration · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Marshals Service
confirmed
2025-08-07Paramount-Skydance Merger Completes After FCC Approval 4 src
Paramount Global · Skydance Media · David Ellison · Federal Communications Commission
confirmed
2025-08-07Trump Executive Order Places Federal Grants Under Political Appointee Control 3 src
Donald Trump · White House · Office of Management and Budget
confirmed
2025-08-07Trump Issues 202 Executive Orders with Two-Thirds Matching Project 2025 Blueprint 3 src
Donald Trump · Heritage Foundation · Project 2025
confirmed
2025-08-07Trump Signs Executive Order Prohibiting 'Debanking' Based on Political Views 2 src
Donald Trump · White House · Federal Reserve · FDIC · +1
confirmed
2025-08-05DOJ Publishes Official List of 35 "Sanctuary" Jurisdictions, Escalating Federal-State Confrontation Over Immigration Enforcement 3 src
Department of Justice · Donald Trump
confirmed
2025-08-04Trump Sons Launch $300M SPAC Targeting US Manufacturing Revival 3 src
Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr.
confirmed
2025-08-03Texas House Democrats flee to Illinois to break quorum on redistricting 9 src
Texas House Democrats · Texas Legislature · Ken Paxton
confirmed
2025-08-02Donor list suggests scale of Trump’s pay-for-access operation 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-08-01Pfizer CEO attending $25 million fundraiser at Trump's golf club after president demands drug price cuts, sources say 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-08-01Trump administration defies court orders in 57 of 165 cases (35%) 3 src
Trump Administration · Federal Judiciary · U.S. District Judge James Boasberg
confirmed
2025-07-31White House Announces $200M State Ballroom Construction Project 3 src
Donald Trump · Karoline Leavitt
confirmed
2025-07-30Senate Committee Advances Bill Banning Congressional Stock Trading 3 src
Donald Trump · Josh Hawley · Rick Scott
confirmed
2025-07-30Trump to Host 2026 G20 Summit at Doral Resort, Reviving Controversial Hosting Attempt 3 src
Donald Trump · Scott Bessent
confirmed
2025-07-30White House Releases Comprehensive Crypto Policy Roadmap 3 src
Donald Trump · Scott Bessent · David Sacks · U.S. Treasury Department · +2
confirmed
2025-07-29Senate Confirms Emil Bove to Third Circuit Court of Appeals 50-49 Despite DOJ Mass-Resignation Record and Whistleblower Allegations 4 src
Emil Bove · U.S. Senate · Department of Justice · Danielle Sassoon · +1
confirmed
2025-07-25Texas Legislature passes redistricting without Democrats present 5 src
Texas Legislature · Greg Abbott · Texas House Democrats
confirmed
2025-07-23Trump signs Executive Order 'Accelerating Federal Permitting of Data Center Infrastructure' — 100 MW threshold, NEPA categorical-exclusion creation directive, <50% federal-financial-assistance carve-out from NEPA 'major Federal action' 7 src
Donald Trump · Howard Lutnick · Chris Wright · Doug Burgum · +5
confirmed
2025-07-23White House releases 'Winning the Race: America's AI Action Plan' — 90+ federal policy initiatives across innovation, infrastructure, and international diplomacy pillars; companion to datacenter permitting EO 5 src
Donald Trump · David Sacks · Howard Lutnick · Chris Wright · +1
confirmed
2025-07-21Trump Administration Defying 35% of Court Orders in Unprecedented Constitutional Crisis 4 src
Trump Administration · Federal Courts · Department of Justice · Federal Agencies
confirmed
2025-07-20California announces defensive mid-cycle redistricting in response to Texas 4 src
California Legislature · Gavin Newsom
confirmed
2025-07-15Trump demands Texas conduct mid-cycle redistricting for 5 new GOP seats 4 src
Donald Trump · Greg Abbott · Texas Legislature
confirmed
2025-07-12Bondi Fires 20 Justice Department Employees Tied to Trump Prosecutions 3 src
Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Jack Smith
confirmed
2025-07-10Trump Foreign Aid Policy Sparks Global Lobbying Surge 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Marco Rubio
confirmed
2025-07-10White House Officials Own Cryptocurrency Assets in Proposed National Crypto Reserve 3 src
Donald Trump · White House Staff
confirmed
2025-07-08Supreme Court lifts injunctions, enables mass firings at 19 federal agencies 4 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Federal Agencies · General Services Administration · Department of Government Efficiency · +2
confirmed
2025-07-042.4 million Americans projected to lose SNAP benefits from expanded work requirements 4 src
Trump Administration · USDA · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
confirmed
2025-07-04OBBBA Signed — $45B ICE Detention + $29.85B Enforcement Appropriations Through FY2029 Fund $38.3B Detention Reengineering Initiative 7 src
Donald Trump · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Congress
confirmed
2025-07-01Vance Casts Tiebreaker Passing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Enabling Event for Project 2025 Treasury/Tax Chapter and Endowment-Tax Implementation 7 src
J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · Rand Paul · Susan Collins · +3
confirmed
2025-06-30Federal Judiciary Admits Systemic Failure in Presidential Accountability Mechanisms 3 src
Senate Judiciary Committee
confirmed
2025-06-30Federal Judiciary Develops New Constitutional Enforcement Mechanisms 3 src
Federal Judiciary · Department of Justice
confirmed
2025-06-27Supreme Court Restricts Nationwide Injunctions in Trump v. CASA, Expanding Executive Power 9 src
U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-06-24Trump Fires Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner, Raising Concerns About Regulatory Capture 3 src
Donald Trump
confirmed
2025-06-20Ninth Circuit Again Allows Trump to Retain Control of CA Guard 4 src
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · Donald Trump · California National Guard
confirmed
2025-06-20Ninth Circuit extends stay keeping LA Guard/Marine deployment in place 4 src
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
confirmed
2025-06-20Trump Family Launches World Liberty Financial Cryptocurrency Venture 3 src
Donald Trump · Barron Trump · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-06-19Trump Company Reduces Stake in Crypto Venture World Liberty Financial 3 src
Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Zach Witkoff · Justin Sun · +1
confirmed
2025-06-16Trump Organization Announces Trump Mobile: $499 Smartphone and $47.45 Monthly Plan 3 src
Donald Trump · Eric Trump · Donald Trump Jr.
confirmed
2025-06-15Federal Judicial System Faces Unprecedented Integrity Challenge 3 src
Supreme Court Justices · Cory Booker · Department of Justice · Executive Branch
confirmed
2025-06-15Trump Officials' Extensive Financial Conflicts Exposed in Comprehensive Report 3 src
Donald Trump · Pam Bondi · Sean Duffy · Lori Chavez-DeRemer · +2
confirmed
2025-06-14"No Kings" protests draw 5 million people in 2,100+ locations 5 src
American Civil Liberties Union · MoveOn
confirmed
2025-06-13Ninth Circuit Stays District Court Ruling Against LA Deployment 4 src
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · Charles Breyer · California National Guard · U.S. Marines
confirmed
2025-06-13Trump Discloses $57 Million in Crypto Earnings from World Liberty Financial 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · World Liberty Financial
confirmed
2025-06-12Federal judge says Los Angeles Guard/Marine deployment likely unlawful 4 src
State of California · Gavin Newsom · U.S. Department of Defense · California National Guard · +1
confirmed
2025-06-11Trump announces FEMA elimination plan after 2025 hurricane season 4 src
Donald Trump · Kristi Noem · Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) · White House · +1
confirmed
2025-06-10Project 2025 Personnel Audit: Reformed-Evangelical Stream Achieves Highest Chapter-Author-to-Role Placement Rate; Three Parallel Pipelines Confirmed 7 src
Russell Vought · Brendan Carr · Peter Navarro · Pete Hegseth · +3
confirmed
2025-06-09Trump federalizes California National Guard over governor's objection 4 src
Donald Trump · Gavin Newsom · California National Guard
confirmed
2025-06-07California National Guard Federalized and Deployed to Los Angeles 5 src
Donald Trump · California National Guard · U.S. Marines · Pentagon
confirmed
2025-06-06Communist Party Adviser Purchases Trump Memecoin for VIP Dinner Access 6 src
Donald Trump · Justin Sun · Adam Schiff · Elizabeth Warren
confirmed
2025-06-06SCOTUS shadow-docket stay in U.S. DOGE Service v. CREW narrows FOIA discovery against DOGE, shielding internal operations 3 src confirmed
2025-06-05Thiel Foundation CEO Jim O'Neill Confirmed as HHS Deputy Secretary (52-43) 6 src
Jim O'Neill · Peter Thiel · Thiel Capital · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · +4
confirmed
2025-06-05This is how much Trump has made from crypto—so far 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-06-0459,000 Federal Jobs Officially Eliminated by June 2025, True Scope Far Larger as DOGE Campaign Transforms Government Workforce 4 src
Donald Trump · DOGE · Elon Musk · Office of Personnel Management · +1
confirmed
2025-06-04Trump Expands Travel Ban to 19 Countries and Bans Harvard Students from Entry 4 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Harvard University · Department of State
confirmed
2025-06-01Federal workforce shrinks by 59,000 jobs with 154,000 on paid leave 4 src
Trump Administration · Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Office of Personnel Management · +2
confirmed
2025-06-01Gabbard Replaces Intelligence Community Inspector General's Counsel with Her Own Adviser 3 src
Tulsi Gabbard
confirmed
2025-06-01Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem directive demands 3,000 daily ICE arrests 5 src
Stephen Miller · Kristi Noem · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · DHS (Department of Homeland Security)
confirmed
2025-05-31Bono Confronts Joe Rogan Over Trump Administration USAID Cuts, Calls Them "Evil" - Influences Rogan's Subsequent Trump Criticism 3 src
Joe Rogan · Elon Musk · Donald Trump
confirmed
2025-05-31Federal judges face 373 threats in first five months of 2025 4 src
Federal judges · U.S. Marshals Service
confirmed
2025-05-31Trump pardons drive a big, burgeoning business for lobbyists 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-05-28Paramount settles Trump '60 Minutes' lawsuit for $16 million 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-05-28Trump Pardons Become Explicitly Political with 'No MAGA Left Behind' Directive 3 src
Donald Trump · Ed Martin · Scott Jenkins
confirmed
2025-05-28Trump Pardons Ex-Rep. Michael Grimm, Highlighting Political Clemency Campaign 3 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-05-27Donald Trump’s media conglomerate is becoming a bitcoin reserve 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration
confirmed
2025-05-23Trump's crypto dinner guests admit they're trying to buy him off 5 src
Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Justin Sun
confirmed
2025-05-22SCOTUS 6-3 shadow-docket stay in Trump v. Wilcox greenlights presidential removal of NLRB and MSPB members, effectively narrowing Humphrey's Executor 3 src confirmed
2025-05-22Trump hosts exclusive $148M cryptocurrency investor dinner at private golf club 4 src
Donald Trump · World Liberty Financial · Justin Sun · Elizabeth Warren
confirmed