Executive Power Expansion
The Executive Power Expansion capture lane traces 819 verified events documenting this mechanism of institutional capture.
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10 actors · 1864–2026
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-15 | Multi-Organizational Civil Rights Litigation Coordination Summit
4 src Earthjustice · American Civil Liberties Union | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Supreme Court Confronts Unprecedented National Guard Federalization Crisis
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Trump Administration · State Governors | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Trump systematically fires federal officials investigating Elon Musk's companies
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-13 | India's Modi talks space and 'good governance' with Musk in Washington
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-13 | OPM Orders Mass Firing of Nearly 25,000 Probationary Federal Employees Across All Agencies
4 src Office of Personnel Management · Donald Trump · DOGE · Department of Veterans Affairs · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-11 | Trump Signs Executive Order for Large-Scale Federal Workforce Cuts Under DOGE
3 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-11 | White House will not release visitor logs during Trump's second term
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | CFPB offices ordered closed, staff told cannot perform work tasks
4 src Russell Vought · Consumer Financial Protection Bureau · Rohit Chopra | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | Trump Executive Order Pauses Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement
4 src Donald Trump · Pamela Bondi · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | Trump pardons multiple financial criminals and white-collar offenders
3 src Donald Trump · Rod Blagojevich · Scott Jenkins · Devon Archer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | Trump signs order pausing enforcement of foreign bribery ban
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · William Barr · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-06 | Russell Vought implements Project 2025 chapter as OMB Director
4 src Russell Vought · Office of Management and Budget · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | Attorney General Bondi Narrows FCPA Focus to Cartels While Pausing Corporate Bribery Cases
3 src Pamela Bondi · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · U.S. corporations | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | Trump Administration Shuts Down KleptoCapture Task Force
4 src Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Merrick Garland · Russian Oligarchs · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-04 | Trump Signs Executive Order Restoring 'Maximum Pressure' Campaign Against Iran
2 src Donald Trump · Marco Rubio · U.S. Treasury Department | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | NOAA faces 27% budget cut with research office eliminated
4 src Trump Administration · NOAA · Office of Management and Budget | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Coalition of 22 State Attorneys General Secures Court Order Blocking Trump Federal Funding Freeze
3 src Letitia James · John McConnell · 22 State Attorneys General | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Paramount in settlement talks with Trump over ‘60 Minutes’ lawsuit
5 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | Trump Crypto Dinner Offers Presidential Access for Top $TRUMP Coin Buyers
4 src Donald Trump · Justin Sun · Richard Blumenthal | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-28 | Defense Secretary Revokes General Milley Security Detail in Political Retaliation
4 src Pete Hegseth · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-28 | OPM Sends "Fork in the Road" Email Offering 2 Million Federal Employees Deferred Resignation
4 src Office of Personnel Management · Donald Trump · Elon Musk · DOGE · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-27 | OMB Issues Memo M-25-13 Freezing All Federal Financial Assistance, Triggering Constitutional Crisis Over Congressional Spending Power
4 src Office of Management and Budget · Donald Trump · John McConnell · Letitia James · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-27 | Palantir Veteran Gregory Barbaccia Named Federal CIO, Controls $100B+ IT Budget
5 src Palantir Technologies · Peter Thiel · Office of Management and Budget · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-27 | Trump DOJ Fires Jack Smith Special Counsel Team in Systematic Purge
3 src James McHenry · Jack Smith · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Brendan Carr chairs FCC after writing Project 2025 FCC chapter
4 src Brendan Carr · Federal Communications Commission · Trump Administration · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-25 | Trump pardons financial criminals including wire fraud convict and money launderers
3 src Donald Trump · Rod Blagojevich | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Pete Hegseth confirmed as Defense Secretary in historic VP tiebreaker vote
3 src Pete Hegseth · J.D. Vance · U.S. Senate · Mitch McConnell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Trump fires 18 Inspectors General in unprecedented purge of government watchdogs
7 src Donald Trump · Robert Storch | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | Vance Casts Tiebreaker Confirming Hegseth as Defense Secretary: Enabling Event for Project 2025 DoD-Purge Chapter
5 src J.D. Vance · Pete Hegseth · U.S. Senate · Mitch McConnell · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-23 | Supreme Court stays Fifth Circuit's nationwide injunction of Corporate Transparency Act in McHenry v. Texas Top Cop Shop (shadow-docket order) 6 src | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | MAGA commissars deployed throughout federal agencies
3 src Trump Administration · Federal Agencies | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | National emergency declared at U.S. southern border
9 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Defense · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · Pentagon | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Russell Vought Becomes OMB Director - Project 2025 Chief Architect
5 src Russell Vought · Donald Trump · Office of Management and Budget · U.S. Senate · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Surveillance State Expansion: Constitutional Concerns and Section 702 Reauthorization
3 src Intelligence Community · National Security Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · White House · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Trump Fires Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan on Day Two — First Military Leader Removed
3 src Donald Trump · Pete Hegseth · Kristi Noem | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Chief of Staff Susie Wiles Brings 42 Corporate Lobbying Clients into White House
3 src Susie Wiles · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Coordinated Federal Workforce Purge: Schedule F and DOJ Personnel Removal
4 src Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management · National Treasury Employees Union · American Federation of Government Employees | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Executive Order 14171: Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions (Schedule F)
5 src Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | J.D. Vance Inaugurated as 50th Vice President
3 src J.D. Vance · Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Republican Party | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | JD Vance Sworn In as 50th Vice President, Positioned for Potential Constitutional Crisis Management
3 src J.D. Vance · Brett Kavanaugh · Donald Trump · U.S. Supreme Court · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump designates Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations
3 src Donald Trump · Department of the Treasury · Department of Justice · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump eliminates ethics requirements and lobbying restrictions
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Office of Government Ethics · Public Citizen · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Implements Unprecedented Wave of Project 2025 Executive Orders
3 src Donald Trump · Russell Vought · Tom Homan · John Ratcliffe · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump signs 37 executive orders on first day, implementing Project 2025 priorities
4 src Donald Trump · Elon Musk · White House · United Nations | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Signs Comprehensive Immigration Executive Orders Package: Ends Asylum, Reinstates Remain in Mexico, Kills Parole Programs, Declares Border 'Invasion'
8 src Donald Trump · Department of Homeland Security · Customs and Border Protection · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Signs EO 14168: 'Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism,' Mandating Federal Recognition of Only Two Sexes
6 src Donald Trump · Office of Personnel Management · Department of Education · Department of Health and Human Services · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump signs Executive Order 14148 rescinding 78 Biden directives
3 src Donald Trump · J.D. Vance | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Signs Unconstitutional Executive Order Challenging Birthright Citizenship
4 src Donald Trump · Department of Justice · U.S. Supreme Court · American Civil Liberties Union | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-17 | Crypto firms pour $18 million into Trump inauguration
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Coinbase · Ripple | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-17 | Trump launches crypto memecoin days before inauguration
12 src Donald Trump · Melania Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-14 | Bondi OGE Form 278e (Nominee) Certified, Disclosing 106,250 DJT Shares + 31,250 DJT Warrants ($1M-$5M Each) From Renatus LLC Consulting Merger with DWAC-TMTG
4 src Pam Bondi · Office of Government Ethics · Trump Media & Technology Group · Digital World Acquisition Corp · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-01 | Systematic assault on judicial independence begins
4 src Trump Administration · Federal Judiciary | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-01 | Trump's Second Term Tariff Exemptions Made in Secret Without Public Process
3 src Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Reyes Holdings · Ballard Partners | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-06 | McKinsey Pays $73 Million Final Settlement to South Africa in State Capture Resolution
3 src McKinsey & Company · U.S. Department of Justice · Eskom | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-05 | PayPal Mafia Member David Sacks Named White House AI & Crypto Czar
5 src David Sacks · Donald Trump · Peter Thiel · Elon Musk · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-03 | South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol Declares Martial Law, Triggering Democratic Crisis
3 src Democratic Party | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-03 | South Korean Democratic Resistance Against Presidential Martial Law 3 src | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-01 | President Biden Issues Full Pardon for Son Hunter Despite Repeated Promises Not To
4 src Joe Biden · Hunter Biden · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-27 | Donald Trump Jr. Joins Unusual Machines Advisory Board, Receives 200,000 Shares, Stock Triples
5 src Donald Trump Jr. · Unusual Machines · Donald Trump · Pentagon · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-22 | Judge Merchan Grants Indefinite Postponement of Trump Sentencing After Election Victory
4 src Juan Merchan · Donald Trump · Alvin Bragg | confirmed | |
| 2024-11-19 | Texas offers Trump 1,402 acres for deportation facilities in "Jocelyn Initiative"
3 src Donald Trump · Tom Homan · Greg Abbott | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-30 | Biden Uses Emergency Drawdown Authority 55 Times to Send $31.7B in Weapons to Ukraine
4 src Joe Biden · Pentagon · U.S. Congress · Ukraine · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-06 | Dick Cheney Endorses Democrat Kamala Harris, Calls Trump 'Greatest Threat to Republic'
4 src Dick Cheney · Kamala Harris · Donald Trump · Liz Cheney | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-31 | OpenAI Signs AI Safety Institute Testing Agreement
3 src Sam Altman · OpenAI | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-13 | JD Vance Writes Foreword for Project 2025 Architect's Book
3 src J.D. Vance · Kevin Roberts · Heritage Foundation · Paul Dans | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-30 | Paul Dans departs as Project 2025 director amid campaign controversy
4 src Paul Dans · Kevin Roberts · Heritage Foundation · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-15 | Trump Selects Vance as VP Running Mate
3 src Donald Trump · J.D. Vance · Peter Thiel | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-11 | Judge Merchan Postpones Trump Sentencing to September After Supreme Court Immunity Ruling
4 src Juan Merchan · Donald Trump · Alvin Bragg | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-08 | G42's Mandated China Divestment Is Absorbed by Tahnoon's Own Lunate Fund — Exposing the 'Divestment' as Portfolio Reorganization
5 src G42 · Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan · Microsoft · Bureau of Industry and Security | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Paul Dans Departs Project 2025, Kevin Roberts Takes Leadership
3 src Paul Dans · Kevin Roberts · Donald Trump · Susie Wiles | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Supreme Court Grants Broad Presidential Immunity in Trump v. United States, Creating King-Like Powers
15 src U.S. Supreme Court · John Roberts · Clarence Thomas · Samuel Alito · +9 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Supreme Court Trump Immunity Ruling Institutionalizes WHIG Constitutional Crisis Precedent into Permanent Oligarchic Governance Framework
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · John Roberts · Donald Trump · Clarence Thomas · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-18 | Boris Epshteyn Pleads Not Guilty to Nine Felony Counts in Arizona Fake Elector Case — Active Indictment Persists Through 2026
3 src Kris Mayes · Rudy Giuliani · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-30 | Trump Convicted on All 34 Felony Counts - First Former President Convicted of Crimes in U.S. History
4 src Donald Trump · Juan Merchan · Alvin Bragg | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-13 | French officials dispute Noem's claim about canceling Macron meeting
3 src Kristi Noem · Emmanuel Macron | confirmed | |
| 2024-04-15 | First Criminal Trial of Former U.S. President Begins - Trump Faces 34 Felony Counts in Manhattan
4 src Donald Trump · Juan Merchan · Alvin Bragg · Todd Blanche | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-26 | DJT Stock Begins Trading as Trump Owns Majority of $8.4 Billion Media Company
4 src Donald Trump · Trump Media & Technology Group · Digital World Acquisition Corp · Donald Trump Jr. | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-01 | Tunisia Dissolves Democratic Municipal Councils Under Authoritarian Consolidation 3 src | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-05 | Boeing 737 MAX Scandal Summary - 346 Deaths, $2.5B Fine, Zero Executive Prosecutions
4 src Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration · 346 crash victims · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-09-08 | Fifth Circuit Finds Biden Administration Violated First Amendment Through Social Media Coercion
4 src Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · White House · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | confirmed | |
| 2023-08-14 | Fulton County DA Fani Willis Indicts Trump and 18 Co-Defendants on Georgia RICO Charges
4 src Donald Trump · Rudy Giuliani · Mark Meadows · John Eastman · +3 | 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 | |
| 2023-06-08 | Trump indicted on 37 federal charges for classified documents
3 src Donald Trump · Jack Smith · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-01 | House Select Committee Exposes McKinsey Work for Chinese Military While Advising Pentagon
3 src McKinsey & Company · Marco Rubio · Josh Hawley · China · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-04 | Trump Arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court, Pleads Not Guilty to 34 Felony Counts
4 src Donald Trump · Juan Merchan · Alvin Bragg | confirmed | |
| 2023-04-01 | Heritage Foundation launches Project 2025 initiative
4 src Heritage Foundation · Kevin Roberts · Paul Dans · Mark Meadows · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-30 | Trump Indicted by Manhattan DA on 34 Felony Counts - First Criminal Indictment of President in U.S. History
4 src Donald Trump · Alvin Bragg · Michael Cohen · Stormy Daniels | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-18 | Jack Smith appointed Special Counsel to investigate Trump
3 src Jack Smith · Merrick Garland · Donald Trump · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2022-09-22 | Federal Court Dismisses Abdulaziz Lawsuit, Rules McKinsey Had No Duty to Protect Dissident
3 src Omar Abdulaziz · McKinsey & Company · Second Circuit Court of Appeals | confirmed | |
| 2022-09-01 | Pulitzer-Winning Journalists Publish 'When McKinsey Comes to Town' Exposing Authoritarian Consulting
3 src McKinsey & Company · New York Times | confirmed | |
| 2022-08-08 | FBI executes search warrant at Mar-a-Lago
3 src Donald Trump · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Merrick Garland · National Archives | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-13 | Ring admits providing police with warrantless access to user footage 11 times in 2022
3 src Ring · Amazon · Ed Markey | confirmed | |
| 2022-04-01 | Heritage Foundation Launches 2 Million Project 2025 Initiative
3 src Heritage Foundation · Kevin Roberts · Paul Dans | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-15 | Biden Administration 2022: Comprehensive Review of Political Appointees' Financial Disclosures and Ethics Compliance
3 src Biden Administration · Office of Government Ethics · Political Appointees · Antony Blinken · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-15 | FDA Commissioner Confirmed Amid Pharmaceutical Industry Ties Controversy
3 src United States Senate | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-17 | National Archives retrieves 15 boxes with 184 classified documents from Mar-a-Lago
3 src Donald Trump · National Archives · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-13 | Supreme Court Blocks Biden OSHA Vaccine Mandate as Executive Overreach
4 src U.S. Supreme Court · Joe Biden · U.S. Department of Labor | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-03 | Pandora Papers Expose Global Elite's Offshore Financial Networks
4 src International Consortium of Investigative Journalists · Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Tony Blair | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-01 | Former FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn Joins Moderna Backer Flagship Pioneering
4 src Food and Drug Administration | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-27 | Dallas and Boston Fed Presidents Resign Over Trading Scandal
4 src Robert Kaplan · Eric Rosengren · Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas · Elizabeth Warren | confirmed |