| 1977-08-31 | J.P. Stevens Found Guilty of Massive NLRB Violations, Creates Corporate Union-Busting Playbook
3 src National Labor Relations Board |
| confirmed |
| 1977-08-12 | Weinberger v. Equifax: Fifth Circuit Guts Anti-Pinkerton Act, Clearing Path for Private Intelligence Industry
5 src Government Accountability Office |
| confirmed |
| 1977-07-01 | Exxon Internal Climate Research Program Confirms Human-Caused Global Warming
3 src ExxonMobil |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | American Enterprise Institute Organizational Profile: Transforming Industry Lobby into 'Scholarly' Think Tank
4 src American Enterprise Institute · Dick Cheney · Paul Ryan · ExxonMobil |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | BCCI Establishes Partnership with Pakistan's Zia ul-Haq Military Regime
6 src Agha Hasan Abedi |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | Department of Justice Announces Abandonment of Robinson-Patman Act Enforcement, Adopting Chicago School Critique
4 src Department of Justice · Robert Bork · Federal Trade Commission · Chicago School of Economics |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | Edwin Feulner Becomes Heritage Foundation President, Beginning 36-Year Tenure Building Conservative Policy Infrastructure
4 src Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Richard Scaife · +2 | | confirmed |
| 1976-09-30 | Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Requires Pre-Merger Notification, Last Major Antitrust Strengthening Before Reagan Dismantlement
4 src Gerald Ford · Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1976-02-18 | Ford Executive Order 11905 Bans Political Assassination: Executive Self-Regulation Substitutes for Legislative Reform
3 src Gerald Ford · CIA · Church Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1976-01-01 | Francis Schaeffer's "How Should We Then Live?" Convinces Evangelicals That Political Engagement Is Christian Duty
3 src C. Everett Koop · Jerry Falwell · Tim LaHaye |
| confirmed |
| 1976-01-01 | Tobacco Industry 'Operation Berkshire' and global coordination to resist smoking regulation
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1975-10-29 | Ford Refuses NYC Bailout, "Drop Dead" Headline, Austerity Era Begins
3 src Gerald Ford · Alan Greenspan · Donald Rumsfeld |
| confirmed |
| 1975-07-16 | Pike Committee Investigation: House Intelligence Findings Suppressed After CIA and White House Obstruction
3 src CIA · Gerald Ford · Henry Kissinger · CBS |
| confirmed |
| 1975-04-22 | Church Committee: Landmark Democratic Resistance Framework Against Intelligence Abuses
3 src Frank Church · U.S. Senate · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1975-04-14 | Federal Election Commission Begins Operations, Institutionalizing Corporate PAC Framework
2 src Federal Election Commission · Gerald Ford |
| confirmed |
| 1975-01-27 | Church Committee begins exposing illegal intelligence activities
4 src Frank Church · Church Committee · Seymour Hersh · Central Intelligence Agency · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 1974-10-28 | Equal Credit Opportunity Act and RESPA Pass After Industry Lobbying Weakens Enforcement
3 src U.S. Congress · Gerald Ford · American Bankers Association · Federal Reserve |
| confirmed |
| 1974-06-08 | US-Saudi Economic Commission Agreement Signed
3 src Henry Kissinger · Richard Nixon · Saudi Arabia · United States · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1974-01-01 | American Enterprise Institute Establishes Center for Health Policy Research
2 src American Enterprise Institute |
| confirmed |
| 1973-12-28 | Endangered Species Act Signed, Industry Groups Immediately Begin Weakening Campaign
3 src Richard Nixon · American Farm Bureau Federation |
| confirmed |
| 1973-10-01 | Trilateral Commission Founded by David Rockefeller
3 src Jimmy Carter |
| confirmed |
| 1973-09-11 | CIA-Backed Coup Overthrows Salvador Allende in Chile: Corporate and Intelligence Interests Align to Destroy Democracy
3 src CIA · Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger |
| confirmed |
| 1973-09-03 | Bunker Hill Smelter Fire Leads to Worst Corporate Lead Poisoning in U.S. History
4 src U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1973-05-08 | New York Passes Rockefeller Drug Laws: Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Template for Mass Incarceration
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1973-02-16 | Heritage Foundation Founded by Conservative Activists and Business Leaders
3 src Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · Joseph Coors · Heritage Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 1973-02-16 | Heritage Foundation Organizational Profile: Conservative Policy Infrastructure and Corporate Capture Mechanism
4 src Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · Joseph Coors · +4 |
| confirmed |
| 1973-01-01 | BCCI Begins Rapid International Expansion Strategy with 19 Branches Across Five Countries
4 src Agha Hasan Abedi |
| confirmed |
| 1973-01-01 | R.J. Rushdoony Publishes "The Institutes of Biblical Law": Intellectual Foundation for Christian Dominionism
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1972-10-18 | Clean Water Act Passes Over Nixon Veto After Industry Fails to Block Strong Provisions
3 src Richard Nixon · Edmund Muskie · American Petroleum Institute · Chemical Manufacturers Association · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1972-09-01 | BCCI Founded with Bank of America Partnership and Regulatory Evasion Structure
4 src Agha Hasan Abedi · Bank of America |
| confirmed |
| 1972-03-30 | Omaha Sun Exposes Boys Town's $209 Million Secret Fortune While Claiming Poverty in Fundraising Appeals
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1972-03-01 | Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Founded
4 src Agha Hasan Abedi · Bank of America |
| confirmed |
| 1971-01-01 | Oregon Passes Nation's First Forest Practices Act, Drafted by Timber Industry to Preempt Federal Regulation
7 src | | confirmed |
| 1970-12-31 | Clean Air Act of 1970 Creates EPA and National Air Quality Standards Despite Industry Opposition
3 src Richard Nixon · Edmund Muskie · American Petroleum Institute · National Coal Association · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1970-12-29 | Occupational Safety and Health Act Creates OSHA After Decades of Industry Opposition to Workplace Safety
3 src Richard Nixon · U.S. Congress · AFL-CIO · National Association of Manufacturers · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1970-12-02 | Nixon Creates Environmental Protection Agency Consolidating Federal Environmental Authority
5 src Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1968-04-11 | Fair Housing Act Passes After MLK Assassination Overcomes National Association of Real Estate Boards Decades of Opposition
4 src Lyndon B. Johnson · Martin Luther King Jr. |
| confirmed |
| 1967-12-15 | Age Discrimination in Employment Act Protects Workers Over 40 from Job Discrimination
3 src Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Congress · U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| confirmed |
| 1966-09-09 | National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act Passes After GM Harassment of Ralph Nader Backfires
3 src Lyndon B. Johnson · General Motors | | confirmed |
| 1965-11-30 | Ralph Nader Publishes Unsafe at Any Speed Exposing Auto Industry's Deadly Design Choices
3 src General Motors · Ford Motor Company |
| confirmed |
| 1965-09-09 | HUD Created as Cabinet Department, Inherits FHA Discriminatory Practices
3 src Lyndon B. Johnson | | confirmed |
| 1965-07-30 | Medicare and Medicaid Signed Into Law After Defeating Decades of AMA Opposition and Reagan Propaganda Campaign
4 src Lyndon B. Johnson · Harry S. Truman · American Medical Association · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1964-11-03 | AEI Faces IRS Investigation After Baroody's Control of Goldwater Campaign
2 src American Enterprise Institute · Barry Goldwater · Internal Revenue Service |
| confirmed |
| 1964-09-03 | Wilderness Act Signed After Eight Years of Industry Opposition, Creates National Wilderness Preservation System
3 src Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Forest Service |
| confirmed |
| 1963-12-17 | Clean Air Act of 1963 Establishes First Federal Air Pollution Control Despite Industry Opposition
5 src John F. Kennedy · Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Congress · American Petroleum Institute · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1962-10-10 | Thalidomide Scandal Drives Kefauver-Harris Amendment Strengthening FDA Drug Safety Requirements
3 src Estes Kefauver · John F. Kennedy · Food and Drug Administration | | confirmed |
| 1962-09-27 | Rachel Carson Publishes Silent Spring, Chemical Industry Launches Coordinated Attack Campaign
3 src Monsanto |
| confirmed |
| 1962-02-13 | King-Anderson Medicare Bill Defeated in Committee After Intense Corporate Lobbying
3 src John F. Kennedy · American Medical Association · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Senate Finance Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1962-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Establishes Defense Committee and Hires First Full-Time President
8 src National Association of Manufacturers |
| confirmed |
| 1961-04-17 | Bay of Pigs Invasion Fails: CIA Proprietary Company Model Exposed in Catastrophic Covert Operation
3 src CIA · Allen Dulles · John F. Kennedy |
| confirmed |
| 1961-01-01 | AMA Launches Operation Coffee Cup with Reagan Recording to Defeat Medicare Through Grassroots Deception
10 src American Medical Association · Ronald Reagan | | confirmed |
| 1960-01-18 | Congressional Report Finds 1,400 Retired Military Officers Employed by Top Defense Contractors
2 src House Armed Services Committee · General Dynamics |
| confirmed |
| 1960-01-01 | U.S. Chamber of Commerce Reaches 2.5 Million Members Through Anti-Communist Mobilization
3 src U.S. Chamber of Commerce · American Legion |
| confirmed |
| 1959-01-01 | Congress Holds 25 Hearings on Pentagon Revolving Door, General Bradley Testifies Against Contractor Influence
3 src U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Defense · Defense contractors |
| confirmed |
| 1958-12-05 | NAM Executive VP Charles Sligh Calls for Business Political Mobilization to Build Conservative Coalition
3 src National Association of Manufacturers | | confirmed |
| 1958-01-01 | CIA Funding Reaches 53.5% of European Movement Budget via ACUE: Intelligence-Driven Supranational Integration
3 src CIA · Allen Dulles · William Donovan |
| confirmed |
| 1956-06-29 | Federal-Aid Highway Act Creates Interstate System, Enables Destruction of Black Urban Neighborhoods
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress · General Motors · American Petroleum Institute |
| confirmed |
| 1955-05-31 | Brown II Orders Desegregation with "All Deliberate Speed," Enabling Decade of Resistance
3 src Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · Thurgood Marshall |
| confirmed |
| 1955-05-01 | Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group: CIA Officers Operate Under Academic Cover in Saigon
3 src Michigan State University · CIA |
| confirmed |
| 1954-08-02 | Housing Act of 1954 Expands Urban Renewal, Intensifies Destruction of Black Communities
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1954-02-26 | Bricker Amendment Fails by One Vote, Conservative Attempt to Limit Treaty Power Defeated
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · American Bar Association · U.S. Senate · American Medical Association · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1954-01-01 | Eisenhower Convenes Business Leaders to Create Public Affairs Council for Political Mobilization
8 src Dwight D. Eisenhower | | confirmed |
| 1953-08-13 | Eisenhower Executive Order 10479 Creates Committee on Government Contracts, Weak Anti-Discrimination Enforcement
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · Richard Nixon · NAACP | | confirmed |
| 1953-01-28 | Charles Wilson Confirmed Defense Secretary After "Good for General Motors" Controversy Reveals Corporate-State Fusion
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · General Motors · Senate Armed Services Committee · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 1953-01-01 | FCC Adopts Seven-Station Rule Limiting Broadcast Ownership to Prevent Media Monopoly and Ensure Viewpoint Diversity
9 src Federal Communications Commission | | confirmed |
| 1951-01-01 | CIA Begins Systematic University Funding Through Front Foundations: Academic Capture at Scale
3 src CIA · Allen Dulles · Michigan State University |
| confirmed |
| 1950-12-29 | Celler-Kefauver Act Closes Merger Loopholes, Strengthens Government Power to Block Anticompetitive Consolidation
4 src U.S. Congress · Emanuel Celler · Estes Kefauver · Harry Truman · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1950-09-23 | McCarran Internal Security Act Passes Over Truman Veto, Requires Communist Registration
3 src Harry Truman · U.S. Congress · House Un-American Activities Committee · Department of Justice · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1950-09-01 | State Loyalty Oaths Spread as California Passes Levering Act, Requires Public Employee Pledges
3 src California Legislature · Earl Warren · American Civil Liberties Union |
| confirmed |
| 1950-06-26 | Congress for Cultural Freedom Founded with CIA Money: Intellectual Capture Across 35 Countries
3 src CIA |
| confirmed |
| 1949-08-10 | Louis Johnson Exonerated in B-36 Scandal Despite Convair Board Service and Contract Awards
3 src Louis Johnson · House Armed Services Committee · U.S. Air Force |
| confirmed |
| 1949-06-01 | FCC Establishes Fairness Doctrine Requiring Broadcasters to Present Balanced Coverage of Controversial Issues
7 src Federal Communications Commission · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1948-06-17 | Robert Moses Begins Cross-Bronx Expressway: Deliberate Destruction of Stable Communities to Build Car Infrastructure
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1947-09-18 | James Forrestal Becomes First Defense Secretary, Fusing Wall Street Financial Power with Pentagon
3 src Harry Truman · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 1947-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Drafts Taft-Hartley Act "Sentence by Sentence, Paragraph by Paragraph"
3 src National Association of Manufacturers · Robert Taft · Republican Party |
| confirmed |
| 1946-11-09 | Price Controls End After Corporate Decontrol Campaign, Inflation Spikes
3 src Harry Truman · National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1946-08-01 | Atomic Energy Act Creates AEC, Establishes Unprecedented Peacetime Secrecy Regime
3 src U.S. Congress · Harry Truman · General Electric |
| confirmed |
| 1946-06-11 | Administrative Procedure Act Codifies Regulatory Process, Creates Industry Capture Opportunities
3 src U.S. Congress · Harry Truman · American Bar Association · Federal Agencies | | confirmed |
| 1945-11-19 | Truman Proposes National Health Insurance, AMA Mobilizes Unprecedented Opposition Campaign
3 src Harry S. Truman · American Medical Association · Robert Taft |
| confirmed |
| 1945-09-20 | Truman Signs Executive Order 9621 Dissolving OSS: Wall Street Intelligence Elite Returns to Private Sector
3 src Harry Truman · William Donovan · Allen Dulles · William Casey |
| confirmed |
| 1943-06-25 | Smith-Connally Act Criminalizes Union Political Contributions, Spawns First PACs
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Congress of Industrial Organizations · United Mine Workers · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1943-01-01 | American Enterprise Association Moves to Washington to Oppose New Deal, Precursor to AEI Think Tank
3 src Eli Lilly |
| confirmed |
| 1942-09-01 | Committee for Economic Development Founded as Business-Government Policy Coordination Body
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1942-03-26 | Standard Oil-IG Farben Cartel Exposed, Senator Truman Calls It Treason
3 src Harry Truman · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1941-05-06 | FCC Establishes Television Ownership Limit of Three Stations to Prevent Media Monopoly Concentration
3 src Federal Communications Commission | | confirmed |
| 1941-04-17 | Ford Willow Run Bomber Plant Built with Taxpayer Funds, Private Profits
3 src Ford Motor Company · Henry Ford · U.S. War Department |
| confirmed |
| 1938-06-16 | Temporary National Economic Committee Launches Comprehensive Investigation of Monopoly and Economic Concentration
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1938-04-29 | FDR Warns Congress That Concentrated Corporate Power Threatens American Democracy with Fascism
2 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1937-04-12 | NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel - Supreme Court Upholds Wagner Act in Constitutional Revolution
3 src Supreme Court of the United States · Charles Evans Hughes · Franklin D. Roosevelt · National Labor Relations Board |
| confirmed |
| 1936-06-19 | Robinson-Patman Act Prohibits Price Discrimination to Protect Small Retailers from Chain Store Power
4 src U.S. Congress · Federal Trade Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1935-08-26 | Public Utility Holding Company Act Breaks Up Utility Monopolies
4 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Trade Commission · Securities and Exchange Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1935-08-23 | Banking Act of 1935 Restructures Federal Reserve, Reduces Wall Street Influence Over Monetary Policy
2 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Federal Reserve Board |
| confirmed |
| 1935-08-14 | Social Security Act Creates Federal Retirement and Unemployment Insurance System Over Business Opposition
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Frances Perkins · U.S. Congress · National Association of Manufacturers · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1935-05-11 | Rural Electrification Administration Created to Bring Power to Farms Private Utilities Refused to Serve
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| confirmed |
| 1934-07-02 | Joseph Kennedy Appointed First SEC Chairman - Wall Street Insider to Police Wall Street
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Securities and Exchange Commission · Wall Street | | confirmed |
| 1934-06-19 | Communications Act of 1934 Creates FCC and Consolidates Federal Media Regulation Under Public Interest Standard
4 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · Federal Communications Commission | | confirmed |
| 1934-06-06 | Securities Exchange Act Creates SEC, Regulates Secondary Markets
7 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Ferdinand Pecora |
| confirmed |
| 1933-06-16 | National Industrial Recovery Act Creates NRA Blue Eagle Program, Enabling Corporate Self-Regulation
9 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · U.S. Congress · U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| confirmed |
| 1933-06-13 | Home Owners' Loan Corporation Creates "Residential Security" Maps: The Federal Government Invents Redlining
3 src Federal Home Loan Bank Board · Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| confirmed |
| 1933-05-27 | Securities Act of 1933 Establishes Federal Securities Regulation
7 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Trade Commission · Wall Street |
| confirmed |