#Democratic-Erosion
Events indexed under #Democratic-Erosion — 64 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-19 | Freedom House Reports U.S. at Lowest Score Ever, Net Decline of 12 Points Since 2005 Freedom House | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-18 | V-Dem Downgrades U.S. from Liberal Democracy to Electoral Democracy in Historic Report V-Dem Institute · University of Gothenburg | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Lead Prosecutor in DOJ Criminal Probe of Fed Chair Jerome Powell Replaced U.S. Department of Justice · Jerome Powell · Federal Reserve · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | No Kings Coalition Announces Nationwide March 28 Protests, Aims to Be Largest in U.S. History Indivisible · ACLU of Massachusetts · AFL-CIO · No Kings Coalition | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-10 | Public Citizen Report Finds Trump Removed More Inspectors General Than All Prior Presidents Combined Donald Trump · U.S. Office of Inspector General · Public Citizen | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-10 | Senate Democrats Demand Public Hearings on Iran War After Closed Briefing Raises Alarms Chuck Schumer · Elizabeth Warren · Jacky Rosen · Pete Hegseth · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-10 | U.S. Records Sharpest Press Freedom Drop in Americas, Falls from 4th to 11th Place Donald Trump · Inter American Press Association · Voice of America | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-10 | Washington Post Investigation Details How ICE Systematically Defied Court Orders During Minneapolis Enforcement Surge U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Department of Justice · Patrick Schiltz · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | DOJ Appeals Blocked Executive Orders Targeting Law Firms, Claims Judges "Bent Over Backwards" to Rule Against Trump Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Justice · Perkins Coie · WilmerHale · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | DOJ Public Integrity Section Gutted from 36 to 2 Lawyers, Stripped of Authority to File Cases U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | DOJ Pursues Retaliatory Investigations of Democratic Officials and Federal Reserve Chair U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Jeanine Pirro · Jerome Powell · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | Senate Democrats Demand Hegseth and Rubio Testify on Iran War, Threaten Repeated War Powers Votes Pete Hegseth · Marco Rubio · Tim Kaine · Chris Murphy · +8 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-08 | Legal Challenges Mount Against EPA Repeal of Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding U.S. Environmental Protection Agency · Lee Zeldin · Donald Trump · Environmental Defense Fund · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-08 | Trump Threatens Legislative Blockade Until Congress Passes SAVE America Voter ID Act Donald Trump · U.S. Congress · Senate Republicans · Senate Democrats | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-07 | Trump Administration Escalates Campaign to Strip Federal Judges of Power to Block Presidential Orders Trump Administration · U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. House of Representatives | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-06 | DOJ and FBI National Security Divisions Decimated by Purges as U.S. Confronts Iran War U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation · Kash Patel · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-06 | DOJ Public Integrity Section Collapses to Two Lawyers, Gutting Federal Anti-Corruption Enforcement U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · U.S. Public Integrity Section | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-04 | OPM Data Confirms Federal Workforce Shrunk 12% Under DOGE, 386,000 Positions Eliminated Department of Government Efficiency · Elon Musk · Donald Trump · U.S. Office of Personnel Management · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-11-21 | North Dakota Supreme Court Reinstates Near-Total Abortion Ban Despite Unconstitutionality Finding North Dakota Supreme Court · Justice Jerod E. Tufte · Chief Justice Jon J. Jensen · Judge Bruce Romanick · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-25 | Trump Creates Specialized National Guard Units for Domestic Deployment Donald Trump · National Guard | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-20 | Texas Governor Signs Law Banning Local Government Abortion Travel Assistance Greg Abbott · Ken Paxton · Texas Legislature · City of Austin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-20 | US Imposes Unprecedented Sanctions on Four International Criminal Court Officials Kimberly Prost · Nicolas Guillou · Nazhat Shameem Khan · Mame Mandiaye Niang · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-06 | Trump Imposes 50% Tariff on Brazil to Punish Prosecution of Bolsonaro Donald Trump · jair-bolsonaro · brazil-government · world-trade-organization | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-29 | Trump Administration Implements Loyalty Tests for Federal Hiring Donald Trump · White House · Office of Personnel Management | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-27 | Missouri Supreme Court Reinstates Abortion Restrictions Despite Voter-Approved Amendment Missouri Supreme Court · Judge Jerri Zhang · Planned Parenthood · Andrew Bailey · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-25 | Trump Administration Dramatically Weakens Independent Hatch Act Enforcement Donald Trump · Trump Administration · Hampton Dellinger · Paul Ingrassia · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-01 | Federal Agencies Fire 62,530 Workers in Two Months - 41,311% Increase Over 2024 Trump Administration · Office of Personnel Management · Department of Interior · forest-service · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-30 | CBP Journalist Watchlist and Border Surveillance Program Documented U.S. Customs and Border Protection · Targeted Journalists · Immigration Advocates · DHS (Department of Homeland Security) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-30 | Obama Signs PROMESA Creating Unelected Fiscal Control Board to Govern Puerto Rico's $72 Billion Debt Crisis Barack Obama · U.S. Congress · Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico · Puerto Rico Government | confirmed | |
| 1968-06-05 | Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated in Los Angeles After California Primary Victory Robert F. Kennedy · Sirhan Sirhan · Federal Bureau of Investigation · LAPD | confirmed | |
| 1968-04-04 | Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinated in Memphis While Supporting Striking Sanitation Workers Martin Luther King Jr. · James Earl Ray · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Memphis Police | confirmed | |
| 1967-08-25 | FBI COINTELPRO Launches Black Nationalist Hate Groups Program Targeting Civil Rights Leaders J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Martin Luther King Jr. · Black Panther Party · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1966-07-04 | Freedom of Information Act Signed After Decade of Executive Branch Opposition President Lyndon B. Johnson · Representative John Moss · Senator Edward Long · American Society of Newspaper Editors | confirmed | |
| 1964-06-10 | Senate Invokes Cloture to End 72-Day Filibuster Against Civil Rights Act for First Time in History Southern Democratic Caucus · Richard Russell · Robert Byrd · Hubert Humphrey · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1963-10-10 | Attorney General Robert Kennedy Authorizes FBI Wiretapping of Martin Luther King Jr. J. Edgar Hoover · Robert F. Kennedy · Martin Luther King Jr. · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1963-05-03 | Bull Connor Orders Fire Hoses and Police Dogs Against Children in Birmingham Campaign Bull Connor · Martin Luther King Jr. · James Bevel · Birmingham Police · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1961-05-14 | Freedom Riders Firebombed in Anniston as Police Allow KKK Attack Without Intervention Congress of Racial Equality · Bull Connor · Robert Kennedy · Ku Klux Klan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1959-06-26 | Prince Edward County Virginia Closes Entire Public School System for Five Years Rather Than Integrate Prince Edward County Board of Supervisors · Virginia General Assembly · Harry Byrd | confirmed | |
| 1957-09-24 | Eisenhower Sends Federal Troops to Little Rock After Governor Uses National Guard Against Integration Orval Faubus · Dwight D. Eisenhower · Little Rock Nine · 101st Airborne Division · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1956-08-28 | FBI Director Hoover Launches COINTELPRO to Target Communist Party and Domestic Dissent J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Communist Party USA | confirmed | |
| 1955-12-01 | Rosa Parks Arrested for Refusing to Give Up Bus Seat Sparking Montgomery Bus Boycott Rosa Parks · Martin Luther King Jr. · Montgomery Improvement Association · E.D. Nixon · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1955-08-28 | Emmett Till Murdered in Mississippi After Accusation from White Woman Roy Bryant · J.W. Milam · Mamie Till · Tallahatchie County Sheriff | confirmed | |
| 1955-05-31 | Brown II Orders Desegregation with "All Deliberate Speed," Enabling Decade of Resistance Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · Thurgood Marshall · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1954-05-17 | Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Decision Declares School Segregation Unconstitutional Earl Warren · Thurgood Marshall · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 1877-02-26 | Compromise of 1877: Wormley Agreement Abandons Black Americans Rutherford B. Hayes · Southern Democrats · Northern Republicans · Disenfranchised Black Americans | confirmed | |
| 1876-07-08 | Hamburg Massacre: Red Shirts Murder Black Militia to Suppress Voting Red Shirts · Benjamin Tillman · Wade Hampton III · Matthew Butler · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1873-04-14 | Slaughterhouse Cases Gut Fourteenth Amendment Protections U.S. Supreme Court · Louisiana Legislature · Crescent City Livestock Company · New Orleans Butchers | confirmed | |
| 1873-04-13 | Colfax Massacre: 150 Black Americans Murdered to Overthrow Local Government White Supremacist Militia · Ku Klux Klan · Knights of White Camellia · Grant Parish Black Militia | confirmed | |
| 1868-07-09 | Fourteenth Amendment Ratified: Corporate Hijacking Begins U.S. Congress · Louisiana Legislature · South Carolina Legislature · Reconstruction Governments | confirmed | |
| 1868-02-24 | Andrew Johnson Impeached for Obstructing Reconstruction Andrew Johnson · Edwin Stanton · U.S. House of Representatives · Radical Republicans · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1859-10-16 | John Brown's Harpers Ferry Raid Exposes Slave Power's Armed Defense of Institutional Capture John Brown · Robert E. Lee · James Buchanan · U.S. Marines · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1858-08-21 | Lincoln-Douglas Debates Expose Popular Sovereignty as Slavery Expansion Vehicle Abraham Lincoln · Stephen A. Douglas · Republican Party · Democratic Party | confirmed | |
| 1858-01-04 | Kansas Voters Overwhelmingly Reject Lecompton Constitution Despite Buchanan Bribery James Buchanan · Stephen A. Douglas · Kansas voters · Lecompton Convention | confirmed | |
| 1855-03-30 | Border Ruffians Steal Kansas Election Through Systematic Fraud and Violence David Rice Atchison · Border Ruffians · Franklin Pierce · Kansas Territorial Government | confirmed | |
| 1853-03-04 | Pierce Inauguration Falsely Claims Slavery Question Settled While Planning Expansion Franklin Pierce · Stephen A. Douglas · Democratic Party · Slave Power | confirmed | |
| 1852-11-02 | Pierce Elected in Slave Power Landslide as Whig Party Collapses Over Slavery Franklin Pierce · Winfield Scott · Democratic Party · Whig Party | confirmed | |
| 1840-11-02 | Log Cabin Campaign Uses Image Manipulation and Corruption Attacks to Defeat Van Buren William Henry Harrison · Martin Van Buren · Whig Party · Charles Ogle | confirmed | |
| 1834-03-28 | Senate Censures Jackson for Pet Banks Scheme and Constitutional Overreach Andrew Jackson · Henry Clay · Roger Taney · William Duane · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1826-01-01 | Jefferson Denounces Corrupt Bargain as Betrayal of Democratic Principles Thomas Jefferson · Andrew Jackson · Democratic-Republican Party · Reform Movement | confirmed | |
| 1825-02-09 | Corrupt Bargain Elevates Adams to Presidency Through House Backroom Deal John Quincy Adams · Henry Clay · Andrew Jackson · William Crawford · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1824-02-09 | House Elects John Quincy Adams in "Corrupt Bargain" After Clay Throws Support, Ending Era of Good Feelings John Quincy Adams · Henry Clay · Andrew Jackson · William H. Crawford · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1821-08-10 | Missouri Compromise Finalizes Slave State Expansion After Racial Exclusion Crisis U.S. Congress · James Monroe · Henry Clay · Daniel Pope Cook · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1814-12-15 | Hartford Convention Federalist Secession Threat Establishes Nullification Precedent New England Federalists · Harrison Gray Otis · Massachusetts delegates · Connecticut delegates · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1798-07-14 | Alien and Sedition Acts Criminalize Political Dissent and Democratic Opposition President John Adams · Federalist Party · Secretary of State Timothy Pickering · Democratic-Republican newspaper editors · +1 | confirmed |