| 1982-10-06 | Josemaria Escriva Beatified Despite Controversies
5 src Vatican | | confirmed |
| 1981-12-01 | CNP Completes "Three-Legged Stool" with Heritage and ALEC - Coordination Infrastructure Operational
2 src Council for National Policy · Heritage Foundation · American Legislative Exchange Council · Paul Weyrich |
| confirmed |
| 1981-05-18 | Council for National Policy Founded with Schlafly as Founding Member, Creating Elite Conservative Network
3 src Phyllis Schlafly · Council for National Policy · Tim LaHaye · Paul Weyrich · +4 | | confirmed |
| 1980-06-30 | Schlafly and Falwell Joint Rally Demonstrates Religious Right Coalition Unity
2 src Phyllis Schlafly · Jerry Falwell · Eagle Forum | | confirmed |
| 1980-03-17 | Refugee Act of 1980 Establishes Systematic Asylum Process, Becomes Target of Enforcement Capture
3 src Jimmy Carter · Edward Kennedy · U.S. Congress · United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1979-01-02 | Federation for American Immigration Reform Founded, Launching Modern Nativist Movement Infrastructure
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1978-12-31 | Corporate Lobbying Presence Quintuples in Washington DC
3 src U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Lewis Powell |
| confirmed |
| 1978-01-01 | Robert Bork Publishes "The Antitrust Paradox," Revolutionizing Corporate Power
3 src Robert Bork · Aaron Director · Chicago School of Economics |
| confirmed |
| 1977-05-21 | Harlon Carter Leads NRA Cincinnati Revolt Transforming Gun Lobby into Political Weapon | | |
| 1977-01-01 | Charles Koch Founds Cato Institute with $500,000, Expanding Libertarian Infrastructure
3 src Charles Koch · Murray Rothbard · Koch Industries |
| 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 |
| 1977-01-01 | William E. Simon Becomes Olin Foundation President, Launching Strategic Conservative Funding
2 src John M. Olin · John M. Olin Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 1976-12-31 | Corporate PAC Explosion: 433 New Corporate PACs Formed in Post-Buckley Era
4 src Corporate America · Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Federal Election Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1976-04-20 | Supreme Court Allows Metropolitan-Wide Housing Desegregation Remedy
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development | | confirmed |
| 1976-01-30 | Supreme Court Rules Money Is Speech in Buckley v. Valeo
7 src U.S. Supreme Court · Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Byron White | | confirmed |
| 1974-09-12 | Boston Busing Crisis Erupts, Northern White Resistance to Desegregation
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1974-09-02 | ERISA Pension Law Creates Framework for Corporate Benefit Cuts
5 src Gerald Ford | | confirmed |
| 1974-01-01 | Richard Scaife Begins Major Funding of Heritage Foundation as Primary Donor
3 src Richard Mellon Scaife · Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner |
| confirmed |
| 1973-12-29 | HMO Act Enables For-Profit Healthcare Expansion
3 src Richard Nixon · John Ehrlichman · Edward Kennedy | | confirmed |
| 1973-11-08 | U.S. Chamber of Commerce Board Adopts Powell Memo Task Force Recommendations
2 src U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Lewis F. Powell Jr. |
| confirmed |
| 1973-09-11 | Chicago Boys Initiate Radical Economic Shock Therapy Under Pinochet's Dictatorship
3 src Milton Friedman |
| confirmed |
| 1972-11-01 | Eagle Forum Founded as Permanent Conservative Infrastructure for 'Pro-Family' Organizing
5 src Phyllis Schlafly · Eagle Forum | | confirmed |
| 1972-11-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Relocates to Washington D.C. in Corporate Mobilization
2 src National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| confirmed |
| 1972-09-28 | Powell Memo Leaked to Public, Exposing Corporate Institutional Capture Blueprint
3 src Lewis F. Powell Jr. · U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| confirmed |
| 1972-05-02 | J. Edgar Hoover Dies in Office After 48 Years, Ending Longest FBI Directorship and Enabling Oversight Possibility
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Richard Nixon | | confirmed |
| 1972-02-01 | Phyllis Schlafly Launches STOP ERA Campaign, Pioneering Anti-Feminist Infrastructure
3 src Phyllis Schlafly · Catholic Church | | confirmed |
| 1971-08-15 | Nixon Ends Gold Standard, Bretton Woods System Collapses
3 src Richard Nixon · John Connally · Paul Volcker · Arthur Burns | | confirmed |
| 1971-01-01 | Corporate Lobbying Expansion Begins, Growing From 175 to 2,500 Firms by 1982
3 src U.S. Chamber of Commerce · Corporate America |
| confirmed |
| 1968-06-17 | Supreme Court Rules 1866 Civil Rights Act Bans Private Housing Discrimination
3 src U.S. Supreme Court | | confirmed |
| 1967-01-01 | Vietnam War Defense Contractor Profiteering Reaches Peak as Congressional Investigations Expose Waste and Corruption
3 src Halliburton · Lockheed · Boeing · General Dynamics · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1966-08-09 | Dorothy Gautreaux Lawsuit Challenges Chicago Public Housing Segregation
3 src American Civil Liberties Union · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development | | 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 |
| 1964-08-07 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Passes Based on Fabricated Second Attack Authorizing Vietnam War Escalation
4 src Lyndon B. Johnson · Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara · National Security Agency · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1964-07-02 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 Passes After Filibuster Defeats Corporate Southern Resistance
3 src Lyndon B. Johnson · Richard Russell · Strom Thurmond · U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| confirmed |
| 1964-05-01 | Phyllis Schlafly Publishes 'A Choice Not an Echo,' Launching Conservative Movement Infrastructure
3 src Phyllis Schlafly · Barry Goldwater · Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 1961-01-17 | President Eisenhower's Farewell Address Warns Against Military-Industrial Complex
6 src Dwight D. Eisenhower | | confirmed |
| 1953-02-09 | Roy Cohn Establishes Blackmail and Intimidation Network
4 src Roy Cohn · Joseph McCarthy · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 1950-04-07 | NSC-68 Directive Creates Permanent Military-Industrial Establishment - Defense Spending to Triple
4 src Harry S. Truman · Dean Acheson · Louis Johnson | | confirmed |
| 1949-07-15 | Housing Act of 1949 Creates Urban Renewal Program, Becomes "Negro Removal"
3 src U.S. Congress · Harry Truman | | confirmed |
| 1948-05-03 | Supreme Court Rules Racially Restrictive Housing Covenants Unenforceable
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Fred Vinson · NAACP Legal Defense Fund | | confirmed |
| 1947-10-01 | Levittown Opens as America's First Suburb With Explicit Whites-Only Policy
3 src Federal Housing Administration | | 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 |
| 1947-07-26 | National Security Act Establishes Permanent Warfare State and Military-Industrial Framework
5 src Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Defense · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1947-06-23 | Anti-Communist Loyalty Oaths and Taft-Hartley Act Weaponized to Crush Labor Movement
6 src CIO · AFL | | 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 |
| 1945-01-03 | HUAC Made Permanent Standing Committee, Institutionalizes Political Persecution
3 src U.S. House of Representatives · House Un-American Activities Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1942-12-21 | Anaconda Wire and Cable Indicted for $6 Million Fraud Selling Defective Equipment
3 src Department of Justice · Truman Committee · Francis Biddle | | confirmed |
| 1942-09-01 | Committee for Economic Development Founded as Business-Government Policy Coordination Body
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1942-01-16 | War Production Board Establishes Corporate-Government Fusion Model
4 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · War Production Board · Defense contractors | | confirmed |
| 1938-01-01 | FHA Underwriting Manual Formalizes Racial Covenants, Physical Segregation
3 src Federal Housing Administration · U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development | | confirmed |
| 1936-01-01 | Harlon Carter Joins U.S. Border Patrol Beginning Rise to Chief of Border Control | | |
| 1935-01-01 | National Association of Manufacturers Launches Unprecedented Multi-Million Dollar Anti-New Deal Propaganda Campaign
6 src National Association of Manufacturers · General Motors · AT&T · Standard Oil · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1934-11-20 | Marine General Smedley Butler Testifies to Congressional Committee About Wall Street Plot to Overthrow FDR
3 src Du Pont family · Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| confirmed |
| 1934-08-22 | American Liberty League Founded by Du Pont Family and Corporate Elite to Oppose New Deal
3 src Du Pont family · General Motors · U.S. Steel · Standard Oil | | confirmed |
| 1934-06-27 | Federal Housing Administration Created, Institutionalizes Racial Segregation
3 src Federal Housing Administration · Federal Home Loan Bank Board · U.S. Chamber of Commerce | | confirmed |
| 1933-06-13 | Home Owners' Loan Corporation Created, Establishes Racial Appraisal Framework
3 src Franklin D. Roosevelt · Federal Home Loan Bank Board |
| confirmed |
| 1929-02-02 | Federal Reserve Warns Against Speculation But Takes No Effective Action
3 src Federal Reserve Board · Andrew Mellon · National City Bank | | confirmed |
| 1928-08-27 | Kellogg-Briand Pact Outlaws War While Preserving Imperial Prerogatives
3 src Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Senate | | confirmed |
| 1927-09-18 | CBS Founded as Radio Broadcasting Oligopoly Takes Shape
3 src Paramount Pictures | | confirmed |
| 1927-01-01 | Company Unions Peak as Welfare Capitalism Undermines Independent Labor
3 src U.S. Steel · National Association of Manufacturers · Samuel Gompers | | confirmed |
| 1926-11-15 | NBC Created as RCA Establishes Radio Broadcasting Monopoly
3 src General Electric · AT&T | | confirmed |
| 1926-02-26 | Revenue Act of 1926 Slashes Top Tax Rate to 25%, Abolishes Gift Tax in Full Mellon Plan
3 src Andrew Mellon · Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Congress · Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 1925-11-14 | D.C. Stephenson Convicted of Murder Exposing Klan Leadership Corruption
3 src | | confirmed |
| 1925-08-08 | KKK Marches on Washington at Peak of Institutional Influence
3 src Ku Klux Klan | | confirmed |
| 1924-06-02 | Revenue Act of 1924 Continues Mellon Tax Cuts for Wealthy, Lowers Top Rate to 46%
3 src Andrew Mellon · Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Congress · Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 1924-05-28 | U.S. Border Patrol Founded Staffed by Former Klansmen and Texas Rangers | | |
| 1924-05-26 | Immigration Act of 1924 Imposes Racist National Origins Quotas Based on Eugenics
3 src Calvin Coolidge · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1924-05-10 | Hoover Named Acting Director of Bureau of Investigation, Begins 48-Year Tenure
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Harlan Fiske Stone · Bureau of Investigation · Calvin Coolidge |
| confirmed |
| 1924-03-28 | Coolidge Fires Daugherty for Refusing to Open Justice Department Files
3 src Harry Daugherty · Calvin Coolidge · Warren G. Harding | | confirmed |
| 1924-01-15 | National Industrial Conference Board Coordinates Corporate Anti-Union Propaganda
3 src National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| confirmed |
| 1923-09-01 | Ku Klux Klan Seizes Control of Indiana State Government
3 src Ku Klux Klan | | confirmed |
| 1923-05-30 | Jesse Smith Suicide Exposes Ohio Gang Justice Department Corruption
3 src Harry Daugherty · Warren G. Harding | | confirmed |
| 1923-02-15 | Charles Forbes Resigns Veterans Bureau Amid Massive Corruption Scandal
3 src Warren G. Harding | | confirmed |
| 1923-01-01 | Edward Bernays Publishes "Crystallizing Public Opinion" Launching Modern PR Industry
3 src Edward Bernays · American Tobacco Company | | confirmed |
| 1921-11-23 | Revenue Act of 1921 Begins Mellon Tax Cuts for Wealthy
3 src Andrew Mellon · Warren G. Harding · Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 1921-09-15 | DuPont-GM Consolidation Creates Model of Interlocking Corporate Control
3 src General Motors | | confirmed |
| 1921-05-31 | Harding Transfers Naval Oil Reserves to Interior Department
3 src Warren G. Harding · Albert Fall | | confirmed |
| 1921-05-19 | Emergency Quota Act Establishes First Numerical Immigration Limits Based on National Origin
3 src Warren G. Harding · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1920-06-05 | Jones Act Establishes Shipping Protectionism Still Harming Consumers Today
3 src U.S. Congress · Woodrow Wilson | | confirmed |
| 1919-11-11 | American Legion Founded with Corporate Backing as Anti-Radical Force
6 src American Legion | | confirmed |
| 1917-07-28 | War Industries Board Established: Bernard Baruch and "Dollar-a-Year Men" Institutionalize Corporate-Government Fusion
3 src Woodrow Wilson · U.S. War Department |
| confirmed |
| 1903-10-29 | Anaconda Copper Shuts Down All Montana Operations to Force Legislative Changes
3 src Anaconda Copper Mining Company |
| confirmed |
| 1903-04-27 | Giles v. Harris: Supreme Court Refuses to Enforce Black Voting Rights Against Alabama Constitution
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · Alabama Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 1893-01-17 | U.S. Marines Land in Honolulu, American Businessmen Overthrow Hawaiian Kingdom and Depose Queen Liliuokalani in Illegal Coup
5 src Sanford B. Dole · U.S. Marines · Grover Cleveland |
| confirmed |
| 1890-01-01 | Company Towns and Debt Peonage: Corporate Control of Coal Mining Communities
3 src |
| confirmed |
| 1887-07-06 | Armed Militia Forces King Kalakaua to Sign "Bayonet Constitution," Stripping Hawaiian Sovereignty and Disenfranchising Native Hawaiians
4 src Sanford B. Dole |
| confirmed |
| 1886-10-25 | Wabash v. Illinois: Supreme Court Shields Interstate Monopolies from Regulation
3 src U.S. Supreme Court · Illinois Legislature |
| confirmed |
| 1884-11-04 | Cleveland Election Marks Shift Toward Corporate Campaign Financing
3 src Grover Cleveland · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1882-01-02 | Standard Oil Trust Formed - First Modern Corporate Monopoly Structure
5 src John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company · Henry Flagler | | confirmed |
| 1881-07-02 | Charles Guiteau Shoots President Garfield Over Patronage Denial
3 src Chester A. Arthur |
| confirmed |
| 1879-01-01 | Standard Oil Attorney Develops Trust Legal Innovation to Circumvent Anti-Monopoly Laws
4 src John D. Rockefeller · Standard Oil Company | | confirmed |
| 1878-06-18 | Posse Comitatus Act Restricts Federal Military from Domestic Law Enforcement
3 src Rutherford B. Hayes · U.S. Congress | | confirmed |
| 1877-06-21 | Black Thursday: Mass Execution of Molly Maguires Based on Pinkerton Infiltration
4 src Pinkerton Detective Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1877-02-26 | Compromise of 1877: Wormley Agreement Abandons Black Americans
3 src Rutherford B. Hayes · Southern Democrats |
| confirmed |
| 1876-03-27 | United States v. Cruikshank Guts Federal Civil Rights Enforcement
4 src U.S. Supreme Court | | confirmed |
| 1876-03-02 | War Secretary Belknap Impeached for Selling Military Post Traderships
4 src Ulysses S. Grant · U.S. House of Representatives |
| confirmed |
| 1875-05-10 | Whiskey Ring Scandal: Treasury Officials Steal Millions in Tax Revenue
4 src Ulysses S. Grant · U.S. Treasury Department |
| confirmed |
| 1874-09-14 | Battle of Liberty Place: White League Stages Armed Coup Against Louisiana Government
3 src White League · Ulysses S. Grant | | confirmed |
| 1874-08-30 | Coushatta Massacre: White League Assassinates Entire Republican Parish Government
3 src White League | | confirmed |