| 1980-12-11 | Superfund Law Passes But Industry Successfully Builds In Weaknesses and Delays
3 src Jimmy Carter · Chemical Manufacturers Association · American Petroleum Institute · U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| confirmed |
| 1980-11-05 | Edward Seaga Defeats Michael Manley in Jamaica Election, Immediately Re-Engages IMF Structural Adjustment
3 src International Monetary Fund · World Bank | | confirmed |
| 1980-11-04 | Ronald Reagan Elected President, Conservative Infrastructure Achieves Powell Memo Goals
3 src Ronald Reagan · Heritage Foundation · Paul Weyrich · Edwin Feulner · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1980-10-01 | INS Opens Krome Avenue Detention Center on Decommissioned Nike Missile Site, Locking In Detention as Default Immigration Response
4 src Immigration and Naturalization Service · Jimmy Carter · Ronald Reagan · Haitian refugees |
| confirmed |
| 1980-08-03 | Reagan Launches General Election Campaign with 'States' Rights' Speech Near Civil Rights Murder Site
4 src Ronald Reagan · Republican Party | | confirmed |
| 1980-07-01 | Carter Signs Motor Carrier Act, Completing Bipartisan Transportation Deregulation
2 src Jimmy Carter · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1980-07-01 | Reagan Aide Edwin Meese Coordinates with Heritage on "Mandate for Leadership"
2 src Edwin Meese III · Ronald Reagan · Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 1980-06-30 | Schlafly and Falwell Joint Rally Demonstrates Religious Right Coalition Unity
2 src Phyllis Schlafly · Jerry Falwell · Eagle Forum | | confirmed |
| 1980-06-20 | Powell creates Central Hudson test expanding corporate commercial speech rights
3 src Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Supreme Court of the United States |
| confirmed |
| 1980-04-21 | Mariel Boatlift Exposes Racist Double Standards as Cubans Welcomed While Haitians Detained
3 src Jimmy Carter · Haitian refugees · Immigration and Naturalization Service | | confirmed |
| 1980-03-24 | U.S. Backs El Salvador Death Squad Government Through 12-Year Civil War
3 src Ronald Reagan |
| 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 |
| 1980-01-07 | Carter Signs Chrysler Bailout, Corporate Welfare Precedent Set
3 src Jimmy Carter | | confirmed |
| 1980-01-01 | Banking Industry Launches Systematic Campaign to Erode Glass-Steagall Act
3 src Federal Reserve Board · Alan Greenspan |
| confirmed |
| 1980-01-01 | Black, Manafort & Stone lobbying firm founded, nicknamed 'Torturers' Lobby'
3 src Paul Manafort · Roger Stone |
| confirmed |
| 1980-01-01 | Charles Heatherly Produces "Mandate for Leadership" Outline, Assembling 300 Contributors
2 src Edwin Feulner · Heritage Foundation |
| confirmed |
| 1980-01-01 | Claim: Epstein and Maxwell Alleged Intelligence Operation (Unverified)
5 src Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · Robert Maxwell · Mossad | | disputed |
| 1980-01-01 | Corporate Political Mobilization Accelerates Following Powell Memo and Business Roundtable Formation
3 src Business Roundtable · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · National Association of Manufacturers · Lewis Powell |
| confirmed |
| 1980-01-01 | NLRB Systemic Underfunding and Weak Enforcement Enables Corporate Union-Busting
3 src National Labor Relations Board · U.S. Congress · Reagan Administration |
| confirmed |