Democracy doesn’t fall.
It cascades.
4288 verified events. 7,682 named actors. Court records, government filings, investigative reporting — sourced and indexed from 1142 to today.
Which capture lane was dominant when?
Each year normalized to 100% — the bands show which mechanisms of institutional capture were most prominent across 56 years of record. Hover a band to isolate it. Click any year to enter that year.
On this day · October 29
Binance.US Lists Trump's USD1 Stablecoin Days After Presidential Pardon of Binance Founder
2025 · October 29DOJ Indicts Democratic Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh for ICE Facility Protest
2025 · October 29Supreme Court to Review Trump's Federalization of National Guard in Chicago, Nationwide Implications
2019 · October 29Lt. Col. Vindman Testifies - "It Was Improper for the President to Demand Investigation of U.S. Citizen"
2019 · October 29WhatsApp Sues NSO Group Over Pegasus Spyware Attack on 1,400 Users
2018 · October 29Lion Air Flight 610 Crashes Due to Boeing 737 MAX MCAS System Malfunction
Recent additions to the record
Argentina's Migration Agency Says Flávio Bolsonaro Crossed at Puerto Iguazú at 10:50 p.m. ART Oct. 27 and Boarded a Baires Fly Jet for Guayaquil, After Brazil's Passport Order
Carter Order in US v. California: "The Government’s Application for Temporary Restraining Order is DENIED"
DHS Release Says ICE Arrested 'Dozens' Over Alleged Voter Fraud but Gives No Total, States or Charges
AP Reports ICE Detained a Mentally Ill Man Whose Mother and Records Say He Is a U.S. Citizen, at Indiana's Speedway Slammer
City of Alachua, FL Commission Votes 5-0 on Second Reading of a One-Year Data Center Moratorium, Reported Oct. 27
October 27, 2026Gregg Township Supervisors Unanimously Grant PNK Group Conditional Use for an Allenwood Data Center
October 27, 2026Hasan Piker Sues Scott Jennings for Defamation in D.D.C.: Complaint Pleads Defamation Per Se, Defamation by Implication and False Light
Judge Seabright Rules Essayli Is Unlawfully Serving as Los Angeles's Top Federal Prosecutor and Bars Him From Two Cases; Disqualification Delayed Pending a Stay Request
Curated timelines
Hand-picked swimlane views — pick a thread and read the cascade as it built. Each is a story you can read in five minutes and share as a URL.
Eleven named figures, one think tank, and a transition team blueprint that became governance in real time.
From Reagan-era founding through the six-three majority — the named architects and the justices they …
The Roberts Court ruling on January 21, 2010 — and the cascade of dark money, super PACs, and constitutional …
Two corporations, one agency, and a quarter-century of building the infrastructure that 2025 weaponized.
Both terms on one chart. The first term was chaotic, the second is operational. The difference is the …
Jeffrey Epstein's operation depended on institutional cooperation — from a U.S. Attorney's secret …
Built to be used
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For journalistsPatterns, not anecdotes.
Twelve capture lanes show coordination across decades. Actor pages plot every event on a swimlane. Source tiers tell you what is court-record solid.
For citizensRead it as history.
Walk decade by decade. Every event has plain-language context: what happened, why it matters, where it fits in the cascade.
The most-documented actors
The patterns become unmistakable when you put them in order.
This timeline is the data layer for an ongoing investigation. The reporting traces how each captured institution enables the next.