Use the model to see how each case file maps to the capture system—identifying which instruments, feedback loops, and outputs each incident represents.
The Case File Database documents specific instances of institutional drift and democratic capture. Each file is treated as a forensic record, adhering to strict evidentiary standards.
David Sacks, serving as the administration's unpaid 'AI and Crypto Czar,' utilizes the 'Special Government Employee' loophole to retain hundreds of tech investments while drafting policies—such as the AI Action Plan and the GENIUS Act—that directly enrich his portfolio.
President Trump announces a pardon for Juan Orlando Hernández, a convicted drug trafficker who moved 500 tons of cocaine, while simultaneously threatening war against Venezuela for 'narcoterrorism.' In the same week, he commutes the sentence of a $1.6 billion fraudster after only two weeks in prison.
The administration converts a government shutdown into a permanent data blackout, cancelling the release of GDP, jobs, and inflation reports to conceal the economic impact of mass deportations and tariffs.
Following the purge of statistical agencies, the administration utilizes a government shutdown to permanently cancel the release of Q3 GDP, October Jobs, and Inflation reports, effectively erasing the empirical record of its economic policies.
The EPA halts and exempts companies from new 'fence-line monitoring' rules that had exposed massive under-reporting of toxic emissions. This deregulation protects industrial polluters who were found to be releasing carcinogens at levels up to 156 times higher than self-reported estimates.
Facing record beef prices caused partly by his own tariffs, President Trump proposes flooding the U.S. market with Argentine beef. This contradicts his 'America First' doctrine and enrages domestic ranchers, but serves to prop up the struggling government of ideological ally Javier Milei.
During a government shutdown that sidelined 700,000 federal workers, the administration utilized 'carry-over funds' and emergency declarations to keep fossil fuel permitting active while explicitly halting renewable energy projects.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent mobilizes the Exchange Stabilization Fund for a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, explicitly conditioned on the electoral victory of President Javier Milei, bypassing Congressional oversight and the IMF.
President Trump hosts a fundraising dinner for a $200 million donor-funded White House ballroom, explicitly linking state access to private contributions from major tech, defense, and crypto executives.
The White House executes mass layoffs at the Department of Education, effectively eliminating the Office of Special Education Programs (95% cut) and the Office for Civil Rights, fulfilling the Project 2025 goal of ending the federal role in education.
President Trump approves a 211-mile industrial road through the Gates of the Arctic National Park, reversing environmental protections under the pretext of an 'AI arms race' while the federal government takes an equity stake in the mining operator.
The Department of Education cancels $65 million in federal magnet school grants for NYC, Chicago, and Fairfax County after these districts refused to rescind policies protecting transgender students and promoting racial equity.
Following FCC threats, ABC temporarily suspended Jimmy Kimmel. Upon his return, major affiliate groups Nexstar and Sinclair initiated an indefinite boycott, severing 20% of his national reach to protect pending mergers.
Oracle founder Larry Ellison, a key Trump ally, is executing a rapid consolidation of major media assets—including CBS, Paramount, and potentially CNN/HBO and TikTok—to construct a vertically integrated, regime-aligned media empire.
The administration approved advanced AI tech sales to the U.A.E. in exchange for a $2B investment from a U.A.E. fund into a crypto firm owned by the Trump family.
Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the administration launches a synchronized 'whole-of-government' assault on civil liberties. This includes designating political opposition as domestic terrorism, weaponizing the IRS against nonprofits, and revoking visas for speech deemed 'celebratory' of the killing.
Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah is fired for 'gross misconduct' after posting social media comments criticizing gun culture and quoting Charlie Kirk's own words following his assassination. The firing reflects a broader shift at the paper under Jeff Bezos's new ideological mandates.
Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the administration launches a coordinated campaign to reframe political violence as an exclusive trait of the 'radical left,' using the event as a pretext to target nonprofits, revoke visas, and surveil military personnel.
Tulane University study confirms universal vouchers primarily subsidize wealthy families already in private schools, fuel tuition inflation by 5-10%, and redirect public funds to unregulated religious entities.
Following his confirmation as FBI Director, Kash Patel initiated mass firings of agents who investigated President Trump, explicitly citing White House directives.
The administration executes a sweeping purge of public health funding, terminating CDC grants for 'gender ideology,' freezing Title X family planning funds, and cutting $783 million in NIH research grants, a move validated by a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling.
The administration issues an executive order conditioning $115 billion in federal aid on the submission of granular admissions data, while simultaneously purging 96% of the staff at the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) responsible for processing it.
The Trump administration freezes $300M in grants to UCLA and demands a $1 billion 'settlement' payment to restore funding, coupled with requirements to screen students for 'anti-Western' views. A federal judge later blocks the move as unconstitutional coercion.
The Trump administration operationalizes a 'pay-to-play' trade policy, demanding massive, often vague financial investment pledges from South Korea ($350B), Japan ($550B), and the EU ($600B) in exchange for lowering threatened tariff rates.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announces its permanent shutdown following a Congressional vote to strip $500 million in federal funding, ending 50 years of public media support.
President Trump issues an executive order imposing a 40% tariff on 'transshipped' goods, creating immense uncertainty for global supply chains. The order's vague 'rules of origin' and the administration's oscillating stance on China maximize executive leverage over multinational corporations.
President Trump's threat of a punitive 50% tariff on Lesotho—a small African nation exporting textiles duty-free—caused immediate factory closures and mass layoffs before any policy was enacted. The final 15% rate did not reverse the devastation.
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History reverts its impeachment exhibit to a 2008 version to erase references to Donald Trump, following a White House-instigated 'content review' and the forced resignation of the National Portrait Gallery director.
Emil Bove is confirmed to a lifetime seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit despite three whistleblower complaints alleging he instructed DOJ staff to defy court orders, pressured prosecutors to drop charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams, and misled the Senate Judiciary Committee under oath.
The administration creates a legal 'catch-22' for purged civil servants: dismissal letters direct them to appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), which the President effectively destroyed by firing its chair and denying it a quorum.
Project 2025 architect Russel Vought, holding dual roles as OMB Director and Acting CFPB Director, operationalizes a strategy of 'radical constitutionalism.' He utilizes budget cuts from above and extractive billing from within to dismantle agencies he views as existential threats.
CBS cancels the nation's top-rated late-night show days after host Stephen Colbert labeled a $16 million payment from parent company Paramount to President Trump as a 'bribe.' The network cited 'financial' reasons while seeking federal approval for a merger.
Asserting a blanket constitutional authority to fire career civil servants 'without cause,' the Justice Department executes a targeted purge of ethics advisers, prosecutors who worked on cases against the President, and whistleblowers refusing political orders.
Whistleblower complaint by 15-year DOJ veteran Erez Reuveni reveals a conspiracy by senior leadership to systematically defy federal court orders regarding mass deportations, with top officials explicitly instructing staff to disregard judicial rulings.
The Justice Department sues North Carolina to purge over 200,000 voters, including long-time citizen Rani Dasi, based on clerical errors and 'missing' ID numbers. This action weaponizes the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) to disenfranchise eligible voters through bureaucratic attrition.
NYC Comptroller Brad Lander is arrested by masked ICE agents at an immigration courthouse after demanding a judicial warrant. This incident is part of a pattern of federal law enforcement targeting Democratic elected officials who attempt to oversee or question deportation tactics.
A coordinated 'whole-of-government' assault on Harvard University involving eight investigations across six federal agencies, over $3 billion in threatened funding cuts, and a presidential proclamation banning Harvard-enrolled international students.
Following the appointment of Harmeet Dhillon, 70% of DOJ Civil Rights Division attorneys have resigned or been forced out. The division's mission has been radically inverted to enforce 'anti-woke' executive orders, dropping traditional discrimination cases to focus on 'anti-Christian bias' and 'gender ideology extremism.'
The administration operationalizes the Project 2025 labor blueprint, using 'State Innovation Waivers' to bypass federal labor standards while simultaneously moving to repeal the Davis-Bacon Act, ban Project Labor Agreements (PLAs), and gut overtime protections.
After cutting funding and cancelling contracts with legitimate wire services like AP and Reuters, the Trump administration moves to fill the void at Voice of America with 'free' content from the pro-Trump network OAN.
Under the guise of reorganization, the EPA eliminates the Office of Atmospheric Protection and the Energy Star program—a voluntary initiative saving consumers $500 billion—while simultaneously barring union representatives from meetings and dispersing scientists to dilute their influence.
Following successful citizen-led referendums on abortion rights, Republican legislatures in Arkansas, Florida, and the Dakotas enact sweeping restrictions on the ballot initiative process. New laws impose criminal penalties on canvassers, mandate impossible geographic thresholds, and require photo ID for signatures, effectively neutralizing the only mechanism citizens have to bypass captured legislatures.
The Trump administration executes a systematic demolition of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Through mass firings of 20% of the workforce and a budget proposal to abolish its primary research arm, the administration operationalizes the Project 2025 goal of dismantling the 'climate change alarm industry' and commercializing weather data.
Under Executive Order 14173, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) launches a series of investigations into medical schools and hospitals, reinterpreting Title VI to classify diversity scholarships and equity training as 'illegal discrimination' against white applicants.
A coordinated, multi-front campaign in Spring 2025 to punish institutions branded as ideological enemies. The administration operationalized rhetoric into administrative violence through grant freezes (NIH), media shutdowns (VOA), and retaliatory debarment of law firms.
President Trump signs executive orders stripping security clearances and federal contracts from major law firms (Paul, Weiss; Perkins Coie) as retribution for their past representation of his political opponents, threatening the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.
As Deputy Chief of Staff and Homeland Security Adviser, Stephen Miller operationalizes a 'flood the zone' strategy to overwhelm democratic guardrails, bypassing DOJ review for executive orders and granting political appointees access to IRS taxpayer data.
NIH research grants lag by $1 billion as the administration executes a multi-pronged assault: freezing communications, attempting to slash overhead payments to universities, and pivoting research priorities under RFK Jr.'s direction.
Tracing the 50-year evolution of the Christian Right from the fringes of 'Reconstructionism' to the center of power. This file documents how the 1986 'Manifesto of the Christian Church' and the 'Seven Mountain Mandate' provided the theological and tactical blueprint for Project 2025.
Supreme Court ruling eliminating race-conscious admissions created constitutional vulnerability exploited by Bondi memo to attack all diversity efforts.
