About This Project

What Is This?

War Crimes 2026 is a sourced publication tracking alleged human-rights violations, unlawful-removal concerns, constitutional conflicts, and abuses of executive power associated with the Trump administration beginning January 20, 2025.

Every incident listed on this site is sourced from reporting, court filings, government records, statutes, or public advocacy material. The project makes editorial classifications, but it does not claim a court or tribunal has reached a final legal conclusion unless the entry says so explicitly.

Why Does This Exist?

Because accountability requires memory. Authoritarian regimes depend on the public's inability to keep track of the sheer volume of abuses. This site exists to ensure that nothing is forgotten, nothing is normalized, and nothing escapes the historical record.

Standards

Every incident on this site must meet the following standards:

• Sourced: At minimum one credible source (major news outlet, court filing, government document, or international body report)
• Dated: Specific dates for when events occurred
• Categorized: Classified by type and severity
• Factual: Descriptions identify what is reported, what is alleged, and what has been adjudicated
• Explicit About Uncertainty: When legal status is unresolved, entries label the issue as an allegation, litigation position, or editorial assessment

Severity Levels

• Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern: Conduct that, based on the reporting and cited legal materials, raises unusually grave questions about unlawful detention, refoulement, executive defiance, or severe due-process breakdowns
• Serious Rights Violation: Serious constitutional, statutory, or international-law concerns supported by strong public evidence
• Major Abuse of Power: Significant abuses of power, institutional destruction, or systematic rights violations
• Significant Democratic Concern: Actions that undermine democratic norms, rule of law, or government accountability

Legal Framework

This site may draw on the following frameworks when they are relevant to a specific entry:

• The U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights
• The Geneva Conventions (1949) and Additional Protocols
• The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
• The UN Convention Against Torture
• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• The Refugee Convention (1951) and Protocol (1967)
• Federal statutes including the Administrative Procedure Act, Immigration and Nationality Act, and Posse Comitatus Act

The existence of a framework on this list does not mean a court has already found that any given incident violates it. Where the legal status is contested, the relevant incident page says so.

Contributing

This is an open-source project. If you have documented, sourced incidents to add, contributions are welcome. All submissions must meet the standards above.

Disclaimer

This site is a work of journalism and political commentary protected by the First Amendment. It documents publicly reported events using public sources and editorial judgment. It is not legal advice, it is not a court filing, and it is not affiliated with any government, political party, or advocacy organization.