The Standing Record

This is the Standing Record for October 23, 2026. Nothing new from October 22, 2026, but we added 13 events that erode our democratic ideals from earlier dates to the archive — 333 so far this month, 2595 in total. If you saw something happen — yesterday, or any other day — that belongs here, send it to our tip line.

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This day in history

We haven't recorded anything for October 22, 2026 yet, so we thought it would be fun to take a look back in history.

• October 22, 2025 — JTF Southern Spear killed 3 aboard suspected narcotics vessel in eastern Pacific; 9th strike
• October 22, 2025 — ICE denied Greggy Sorio medical care for months at Tacoma detention facility, causing partial foot amputations
• October 22, 2025 — North Carolina legislature enacted mid-decade congressional map redrawn to flip Rep. Don Davis's 1st District to Republicans
• October 22, 2025 — DOJ bound the University of Virginia to its anti-DEI guidance through 2028 in exchange for pausing probes and keeping federal grants
• October 22, 2025 — Border Patrol agents detained two U.S.-citizen staffers of Ald. Michael Rodriguez, one an elected police district councilor, in Little Village

Filling out the archive

We're steadily backfilling the archive — working backward through the record so the timeline is complete, not just current. These are older events we've archived over the past day. If you know of something from months or years back that belongs here, send it to our tip line.

• March 21, 2025 — Tifton police arrested Selena Chandler-Scott for concealing a death and abandoning a dead body after her miscarriage
• May 9, 2025 — Tennessee Gov. Lee signed SB 30, making it a crime to approach within 25 feet of police after an order to stay back
• July 1, 2025 — ICE kept journalist Mario Guevara detained after a judge granted bond, citing his livestreaming of law enforcement as a danger to the community
• July 5, 2025 — Wyandotte County deputy Richard Fatherley knelt on handcuffed jail detainee Charles Adair's back for about 86 seconds before Adair died
• October 2, 2025 — Indiana's forensic audit found IEDC disclosed one of 30 potential insider conflicts and sole-sourced a LEAP contract that has paid $77M
• October 5, 2025 — Pentagon sent about 200 federalized California National Guard troops to Portland hours after judge blocked Oregon Guard deployment
• February 19, 2026 — Federal Bureau of Prisons issued policy barring new hormone therapy, ordering tapering and ending social accommodations for transgender inmates
• May 1, 2026 — Indiana AG investigator Kurt Spivey warned Bloomington man he could be indicted over "86 Todd Rokita" Facebook comment
• October 20, 2026 — Associate AG Woodward moved to disqualify Minnesota federal judges Schiltz and Tunheim from immigration cases over their New York Times comments
• October 20, 2026 — CMS Administrator Oz deferred another $1.2 billion in California Medicaid payments, citing program growth and presenting no evidence of fraud
• October 20, 2026 — Trump told a North Carolina rally he would direct DOJ to settle Camp Lejeune water-contamination claims only if Republicans win Congress
• October 20, 2026 — Lauderhill, Fla. officer Brian Sguros accused of taking over home of man he found dead and using his identity; arrested on five felony counts
• October 21, 2026 — FCC Chair Carr warned broadcasters that airing 'fake polls' could violate their license obligations

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