The Standing Record

This is the Standing Record for September 25, 2026. Nothing new from September 24, 2026, but we added 7 events that erode our democratic ideals from earlier dates to the archive — 351 so far this month, 2228 in total. If you saw something happen — yesterday, or any other day — that belongs here, send it to our tip line.

This day in history

We haven't recorded anything for September 24, 2026 yet, so we thought it would be fun to take a look back in history.

• September 24, 2025 — Arkansas AG Griffin pressured university into firing Black law professor Felicia Branch over Charlie Kirk posts
• September 24, 2025 — Tempe Police Department obtained 10 search warrants to unmask anonymous Facebook critics, arrested one over protected GIF comment

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.

• December 1, 2025 — DHS re-suspended 14 reinstated FEMA whistleblowers hours after press revealed their return
• December 2, 2025 — DOJ sued Rhode Island to compel release of unredacted, sensitive voter roll data
• September 16, 2026 — Arizona Sen. Hoffman subpoenaed Hobbs in pay-to-play probe while paid $1.2M by PAC working to defeat her
• September 18, 2026 — Detainee Carlos Josué Marchena Marchena, 36, died in ICE custody at Louisiana's Winn Correctional Center; third death there since April
• September 22, 2026 — CMS canceled 760,000 ACA enrollees' coverage over undisclosed fraud-detection process
• September 22, 2026 — Texas Department of Public Safety failed to send tens of thousands of voter registration applications to counties for about a year
• September 23, 2026 — ICE agent pepper-sprayed activist monitoring masked courthouse arrest in Meriden, Connecticut; second activist hospitalized after fall

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