The Standing Record

This is the Standing Record for August 10, 2026. Nothing new from August 9, 2026, but we added 13 events that erode our democratic ideals from earlier dates to the archive — 172 so far this month, 1566 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 August 9, 2026 yet, so we thought it would be fun to take a look back in history.

• August 9, 2024 — St. Johns County officials and operatives mailed counterfeit GOP voter guide to deceive Republican primary voters

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 archived yesterday. If you know of something from months or years back that belongs here, send it to our tip line.

• October 15, 2019 — Orleans Parish DA extracted 2019 guilty plea from Elvis Brooks despite knowing it had withheld exculpatory fingerprint evidence
• June 23, 2025 — DHS imposed seven-day notice requirement on lawmakers visiting ICE detention facilities, undercutting statutory oversight power
• August 12, 2025 — Air Force stripped transgender troops' separation boards of discretion, barred recording of proceedings
• October 19, 2025 — FBI-led task force with ICE, local police raided Wilder, Idaho racetrack; detained ~400 including citizens, children with flash-bangs, rubber bullets
• December 31, 2025 — USDA tied wildfire-prevention grants to unrelated DEI and immigration pledges, stalling fire-risk work
• February 3, 2026 — Washington Post investigation revealed DHS subpoenaed Google to unmask a critic hours after his email to a DHS official
• July 23, 2026 — Trump administration imposed new Section 301 tariffs on ~60 countries after truncated forced-labor investigations
• July 30, 2026 — CBP arrested Worden, Montana man without a warrant, held him unlawfully for over a week
• August 5, 2026 — State Department launched pilot bond program charging Dominican immigrant-visa applicants up to $250,000 to overcome public-charge denials
• August 5, 2026 — Trump alleged Wayne County vote fraud without evidence, warned of a 'Rigged Election' after El-Sayed's Michigan primary win
• August 6, 2026 — DOGE refused to answer GAO's questions after audit found it overstated 'Wall of Receipts' savings
• August 7, 2026 — ICE Director David Venturella unilaterally reversed torture protections, deported Mexican nationals
• August 7, 2026 — Ohio Capital Journal investigation reveals JobsOhio chairman lobbied for Intel despite 2023 pledge

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