The Standing Record

This is the Standing Record for August 24, 2026. Nothing new from August 23, 2026, but we added 5 events that erode our democratic ideals from earlier dates to the archive — 406 so far this month, 1798 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 23, 2026 yet, so we thought it would be fun to take a look back in history.

As it turns out, the archive holds nothing from any prior August 23 either — a quiet date all around.

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 30, 2025 — Fannie Mae fired ethics staff investigating Pulte's access to Letitia James's mortgage records
• January 7, 2026 — ICE and Orange County Jail unlawfully detained Venezuelan student without charges for 18 days
• January 24, 2026 — CoreCivic held ~1,500 Dilley detainees, many children, in what detainees described as putrid water and bug-contaminated food, sparking mass protest
• April 23, 2026 — ODNI terminated its Puerto Rico voting-machine security contractor after a Trump adviser pushed back on findings that found no fraud
• August 5, 2026 — Phoenix police officers used unreported force, including a taser, on a stopped couple and filed no report

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