The Standing Record

This is the Standing Record for October 12, 2026. Nothing new from October 11, 2026, but we added 5 events that erode our democratic ideals from earlier dates to the archive — 160 so far this month, 2453 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 October 11, 2026 yet, so we thought it would be fun to take a look back in history.

• October 11, 2022 — Lawsuit revealed Clayton County police's airport jet-bridge unit disproportionately stopped Black travelers, seized over $1M in cash
• October 11, 2025 — Trump directs Pentagon to redirect $8B in R&D funds to military pay, bypassing Purpose Statute and congressional reprogramming

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.

• October 17, 2025 — D.C. police officers omitted a federal agent's shots at driver Phillip Brown from their arrest reports
• October 23, 2025 — Border Patrol chief Bovino threw tear gas at Little Village protesters without warning; an agent pointed a gun at a veteran
• September 28, 2026 — Reporting revealed ICE had been detaining Hong Kong residents shielded from removal by Deferred Enforced Departure since June
• October 9, 2026 — DOJ opened an antitrust investigation into five TV networks over their pool coverage suspension protesting Trump's press bans
• October 9, 2026 — Oversight Project disclosed that DHS had fully redacted every figure in a self-departures summary produced in its deportation-data FOIA suit

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