The Standing Record

This is the Standing Record for October 26, 2026. Nothing new from October 25, 2026, but we added 14 events that erode our democratic ideals from earlier dates to the archive — 373 so far this month, 2626 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 25, 2026 yet, so we thought it would be fun to take a look back in history.

• October 25, 2021 — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed HB 25, barring transgender K-12 students from school sports matching their gender identity
• October 25, 2025 — Border Patrol agents pepper-sprayed two U.S. citizens monitoring them at an Aurora, Illinois elementary school, tackling one and shoving the other
• October 25, 2025 — Border Patrol agent dragged 67-year-old U.S. citizen from his car on his Chicago block and pinned him, breaking six of his ribs
• October 25, 2025 — Border Patrol agent tackled ICE watcher Maria Bryan and her bicycle to the ground in Chicago's Old Irving Park, fracturing seven of her ribs

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.

• January 5, 2018 — Oktibbeha County, Mississippi grand jury indicted Latice Fisher for second-degree murder over the death of her baby after a home delivery
• June 26, 2019 — Jefferson County authorities arrested Marshae Jones on a manslaughter charge after she lost her pregnancy when another woman shot her
• March 16, 2020 — Comanche County prosecutors charged Brittney Poolaw, 19, with first-degree manslaughter over a 17-week miscarriage after methamphetamine use
• June 1, 2022 — Madison County, Nebraska prosecutors charged a 17-year-old with abandoning fetal remains and concealing a death after her self-managed abortion
• February 5, 2023 — San Bernardino County deputies shot and killed Antonio Garza Jr. on foot near Palm Springs after a 35-minute pursuit
• December 19, 2024 — Bexar County deputies arrested Mallori Strait for abuse of a corpse after she miscarried in a Whataburger bathroom
• July 15, 2025 — Trump fired acting U.S. Attorney Michele Beckwith hours after she told Border Patrol's Bovino to follow a court order
• September 26, 2025 — OMB withheld apportionment of appropriated funds for the inspectors general council CIGIE, taking Oversight.gov and IG websites offline
• September 28, 2025 — Border Patrol agents detained a family with two young children at Chicago's Millennium Park and moved the father to Texas
• September 29, 2025 — HHS Office for Civil Rights referred Harvard for government-wide funding debarment weeks after a judge ruled the $2.6B research cutoff illegal
• September 30, 2025 — HUD posted homepage banner blaming 'the Radical Left' for impending shutdown, drawing Hatch Act complaint
• September 30, 2025 — Reuters reported Nevada's acting U.S. Attorney Chattah urged an FBI probe of debunked 2020 voter-fraud claims, telling DOJ it could help Republicans
• March 4, 2026 — Kingsland police arrested Alexia Moore on a murder charge and two drug counts after an infant she delivered following alleged abortion-pill use died
• October 22, 2026 — Fort Bend County Tax Assessor-Collector Carmen Turner put people on the county payroll to care for her mother, federal prosecutors allege

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