The Standing Record

This is the Standing Record for October 5, 2026. Nothing new from October 4, 2026, but we added 11 events that erode our democratic ideals from earlier dates to the archive — 58 so far this month, 2352 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 4, 2026 yet, so we thought it would be fun to take a look back in history.

• October 4, 2022 — Oklahoma Gov. Stitt signed SB3XX, cutting ARPA hospital funding tied to gender-affirming care for minors
• October 4, 2025 — Trump federalizes 300 Illinois National Guard troops over Gov. Pritzker's objection, deploying state forces for immigration enforcement
• October 4, 2025 — Border Patrol agent shot Chicago citizen Marimar Martinez five times; DHS's same-day account was contradicted by its own evidence

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.

• March 21, 2017 — Ex-Rep. David Rivera took $50M Venezuelan state oil contract and secretly lobbied US officials for Maduro government
• November 8, 2022 — Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner's office filed a false stipulation and withheld a witness memo to win Lavar Brown a new trial
• May 3, 2024 — Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office deputy fatally shot Airman Roger Fortson seconds after he opened his apartment door
• February 7, 2025 — TSA barred transgender screening officers from conducting pat-downs, implementing Trump's executive order on sex
• October 23, 2025 — Texas AG Paxton sued to dissolve Latino voter-registration nonprofit Jolt Initiative over unproven registration-fraud claims
• November 8, 2025 — Border Patrol agent pepper-sprayed a father and his 1-year-old daughter through their car window in a Cicero, Illinois parking lot
• November 9, 2025 — Plainclothes ICE agent pointed gun at woman driver he accused of following and filming him in Santa Ana, California
• November 12, 2025 — Trump signed shutdown-ending law carrying a Thune-added provision letting senators sue for $500,000 per phone-records search
• September 30, 2026 — Pinellas County, Florida deputy misused police databases to pursue a 17-year-old girl, was arrested on felony charges
• September 30, 2026 — Pinellas County, Florida deputy queried a woman 381 times in police and license-plate-reader databases, was arrested on felony charges
• October 1, 2026 — DOJ sued Maryland and two counties to block their mask ban and ID requirement for federal officers

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