The Standing Record

This is the Standing Record for September 14, 2026. Nothing new from September 13, 2026, but we added 10 events that erode our democratic ideals from earlier dates to the archive — 198 so far this month, 2086 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 September 13, 2026 yet, so we thought it would be fun to take a look back in history.

• September 13, 2011 — North Carolina General Assembly passed SB514, referring same-sex marriage ban constitutional amendment to 2012 ballot

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.

• May 23, 2025 — DOE forced Michigan's J.H. Campbell coal plant to keep running past its planned retirement, citing a claimed emergency
• August 21, 2025 — ICE detained disabled Army veteran Muhammad Zahid Chaudhry without notice, held him four months at Tacoma facility
• November 26, 2025 — ICE detained a father at a routine check-in and placed his 6-year-old son in unaccompanied-minor custody
• December 16, 2025 — DOJ withdrew a 1997 opinion, cutting some lawful immigrants off from federal benefit programs
• December 18, 2025 — DOJ sued Georgia's secretary of state to compel release of voters' driver's license and Social Security numbers
• June 29, 2026 — Galveston County commissioners redrew precinct map after primary, citing goal of electing more Republicans
• July 15, 2026 — Florida's Division of Emergency Management missed a statutory spending-report deadline by two months; state approved $490M more anyway
• September 3, 2026 — Florida Board of Governors voted to bar undocumented students from the state's 12 public universities
• September 11, 2026 — Reporting revealed Interior Department disapproved 130+ national park funding agreements over recipients' alignment with administration priorities
• September 12, 2026 — Federal judge ruled DHS unlawfully halved FEMA's workforce, violating post-Katrina law

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