The Standing Record

This is the Standing Record for August 9, 2026. Nothing new from August 8, 2026, but we added 9 events that erode our democratic ideals from earlier dates to the archive — 165 so far this month, 1559 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 8, 2026 yet, so we thought it would be fun to take a look back in history.

• August 8, 2025 — AG Bondi opened DOJ investigations into Sen. Adam Schiff and NY AG Letitia James, appointing Trump ally Ed Martin as special attorney for both probes

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 9, 2024 — Shenandoah County, Virginia school board voted to restore Confederate-general names to two public schools
• September 23, 2025 — Attorney General Bondi fired Miami prosecutor Rosenzweig over years-old anti-Trump blog posts, part of DOJ purge of critics
• December 2, 2025 — Acting Texas Comptroller Hancock used emergency rule to strip minority- and women-owned firms from HUB contracting program
• December 12, 2025 — Oregon Rep. Greg Smith gave himself unapproved $66,000 raise and approved his own $51,000 in vacation pay, ethics panel found
• February 13, 2026 — DHS and ICE began occupying a Romulus, Michigan warehouse for a detention facility without notifying local or state officials
• February 26, 2026 — Federal Protective Service cited immigrant-accompaniment volunteers for loitering in San Diego federal building
• April 4, 2026 — ICE detained U-visa crime-victim Kevin Ramirez Mancia for four months despite approved work permit and deferred action
• August 6, 2026 — Interior paid RWE $1.22 billion to terminate its New York, California, and Louisiana offshore wind leases
• August 7, 2026 — Pentagon revoked former Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall's security clearance after his on-record criticism of Air Force One's replacement jet

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