The Standing Record

This is the Standing Record for July 19, 2026. Nothing new from July 18, 2026, but we added 32 events that erode our democratic ideals from earlier dates to the archive — 539 so far this month, 1089 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 July 18, 2026 yet, so we thought it would be fun to take a look back in history.

• July 18, 2023 — Louisiana Legislature overrode Gov. Edwards' veto to enact HB648, banning gender-affirming care for transgender minors
• July 18, 2025 — EPA eliminated Office of Research and Development, laid off up to 1,155 scientists in 23% workforce cut
• July 18, 2025 — CMS secretly gave ICE access to personal data of all 79 million Medicaid enrollees for immigration enforcement

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.

• March 11, 2021 — Mississippi Gov. Reeves signed SB 2536 banning transgender students from women's and girls' school sports
• March 25, 2021 — Arkansas Gov. Hutchinson signed SB354, barring transgender athletes from girls' and women's school sports
• April 6, 2021 — Arkansas legislature overrode veto to enact HB1570/Act 626, banning gender-affirming care for minors
• April 23, 2021 — Alabama Gov. Ivey signed HB391, barring transgender youth from K-12 school sports
• April 27, 2021 — Arkansas Gov. Hutchinson signed SB450, adding AG enforcement to the state's transgender sports ban
• June 1, 2021 — Florida Gov. DeSantis signed SB 1028 enacting the Fairness in Women's Sports Act banning transgender athletes
• February 3, 2022 — South Dakota Gov. Noem signed SB 46, barring transgender athletes from female school and college sports
• March 25, 2022 — Utah Legislature overrode Cox veto to enact HB 11, barring transgender girls from school sports
• March 28, 2022 — Florida Gov. DeSantis signed HB 1557 barring K-3 LGBTQ instruction and mandating parental notification enabling forced outing
• March 30, 2022 — Oklahoma Gov. Stitt signed SB 2, barring transgender girls from female school sports statewide
• April 8, 2022 — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed HB 322, barring trans students from birth-sex-assigned school restrooms and restricting K-5 LGBTQ instruction
• April 13, 2022 — Kentucky General Assembly enacted a budget rider letting state child-placement contractors refuse services on religious grounds
• April 13, 2022 — Kentucky Legislature overrode Beshear's veto to enact SB 83, banning transgender girls from school sports
• April 22, 2022 — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed HB1895, penalizing school districts that don't enforce the state's transgender sports ban
• April 26, 2022 — Oklahoma Gov. Stitt signed SB 1100, barring nonbinary sex designations on birth certificates
• May 9, 2022 — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed SB 2153, barring transgender women from college sports
• May 16, 2022 — South Carolina Gov. McMaster signed H4608, barring transgender athletes from school sports teams
• May 25, 2022 — Oklahoma Gov. Stitt signed SB 615, requiring K-12 students to use restrooms matching birth-certificate sex
• June 6, 2022 — Louisiana Legislature enacted SB 44, banning transgender girls from school sports, without governor's signature
• June 17, 2022 — South Carolina Gov. McMaster signed medical-conscience law shielding only race from care-refusal discrimination
• July 1, 2022 — South Carolina enacted FY2022-23 budget Proviso 23.4, barring MUSC from using state funds for gender-affirming care for transgender minors under 16
• October 4, 2022 — Oklahoma Gov. Stitt signed SB3XX, cutting ARPA hospital funding tied to gender-affirming care for minors
• June 12, 2023 — Texas Gov. Abbott signed HB 900, requiring vendors to rate and pull sexually explicit books from public school libraries
• March 7, 2025 — DOJ fired pardon attorney Liz Oyer after she refused to restore Mel Gibson's gun rights
• April 1, 2026 — ICE detained 85-year-old French widow of U.S. Army veteran for two weeks over visa overstay
• June 24, 2026 — Wilmington, Delaware police officer fatally shot 19-year-old Kadir Skinner during foot pursuit, disputed by body-camera footage
• July 3, 2026 — U.S. Department of Energy deleted 1,600+ energy-saving webpages amid summer heat wave
• July 13, 2026 — ICE agents tackled, handcuffed, and abandoned arrest of Australian man at Las Vegas airport
• July 15, 2026 — Trump's DNI nominee Jay Clayton repeatedly refused to affirm Biden won the 2020 election at Senate hearing
• July 16, 2026 — DOJ sued Maryland to block in-state tuition benefit for undocumented students, its 13th such suit against a state
• July 16, 2026 — Trump ordered a sixth night of Iran strikes that hit bridges and collapsed a port tower, again defying the war-powers resolution
• July 16, 2026 — Trump called for ABC and NBC's broadcast licenses to be revoked after the networks declined to air his primetime speech

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