The Standing Record

This is the Standing Record for July 30, 2026. Nothing new from July 29, 2026, but we added 16 events that erode our democratic ideals from earlier dates to the archive — 829 so far this month, 1379 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 29, 2026 yet, so we thought it would be fun to take a look back in history.

• July 29, 2025 — AG Bondi filed judicial misconduct complaint against Chief Judge Boasberg, seeking removal from deportation cases
• July 29, 2025 — AG Pamela Bondi issued guidance classifying DEI programs as unlawful discrimination, threatening federal grant revocation
• July 29, 2025 — North Carolina General Assembly overrode veto to enact law restricting transgender medical care and birth certificates

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.

• October 7, 2024 — Elon Musk's America PAC paid Pennsylvania swing-state voters $47 apiece to sign and refer a political petition ahead of the 2024 election
• June 6, 2025 — ICE arrested SEIU labor leader David Huerta at an LA immigration raid protest; DOJ charged him with impeding federal agents
• January 11, 2026 — DOJ opened criminal probe of Federal Reserve Chair Powell with no evidence, using renovation costs as pretext for Trump's rate-policy feud
• February 5, 2026 — ICE detained asylum seeker four months, denying scheduled cyst surgery and chaining her during outdoor time
• March 10, 2026 — ICE re-detained Sheboygan Falls mother at routine check-in despite prior court-granted cancellation of removal
• March 20, 2026 — DOJ moved to dismiss remaining charges against ex-officers who falsified Breonna Taylor warrant
• March 24, 2026 — HUD launched a Fair Housing investigation into Washington's Covenant Homeownership Program for communities excluded by racially restrictive covenants
• April 3, 2026 — National Park Service gave Trump donor's firm a second no-bid contract months after its Tijuana River pilot failed
• July 22, 2026 — Emporia Police Department arrested teacher for clapping in support of data center opponents at city commission meeting
• July 27, 2026 — ICE, Campbell County jail denied insulin to diabetic detainees, put miscarriage victim in solitary confinement
• July 27, 2026 — Sen. Alan Armstrong disclosed 700 stock trades two months past STOCK Act deadline
• July 28, 2026 — Court-appointed monitor found CoreCivic's California City ICE facility systemically denied detainees adequate healthcare
• July 28, 2026 — Guardian investigation reveals ICE forcibly treated hunger-striking detainee with force-feeding, catheterization, or blood draws
• July 28, 2026 — Lawsuit revealed EEOC indefinitely suspended all federal-sector civil-rights class complaints
• July 28, 2026 — DOJ agreed to pay pro-life activist Paul Vaughn a seven-figure settlement over Biden-era FACE Act prosecution
• July 28, 2026 — Indiana Capital Chronicle investigation revealed Inspector General Jared Prentice halted publication of state misconduct reports

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