The Standing Record

This is the Standing Record for September 30, 2026. Nothing new from September 29, 2026, but we added 12 events that erode our democratic ideals from earlier dates to the archive — 417 so far this month, 2294 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 29, 2026 yet, so we thought it would be fun to take a look back in history.

• September 29, 2025 — E&E News investigation reveals Energy Department banned 'climate change,' 'decarbonization,' and other terms from EERE work products
• September 29, 2025 — DHS reinstated ICE officer who shoved Ecuadoran woman on video, three days after calling conduct 'unacceptable'
• September 29, 2025 — Oglethorpe County school district threatened to fire teacher Michelle Mickens unless she resigned over Charlie Kirk Facebook post
• September 29, 2025 — DOJ eliminated its Community Relations Service, the "Peacemakers" civil-rights mediation office, via mass layoff notices

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.

• February 13, 2025 — Reporting revealed DOJ had removed the congressionally mandated 'Not One More' report on missing and murdered Indigenous people
• May 22, 2025 — Jacksonville Sheriff's Office jailed father on child-solicitation charges based on facial-recognition match without basic investigation
• October 22, 2025 — North Carolina legislature enacted mid-decade congressional map redrawn to flip Rep. Don Davis's 1st District to Republicans
• November 18, 2025 — ICE detained a Navy veteran's Australian wife at her USCIS green-card interview in San Diego
• November 19, 2025 — Newark immigration judge Maria Akalski denied bond to Haiguang Zheng, ruling she lacked jurisdiction despite a federal court order
• November 20, 2025 — Federal judge found immigration agents' Chicago use-of-force reports contradicted by body-camera video, and that an agent had ChatGPT draft a report
• November 24, 2025 — DHS Secretary Noem terminated Temporary Protected Status for Burma, stripping protection from nearly 4,000 Burmese nationals
• December 30, 2025 — DOE ordered Colorado's Craig Unit 1 coal plant to keep running the day before its planned retirement, citing a claimed emergency
• April 17, 2026 — Florida Highway Patrol jailed Lindsey Isaacs 13 days on vehicular homicide charges built on a Flock camera lead; her SUV had no crash damage
• September 24, 2026 — Independent investigation found N.J. Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell sought promotion for romantic partner and sexually harassed staffer
• September 25, 2026 — UAB officials told public radio station WBHM its journalists must say 'Gulf of America' on air or risk discipline, station chief disclosed
• September 25, 2026 — Trump White House barred CNN from its scheduled TV pool seat on Air Force One after a court restored the network's access

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