A daily, non-partisan record of US democratic norms — and the events that erode them.
The Standing documents events involving authoritarianism, anti-democratic behavior, and corruption in US governance, applied to all actors regardless of party. No anti-democratic action is too small to record: a precinct-level incident is filed with the same care as a national one. Every entry is anchored to a primary source — a court filing, an agency record, a citizen-captured recording — or to two independent investigative outlets. See our editorial standards.
Illustrative sample. A federal agency declined to provide documents requested by a duly-issued House Oversight subpoena, citing a recently-issued executive memorandum that legal scholars say has no statutory basis. This entry exists to demonstrate the schema; it does not document a real event.