Tomorrow is No Kings Day - Attend a Protest but Keep Your Eyes Open

13 June 2025

This Saturday, June 14, will be an enormous day of protest in the United States.

In conjunction with protests against increasingly militaristic immigration raids that are spreading around the country, the No Kings protests—which you can read more about here—with over 1,800 rally sites nationwide, will almost certainly be the largest protest of the second Trump administration to date. I admit that I am just spitballing here, but I expect between five and ten million people to attend a rally this weekend, surpassing the three to five million participants in the Hands Off protests of April 5.

Given the huge number of rally sites, there is definitely going to be a protest near where you live. You should consider attending, as Trump is edging us closer to authoritarianism and democracy requires that people continually exercise their democratic rights. You can find a rally near you by clicking here.

More from Chris Bowers here.

From Robert Reich:

Two hundred fifty years ago, on June 14, 1775, Americans created an army to defend ourselves from an alien force intent on suppressing our right to home rule and threatening personal security in our homes and workplaces.

Tomorrow, on June 14, 2025, we will be demonstrating across this country against our wannabe king and his decision to destroy the constitutional rights that Americans fought long and hard to secure. We will protest his deployment of our own armed forces to seize community members, suppress home rule, attack judges, even attack a United States senator.

We will be demonstrating against Trump’s decision to turn our army into a domestic army of occupation — into neo-redcoats.

We will not allow this to happen any more than did our forebears.

But we will not take up arms. This is not a replay of the American Revolution. Donald Trump is not King George III. We still have constitutional rights to speak up, to sound the alarm, and to contest what Trump is doing.

We will do this tomorrow and we will do it peacefully.

I will be at Ferndale’s protest. How about you?

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