Participants attended the No Kings rally in Fargo, North Dakota on June 14, 2025. (Photo by Erin Hemme Froslie/North Dakota Monitor)
WASHINGTON — More than 2,600 nonviolent demonstrations against President Donald Trump’s administration are planned Saturday as part of “No Kings Day.”
The second No Kings day after another in June is a reaction to this What a broad coalition Representatives of liberal advocacy groups and labor organizations say it is “the Trump administration’s increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption that they have exacerbated since June.”
Organizers expect millions of Americans to take part in peaceful events in Washington, DC, across the country and around the world. The locations are precisely defined a card on the organization’s website.
“No Kings is back,” Eunic Epstein-Ortiz, a national spokeswoman, said at a news conference Thursday. “And over the past few months, thousands of people have once again organized and volunteered in their local communities to bring their neighbors, families and friends together to say unequivocally: We have no kings. Together they are what are making this Saturday’s mobilization the largest single-day protest in modern history.”
Among the states:
- In Utah, Salt Lake City’s No Kings protest organizers canceled the marching portion of the event and instead staged a longer demonstration at the state Capitol the Utah News Dispatch.
- According to reports, at least 30 No Kings events will take place in Maine Maine Morning Star.
- In Nevada, protesters in downtown Las Vegas will once again be restricted to sidewalks Nevada Stream reported citing high permit costs.
- In Kentucky, there are nearly 30 No Kings protests in the Bluegrass State, according to the New York Times Kentucky lantern.
- Accordingly, ten No Kings protests are planned in North Dakota North Dakota Monitor.
- In Arkansas, the Arkansas attorney The protests are reportedly taking place in more than a dozen cities as the threat of severe weather increases alongside the planned events.
Shutdown, Trump crackdown since June protests
The demonstrations are building No Kings protests in Junewhich coincided with Trump’s huge military parade on his 79th birthday.
Four months later, the federal government is stuck in an ongoing shutdown started on October 1st with no clear end in sight. The government has also cracked down and taken measures against US cities National Guard troops and participating in widespread immigration raids.
Leading voices from labor and advocacy groups who are part of the broad No Kings coalition amplified their message ahead of the planned protests during Thursday’s press conference and highlighted a peaceful day of action on Saturday.
“We will exercise our democratic rights vigorously, peacefully and nonviolently, and we will protect American democracy from this tyrannical threat from Donald Trump and his administration,” said Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen.
Speaker of the House of Representatives criticizes No Kings Day
National coalition leaders also pushed back against U.S. House Representative Mike Johnson’s portrayal the demonstrations as a “Hate America Rally.”
The Louisiana Republican continued to claim Fox News Oct 10 this “It’s the whole pro-Hamas wing and the antifa people – they’re all coming out,” adding, “Some of the House Democrats are selling T-shirts for the event, and we’re told they can’t reopen the government until after this rally because they can’t confront their rabid base.”
Leah Greenberg, co-founder of Indivisible, said: “There is nothing more American than saying we have no kings and exercising our right to peaceful protest.” She added: “America has no kings. That’s our whole point.”
Greenberg said: “I also want to be clear: It’s ridiculous, it’s also scary, because it’s part of a broader effort to create a permission structure to crack down on organized opposition and peaceful dissent in this country.”
“They send the National Guard into American cities, they terrorize our immigrant friends and neighbors with their secret police, they persecute political opponents, and now they are trying to vilify millions of Americans who come to protest so they can justify a crackdown on peaceful dissent.”
Katie Bethell, executive director of MoveOn, said: “Let’s be clear about who is taking to the streets peacefully on Saturday – they are teachers, federal workers, nurses, families, our neighbors and our friends.”
“All of our leaders, Republicans and Democrats alike, should listen to what these patriotic Americans have to say,” Bethell said.
“At the heart of the protests of millions of people is the great love for our country, a country that we believe is worth fighting for,” she said. “This is the reality in cities and towns, large and small, rural and suburban, red and blue areas – millions of us are coming together peacefully on Saturday to send a clear and unambiguous message: The power belongs to the people.”
In other states:
- The Ohio Capital Journal noted that dozens of No Kings protests will take place in the Buckeye State.
- Accordingly, around 40 No Kings protests are planned in Indiana Indiana Capital Chronicle.
- There will likely be at least ten No Kings protests in Rhode Island Rhode Island Current.
- More than 100 communities across Michigan plan to hold No Kings rallies Michigan push Reports.
- In Arizona – where more than 60 No Kings protests are expected – high voter turnout is expected even in the state’s rural Republican strongholds, according to the US state Arizona Mirror.
