On Tuesday, a federal judge dealt President Donald Trump a stiff blow, ruling that his deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles for law enforcement purposes is illegal.
This reaffirms what we already knew, but it underscores a critical point about this moment in our nation’s history.
When we saw the No Kings crowds in city after city in June, we were shocked. Of course we knew this movement was on the right side of history, but you all made No Kings one of the biggest days of protest in the country’s history!
Now it’s time to lace up and do it again on October 18.
Since the first No Kings protests, Trump has only doubled down as a wannabe dictator. He’s deployed the National Guard and masked federal immigration agents in big cities across the country, terrorizing communities and dismantling families. The Trump family has raked in massive hauls of cash from his profiting off the presidency, including billions of dollars just from cryptocurrency schemes. He has tried to criminalize free speech, used the power of the government to target his enemies, and illegally and recklessly wielded tariff policies that have shaken the global economy and made prices go up even more for struggling families.
Unless we, the people, do something, Trump’s brazen criminality and dictatorial behavior will only be enabled.
But, since the first No Kings protest, this movement has only grown. Each time Trump acts as a dictator or conducts another power grab—which is, sadly, very often—interest grows in our movement. Because Americans know and understand the values and principles ingrained in this country: a government of, by, and for the people. Not of or by one man. Not by and for the president’s family and inner circle.
We refuse to stand idly by as the Trump administration snatches our immigrant neighbors off the streets, cuts health care, slashes government programs that help the most vulnerable among us, and rigs elections to centralize and cling to power.
This nation was built on the idea of popular sovereignty—the idea that the government is legitimized by and its power derived from the consent of the people.
No Kings is our way of saying, yet again, that we reject this corrupt administration and authoritarian rule.
No thrones. No crowns. No kings.
- MoveOn
Why are you taking so long? We should be out Louder and louder every week
YES -- DO IT!
And please use this event to strengthen ties, dialog, strategic planning, and coordination between ALL the opposition groups, including Refuse Fascism!