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Al W's avatar

What a day! Tears for the fallen and tears of fear for what will come. But also tears of joy welling deep within of the hope I feel after being a part of No Kings Day. Stand strong! We need to make this day matter.

We NEED to continue to minimize, demoralize, and shine the light of truth on this petty tyrant that has also caused me tears of rage.

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L-A's avatar

As a Canadian I just want to say today was inspiring. The good guys won the day. Sadly we lost 4 of them to a nut job. But the rest of you stood up for your country. It was great to watch. Way to go for every single one of you who showed up. Sadly the monster turned what should have been an honorable nod to your military into a sad narcissistic clown show. At the end of the day you democrats are the winners. And the republicans, esp the monster and his minions must really feel like complete losers…like things are slipping away from them (but gosh that might be dangerous for you all). I hope so much that the monster gets his ass whooped again tomorrow when he visits my country for the G7. Continue to stand strong democrats. You are a force to be reckoned with. The majority of Canada is with you. Elbows up. Flags up.

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Jean Nichols's avatar

And we are with you Canada!

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Merri Ann Gonzalez's avatar

Crappy little one horse town Siren WI population 825 had a turn out of 225 but the miraculous part is that it is more than 2 to 1 Republican. So a quarter of the population showed up for the NO KINGS protest. Inspiring.

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Diane's avatar

The courage to speak up against this tyranny should not trickle up, it should trickle down. Our Representatives and Senators should not be the last to speak up. Those who are waiting to see which way the wind blows on moral issues need to be voted out because, obviously, they do not have morals of their own

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Mary's avatar

They should be the first to speak

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Sue Keller's avatar

Fairbanks, Alaska--2000 of us! No kings for us.

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Lin Musto's avatar

Honolulu—last to go and for our little island, it stretched for blocks in front of the capitol. Even the public buses were tooting horns, and we had bubbles and drums and cowbells, and 4 gay pride flags next to the Hawaii state flag. Thx for staying up…

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Sue DeMasellis's avatar

Senior Citizen here.. attended rally in a small town.. Brighton Michigan. Great attendance during beautiful weather. Only 2 hecklers that were dealt with in a right way. Posters of every subject that we ALL are furious of. Couldn't have been prouder to be a member of the protest.. I would say a couple thousand in attendance .

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Regina Islas's avatar

A great day (excluding the MN nightmare 😭)! SF had 10s of thousands show up and show out PEACEFULLY - no burning cars or SFPD issues-and the ICE garbage early am call on a SATURDAY-was responded to by supporters including the NLG. We will continue to show up, fight, support and PEACEFULLY DISSENT! Thanks for all the work today-with Danielle and Jared & Allison 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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Elaine Cimino's avatar

Many of my friends and community members in NM who are Hispanic and Native American, are carrying passports, real ids, because of their brown skin color and ethnicity. As Waj states they can come after anyone. They will unless they are stopped. Another reason these protests like No Kings need to be more often.

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Kat Ward's avatar

Great rally in Ventura, CA. Probably double the number of people from what I saw at April rally. And a LOT of young adults today, which was superb. Such wonderful, creative, hysterical, and heart-wrenching signs. TONS of American flags - so resistors listened to the pundits - but there were also a lot of Mexican flags and great combo flags: Amer/Mex, Amer/Pride, etc. It was very loud with all of the honking. Only saw 2 middle fingers from cars driving by. Seeing all the videos from red states and red areas has made me very hopeful. The first images I saw after my daughter and I left our rally was of San Diego and that was massive! Oh, local media is saying we got 5,500 in Ventura today. That's massive for us.

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Susan M's avatar

Allison, I was with 3000 at Carlsbad, CA while other friends were in downtown San Diego, I think with 20,000. Such a great turnout across the country. 🇺🇸☮️ 💖

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roland krueger's avatar

All these people and we’re still hamstrung with septuagenarian and octogenarian leadership in the Democratic Party that’s solely interested in fundraising instead of FIGHTING FOR US! We need NEW LEADERSHIP NOW, not in 10 years. They are dying off at a rapid pace.

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Lucyland's avatar

Please, statements like this undermine the efforts of AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Jamie Raskin, etc… but I agree that Boomers and even Gen Jones need to pass the baton.

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roland krueger's avatar

None of the politicians listed are in LEADERSHIP. Millions marched yesterday. The REALITY is that Schumer, Jeffries and Pelosi are still in leadership. David Hogg tried to change the party from within and they threw him out of a NON-PAYING POSITION. The Democratic Party prioritized fundraising and self enrichment. They want to maintain their power and control with the Status Quo. This is a “Representative Democracy” that stopped representing working class Americans when Bill Clinton signed NAFTA.

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Judith Matlock's avatar

This show of support this weekend may be what emboldens some to step forward. I'm still hoping George Clooney will think about a run because he wants Dems to be resurrected as the party of working Americans. He and AOC would make a great ticket. The US is still not ready for a woman at the top of the ticket, but it will come.

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Susan M's avatar

60,000 WOW 😮

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Douglas's avatar

The parade has been effective in that the right is targeting the young male in a massive re ruitment effort. These males are Christian conservative dominionists and...MAGA. This doesn't bode well for the future. It's like what Hitler did for the SS.

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John Edgar's avatar

Have a happy Father’s Day Waj. God or Allaha bless you and your family!

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Jean Nichols's avatar

From Northern NM we came out in many towns and cities - how can we continue to build on what we did today - would it be good to ask everyone who came out to write a letter to Trump ( or maybe Congress?) and flood DC with letters. Just don’t want this energy to fade away

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Jean Nichols's avatar

Letters to Trump probably not a good idea as he’d lie and claim them as fan mail 🤣

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debbiec's avatar

Maybe 10–15000 in my little town of Santa Barbara. So fucking inspiring !🥰👏🙌🏽

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Jennifer's avatar

10,000 in Ann Arbor Michigan

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