If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today.
That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right
The Message on Main Street.
Columbia SC
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To quote @qasimrashid.com
"Activate, organize and be relentless."
Columbia SC: To the lady handing out voting day bracelets— thanks for the swag.
I’ll return the favor next time.
You all are so creative and generous. You make me smile.
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Republicans are concerned about retaining the Senate?🙄
We're concerned about retaining Democracy.
We're supposed to have 3 co-equal branches of government.
They're refusing to be that.
They don't deserve to retain a damned thing. 🚫👑
Here's my gallery of Columbia SC's NO KINGS rally yesterday.
www.katialee.com/galleries/pr...
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Today, more than 8 million people came together across the country in the largest single-day protest in modern American history!
Kevin M. Kruse
www.katialee.com
Protectors of Democracy: portraits of The Resistance during the 2nd Trump administration
Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution.
There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.
Katia
50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑
Good trouble
Kevin M. Kruse
#nokings only good witches. And cats. It’s Caturday.
Columbia SC
There's a long, bad journalistic tradition: All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating. This one is written off as powered by white female college grads--the wine-moms slur, basically.
