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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38146161
[features eyewitness reports from various cities by participants]
from World-Outlook Oct. 20, 2025
More than 7 million people turned out for the No Kings protests in about 2,700 cities and towns in all 50 U.S. states on October 18, 2025. These numbers are based on reports from the organizers and media across the country.
The main sponsors included the liberal group Indivisible, the American Civil Liberties Union, and hundreds of other national and local organizations.
Some of the largest actions took place in Chicago (250,000), Washington, D.C. (200,000), New York City (where estimates ranged between 100,000 and more than 300,000), and Boston (125,000). Thousands marched in many cities in the South, including Dallas and Houston, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Birmingham, Alabama; and Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina.
You’ll have a leg to stand on when the protests start decreasing in number rather than increasing. This was the largest protest in US history and seems like it’s just a start.
What do you think it actually does? You had the biggest protest before, did it achieve anything? Before that one there was another one, did something happened as a result of it? If the next one will be bigger, what will change?
Do you maybe think there is an indication that some other forms of political action could bring some different result?
Let’s imagine a very optimistic scenario. Right now there are 7 million protesting. Soon it could be 10. What if all 75 million people who voted for Harris (plus the tens of millions of others who were illegally purged) were out protesting, let’s say monthly. These people got off their butts to vote, this is one small step further - just showing up and walking. The protests are an early means of organizing people, it shows that we’re willing to take action of any kind. Imagine the “No Kings” organizers then organized a massive boycott, or a general strike. That kind of power can cripple any government overnight. Or better put - keep it in check, peacefully.
Whether realistic or not, this is the mentality of most of those showing up. If I were Trump I’d be shaking in my boots, the protests outnumber our entire standing military. Best case he could stop doing dictator things. If the guy did literally nothing but golf all day I’m gonna guess the protests might dispell.
Date please
If they start dispelling and traction dies down. June had 5 million, October had 7 million. If there’s a third one in say February 2026 and it doesn’t have a turnout of say, 9 million or more, AND you actually went to said event (or physically could not go), you have my literal permission to be a Debby Downer, or a Negative Nancy, your choice.