Trump bogeys as millions of Americans take to the streets in protest

While millions of Americans gathered for "No Kings" protests to voice their concerns about the Donald Trump regime’s policies, Donald Trump went golfing near Mar-a-Lago.

Organizers of the No Kings rallies and marches that took place Saturday say almost 8 million people, including Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, expressed their anger and frustration at Trump and at the same time celebrated the growing number of like-minded Americans. Organizers of the events say about 8 million people joined the No Kings movement.

The flagship rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, became a focal point for the national movement, drawing over 100,000 participants to the State Capitol. Prominent Asian American leaders and Minnesota lawmakers joined the list of speakers expressing  their concerns during the event.

• St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her: Mayor Her, who took office in early 2026 following her November 2025 election victory, emphasized the importance of community presence. She stated, "As your mayor, I will always show up... how we show up for people—in every corner of our city—matters". During debates, she has also criticized "performative" political stands that use taxpayer dollars without "moving the needle" on critical issues like gun control.

• US Representative Ilhan Omar: Speaking at the St. Paul rally, Congressmember  Omar told the crowd, "We do not cower to bullies," as she addressed the administration's "authoritarian" policies.

Here is the view from the edge in key local hubs:

San Francisco Bay Area: "Human Banners" and rapid response

The Bay Area was a focal point for the movement, with more than 60 events across the region.

Market Street: Organizers estimate 100,000 joined the march from the Bay to City Hall down the city's main street, Market Street to listen to speakers.

Ocean Beach: Demonstrators in San Francisco formed a massive "human banner" to protest the administration's policies.

San Jose: Thousands gathered downtown to speak out against intensified immigration raids. Organizers highlighted that for many Asian American families, the threat of ICE arrests at courts and check-ins has reached a tipping point, turning quiet concern into a public demand for safety.

Community Message: Leaders emphasized that the AAPI community cannot "sit on the sidelines" while federal agents invade neighborhoods.

Los Angeles & San Gabriel Valley: Protecting the neighborhood

In Southern California, the protest energy was deeply rooted in local immigrant neighborhoods.

SGV Hubs: Rallies swept through Monterey Park, Alhambra, and Pasadena, areas with high AAPI populations.

Mandarin-Language Support: Local organizers noted that the "unbearable" nature of recent federal raids has forced a shift toward communal defense, including the creation of new Mandarin-language family support networks to document enforcement activities.

Long Beach: A major gathering at Bixby Park saw residents protesting the deployment of National Guard troops and the use of militarized enforcement in their streets. 

New York City: Times Square and solidarity

In NYC, thousands of demonstrators from across the Tri-State area packed into Times Square and major intersections. [9, 10]

Economic & Social Issues: Protesters linked the "No Kings" message to broader concerns, including the rising cost of living and the ongoing war in Iran.

AAPI Advocacy: National groups like Stop AAPI Hate were visible partners, arguing that the administration’s "mass deportation agenda" is an attack on the civil rights of all Americans.

San Diego: Standing Against Detention

Further south, an estimated 40,000 people met in downtown San Diego, with additional rallies in Escondido and Carlsbad.

Focus on Detention: Many AAPI participants joined to protest the treatment of detainees at the Otay Mesa Detention Center and the sharp increase in local ICE arrests.

AANHPI voices from the "No Kings" Movement

In other parts of the country, AAPI officials took part in the demonstrations. Asian American demonstrators joined millions to protest the war in Iran and the rising cost of living. Some activists emphasized that the "No Kings" movement is a necessary step toward defending their neighbors and ensuring an America where all individuals have the opportunity to prosper.

Boston's Mayor Michelle Wu : “In this city of champions, in this city of immigrants and workers, in this hub of the universe and cradle of liberty, for the last 250 years and counting, in Boston, every day is no king’s day,” Wu told the demonstration attended by about 200,000.

New Jersey US Sen. AndyKim: The Korean American introduced his mother to the crowd at a No Kings event in Camden, N.J. “I wanted her to come here because I wanted her to see what it is that we’re trying to fight for,” he said.

US Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois stated: “There are no kings in America. Only gilded men we can topple again and again.”

Texas state Rep. Gene Wu: The state lawmaker was one of the organizers of the No Kings event in Austin, the state capitol. The event reflected a broader sense of frustration — not just with immigration raids, but also with issues like Medicaid cuts and the state's proposed THC ban. "We are happy to support Texans who have simply had enough," Wu said.

View from the Edge

While millions of people expressed their anger and frustration against Trump and hundreds of soldiers and sailors have been injured in an undeclared and unapproved ward in Iran, he spent the day at his golf course in Florida.

Since returning to office on January 20, 2025, President Trump has maintained a frequent golfing schedule:

Days Golfed: As of March 28, 2026, Trump has visited golf clubs 101 days out of his first 433 days in office.

Percentage of Term: This represents approximately 23.3% of his presidency spent at golf properties.

Total Cost to Taxpayers: Estimates indicate these outings have cost American taxpayers at least $110.6 million since his 2025 inauguration.

Cost Breakdown: Each trip to Mar-a-Lago is estimated to cost roughly $3.4 million in travel and security expenses.

And like the Epstein Files and his college grades, Trump's golf score remains undisclosed.

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The Filipino American legacy of fighting for freedom is taking on Trump

Filiipino American caregivers are applying lessons from resisting authoritarianism under Philippine dictator Marcos Sr. in the 1980s.

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Filipino Americans join one of the No King's rally in Los Angeles.

By Jasmine Mithani

Republished with Permission from The 19th. This piece was published in partnership with The Xylom, a nonprofit newsroom reporting on global health and environmental disparities.

LOS ANGELES — Nurses, labor organizers and survivors of a brutal dictatorship are banding together to apply lessons learned from anti-authoritarian organizing in the Philippines to the present-day United States.

Political activist Myrla Baldonado became one of the “forced disappearances” under Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr., in 1983. She was kidnapped by state agents, swept away to a secret location, tortured and then imprisoned for two years.

She sees echoes of what she experienced in the United States today. But she has hope that nonviolent protests, like the No Kings rallies, can enact change the same way they did in the Philippines. Nearly two million people marched down Epifanio delos Santos Avenue, or EDSA, in 1986 to protest against the Marcos regime. The disgraced dictator abandoned his office and fled to the United States.

“The lesson is that dictators fall. I mean, since time immemorial, this happened, from Nazi Germany to what happened during the ESDA Revolution and many other dictators. You all fall down,” Baldonado said. “It’s only a matter of time that they do.”

She wants people who are despairing or mired in hopelessness to know that the more cruel those in power become, the harder more and more people will fight back.

Joe Arciaga, a nurse and veteran, is the driving force behind bringing the No Kings rallies to Historic Filipinotown, a residential enclave west of Downtown Los Angeles. He wanted to link local activism with national pro-democracy movements, and founded the Filipino American Lakas Collective in 2025. Through that, he pulled together the rallies in Unidad Park in June and October. Now he’s gearing up for round three, in March.

Lakas — “strength” in Tagalog — is new, but it joins a rich network of community groups that have been organizing for civil and labor rights for decades. Led by advocates for Filipino health care and domestic workers, many of whom are single women new to the country, they have mobilized to support their community as violent Immigrations and Customs Enforcement actions increased across the city.

At the rallies, titos and titas handed out water and freshly baked pandesal, reminiscing of when their legs were strong enough to march all the way to City Hall. American and Philippine flags were interspersed with signs equating President Donald Trump with former Philippine leaders Marcos and Rodrigo Duterte.

California is home to 40 percent of the nation’s Filipino Americans, and the Los Angeles metropolitan area is home to the largest population of Filipinos outside of the Philippines.

The long arm of American imperialism played a role in these current demographics. The Philippines was an American colony until 1946. During that time, nursing schools were built and maintained by the colonial government. When immigration quotas were abolished in 1965, it became easier for Filipinos to immigrate to the United States, and many women nurses were encouraged to do so as the Marcos administration sought to grow the economy with diaspora funds.

At home, the democratically elected Marcos prolonged his presidency and concentrated power through martial law beginning in 1972. That spelled danger for activists like Baldonado, who started protesting against the Marcos administration when she was in college. She continued her activism for over a decade, cutting contact with her family for their safety and going by a different name. But in 1983, government agents grabbed her from a library. Baldonado became one of the regime’s “forced disappearances,” held in a secret location and tortured. After a couple weeks she was transferred to a jail, where she was imprisoned for two years. Baldonado was free but still recovering from her ordeal when the People Powered Revolution overthrew Marcos in a mostly bloodless uprising in 1986.

At the No Kings rally in June, she brought red carnations and passed them out to the attendees.

“No one believed we could bring down Marcos without bloodshed,” Baldonado said later in an interview. “The flower was a symbol of that, the urge for people to do it in the nonviolent way and to deescalate.”

Baldonado’s American chapter began in 2006, when she immigrated and took a job as a home care worker. The conditions were untenable: She experienced verbal abuse and sexual harassment, and her pay averaged only $5 per hour.

Baldonado began organizing for better working conditions for caregivers and domestic workers, first in Chicago and then across the nation. Her work was honored by the Obama administration.

Now, she works as the director of community engagement at the Pilipino Workers Center of Southern California, continuing to advocate for care workers. Many of the people she works with are middle-aged single women who immigrated from the Philippines — similar to her story.

In the new Trump administration, the center has been hosting immigrant rights trainings and supporting detained Angelenos. Baldonado sees the hopelessness overtaking people in the wake of rising violence from the state, but she believes change will come through people-powered action, just like it eventually did against Marcos.

“We want them to see that there is still a glimmer of hope, despite all the difficulties that we are having right now,” she said. “History has shown that dictators don’t remain forever.” Baldonado knows that intimately.

At the No Kings rally in October, Jollene Levid climbed onto a park bench and read off the notes she had just finished compiling on her phone.

“We are here today as Filipinos, Filipino Americans, as immigrants, workers, communities of color to remind Trump that this is not 1565,” she cried.

JOE ARCIAGA

Jolene Levid (center) spoke at the No Kings protest.

“We Filipinos will never bow to a crown — from Spain to the Imperial Japanese and American colonizer, to Donald Trump and his cronies, we say NO KINGS!”

Levid had not imagined herself speaking to a crowd. But her mentors, the women who taught her how to build collective power, instilled in her the necessity of translating revolutionary ideas to everyday language.

Like Baldonado, Levid has dedicated her life to the power of collective organizing. Since college she knew she wanted to work with unions. She started organizing as an undergrad, but something felt out of place in those activist spaces: “Women’s issues were always secondary,” she said. “It was almost like always an afterthought. But my experience growing up in an immigrant family as the eldest daughter I knew was always informed by my gender, my sex.”

When she went to an event hosted by a feminist collective in college, everything clicked into place. Now her political home is AF3IRM, a feminist group fighting imperialism around the world. She has served on the leadership of the national organization and is active in the Los Angeles chapter.

AF3IRM has been active in local communities, protesting ICE as well as American intervention in Venezuela and Iran. “We’ve been hitting the streets and organizing new women to join us,” Levid said.

Levid’s family is from north east Los Angeles, one of the most concentrated areas of Filipino Americans in the country, and she still lives there today. But her day job as an organizer for the United Teachers of Los Angeles takes her all over the city.

She has always chosen to work for unions in fields dominated by women. Education and health care are some of the largest sources of overseas Filipina workers, and they wield power differently. “When those women workers strike, the facilities can’t work without them,” Levid said. “Filipino women have been instrumental in these types of labor fights.”

Levid has been busy in 2026, as 94 percent of the teachers union she works for voted in favor of a strike if benefits negotiations stall out.

Levid’s advocacy for workers took a new tack in 2020. After her aunt, Rosary Castro-Olega, became the first health care worker in Los Angeles County to die during the Covid-19 pandemic, Levid dedicated herself to documenting the deaths of Filipino health care workers.

She was part of a group that scoured obituaries to create Kanlungan, a digital memorial. Their data work laid the foundation for future studies that found Filipinos made up a disproportionate amount of nurse deaths during the first year of the pandemic. The numbers are stark: 4 percent of nurses in the United States are Filipino, but they accounted for 26 percent of nursing deaths during that time.

Her work drew the attention of Arciaga, who co-produced “Nurse Unseen,” a 2023 documentary about the history of Filipino nurses and their caregiving during the height of the pandemic.

The topic is personal to Arciaga, whose family left the Philippines after Marcos declared martial law. After serving in Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War, he entered nursing, encouraged by his wife — who is also a nurse — thinking it would be temporary. Instead, the decision sparked a decades-long career.

Arciaga says it’s an honor to join the ranks of Filipino nurses who have come before him, and he is a member of the Philippine Nurses Association of America.

Arciaga was active in numerous local organizations, but he didn’t see anyone coordinating with national efforts.

“I want to live in a world, a society that respects civil liberties, that respects freedom,” Arciaga said. “I want a government that respects democracy and the rule of law, and I want my legacy to be that of someone who stood up.”

Joe Arciaga organized No King rallies in L.A.'s 
Historic Filipinotown.

He co-founded the Echo Park chapter of Indivisible, the national progressive organization, and the Filipino American Lakas Collective, a group organizing for civil liberties and democracy. And when Indivisible announced the No Kings rallies, he wanted to host one. But he had never put together a protest before.

So he called up Levid, who he met during the production of “Nurse Unseen,” remembering her experience as a union organizer. Levid shared resources she had made and trained volunteers on how to host a successful action. She helped organize the rally in June – and the following one in October, where she agreed to speak. She didn’t know how much larger the crowd would be the second time around.

Wearing all black in the blazing sun, Levid didn’t speak for long, but by the end of her speech the crowd was energized. “They have never and will never break the revolutionary spirit of women’s resistance,” Levid yelled before starting a chant.

“When women and children are under attack, what do we do?”

“Stand up, fight back!” the crowd cheered.

“When our community is under attack, what do we do?”

“Stand up, fight back!”

With two protests under his belt, Arciaga is gearing up for the third No Kings rally, planned for March 28. It will take place at Unidad Park again, where a diverse community will assemble beneath an enormous mural of Filipino freedom fighters.

The name of the mural is “Gintong Kasaysayan, Gintong Pamana.”

Its meaning: A glorious history, a golden legacy.

About the author: Jasmine Mithani is the technology reporter at The 19th. Her coverage revolves around themes of information access, privacy, and politics. Online experiences shape our offline world, so she often writes about extremism and intimate partner violence as well. Jasmine's reporting frequently centers LGBTQ+ perspectives and intersects with reproductive rights. She has a soft spot for stories about the South Asian diaspora and good books and tries to report on solutions, not just problems.

Feb. 25: People Power revolution 40 years ago offers lessons for the US

People Power can overthrow autocrats

Minnesotans braved freezing temperatures to protest the tactics of federal agents.

As the calendar turns toward late February 2026, marking the 40th anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution, many in the Asian American community are looking back at the Philippines not just as a point of pride, but as a survival manual.

At Views From the Edge, we’ve always seen the AANHPI experience as a bridge between the struggles of the "old country" and the current fights here in the US. As the second Trump administration pushes the boundaries of executive power, the lessons of Feb. 25 , 1986 and the  following four days are taking on a new, urgent resonance.

The parallels are getting harder to ignore. Just as Ferdinand Marcos used the "specter of communism" to justify martial law, we see the current administration using the "specter of the invasion" to bypass the courts and deploy federal power against citizens. He is already setting the stage for disqualifying the results of the upcoming midterm elections, which polls predict will be as much a vote against Trump as it is a vote for the Democrats.

RELATED: As Filipinos took to Manila's streets, the #PeoplePower revolution impacted a young Filipino American journalist.

But the Philippines gave us the antidote. People Power wasn't just a crowd in the street; it was a total withdrawal of consent from a corrupt system.

Scenes of People Power in the Philippines in 1986.

For many Asian Americans—Filipinos, Vietnamese, Chinese, and others—the rhetoric of "strongman" leadership isn't a new political theory; it’s a family trauma.Historical Memory: We know what it looks like when a leader calls the press the "enemy of the people" and people simply disappear after being detained by federal agents.

When the Trump administration targets immigrants or rescinds birthright citizenship, Asian Americans are often the first to recognize the shift from democracy to autocracy. Our role is to sound the alarm before the "new normal" sets in.

Allies among us

In 1986, the Filipino concept of kapwa — the idea of a shared inner self and community — was what brought the nuns to the tanks, students to the streets and soldiers refusing illicit orders to fire on their fellow citizens.

In the current US climate, the Asian American community can be the "connective tissue" in a broad anti-authoritarian coalition. Whether it’s fighting the mass deportation machine or protecting the sanctity of the vote, our strength lies in moving beyond our silos to join Black, Brown, and Indigenous movements.

The 2022 return of the Marcos family to Malacañang Palace was fueled by a massive social media disinformation campaign that rebranded the Marcos dictatorship as a "Golden Age."

We see the same thing happening here with the whitewashing of January 6th, the erasure of democratic norms and the rewriting of history by removing the achievements of people of color from museums and textbooks and rebranding slavery as benign employment.

Asian American activists and content creators are uniquely positioned to fight these digital battles, using our bilingual and bicultural fluency to debunk the "strongman" myths spreading in our own communities and pushing the Christian white supremacist agenda to "make America white again."

View from the Edge: Democracy is a muscle, not a monument

The 40th anniversary of EDSA reminds us that a dictator’s power is actually quite fragile—it relies entirely on our belief that we are powerless.

Misinformation saying that both major parties are the same and  our vote won't matter; Trump's regime trying to redraw Congressional maps; and making it harder for people to vote causes people to throw up their hands in frustration and not vote. Not voting is one more vote for apathy and that's exactly what Trump and his billionaire supporters who back the goals of Project 2025 want.

When the Filipino people realized that the tanks wouldn’t fire if the people didn't move, the regime collapsed. Today, the "tanks" are executive orders and threats of retribution against politicians speaking out, media spreading the truth and exposing the corruption and the use of brute force -- Trump's loyalist private army of ICE agents, Customs and Border Control member and the US military to instill fear in us. 

The lesson from 1986 for us in 2026? Don't move. Don't comply. Stand together. Brave Minnesotans learned this this winter. The massive No Kings demonstrations are having an effect. Democracy demands participation, whether it be texting your Congressmembers, going to the voting booth, or marching in the streets. It requires action on your part. It demands People Power.

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Asian Americans march and speak out against Trump regime

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu was difiant against Donald Trump.

ANALYSIS

Among the 7 million No Kings demonstrators, Asian Americans made their presence known. They were not the largest group nor the loudest, but they were there, holding signs, reveling in the knowledge that they were not alone in their anger, disatisfaction and disdain for Donald Trump.

Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Island individuals and groups joined the Oct. 18 "No Kings" marches to express their concerns over the Trump administration's policies, focusing on issues like immigration, civil rights, voting rights and rising anti-Asian racism.

Sometimes you see a photo or hear a line of poetry that just stays with you. It’s funny how memories are like that. I recently found a black-and-white picture of my father from when he was a young man, a dashing and handsome man with smoldering eyes, staring defiantly back at the camera. We always think of our parents as old, and we forget that once they were young and had that rebellious spirit. My dad is gone now, but I think of that picture when I see a new generation finding its own voice of defiance.

That's the kind of feeling that comes to mind when I see images from the recent "No Kings" protests that swept across the U.S. this past weekend. A lot of Asian Americans, particularly in places like Boston and Los Angeles, had that same defiant look in their eyes. This wasn't about a single policy. It was about sending a message.

And boy, did Boston get the message across, with an exclamation point, I might add.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, the historic city's first Asian American mayor, was right there on the front lines in her city. Standing with thousands on Boston Common, America's first public park, she reminded everyone that resisting tyranny is about as American as it gets. For 250 years, the city has stood up against injustice, and it wasn't about to back down now.

"Boston has never been good at surrender or silence," as the crowd roared its approval. You have to love that line. It speaks to something deep in the American character—a willingness to speak up, to make a mess when things aren't right.

“In Boston, every day is No Kings Day,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said. Confronted by hecklers, she shrugged them off, saying, “This is Boston, where every voice is heard.”

Wu, who has frequently clashed with the Trump administration over its racist immigration policies, told the crowd that Trump and Republicans attacked Boston because they know it symbolizes freedom and revolution.

“We stand here today to tell the Trump administration, when it comes to our freedoms, when it comes to our families, Boston doesn’t back down,” Wu told the partisan crowd. “What terrifies them about our city isn’t just that we kicked out a king and we [can] do it again.”

“It’s not just that our city is not for sale or that we run a government that actually delivers as a home for everyone and the safest major city in the country,” she continued. “It’s not just that we empower our workers and stand with public employees instead of using them as political pawns. What scares them the most about Boston is that we are proof of the America they insist is impossible.

As one of the other Boston speakers said, "It's not nice and neat and squeaky. It's messy, it's disruptive, it's uncomfortable". And that's exactly what democracy looks like sometimes.

In Queens, N.Y., which has a large Asian American population, Rep. Grace Meng told the thousands of marchers, “One of the hardest stories that I keep hearing over and over again are from folks who immigrated to this country, whether they just came a few months ago or whether they came two generations ago, and they have a sad look on their face, exasperated, saying that this is not the country that they came to. This is not what democracy looks like.”

NYC COUNCIL

Asian Americans joined the No Kings rallies in New York City.

“They sacrificed so much, many of them fled hardships in their home countries and then they came here to build a better life for their kids and their neighbors and their families. But this is not what they came for.”

Meng continued: “In just a few months, this President has shown us who he fights for.

"It’s not America, it’s not for the people, it’s for the wealthiest and the well connected, and we’re not going to stand for it.

For many in the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, the issues were personal. In Los Angeles, some of the participants were protesting immigration raids, worried about students being separated from their families. But it goes beyond just immigration. AAPI communities have a history of fighting for their place at the table, a history of facing discrimination and overcoming it.

Beyond Boston, other U.S. cities with strong AAPI participation in the October 2025 "No Kings" protests included Chicago, and Honolulu and, of course, in California home to 7 million Asian Americans, the most of any state.

The San Gabriel Valley east of Los Angeles is home to several enclaves of Asian communities: Chinese, Filipino, Vietnamese and Korean. It is represented by Congressmember Judy Chu.

“This is a continuation of what we as a country are doing to resist this authoritarian, fascist regime,” Chu told the crowd, urging participants to see the event as “practice—building our muscles of protest and resistance.”

She called for peaceful but determined civic action, saying, “Power does not give up without a fight. Our anger will motivate us, but it’s community that will keep us together.”

In San Bruno, Calif. hundreds of people gathered at the Tanforan Assembly Memorial, a former horse-racing track, where Japanese American were incarcerated. Speakers included survivors of WWII internment, drawing parallels between the historical inccarceration of Japanese Americans and current immigration policies. Grace Morizawa, a 79-year-old Berkeley resident whose parents met in an internment camp, expressed solidarity with today's immigrants, stating, "you could just hear the passion in their voice when they said they don't want to see that happen again."

SCREEN CAPTURE

Seven thousand people joined the Sacramento march and. rally highlighted by a speech by Rep. Doris Matsui, who was born in one of the camps that incarcerated about 120,000 Japanese Americans during WWII. 

"Today we reminded Donald Trump, loud and clear, that in this country WE HAVE NO KINGS," Matsui told the participants. "We don’t worship power — we build it together: In our neighborhoods. On our streets. In our unions. "That’s who we are, that’s Sacramento, and I’ll always have your back," she said to a volley of applause and cheers.

Protesters in Oakland were marching in the city's streets, chanting, "whose streets? Our Streets." Part of the route led marchers through Chinatown down 13th Street, winding up in a rally in front of City Hall.

Asian Americans also  took part in several large-scale protests in Los Angeles. One of the protests occurred in Historic Filipinotown near downtown L.A. “When I enlisted, I swore a solemn oath to uphold the US constitution, to help protect the nation from enemies without and within. Today, I would never swear allegiance or bend the knee to a wannabe king because there are NO KINGS in America,”  US Army veteran Joe Arciaga said in a press statement.

When an administration starts to sound like it thinks it's above the law, a lot of different people, from different backgrounds, hear the same alarm bells ringing. The "No Kings" protests are a modern-day call to arms, not with weapons but with signs and voices. It's a reminder that we are a nation of laws, not of rulers.

This is a story that will continue to unfold. The protesters, with an estimated 7 million turning out nationwide, weren't just angry; they were energized and organized. They weren't just there for a single day. They were carrying a message that they intend to take back to their communities. And it is a message we all need to remember: Freedom over fascism. 

No Kings. No dictators. No fascists. No way!

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