Next week’s “No Kings” nationwide protests, scheduled for Saturday, March 28, already have 3,000 community events planned in all 50 states and every U.S. congressional district, organizers say. That surpasses the last No Kings protest in October—which drew seven million people for the one-day event—by “several hundred locations.” And more events are being added daily.
“This will be the largest protest in American history,” Ezra Levin, co-executive director of Indivisible, one of the key organizers, tells Fast Company. “We will be in every single congressional district from the bluest blue to the reddest red.”
In June, five million people across American participated in over 2,100 events for the first No Kings protest, and last October, another seven million people took to the streets in more than 2,700 events.
Protesters have said they’re concerned about the erosion of the U.S. democracy, and what they call troubling developments inside the country led by the Trump administration.
Those include mass furloughs of government workers amid yet another government shutdown; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents’ raids on immigrants and American citizens in Minnesota and around the country; the deployment of National Guard troops into U.S. cities and against Americans in the name of crime reduction; sweeping tariffs which have cost the American taxpayer millions of dollars (which have since been struck down by the Supreme Court); and the recent wars in Venezuela and Iran, which are causing gas prices to spike.
The March 28 mobilization is the next step in a growing, expansive mass movement that includes a wide swath of people old and young, in both red and blue states, and rural and urban areas.
“We are all united in this fight to save our democracy from this administration, and we will win,” Levin says. “From every corner of this country, we are all saying: NO KINGS.”
Uniting in protest of the Trump administration
According to organizers, there are multiple issues uniting people and motivating them to come protest and speak out.
“Many people will show up because they oppose the war with Iran,” Levin tells Fast Company. “If you oppose the war that Trump launched without public support, if you oppose the tariffs and the agenda he is shoving down our throats, it’s a good idea to show up at ‘No Kings.’”
“You will have different people . . . [but what we have in common] is we don’t accept a King in America and we assert our constitutional rights,” he adds. “So, it’s not surprising ‘No Kings’ is taking off in rural and red areas.”
“Americans may disagree on policy, but we agree on two fundamental values: that we should be governed by ourselves, not kings, and that there is a basic goodness at our core,” organizer and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten says. “America is at an inflection point . . . People are afraid, and they can’t afford basic necessities. It’s time the administration listened and helped them build a better life rather than stoking hate and fear.”
The non-violent, pro-democracy demonstrations are organized by a coalition of partners, including: Indivisible, a progressive grassroots movement; ACLU; American Federation of Teachers; Common Defense; 50501; Human Rights Campaign; League of Conservation Voters; MoveOn; National Education Association; National Nurses United; Public Citizen; SEIU; and United We Dream.
When is the next big protest?
“I think 2026 is an important year for the future of democracy and I don’t think we get through it without seeing an increase in participation,” Levin tells Fast Company.
A complete list of locations for the No Kings events can be found at nokings.org.
Next on the agenda is a one-day general strike on May Day, scheduled for May 1, just a few weeks after the March protest.
