Waging Nonviolence — Erica Chenoweth, June 2025
Political scientist Erica Chenoweth reports that protest activity during Trump’s second term has surged far beyond 2017 levels — and remained overwhelmingly nonviolent. Drawing on data from the Crowd Counting Consortium, she finds that April and May 2025 alone saw nearly 5,000 anti-Trump demonstrations nationwide, with participation exceeding a million people on single days. From Hands Off to No Kings, the actions spanned all 50 states, including rural and conservative areas. Remarkably, over 99.5 percent of events recorded no injuries, arrests, or property damage. Chenoweth calls this an unprecedented level of discipline for a movement of such scale — evidence that large-scale, peaceful resistance is not only possible but accelerating across the country.
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