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The Founders Would Have Been on the Front Lines of No Kings Day

The Fulcrum, Oct. 19, 2025 — by Ronald L. Hirsch

Hirsch effectively argues that No Kings Day stands firmly in the American tradition of resisting concentrated, unaccountable power. He revisits the Declaration of Independence’s bill of particulars against King George—dissolving representative bodies, subordinating courts, swelling patronage and enforcement—and maps those warnings onto today’s executive overreach and contempt for checks and balances. Despite attempts to smear the protests as extremist, the piece frames them as a civic duty: a peaceful defense of constitutional balance through participation, not violence. The takeaway: opposing would-be monarchy isn’t anti-American—it’s the point of the American experiment.

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American Spring? How Nonviolent Protest in the U.S. Is Accelerating

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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