Overview

• Organizers reported roughly 2,500–2,700 coordinated events across all 50 states with participation near 7 million, figures that are organizer estimates.
• A broad progressive coalition including Indivisible, the ACLU, MoveOn and the American Federation of Teachers backed the mobilization with an explicit emphasis on nonviolence and de‑escalation.
• Local authorities in major cities said the protests were largely peaceful with few significant incidents or arrests reported.
• Republican leaders condemned the rallies, with House Speaker Mike Johnson calling them a “hate America” protest, and some GOP governors, including Texas’s Greg Abbott, ordering National Guard deployments.
• President Trump rejected the “king” label in broadcast remarks, while demonstrators cited troop deployments in U.S. cities, aggressive ICE operations and the ongoing federal shutdown as core grievances.