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10:35 p.m. ET: As the day’s No Kings events come to a close, crowd tallies are rolling in. At least half a million people—by some estimates, more than 4 million—were out in the streets.
10:22 p.m. ET: In New York, Reveal’s Cynthia Rodriguez spoke to Mirella Camacho, the daughter of immigrant parents, who spoke about how important it was to come out on their behalf:
From coast to coast, Americans marched with one message: No kings in the USA.
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In New York City, Mirella Camacho, the daughter of immigrant parents, told Mother Jones' Cynthia Rodriguez it was important to come to the protest and speak out on their behalf.
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9:47 p.m. ET: Reporting from Washington, DC, MoJo‘s Stephanie Mencimer meets Vietnam veteran John Cunningham: “We should not have to protect America from its president.”
9:01 p.m. ET: Rallies are winding down on the West Coast, where San Francisco’s rally alone may have brought in a bigger crowd—at least in the high tens of thousands—than Trump’s Washington parade.
8:34 p.m. ET: Meanwhile in Washington, DC, Mother Jones‘ Dan Friedman continues to watch Trump’s military parade trundle by. Scared yet, Greenland?
8:11 p.m. ET: Center for Investigative Reporting CEO Monika Bauerlein is in San Leandro, California—just outside Oakland, where we also covered large protests earlier today—speaking to veterans, families, young people, and other locals.
7:42 p.m. ET: Speaking to MoJo‘s James West, New Yorkers take on our relentless, fascist creep. Hear from protesters like 23-year-old Alexis Lazo in Manhattan:
Alexis Lazo, a 23-year-old musical theater student and actor, used to be a self-described “centrist,” but as a child of immigrants himself, he no longer felt as if he could stand on the sidelines. Brandishing a sign that read “No Kings, No Cults, No Orange Tyrant,” he said, “I… pic.twitter.com/9G7euDKlGV
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7:31 p.m. ET: Crowds in the Bay Area agricultural center of Watsonville, California, where ICE agents have been trying to round up farmworkers—and where marchers against Trump are dancing in the streets.
7:26 p.m. ET: Turnout in Boston’s rallies—which converged with huge Pride marches—may have surpassed 1 million people, according to local station WCVB.
7:00 p.m. ET: Looming thunderstorms—zero symbolism there—have dampened what could have been a turnout on par with Trump’s first inauguration. Sad!
6:53 p.m. ET: Donald Trump’s military birthday parade is getting underway in Washington, DC. Mother Jones senior reporter Dan Friedman is on the scene.
6:49 p.m. ET: More from James West in New York City, as protesters keep marching through Manhattan’s streets amid rainy weather:
6:45 p.m. ET: MoJo editorial director Ian Gordon is in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where—as troops line the streets of Washington for Donald Trump’s military parade—an Air Force veteran is standing in opposition.
6:23 p.m. ET: Read Mother Jones executive editor James West’s dispatch from New York City, where thousands of protesters have jammed the streets around Manhattan’s Bryant Park in a massive march spilling down Fifth Avenue.
Kaylyn Gibilterra, a 35-year-old tech worker, used the protest to showcase her insights and fears of Silicon Valley monopolies in the form of four 3D-printed handheld cut-out heads of tech bosses—Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and, inevitably, Elon Musk. “It feels very much like we’ve gone back to like a feudalist state regime,” she told me. “My goal is to hold them more accountable.”
6:11 p.m. ET: Back with MoJo‘s Madison Pauly, interviewing marchers gathered in Oakland:
5:45 p.m. ET: Executive editor James West reports from New York City, where a massive group of marchers has gathered despite the rain.
5:39 p.m. ET: Mother Jones reporter Madison Pauly is reporting from Oakland, California, where protests are continuing downtown.
5:18 p.m. ET: More from Center for Investigative Reporting CEO Monika Bauerlein, on the ground in Alameda, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area:
5:12 p.m. ET: Large crowds have gathered in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, mainly outside the Capitol, despite the killing earlier today—in what appeared to be a targeted political assassination—of Democratic Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, and an attempt on the life of Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife by a shooter who remains at large.
5:02 p.m. ET: Massive crowds are still on the streets in Chicago—where ICE symbolically kicked off its deportation campaign shortly after Trump’s inauguration—and other cities in the area.
4:19 p.m. ET: MoJo’s Ari Berman, in the Hudson Valley, is reporting live from a 5,000-strong protest in Kingston, New York—a city of some 24,000 people.
4:15 p.m. ET: In California, Mother Jones leadership is reporting on the protests. Editor-in-Chief Clara Jeffery reports a huge turnout in San Francisco.
While Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein is reporting from Alameda, California.
4:05 p.m. ET: Organizers of Saturday’s “No Kings” protests had designated Philadelphia as the base for organizing the national day of demonstrations, and reportedly tens of thousands of people showed up.
2:44 p.m. ET: The latest from our reporters Julia Métraux and Artis Curiskis on the rally in New York’s Nassau County, where locals are defying not just Trump but county officials’ sweeping ban on masks. “If ICE is going to wear a mask in their uniform,” one protester said, “then I can.”
In this county, even wearing a mask can mean standing up against local government: in August, Nassau County lawmakers passed a bill banning the public wearing masks, making it the first individual county in the country—North Carolina previously passed a statewide mask ban—to do so after the start of the Covid pandemic.
2:15 p.m. ET: People in Lincoln, Nebraska, a state that Trump decisively won in 2024, came out to protest today.
1:43 p.m. ET: We’re back with Artis Curiskis in Nassau County, Long Island, interviewing social worker Kathy Brammer on the county’s mask ban—“a cornerstone to the care and well-being of so many people…coming under attack.”
1:34 p.m. ET: From Tokyo to Barcelona, Dublin to Berlin, protesters in cities across the world are joining in:
1:12 p.m. ET: Meanwhile, in California, our colleague Sam Van Pykeren is checking in with an important perspective.
12:31 p.m. ET: Back to Stephanie in Utah, where residents of a Salt Lake City assisted living center are hitting the streets: “Good trouble is ageless,” as one of their signs reads.
12:15 p.m. ET: Our reporter Artis Curiskis braved the rain and headed out to Long Island.
12:12 p.m. ET: A big crowd gathered in Atlanta.
And from deep red Utah, our reporter Stephanie Mencimer shares this.
11:15 a.m. ET: Meanwhile, early morning in Los Angeles, where the Trump administration has deployed the Marines.
10:56 a.m. ET: The protests aren’t just in the United States. Some scenes from abroad—here’s what is happening in Guam:
In Germany:
June 14, 10:11 a.m. ET: Some advice for protesters.
June 13, 1:30 p.m. ET: Dozens of current and former national politicians have taken to X (whose boss still can’t get back in Trump’s graces) to promote Saturday’s nationwide protests.
Others include former Labor Secretary Robert Reich:
June 13, 7:30 a.m. ET: Asked whether Trump would allow protests around his planned military parade to go forward, White House Press Secretary Karoline Levitt—calling the inquiry “stupid”—said:
“He supports the First Amendment. He supports the right of Americans to make their voices heard. He does not support violence of any kind. He does not support assaulting law enforcement officers who are simply trying to do their job.”
Trump, a notable instigator and excuser of assaults on law enforcement officers who were just trying to do their job, pardoned masses of January 6 insurrectionists just after his return to office—a slap in the face of multiple Capitol Police officers “grabbed, beaten, tased, all while being called a traitor,” in the words of former Washington, DC, officer Michael Fanone.
On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress established the United States Army. In 1916 on that same date, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation declaring the day Flag Day, which Congress made an official holiday in 1949. On June 14, 1946, Fred and Mary Anne Trump welcomed the birth of their second son Donald at Jamaica Medical Center in New York. And, on June 14, 2025, President Donald Trump has planned an extravagant and hugely expensive military parade down Constitution Ave. in Washington, DC, to celebrate the 250th birthday of the Army, and coincidentally, his 79th.
But also, on June 14, 2025, approximately 2,000 demonstrations in all 50 states—and some other countries—organized under the theme of “No Kings,” have been organized to protest Trump’s increasingly authoritarian rule. The protests were planned for months, but have gained further urgency over the last week, as the administration deployed the military to Los Angeles to quash generally peaceful protests against aggressive ICE immigration raids.
We will spend the day covering these protests as well as the parade this evening. As our Editor-in-Chief Clara Jeffery noted:
