BY BILL J. FIGHTER

This Saturday, March 28’s edition of the “No Kings” protest is expected to be the largest since the event started last year to reject what the public sees as Trump’s autocratic rule. Organizers hope to mobilize millions across the nation with more than 3,100 marches.

Leah Greenberg, cofounder of the umbrella organization Indivisible, said that protesters will take to the streets for a variety of reasons ranging from Trump’s inhumane enforcement of immigration policies to calls for impeachment.

“We have people who are going to come out because they are furious about what is being done to their neighbors and attacks on immigrants. We have people who are going to come out because they are deeply concerned about the Trump administration’s attacks on civil rights. We have people who are going to come out because they are horrified by the war,” Greenberg stated, adding, “Rather than trying to make a specific set of policy demands or a specific policy platform, we want to mass together.”

This will be the third nation-wide edition of the unprecedented protest. According to the American Civil Liberty Union, ACLU, the initial nationwide No Kings protest in June 2025 brought out about 5 million people to 1,800 events. The following edition, in October 2025, drew a crowd of 7 million to 2,500 events. Organizers estimate this third edition will simply be the largest protest in U.S. history.

The notion of solidarity is crystal-clear on the movement’s website, nokings.org: “As President Trump escalates his attempts to control us, it is on us, the people, to show that we will fight to protect one another and our country. If he believes we will roll over and allow him to take our freedoms, he is mistaken. We are coming together again on March 28 because we know we can overcome this repression when we unite.”

The organization also points out one of Donald Trump’s chore attributes: his hardcore racism: “America has a long history, rooted in white supremacy, of suppressing the rights of people of color. But our history also clearly shows that people-powered movements are how we end authoritarianism.”

It’s no secret that right after the No Hands Protest that preceded the massive, nationwide protests, Trump and his loyalists wasted no time in using the intimidation tactic the president is known for. But that did not fly. Instead of giving in to the fear stoked by the administration, the public found power in collective actions.

One of the lies spread by Trump’s loyalists, including, among others, House Speaker Mike Johnson, was that these are “professional protesters,” that is people with no commitment to a cause. Not so. This is a coalition of progressive activists, civil rights groups, faith leaders, women groups and many others.

No doubt, the popular No Kings protests are the reflection of how the majority of Americans see Trump, a president with high disapproval rating, as several polls indicate. To add insult to injury, he has pushed the country into an illegal, unjustifiable, $2b a day war that has sent the price of gas and several basic commodities through the roof.