America Has No Kings

What A Day

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🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

This weekend, people across the country are taking to the streets for the second iteration of the “No Kings” protests. Organizers say they anticipate millions of protestors to attend thousands of demonstrations throughout the US. Republicans have called the protests “Hate America rallies” and have claimed they’ll be attended by left-wing extremists. Erica Chenoweth, a political scientist who studies protest, social movements, and democracy, joins the show to discuss who will really be attending the protests, and what Trump’s attempts to criminalize resistance mean for our First Amendment Rights. And in headlines, former Trump national security adviser John Bolton is indicted, the Senate fails to end the government shutdown for the tenth time, and the admiral in charge of US military forces in Latin America ends his tenure early as US-Venezuela tensions continue to escalate.

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0:00.0	It's Friday, October 17th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day, where we want to celebrate Illinois Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker's apparent talent at Blackjack.
0:12.3	According to his 2024 tax return, the governor won more than $1 million playing the card game on a trip to Las Vegas.
0:18.9	On Thursday, he said that he would be donating the money to charity,
0:21.9	and honestly, I'm just impressed by anyone actually being good at gambling.
0:30.9	On today's show, a grand jury indicts another one of President Donald Trump's least favorite
0:35.8	political adversaries, while Trump himself plays, you hang up, no, you hang up, with one of President Donald Trump's least favorite political adversaries, while Trump himself
0:38.1	plays, you hang up, no, you hang up, with one of his most favorite political adversaries,
0:43.5	Russian President Vladimir Putin.
0:45.5	But let's start with the no-king's protest scheduled for this weekend.
0:49.3	If you attended the last no-kings protest back in June, you were among more than five million people
0:55.5	joining an estimated 2100 events across the country. And this weekend's events might be even
1:00.4	bigger with more protests scheduled, which is tough news for House Speaker Mike Johnson, who seemed
1:05.7	very mad about it on Wednesday. We call it the hate America rally that will happen Saturday.
1:10.6	Let's see who shows up for that.
1:11.6	I bet you see pro-Hamas supporters.
1:13.6	I bet you see Antifa types.
1:16.6	I bet you see the Marxist in full display, the people who don't want to stand and defend the
1:22.6	foundational truths of this republic, and we do.
1:25.6	Okay, buddy, calm down. But this seems to be a newly
1:29.8	recurring theme on the right. While June's rallies got criticism from Republicans for being,
1:34.3	quote, intersectional clown shows, this weekend's rallies are getting a very different response.
1:40.3	Apparently, every attendee is a Hamas super soldier who obviously hates America.
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