Good morning. It's Sunday, March 22nd. I'm Ali Valsh. We begin this hour with important work this

week. Mark the Sonia calendar next Saturday, March 28th, will be the next No King's protest.

It'll be the third time that the No King's coalition has organized a nationwide day of action.

This one inspired by the federal government's violent and deadly immigration crackdown in Minnesota

earlier this year, which is why No King's organizers chose St. Paul, St. Paul, which is Minnesota's

capital, as the site of its national flagship event this time around. It's also a testament to the

power of your voice for

bearing witness to the government's actions. The outcry that erupted against the immigration

operations in Minneapolis, St. Paul, forced the White House to scale back its operation. At its height,

more than 3,000 federal agents were deployed across the state. Today, fewer than a thousand remain.

Ultimately, it also led to the firing of Homeland Security Secretary Christine Ome. Americans,

including you at home, watching this, have done a lot to provide a backstop to many of Trump's

abuses of power. So let's back up for a second and remember what else has been achieved so far.

At this point last year, just two months

into the second Trump administration, no large-scale effort had materialized yet to counter Trump,

but the seeds of a movement were beginning to sprout. Small clusters of people were around the country

were getting together to protest the anti-democratic actions that Donald Trump had promised to take

and had started to take upon his

return to power. Some people gathered at Tesla dealerships and elsewhere to demonstrate against Elon Musk

and Doge, who were empowered by Trump to fire government workers and to slash federal budgets.

Americans began confronting Republican members of Congress at tense town halls, questioning them about

their lack of resistance to the White halls, questioning them about their lack of

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