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The Warning with Steve Schmidt

Behind The Scenes of the No Kings Movement | A Conversation with Ezra Levin

The Warning with Steve Schmidt

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.8784 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

While Trump has claimed it's anti-American, the No Kings protests happening across America are necessary to fight for our democracy. Steve Schmidt sits down with Indivisible founder Ezra Levin to discuss the largest peaceful protest in modern American history.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:03.9

I'm thrilled today to be joined by a great American patriot.

0:08.5

Ezra Levin, the co-executive director and founder of Indivisible.

0:14.4

Indivisible, of course, is the organization that will one day have more than a few cases on display at the Smithsonian.

0:29.4

An organization that you started that this weekend is going to, what's the number across the country that you think is going to be hit?

0:43.8

How many meritments are going to be out?

0:46.1

Well, there are more than 2,700 events that we're seeing registered right now, and it is just, gosh, Steve, it is a historic number this is the largest peaceful

0:57.7

protest in modern American history I can say that with some confidence and I and I appreciate the

1:02.9

credit it's not just me it's not just indivisible there are 200 plus organizations that are involved

1:09.4

and more importantly thousands upon thousands of people,

1:14.1

normal everyday Americans, nurses and waiters and IT technicians and teachers who are leading this

1:21.2

movement on the ground. This is not led from some top-down structure. This is led by people who looked around, saw the shit that was going down and said,

1:31.2

well, I've got to do something.

1:32.8

And what they did is they brought a few friends together and formed their indivisible group,

1:36.5

or they looked at the map for no kings and said, well, why isn't there one in my neighborhood?

1:41.2

We should have it, and they brought it together.

1:43.2

That's where the real

1:44.5

leadership is coming from right now. The first two-no Kings Day protests did not draw the condemnations

1:55.2

that you're seeing from the senior MAGA leaders if memory serves.

2:01.6

So is this your first time being denounced as an enemy of the state by the nation's senior

2:09.7

politicians?

2:11.2

Well, I don't know if it's the first time, but it's certainly the most public and gotten

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