Good morning. It is Saturday, October 18th, an important date to which we will refer back for some time, because today is your day of action.

It's 7 a.m. in the West, 10 a.m. in the East, which means there's still time for all of you and your friends and your family to speak loudly for democracy today.

As I talk to you right now, millions of people across the country and maybe you're one of them are preparing to take part in the second massive collection of no king's protests of the year.

Across the eastern time zone, people are beginning to gather

in big cities like New York, which you're looking at right now. Organizers are speaking in Times

Square. People will be gathering in Atlanta, in Washington, in D.C., in Baltimore, in Miami. But this

isn't just a big city thing. People are gathering in thousands of smaller towns like Hardwick, Vermont, Lansdale,

Pennsylvania, Bethany Beach, Delaware, Southern Pines, North Carolina, New Martinsville, West Virginia.

To find out what events and rallies are happening near you, you can check the map on no kings.org

today. The show of force is a mass protest movement that has been steadily building

both in terms of momentum and size since Donald Trump regained the presidency.

Since January, citizens have been staging demonstrations in different pockets of the country

to protest the president's abuses of power and the threat that he poses to democracy

itself. As anger grew over Elon Musk and

Doge's outsized role in slashing the government's budgets and gutting the federal workforce,

so did the crowds. Back in April, an estimated three million people took to the streets for

nationwide's hands-off protests to make their voices heard. Heard.

The first No King's Day, which took place on June 14th, coincided with Donald Trump's 79th birthday and the military parade that he staged to celebrate the Army's 250th anniversary

in Washington, D.C.

It was a weird event, unlike anything we've seen in this country before and it attracted

far fewer people than the president had hoped. That event certainly could not compete that day

with the massive turnout for the first No Kings Day. An estimated 5 to 6 million people took to the

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