Massive "No Kings" Protests Happening Across America
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The Bulwark
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🗓️ 18 October 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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| 0:20.0 | We are live here covering the No Kings protest for the bulwark. |
| 0:24.6 | We've been on the ground, watching it from afar, reporting on it, observing it, in some cases |
| 0:31.7 | being there with it. I'm joined by JVL, Andrew Eger, Will Salton. I'm Sam Stein. We're all with the bulwark. Fellas, thanks for doing this. Really appreciate it. It's 2 p.m. So not all the protests are actually started. They are underway. And what you see on the right side of your screen is a live stream from the DC rally with Bernie Sanders speaking there. |
| 0:54.5 | Look, we don't have many facts because frankly, they're just pouring in. |
| 0:57.4 | But what we know is 2,700 protests throughout the day in all 50 states. |
| 1:02.0 | There are estimates of tens of thousands of people across the country in various cities, |
| 1:07.4 | but not just cities, local towns, places like the villages, Boston, |
| 1:12.6 | Charlotte, Orlando, Seattle, Scottsdale, everywhere. |
| 1:16.3 | Before we get to this and what we're seeing, I want to start with JVL because, look, |
| 1:20.6 | we're nine, nine and a half, ten months in to this administration. |
| 1:24.6 | This is the second No Kings protest. |
| 1:26.0 | This is objectively going to be |
| 1:27.6 | bigger than the first. And we're just at this incredibly perilous time for the country. |
| 1:34.0 | The government is shut down as a backdrop to this. Just give me, just, I don't know, |
| 1:40.2 | step back for these last eight months. How do you feel like we've arrived at this point? |
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