No Kings Organizer: Mike Johnson Was Our Best Organizer! (w/ Ezra Levin)
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🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. It's me, Sam Stein, managing Edward DeBulloch. I'm here with Lauren Egan, who is the offer of the opposition newsletter. But more importantly, Sarah, Lauren, it's Ezra 11, who is the co-founder of Indivisible, helped organize a not insignificant number of rallies over the weekend. |
| 0:16.3 | Ezra, are you okay? Are you holding up? How was the weekend for you? |
| 0:19.3 | I think that's what the New York Times is calling it. Not insignificant. In total, in total, we had what? Seven million people at |
| 0:28.0 | no Kings rallies and how many different locations? Two thousand seven hundred? More than seven |
| 0:32.0 | million more than 2700 officially scheduled events. My mom went to one that wasn't even on the map. So I know |
| 0:38.5 | a lot of other people did too. This was, without any caveats, the largest peaceful protest in |
| 0:44.2 | American history. Wow. What was the number two? Was that the first rally or was there like a |
| 0:50.2 | the first one, it ties with some that we've seen in the past. |
| 0:56.7 | It's really been a trend, though. |
| 0:57.8 | You're pointing to a trend here. |
| 0:58.8 | So in April for hands-off, we had 3 million people at 1,300 events. |
| 1:02.9 | On No Kings 1 in June, we had 5 million people at 2,100 events. |
| 1:06.4 | This Saturday, we had more than 7 million people at more than 2,700 events. |
| 1:11.4 | So 3 million, 5 million, 7 million. |
| 1:13.5 | The trend is good, Sam. |
| 1:15.2 | The trend is good. |
| 1:16.3 | Well, let me ask you then. |
| 1:17.6 | I'll click it to Lauren to ask you a bunch of questions. |
| 1:19.2 | But what do you think, what do you count for the trend? |
| 1:21.8 | Obviously, more time with Trump, more people concerned. |
| 1:24.9 | But as you look at the successes of this last weekend, |
| 1:29.7 | how do you account for the fact that more people are turning out? What are the main |
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