Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.

In rural Shenandoah County, Virginia, demonstrators packed a quarter mile of sidewalk for the No Kings rally against President Trump.

Randy B. Hagee, with Member Station WMRA, has more.

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The No King's gathering was part of a seven-month streak of weekly protests against the Trump administration.

Here's one of the organizers, Dr. Mark Pierce.

The reason we are out here is to give a message that we are not his subjects.

Local resident Joan Griffin has been consistently protesting here.

The fact that they are grabbing people who are even American citizens off the street,

the cutting off of funding to universities and the like for research,

and then I'm very disturbed by what is the apparent destruction of the federal government.

More than 70% of voters in the county cast their ballot for

President Donald Trump last year. For NPR News, I'm Randy B. Hagee in Woodstock, Virginia.

And that's part of some 2,500 marches around the country today. As the federal government

shutdown drags on, American farmers are getting increasingly worried about federal payments getting

cut off for everything from disaster insurance to price supports.

And Pierce Kirk Sigler reports wheat farmers were already dealing with high costs due to

inflation and President Trump's tariffs.

Farmers here have been waiting for the Agriculture Secretary's promised aid package to

commodity growers who have seen their export markets cut off due to the administration's trade war. So far,

no word or specifics in each day that passes makes financing for next year even less certain.

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