Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News Editorials & Other Articles General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

Latest Breaking News

Showing Original Post only (View all)

BumRushDaShow

(156,090 posts)
Sun Jun 15, 2025, 03:12 PM Jun 15

'No Kings' Was Biggest Protest in U.S. History: Data Analyst [View all]

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by GP6971 (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: Daily Beast

Updated Jun. 15 2025 1:57PM EDT
Published Jun. 15 2025 1:25PM EDT


The “No Kings” protests in every state may have been the biggest day of demonstrations in American history, a data analyst has suggested. “Based on hundreds of crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don’t have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6m people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday,” independent data journalist G Elliott posted to X Sunday.

For reference, that’d mean Saturday’s demonstrations featured 1-2 percent of the total population of 340 million taking to the streets in more than 2,000 cities to voice their opposition to the increasingly authoritarian, far-right policies the president has pursued since assuming office for the second time.

The “No Kings” rallies follow after a spate of demonstrations against immigration raids carried out in Los Angeles and the surrounding area last week, to which Trump deployed 4,000 members of the National Guard and 700 Marines over the objection of California Governor Gavin Newsom.

In a full report on the figures from Saturday’s demonstrations, Morris added that mounting backlash against Trump’s second term has also witnessed “dramatically more protest activity” than during his first stint in the White House. Since his inauguration in January, Trump’s administration has witnessed more than 15,000 protests and rallies, representing a threefold increase in the number of public demonstrations that had taken place by this point in 2017.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/data-guru-g-elliott-morris-says-up-to-6-million-people-attended-no-kings-anti-donald-trump-protests/



Link to REPORT page - "No Kings Day" protests turn out millions, rebuking Trump

Link to DATA (embedded spreadsheet) - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/158rlsPk0jxXwh3GIKl2YP1W84dPLC_2RXZnMjaG5bVw/htmlview?usp=sharing




G Elliott Morris
@gelliottmorris
·
Follow
Based on hundreds of crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6m people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday.

Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels.

🧵
Image
7:10 AM · Jun 15, 2025




Our unofficial crowdsourced estimate of yesterday’s protest turnout is rising to 4.2-7 million as we gather more data. At this point potentially the second-largest single day of protest in U.S. history! www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-d...

G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris.com) 2025-06-15T17:07:49.957Z


27 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
NB: reports of 12.1 million were by random substacker who showed no work or references. Please don't quote it Bernardo de La Paz Jun 15 #1
Mahalo BRDS! It was Brilliant to Cha Jun 15 #2
Thank you patriotic Americans BoRaGard Jun 15 #3
Thanks to all who participated or supported. A grand success. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 15 #5
K & R...... Lovie777 Jun 15 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author chowder66 Jun 15 #6
donnie, little dude, are you paying attention here. republianmushroom Jun 15 #7
this one estimate is getting a lot of play stillcool Jun 15 #8
One of the OP comments links BumRushDaShow Jun 15 #9
My town is not listed and our estimate is littlemissmartypants Jun 15 #10
I'm guessing he has some mechanism to report BumRushDaShow Jun 15 #12
I read that No Kings coordinated with over a hundred organizations. littlemissmartypants Jun 15 #16
He mentioned this was an "iniital" report BumRushDaShow Jun 15 #22
Thanks BumRushDaShow... great information in that spreadsheet bsiebs Jun 15 #11
Most welcome! That was pretty cool! BumRushDaShow Jun 15 #13
My town is listed, but far too low unc70 Jun 15 #15
At the other link with the narrative about the data BumRushDaShow Jun 15 #21
Portland had two and they only have the downtown large one listed. THere was another smaller that had 2300. Amaryllis Jun 15 #17
The other link had a narrative about the data BumRushDaShow Jun 15 #23
One thing about Trump, he makes history and has had a lot of firsts! Ohioboy Jun 15 #14
Snort! ❤️ littlemissmartypants Jun 15 #18
How many buildings burned? Mopar151 Jun 15 #19
WHERE WERE ALL THESE FUCKING PEOPLE LAST NOVEMBER ???? AZ8theist Jun 15 #20
most of them who were elegible to vote likely voted for Harris. motivated ppl turn out nt msongs Jun 15 #24
I was proud to be a part of yesterday slightlv Jun 15 #25
This old man thinks it's going to take 2-3 times that many people on the streets NoMoreRepugs Jun 15 #26
Locking per Host Consensus; Analysis GP6971 Jun 15 #27
Latest Discussions»Latest Breaking News»'No Kings' Was Biggest Pr...