Today is a good day to celebrate our democracy. Many of us in the Lincoln Square/Lincoln Project family have fanned out at “No Kings” protests on Saturday, June 14 in what organizers are calling the largest single-day mobilization since Trump returned to office.
While he’s celebrating himself with a military parade, millions of Americans are exercising our First Amendment rights at more than 2,000 demonstrations across the country.
Here’s our first update:
Pensacola, Florida
The video above is from Ryan Wiggins.
“Go stand up to this buffoon,” Ryan says. “It's our America, period. Take it back.”
Lansing, Michigan
Jeff Timmer and Susan J. Demas are both at Michigan’s Capitol. One of the speakers was Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum, a Democratic former state House member who’s running for Secretary of State in 2026.
“It is so good to see people out exercising their First Amendment rights,” Byrum told Lincoln Square in an interview. “But the strongest protest is at the ballot box, so they need to make sure that they exercise their right to vote.
State Senator Sarah Anthony (D-Lansing) also spoke at the protest and urged people to think about “victims of the Trump administration. Think of the lives that have been impacted in a few short months because we did not do our collective jobs last November.”
Littleton, Colorado
Mario Nicolais is on hand at a protest outside Denver.
Bethesda, Maryland
Jacob Block is at a demonstration in Bethesda, just outside Washington, D.C.
Tallahassee, Florida
Rick Wilson has joined the protest at Florida’s Capitol.
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