As No Kings protests grow, a bigger question looms: What comes next? | With more than 3K demonstrations planned nationwide, organizers are hoping for lasting political momentum.

I would like to see more protests on DC and MAGA Lardo. Maybe some multi-day protests in the Capitol.

Maybe the government could try doing their f****** jobs for a change. All of us lowly plebs are doing what we can by protesting and voting, but that only goes so far. "Call your representatives!" only works when our representatives aren't useless bootlickers.

That was the problem the last time. The protests are huge, but incredibly unfocused. I hope people on the ground have success converting the energy to something useful

Protestin' is fine and all but go to the damn polls and vote in people who will oppose his policies "but but but the voting system is rigged" Brother I saw a piece on the news yesterday about the # of blue seats won since the presidency, and there's a blue wave, including Trump's own mar a lago district. Go out, vote blue, and that will stop him most effectively And he knows it which is why he wants ICE agents at polling places

So let’s talk about what the protests are accomplishing and why they’re worthwhile. First of all, protests serve as an “entry point” for people to practice the “muscle” of political engagement and resistance. The vast, vast majority of Americans have never engaged in any act of political resistance whatsoever. Attending one is new and maybe even a little scary for a lot of folks. It’s just like weight-lifting. You can’t go into the gym after never working out in your life and immediately bench your body weight. You have to work up to it. If you think the protests don’t do enough and (for example) civil disobedience is necessary, how do you think people are going to do anything else if they’re not even used to going to peaceful, pre-planned, family-friendly marches/protests? Most people cannot go from 0-60 right away. Secondly, researchers from Harvard have found that “Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.” Last year, a little over 2% of the US population attended a No Kings protest - and this year is expected to be bigger (in fact, it’s projected to be the largest protest in US history). The theorized mechanism behind this is interesting, and I encourage you to read further about it. Sources: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/success-nonviolent-civil-resistance/ https://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820/ Third, many people who oppose this administration feel isolated and disempowered. The protests provide a simple and easy way for them to meet other like-minded folks, again serving as a jumping-off post for getting more involved in many other possible ways. Fourth, it’s not about him, it’s about US - us exercising our rights to assemble and protest the government (which the founders thought important enough to put in the first dang amendment!), gathering, networking, planning. It doesn’t matter if Trump Pooh-poohs them. What matters is that We The People get organized to oppose this regime effectively. That starts with simple, baby-steps actions and with coming together. Fifth, there’s a weird argument I’ve seen that people should do different things instead of attend a No Kings protest. But that’s a false dichotomy. You can do plenty of other things AND go to one of these. Finally, the idea that “one day won’t do anything” — well, yeah. No shit, Sherlock. One day wasn’t enough for the US civil rights movement of the 60s, either. Or the (ongoing) fight for LGBTQ rights. This shit takes time. Non-violent resistance is a tough row to hoe. But it does work. (See also: Ghandi, the US protests against the war in Vietnam, the Rose Revolution.) You know what doesn’t work? Sitting on the couch yelling at other people about not taking your personal preferred action. That’s a real Russian Bot move…pretty cringe. One of the world’s preeminent scholars on fascism, Timothy Snyder, posted that he’s going to No Kings III, and laid out why it is important in his substack: https://snyder.substack.com/p/no-kings-freedom Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

May Day Strike!

What comes next is voting. Everyone get their ass in the ballot box in November.

It needs to be concentrated in DC just like the Vietnam protests.

Voting

French have a device for the next part.

What comes next? Stop bitching go out and vote on local,primaries and on general elections.

May 1st, 2026, millions of people will be taking time off work and school in the form of PTO & sick days in protest with the goal to slow down the economy. No Kings III is this Saturday, but May 1st is where we can make a legitimate impact. Wait as long as you can before telling your manager you're taking the day off. Let's hit them where it hurts!

Read: There won't be any momentum because hope is neither a plan nor an action. For a movement to be a movement it needs to move. And the lead groups like 50501 and indivisible are activly avoiding any and all responsibility and conflict with the criminal government; Making them de facto managed opposition.

what comes next is mass socialist organizing and direct action. and nothing short of it

What momentum? Calling people who will ultimately cave? The bottleneck is the bought politicians who only represent their own interests. France has the right idea.

Nothing comes next as far as protesting goes. The current protests are performative at best. Unless people start laying down across highways and runways, things aren't going to change. Hopefully the house flips and there can be some reduction of damage. But standing with funny signs doesn't actually accomplish anything.

Drum circles and chants have never fixed anything.

Protesting and marching are not the only forms of nonviolent resistance.

This is just an anti-Trump rally. What we need is a general strike but the system is built in a way that makes it damn near impossible for that to happen.

The f*** did the no kings protest do last time? Last I saw the mad king is still f****** us over day by day. Oooh, biggest protest ever! -king still ruling by executive order. 

Protests only matter if your opponent has a conscience. There have been several protests nationwide. Nothing has changed. The people in power don't care. Democrats are so naive when it comes to protesting.

We need to stop doing protest on weekends when it doesn’t matter. It needs to be done during the week, during prime business hours. It needs to be done so businesses feel it in the pockets. This is the only truly peaceful approach of getting it done.

Yea these protests aren't doing anything. If people want change its time to start being disruptive.

The trump regime, and magats at large, do not give a F*** if you peacefully protest. Societal pressure does not sway authoritarians, and it never has. 

these things are like the exact opposite of what we should be doing. you want to fight Trumpism? Have everyone cancel their Amazon account. pull back spending. boycott companies that support the regime. getting together and having a big party for a third time is f****** pointless

What comes next is go fund me and other cries for donations that will then dissappear under shady circumstances. No kings what a joke. No kings unless its one you like right burnouts