Once again, the Trump Derangement Syndrome brigades are going to be out in force, next Sunday, for their next fill-in-the-blank protest movement under the “No Kings” label.
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Given that it’s being planned this far out, it’s a matter of scheduling the protest in advance with a clean slate and then deciding what they’re mad about in the meantime. That leaves enough time for their professional sign production operation.
We begin with a piece from The Hill with a rather ominous warning tucked away in their advertisement…er, story pimping the event:
(NEXSTAR) — It’s been more than two months since “No Kings” protests again drew crowds across the U.S. Another event is set to take place in just over a week, but the call to action by organizers is a little different than others before it.
Note the phrase “the call to action by organizers is a little different.” You must read several paragraphs in the advert to figure out what they mean:
While previous No Kings events have resulted in rallies, June 14’s event “will serve as a critical opportunity for No Kings supporters to strategize, connect with local organizers, and prepare for the ongoing fights ahead of the midterm elections.”
“Ongoing fights ahead of the midterm elections” should raise eyebrows, given their predilection for “peaceful violence” and all.
Then there are the announcements directly from these organizations. Take notice of the subtle changes in their language.
June 14: Rise Up, Sing Out
America has a long history, rooted in white supremacy, of suppressing the rights of people of color. But our history also clearly shows that people-powered movements are how we end authoritarianism.
Throughout 2026, in the face of unprecedented attacks, millions of us joined together in our communities and held the largest single day of morally grounded, nonviolent direct actions by any movement in US history. Each time we show up, we disrupt President Trump’s attempts to rule through repression and remind the country, and the world, that people power is our path to a truly free America.
You would be correct in noticing a distinct change, casting this as the beginning of a “fight” with an authoritarian regime. It was a few months ago that one of the organizers of these spontaneous, pre-planned events went on MS-NOW and expounded on “regime overreach” and “the people responded in force” (3:14).
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A number of the P.R. announcements for this event — next Sunday, June 14 — are hinting that these events are going to be “different” somehow.
There are also plans for “spontaneous” events in July, with a “Good Trouble Lives On Weekend of Action (GTLO)” from July 17 to 19.
The problem is that the deeper you dig into this issue, the more it seems that the left is looking at these celebrations from an entirely different and disturbing angle. This tiresome essay in The New Republic is a good example:
Long after the founding, many ordinary Americans saw the Revolution as ongoing — an unfinished fight for freedom and equality.
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That many Americans sensed the Revolution was still being fought nearly a century after the patriots ended the war with Britain conjures a worldview closer to Marxism than American republicanism. “Permanent revolution” is how socialist and communist leaders have long understood their projects, but in The Long Revolution, Nathan Perl-Rosenthal’s wonderful new book, he suggests that, despite their differences, many early Americans saw their Revolution in not entirely dissimilar terms.
[snip]
You see one version in MAGA’s appropriation of Revolutionary symbols, from the “Don’t Tread On Me” flag to the movement’s Tea Party roots. But the impulse appears on the left as well. Bernie Sanders frequently invokes the Founders in his fight against oligarchy, even casting his first presidential campaign as part of an ongoing “political revolution” that “never ends.” Mainstream liberals, too, seem to have caught the Revolutionary spirit: What is the protest slogan “No Kings,” after all, if not a reminder that the founding still resonates, and might not be as distant as it seems?
Gathering the information creates a disquieting view of current events. Whereas we on the pro-freedom right are celebrating the triumph of liberty and limited government, the left sees things differently, as some bizarre call back to “revolution.”
We know from the past that the left has a tendency to foment violence and chaos during election years. These preliminary P.R. publications offer some hints as to what’s coming. Please pass the word along to fellow patriots to keep their “heads on a swivel” during these times.
D Parker is an engineer, inventor, wordsmith, and student of history, former director of communications for a civil rights organization, and a longtime contributor to conservative websites. Find him on Substack.
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