8% of Americans say they participated in a No Kings protest on October 18 - about 21 Million

[BlueWavePsych]

https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/53277-new-second-term-low-donald-trump-job-approval-government-spending

Stop With the Doomerism! We are So Strong! GNR

Despite early estimates that 7 million people attended No Kings, it turns out that 21 million did. Three times the estimate! And we had been excited about that 7 million estimate!

21 million is a lot of damn people willing to give up their Saturday to march and carry signs and sing and chant and fight for our freedom!

And that doesn’t count the millions of people who wanted to go but couldn’t for many, many reasons. I know plenty of those.

To all the doomers I say: STFU. Seriously. Stop. Do you really look around and think “you know what this moment needs? More people saying that everything is awful and we will never win.” Girl, we have plenty of those people already. Way more than we need. Those positions are FULL.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/1/2351412/-Stop-With-the-Doomerism-We-are-So-Strong-GNR

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[NJCher]

1. Hooray for the 65 +

We are showing the way with our tradition of protest that we put into practice with the Vietnam War.

And equal rights for women.

I’ve saved pics of sign-carrying me from my university student newspaper. Going to get them out and send around in my emails with this news!

[democrank]

13. The over 65ers were well represented in our Vermont rally.

We learned how to do it during the Vietnam War and the Women’s and Civil Rights Movements. NO FEAR!

[littlemissmartypants]

16. Absolutely, Cher. Excellent ideas! I'm sick of the boomers continuing to be the focus of critiques by everyone else.

If anything, we are the group that has done this before during the 60-70s and beyond. Maybe if people would learn that bigotry includes ageism and not only against the boomer plus crowds but against children too. Which is considered childism. We ALL deserve to have a voice in our government.

Thank you for bringing this up! 🙏 ❤️

[Playingmantis]

2. I was there! With my vets hat..

And met some great folks although one guy called us Communists...

[Biophilic]

3. That's a hell of a lot more than the 7 million they said. Bravo!

[William Seger]

15. At my local protest, people were coming and going all afternoon

An estimate at any particular time would have underestimated the total participation.

[pandr32]

21. This is exactly right.

Not only that but everyone I know who went did not register. We are afraid of those lists being hacked.

[Norbert]

4. Many of the over 65s know what is going on and can do a comparative analysis

People under 60 never lived through Eisenhower, Kennedy and LBJ.

[BigmanPigman]

5. I knew it! They always do this.

They ALWAYS under report the real numbers and it is a pet peeve of mine.

For the April Hands Off protest the reports were "in the tens of thousands" in San Diego.
BS! It turned out that 80,000 actually protested.

On the June 14 NO KINGS they reported 5 million when there was over 10 million.(50% too
low).
On the Oct 18 NO KINGS they reported over 7 million, now it's over 20 million (66% too
low).

I have been to over 30 protests and am a pretty good judge of the real numbers. Also, there are a few statisticians out there who do the math and it is usually 50% higher than the MSM reports.

[Wiz Imp]

9. The 7 million number was the number reported by the ORGANIZERS

In this case, it wasn't the mainstream media intentionally underreporting. My understanding is the No Kings organizers just reported the number of people who signed up on their website. They didn't want to be accused of overstating their numbers. I would assume these numbers from a poll are closer to the real total, but could also be overstated somewhat.

[Tree Lady]

25. A lot of people don't sign up

Because they don't want the texts and emails. I didn't sign up first time but I did last time.

[Wiz Imp]

26. Right. Which is why it's disappointing that the organizers of the protests apparently use sign-ups to report attendance

figures. When they came out with the 7 million figure for this last No Kings protest, it never made sense to me when the number for June was over 5 million, and reports from this one consistently said there were anywhere from twice as many people to 4 times as many people. They're doing great work in organizing the protests, but they're undercutting their own message by significantly underreporting the attendance.

[BigmanPigman]

30. That seems like the opposite of what they should do

If they want more and more people to resist they should do their best to report on the high end. It encourages more people to protest. They need to rethink how to get more accurate numbers, it would benefit them.

[Wiz Imp]

32. I agree

[Blues Heron]

6. That's over the 3.5 percent margin to "be effective"

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Yes. Know that the margin applies to "sustained" protests. . . . nt

[Marthe48]

7. I wonder how many people didn't respond to the poll

participated in the protest but didn't respond that they had, for fear of being tracked?

[intheflow]

8. My mom (94 years young) participated!

With a group of about 10 other people at her independent living facility. The marched around their building's hallways and the building's exterior. I imagine there were many of these kinds of super-small demonstrations, but that adds up to a lot of people across the nation.

[mopinko]

10. there was 1 at a senior bldg near me.

the 1st march had about 100 ppl, out in front of the bldg. this time they marched down the street. it was 2 blocks long! at least 1000 ppl.

[Farmer-Rick]

12. OK, well that makes sense

Organizers only reported the numbers that signed up on their website. I imagine a lot of people don't want to be on Pedo Trump's gestapo ICE list, so they showed up but didn't sign up.

20 million people, that's a lot of support. Plus you have people like me who supported it but couldn't attend.

[Hotler]

14. They're withholding from us to be cruel. We should be cruel righ back and withhold from them.

Shut the spending down, turn it off. Stop their flow of money. Do not underestimate the power and leverage of your consumer dollars.

If 21 million people shut the spending down. Cut $25.00 a week from their spending to start. Then put that $25.00 away for an emergency

(21 million)($25.00)= $525 million dollars a week. Times 4-weeks a month ($2.1 billion), 12-months a year, do the math.

They won't like their cash cow messed with. Wages and benefits trickle down. Consumer dollars flow up big time. Control their flowof money.
Not spend is easy.

P.S. Make the banks whine. 1. if possible payoff the balance each month. 2. Pay cash, deny the banks their processing fees.

[MichMan]

23. I think the shutdown is accomplishing exactly that.

[littlemissmartypants]

17. Kicking for data. ❤️

[Tetrachloride]

18. More more more. Drums, food pantries, clinics, shelter, jobs.

[Grins]

19. And for everyone of those 21-million, 1-2 more who could not attend.

For whatever reason. So 42-million PLUS!

I’m skeptical of numbers like this but it was so EVERYWHERE! that the 7-million number sounded so off.

[NoMoreRepugs]

20. Saw that 85+% of Republicans approve the SlobFathers performance thus far -

a testament to the incredible power of Fox and ReichWing radio to convince people not to believe their eyes.

[byronius]

22. Our little town's gathering was packed.

And joyful. It was Awesome.

[Hekate]

24. Fan-freaking-tastic numbers. Plus the shout-out to us Boomers!

[Raven123]

27. Deleted

[yellow dahlia]

28. Bookmarking for data...

and because it made me tear up.

When I attended the protest in my little village (a block from my house), I couldn't believe how many people were there. I looked up and down the street, as far as the eye could see, and I "choked up". There had been approximately 400 at the June 14 No Kings. There were over 1500 on October 18th - they had folks counting.

Go We the People!!!!

[Cha]

29. Great to Know !💙 We had 2000 on Kauai...

600 in Princeville and 1400 in Lihue, the Island's capital city

I had a sign that said HONK IF YOU LOVE DEMOCRACY.. AND WE HAD SO MANY HONKS!! There were other signs that said that, too!💙

[SheltieLover]

31. Yup.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

33. And many, like my husband and I, wanted to be there, but

could not for various legitimate reasons--health issues, work, transportation, etc.