The US president Trump thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty.
On 14 June 2025, the No Kingsmovement did what many claimed was impossible: peacefully mobilized millions of people to take to the streets and declare with one voice: America has No Kings. On October 18, millions are rising again to show the world: the power belongs to the people. The peaceful movement is only getting bigger and bigger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan; it is the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets, shouted by millions, carried on posters and chants, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this country to fight dictatorship together. Because this country does not belong to kings, dictators, or tyrants. It belongs to We the People – the people who care, who show up, and the ones who fight for dignity, a life we can afford, and real opportunity. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.
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With each presidential decree, Donald Trump pushes the boundaries of his executive power. Which direction will the future of American democracy take? In his second turn, President Trump weaponizes the legal system—rewarding his allies while taking revenge on his enemies. Capitol rioters who had received prison sentences up to twenty years were released overnight. Their prosecuters got fired. Trump disregards federal court rulings, ignores acts of Congress, and defies both the Constitution’s text and Supreme Court precedents. Is American democracy resilient enough to withstand this assault on the rule of law? What does this mean for the U.S.’s role in the world? And what will happen to the liberal and democratic world order when America is no longer its main advocate?
We all march for different reasons, but we march for the same cause: to defend our rights and our future.
If you believe that decisions about your body should remain yours, that books belong in libraries, not on bonfires, that healthcare is a right, not a privilege for the wealthy; if you believe in the power of free speech and protest to sustain democracy; or if you want an economy that works for the people who power it—then this march is for you. The People’s March is about one thing: our power.
It’s a bold demonstration of the resilience of resistance:
-We march to unite the people who’ve been the backbone of resistance for generations—and to welcome even more -We march to remind civil servants they answer to us -We march to inspire, energize, and drive change long after the day is done.
This is our moment to remind Washington elites — and Americans everywhere — where the power truly lives: with the people. Let’s make it count.
Thompson was in the city to attend an annual investors’ meeting for UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of UnitedHealthcare. He had been criticized for UnitedHealthcare’s rejection of insurance claims, and his family reported that he had received death threats in the past. The shooting occurred early in the morning, and the suspect, initially described as a white man wearing a mask, fled the scene. A suspect, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, was arrested five days later and charged with the crime. Thompson’s death received reactions of online contempt and mockery from many Americans towards him and UnitedHealth Group. More broadly, many Americans criticized the U.S. healthcare system. Many social media users characterized the killing as deserved or justified; these attitudes relate to anger over UnitedHealth’s business practices and those of the United States health insurance industry at large – primarily their strategies to deny coverage to clients. In particular, Thompson’s death was compared to the harm or death experienced by clients who were denied healthcare.
Luigi Mangione, age 26, was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on December 9, 2024, and charged with Thompson’s murder in a Manhattan court the same day. Authorities said Mangione was carrying a 3D-printed pistol and a 3D-printed suppressor consistent with those used in the attack, as well as handwritten notes characterized as a manifesto criticizing America’s healthcare system, a U.S. passport, and multiple fraudulent IDs, including one with the same name the alleged shooter used to check into a hostel in Manhattan. They also said his fingerprints matched those that investigators found near the New York shooting scene. Mangione was held without bail in Pennsylvania on charges of possession of an unlicensed firearm, forgery and providing false identification to police. Mangione also has an arrest warrant with five felony counts in New York including second-degree murder. Mangione’s lawyer said he will plead not guilty to the charges. Police believe that he was inspired by Ted Kaczynski‘s essay Industrial Society and Its Future; Mangione wrote that he considered the essay prescient in a Goodreads review.
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