'No Kings' Was Biggest Protest in U.S. History: Data Analyst

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Source: Daily Beast

Updated Jun. 15 2025 1:57PM EDT
Published Jun. 15 2025 1:25PM EDT


The “No Kings” protests in every state may have been the biggest day of demonstrations in American history, a data analyst has suggested. “Based on hundreds of crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don’t have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6m people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday,” independent data journalist G Elliott posted to X Sunday.

For reference, that’d mean Saturday’s demonstrations featured 1-2 percent of the total population of 340 million taking to the streets in more than 2,000 cities to voice their opposition to the increasingly authoritarian, far-right policies the president has pursued since assuming office for the second time.

The “No Kings” rallies follow after a spate of demonstrations against immigration raids carried out in Los Angeles and the surrounding area last week, to which Trump deployed 4,000 members of the National Guard and 700 Marines over the objection of California Governor Gavin Newsom.

In a full report on the figures from Saturday’s demonstrations, Morris added that mounting backlash against Trump’s second term has also witnessed “dramatically more protest activity” than during his first stint in the White House. Since his inauguration in January, Trump’s administration has witnessed more than 15,000 protests and rallies, representing a threefold increase in the number of public demonstrations that had taken place by this point in 2017.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/data-guru-g-elliott-morris-says-up-to-6-million-people-attended-no-kings-anti-donald-trump-protests/

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Link to REPORT page - "No Kings Day" protests turn out millions, rebuking Trump

Link to DATA (embedded spreadsheet) - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/158rlsPk0jxXwh3GIKl2YP1W84dPLC_2RXZnMjaG5bVw/htmlview?usp=sharing

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Based on hundreds of crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6m people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday.

Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels.

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7:10 AM · Jun 15, 2025

Our unofficial crowdsourced estimate of yesterday’s protest turnout is rising to 4.2-7 million as we gather more data. At this point potentially the second-largest single day of protest in U.S. history! www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-d...

— G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris.com) 2025-06-15T17:07:49.957Z

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. NB: reports of 12.1 million were by random substacker who showed no work or references. Please don't quote it

Trust the OP.

[Cha]

2. Mahalo BRDS! It was Brilliant to

be a Part of No Kings Day.

[BoRaGard]

3. Thank you patriotic Americans

for standing up against G.OP. billionaire-backed kristo-digito-fascism

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Thanks to all who participated or supported. A grand success. . . . . nt

[Lovie777]

4. K & R......

next one will be bigger👽

[republianmushroom]

7. donnie, little dude, are you paying attention here.

[stillcool]

8. this one estimate is getting a lot of play

seems to be the only one

As of midnight on Sunday, June 15, we have data from about 40% of No Kings Day events held yesterday, accounting for over 2.6m attendees. According to our back-of-the-envelope math, that puts total attendance somewhere in the 4-6 million people range. That means roughly 1.2-1.8% of the U.S. population attended a No Kings Day event somewhere in the country yesterday. Organizers say 5m turned out, but don’t release public event-by-event numbers.

Of course, crowdsourcing data isn’t perfect; some local reports may be inflated, and others undercounted. And the formula we use to project attendance in places where we don’t have data assumes they are similar to the places where we do. That’s a necessary assumption, but an assumption nonetheless.

So this is by no means an official tally. But we do think it’s the most comprehensive tally currently available. Hundreds of data-gatherers have been compiling accounts of event attendance and checking them against available sources since Saturday morning. From a journalism perspective, this approach at least standardizes measurement and provides references to check our math, even if it doesn’t completely avoid the usual pitfalls of estimating crowd size (or the assumptions above). But in this case, we’re interested in speed and thoroughness, not perfection.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. One of the OP comments links

is to their viewer with an embedded spreadsheet that lists the cities that they received data for.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/158rlsPk0jxXwh3GIKl2YP1W84dPLC_2RXZnMjaG5bVw/htmlview?usp=sharing

[littlemissmartypants]

10. My town is not listed and our estimate is

~5K.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. I'm guessing he has some mechanism to report

since he mentions the data is "crowd sourced". Haven't dug into how they work the submissions but I think he acknowledged it is just an estimate and some of the places on the list were guesstimates based on nearby reports... (so many small towns and villages had people lining their main roads with signs as it is)!

[littlemissmartypants]

16. I read that No Kings coordinated with over a hundred organizations.

So I imagine that includes many smaller locations that may not have reported yet. The numbers could be much higher.

I appreciate the effort because so much of our so-called media has done a pee-poor job reporting it overall.

But as a lover and former frequent user of statistics, I know you can't throw a project like that together overnight.

I'm looking forward to the ultimate number.

Thanks so much for sharing the spreadsheet!!

❤️

[BumRushDaShow]

22. He mentioned this was an "iniital" report

so hopefully he'll be updating it into next week.

I thought it was great the he and his group took on that job!

[bsiebs]

11. Thanks BumRushDaShow... great information in that spreadsheet

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Most welcome! That was pretty cool!

[unc70]

15. My town is listed, but far too low

Listed as 1,000 while actually 3-5 times that, at least. I went back to my photos and literally counted "heads". There are a couple of towns where they have updated counts that have increased several fold.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. At the other link with the narrative about the data

he mentioned the numbers were whay were received "as of midnight June 15" (and if that is east coast "midnight", then obviously there would be more from the west coast that might not have made that cut off) and then later he thanks people for data for the "initial estimates". So he may (or probably) will do more updates and publish those at some point.

[Amaryllis]

17. Portland had two and they only have the downtown large one listed. THere was another smaller that had 2300.

[BumRushDaShow]

23. The other link had a narrative about the data

and this was an "initial" estimate. Am hoping or least expecting some more updates in the near future!

[Ohioboy]

14. One thing about Trump, he makes history and has had a lot of firsts!

Now he was the catalyst for the largest protest ever.

[littlemissmartypants]

18. Snort! ❤️

[Mopar151]

19. How many buildings burned?

Any organized looting?

Looks like the "blac bloc" stayed home -much like the "red hat" protest!

[AZ8theist]

20. WHERE WERE ALL THESE FUCKING PEOPLE LAST NOVEMBER ????

So frustrating. We FUCKING WARNED the country this fascism would happen. I heard a story some idiots ON ELECTION DAY were asking why Joe Biden wasn't running!! The ignorance of my fellow Americans is at times exasperating.

[msongs]

24. most of them who were elegible to vote likely voted for Harris. motivated ppl turn out nt

[slightlv]

25. I was proud to be a part of yesterday

And... other than losing where I parked my car. I enjoyed it immensely. I am saddened with the crowds that came out we didn't hit the 3.5%... i was really hoping we'd hit or surpass it.

For all of us "of an age" who participated, I hope you're doing okay today. My hips hurt so bad I can't walk on my own to the kitchen. But I wouldn't trade yesterday for anything.

[NoMoreRepugs]

26. This old man thinks it's going to take 2-3 times that many people on the streets

to make an impression on the dolts who just don’t give a crap and get some of them involved. We need numbers, massive numbers of pissed off citizens.

[GP6971]

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