Tomorrow: Millions to March Peacefully, Defy Trump’s Scare Tactics

Tomorrow, millions of Americans will unite across race, party, and religion for “No Kings” rallies planned in more than one thousand cities. Stretching from Honolulu to Philadelphia, everyday people of all ages will show up to reject Trump’s latest efforts to weaponize the government.

In the days leading up to the events, President Trump sought to deter attendance, saying any protestors at his event would “be met with very big force.” The comment and his administration’s actions in Los Angeles have ignited greater enthusiasm in the rallies.

Statement of Virginia Kase Solomón, Common Cause President & CEO

From weaponizing the government against the people to throwing a sitting U.S. Senator to the ground for exercising his right to ask a question, the Trump Administration is leading this country right into a tyrannical dictatorship. There is nothing patriotic about activating our military force for political gamesmanship.

That’s why, despite Trump’s efforts to scare us from speaking out, we will fill the streets of America’s cities with peaceful protest and joyful resistance. Together, we will march for our futures to declare we have no kings in America.

The people are doing their part, and now it’s time for Congress to do theirs.

Congress is to blame for bringing us to this breaking point. Their partisanship has fueled widespread division, their inaction on comprehensive immigration reform has filled us with doubt, and their corruption has broken our trust.

Instead of passing comprehensive immigration reform, they wrung their hands for four decades, leaving millions of our neighbors without a pathway or plan. Today’s Congress wants to pass a budget that would give this president greater license to turn our government into a weapon against us — with our taxpayer dollars funding it all.

And because of their neglect, this administration is using these very real immigration challenges to attack and terrorize our communities.

We will not let this Congress repeat the mistakes of the past and we will not allow this President to play political football with this crisis. This is why tomorrow, we march.

In Washington, we marched for economic justice. In Selma, we marched for civil rights. And tomorrow, on Flag Day, from Los Angeles to Omaha to Concord, we will patriotically march for our freedoms and remind those in power that this is a government by the people.