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G Elliott MorrisJune 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM EDT

Based on 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 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

We generated our estimates by crowdsourcing and painstakingly checking data integrity for thousands of protest events held across the U.S. yesterday. We used official organizer tallies, news reports, self-reports from rally attendees, and AI analysis of protest pictures and video The result is, we think, the most comprehensive source for the turnout at yesterday's No Kings Day events. This is not an _official_ estimate by any means. But we do think it's more credible than relying on one single source or a finger-in-the-wind org guesstimate. We do not intend this to be the final word. Rather, in the hybrid journalist-academic spirit of Strength In Numbers, we endeavor to help other people with their work. We have published our data publicly for researchers to use and build on. Data linked Here: gelliottmorris.com

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