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'We're not going back': Rep. Jamie Raskin responds to historic "No Kings" Rally Turnout
MSNBC· 2025-10-21 02:35
Millions of Americans marched at No Kings rallies all across this nation this weekend. Organizers now say about 7 million people showed up. That's about two million more than the No Kings events back in June.These protests against authoritarianism reached about 2600 communities from coast to coast and around the world, even in deep red states. Check out this crowd in Arco, Idaho, a town with less than 900 residents. Protesters lined Main Street in a state Trump won by 36 points.In Texas, thousands marched, ...
'Royally scared': MAGA flails as epic 7M 'No Kings' rally checks 'unquestioned power' Trump claims
MSNBC· 2025-10-20 23:12
And we begin tonight with the massive No Kings protests that took place all over the country and the world this weekend. Organizers say that nearly 7 million marchers turned out in big cities and small towns to protest Donald Trump and his policies. And notably, the protests were peaceful. The NYPD said over a 100,000 people gathered in New York City alone without a single arrest. In San Francisco, Americans used their own bodies to spell out the message of the day. No kings. And while Trump did his best to ...
Nicolle Wallace reacts to Donald Trump’s vile social media post over No Kings protest
MSNBC· 2025-10-20 21:00
We begin with a study in contrast. Here are presidents George W. Bush and President Barack Obama when confronted by public opposition to their policies. >> Democracy is a beautiful thing and that people are allowed to express their opinion. I welcome people's uh right to say what they believe. >> I've listened to you. I heard you. I heard you. I heard you. All right. Now, I've been respectful. I let you college. All right. So, so let me just let me No, nobody's removing you. I've heard you. But you've got t ...
We 'will not cave' to 'authoritarian will' of Trump: Illinois lawmaker
MSNBC· 2025-10-20 16:10
For more on this, I want to bring in Democratic Illinois State Senator Graciella Guzman. State Senator, thank you for joining us. You know, Judge Ellis, as we've just been talking about, has been very critical and frustrated by the tactics being used by federal agents on protesters on the ground.You have been there. Talk to us about what you've seen. >> Well, thank you so much for having me and look, I I think uh the ruling and and so far the conversation political opposition is not rebellion.Um, and I woul ...
MSNBC Highlights - Oct. 19
MSNBC· 2025-10-20 02:00
Joining us now, journalist and author Pao Ramos. She is contributor for MSNBC and Noticia Telmundo. Also joining us is independent reporter and former Washington Post columnist my former colleague Philip Bump. Thanks so much for joining us this morning, guys. It appears that the apocalypse that Republicans were predicting happen >> did not happen. Um but Paula, what what did you see yesterday on the streets? >> So I was coming back from the Rio Grand Valley. So, I spent um the last week in in the valley and ...
Is the resistance against Trump reaching ‘critical mass’ after record setting protests?
MSNBC· 2025-10-19 21:22
A new take now on the historic coast to coast no kings protests. Millions turned out in large cities and small towns to speak out against Trump administration policies and what many of them see as Trump's turn toward authoritarianism. >> I love this country and I think protesting is like the most American thing we can be doing. >> This is the most American thing that you can do.Um protest and speak for what you believe in. the people who come out here and fight and who want to resist, that's those are the p ...
Newsrooms send a united message to Hegseth: We won’t be censored
MSNBC· 2025-10-18 18:39
Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy. It is democracy. Walter Kronhite said that.The most trusted man in America at the time. Today, we're taking a closer look at Donald Trump's relentless campaign to break the America the American press. A campaign something much larger and more dangerous.If you take a look around today, you'll see Donald Trump employing not one dramatic seizure of power, but a steady deliberate coordination and capture of institutions that underpin our civil society. fr ...
Maximalist Art as Queer Resistance to Authoritarianism | Comus Rivera | TEDxColumbiaCollegeChicago
TEDx Talks· 2025-10-17 15:20
[Applause] Welcome y'all. I'm Komas. I'm an artist, an educator, and a media studies scholar.And I say today, let's talk a little bit painterly. Let's talk about paint. We're going to start off talking about that black authoritarian paint that is boxing us all in right now.Because authoritarianism wants to put us in a box. It wants to simplify each and every one of us into a statistic, a binary, good or evil. But none of us exist in that binary.It's not even a spectrum. We're all a mix of many, many things. ...
MSNBC Highlights - Oct. 16
MSNBC· 2025-10-17 10:43
I can also assure you that were this a Republican president, a Republican attorney general, and a Republican IRS that were targeting Democrats, I at least would speak out just as vigorously against it. Because if we are going to respect rule of law, the apparatus of the federal government cannot and should not be used as a partisan tool to bludgeon your enemies. >> Uh, I might have to play that every day.Um, Miles Taylor, that was then that was 2014. Ted Cruz on using the IRS to target enemies. Yeah, look, ...
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Kraken· 2025-10-16 18:00
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