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dweller

(26,697 posts)
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 12:07 PM 10 hrs ago

13.14 million according to Alt NPS

We’re honored to announce a final count of 13.14 million in attendance across 2,300+ No Kings protests nationwide. It took a little longer to finalize due to the sheer scale, but the turnout was historic!

So far, 71 MAGA agitators have been arrested, with 62 additional investigations still underway. We’re actively reviewing online threats and working on escalating where needed. If you see something, say something.

How was the count conducted? Over 140,000 coalition members attended events across the country, at least one at nearly every protest. Many traveled far and got to see some amazing small towns along the way. Local authorities provided crowd estimates, which were then reported back and compiled for the final count.
Regardless of the final count because honestly, the exact number is secondary, the crowds were massive, and everyone who showed up knows it. Even the smallest towns had a presence. The tides in America are turning, and you can see it clearly when you compare it to Trump’s birthday parade.
from my FB

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13.14 million according to Alt NPS (Original Post) dweller 10 hrs ago OP
Yes!!!! SheltieLover 10 hrs ago #1
Go No Kings! Go No Kings! Go No Kings! applegrove 10 hrs ago #2
Link? Wiz Imp 9 hrs ago #3
As I posted above dweller 9 hrs ago #5
You are aware that many, many people here do not have facebook accounts.... Wiz Imp 7 hrs ago #23
Of course dweller 7 hrs ago #24
lololol Blue_Adept 9 hrs ago #4
Almost as big as a Trump rally... lame54 9 hrs ago #6
THANK YOU FOR THIS POST - THIS IS TRUTH! I attented in NYC and walked the entire route. c-rational 8 hrs ago #7
In SF where I live I have never seen so many people in the streets. kimbutgar 8 hrs ago #8
do it again jaymac 8 hrs ago #9
In the Clackamas Town Center (Oregon) there were LONG lines of people. calimary 7 hrs ago #29
Post removed Post removed 6 hrs ago #32
People were smiling!! KT2000 8 hrs ago #10
Great! Now we need to convert this activism into votes... Wounded Bear 8 hrs ago #11
"... can't believe this still needs to be said, but: stop following altNPS." mahatmakanejeeves 8 hrs ago #12
so much this Blue_Adept 8 hrs ago #13
+1 demmiblue 7 hrs ago #22
Alt NPS is a resistanceporn dodgy acct., posting bollocks to clout-chase, same as many other BlueAnon grifters out there Celerity 7 hrs ago #14
100 recs... embarrassing. n/t demmiblue 7 hrs ago #27
Indicative, but not reliable or definitive. At least they have a methodology. Bernardo de La Paz 7 hrs ago #28
Zoom mtg by Indivisible tonight to discuss and plan what's next. 2 Meow Momma 2 hrs ago #39
I do not know anything about Alt NPS just what my gut says, and being an engineer, I like numbers...here we go c-rational 3 hrs ago #35
I am with you c-rational. I was at that protest march also. jrthin 3 hrs ago #36
"" AllaN01Bear 7 hrs ago #15
8.3% of the registered voters in 2022 Old Crank 7 hrs ago #16
We had a group of pro king Un-Americans show up Blue Full Moon 7 hrs ago #17
Quite a few people were initially pooh-poohing these numbers Brother Buzz 7 hrs ago #18
Earlier numbers had no methodology and deserved to be pooh-poohed, as I did pooh-pooh them. Bernardo de La Paz 7 hrs ago #30
Neither have posted dweller 6 hrs ago #33
Fantastic news! Lets keep the momentum William769 7 hrs ago #19
I don't trust this account. n/t demmiblue 7 hrs ago #20
Even in Red Sarasota, the crowd was substantial. ..and one other sad note... chouchou 7 hrs ago #21
That doesn't even count the honking cars relayerbob 7 hrs ago #25
This is the LilElf70 7 hrs ago #26
Kick SheltieLover 6 hrs ago #31
This message was self-deleted by its author WarGamer 5 hrs ago #34
Thank you Alt NPS. Clouds Passing 2 hrs ago #37
MSNBC The Weeknight just reported 5 million. I laughed. nt 2 Meow Momma 2 hrs ago #38
Before the week is out dweller 2 hrs ago #40
Assholes. Won't they be surprised when Cha 2 hrs ago #42
So Magnificent to be a part of our Cha 2 hrs ago #41
Mahalo Cha ! dweller 2 hrs ago #43
So Very Welcome, dweller! Cha 2 hrs ago #44
Ezra w/ Indivisible said conservative estimate 5 million on a debrief zoom call. 2 Meow Momma 48 min ago #45
That is crazy numbers SunImp 14 min ago #46

dweller

(26,697 posts)
5. As I posted above
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 12:45 PM
9 hrs ago

It’s from my facebook link .
You can find it on your fb page by following Alt NPS


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dweller

(26,697 posts)
24. Of course
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 03:01 PM
7 hrs ago

I would refer you to their bluesky account , but I don’t have a bluesky account .
Maybe you do


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Blue_Adept

(6,460 posts)
4. lololol
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 12:39 PM
9 hrs ago

How people can follow never mind believe anything coming from blueanon accounts like that is beyond me.

Didn't people learn from the 2017 era of such accounts that they're just bullshitting and scamming people?

c-rational

(3,055 posts)
7. THANK YOU FOR THIS POST - THIS IS TRUTH! I attented in NYC and walked the entire route.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 01:18 PM
8 hrs ago

Last edited Mon Jun 16, 2025, 06:50 PM - Edit history (1)

We walked at a snail's pace due to crowds. Fifteen plus blocks packed solid. Corporate media does not want to admit the truth. Or should I say corporate or legacy media is actively pumping propaganda with the low numbers reported, i.e. 4.5-7 million. We exceeded the 3.5% threshold, and that is why there was such an outpouring of joy and hope yesterday in the face of this adversity.

kimbutgar

(25,342 posts)
8. In SF where I live I have never seen so many people in the streets.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 01:47 PM
8 hrs ago

The woman’s March in 2017 was big but looking up Market street the lines of people were endless. When we left people were still coming into civic center .

jaymac

(20 posts)
9. do it again
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 01:47 PM
8 hrs ago

and we need to do it again. at least one every couple of weeks. stand out with friends and neighbors for an hour on a weekend day to voice displeasure with them. I pray we can do this.

calimary

(86,668 posts)
29. In the Clackamas Town Center (Oregon) there were LONG lines of people.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 03:09 PM
7 hrs ago

On every grassy curb area, around the extensive parking lot areas. Along every sidewalk, lining every driveway that wove through the area. From what I could see, it was single file lines of people. Of every age, some with baby strollers, quite a few elders in wheelchairs. A whole lot of everybody, and it was a challenge to locate where the lines started and/or ended. HUGELY encouraging!

And I didn’t find a single person there who was in a bad mood. It was a VERY happy, lighthearted, and tremendously congenial crowd. Everybody looked like they were glad to be there, and many had friends and family members with them. Just SOOOOOOOOO SATISFYING!!!

My only takeaway: I wanna do this AGAIN! WHEN’S the next one? (Actually I’ve already heard there IS a next one - in a couple of weeks, and us Indivisibles will be at that one, too!)

Response to c-rational (Reply #7)

KT2000

(21,488 posts)
10. People were smiling!!
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 01:57 PM
8 hrs ago

It was a joyful event to share with like minded people and not feel so isolated. I was losing hope for humanity but it has now been restored.

Wounded Bear

(62,194 posts)
11. Great! Now we need to convert this activism into votes...
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 01:59 PM
8 hrs ago

We're gonna need a landslide to flip congress.

mahatmakanejeeves

(65,038 posts)
12. "... can't believe this still needs to be said, but: stop following altNPS."
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 02:00 PM
8 hrs ago

Yesterday: "... can't believe this still needs to be said, but: stop following altNPS."

Reposted by Mike Masnick

Aves Maria
‪@avesmaria.bsky.social‬

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can’t believe this still needs to be said, but: stop following altNPS. none of them work for the NPS and they exist to do Qanon numbers station crap and sell merch. it’s annoying for a lot of us that are actually NPS. thanks

‪Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)‬
‪@thetattooedprof.bsky.social‬
· 8h
I know a lot of folks like this account. But this is a wild, and unhelpful, exaggeration--it's a resistance version of sean spicer. It veers into #resistanceporn and trades accuracy for clout, like other "blue maga" grifters on here. Pls consider finding other sources of inspiration/news/motivation
Post from "alt national park service" account reading "From coast to coast, city streets to small town squares, you showed up. And it mattered. Honored to announce: 12.1 million in attendance."
The 12.1 million figure is 300 percent more than every estimate produced by experts and scholars who carefully went through nationwide reports.
ALT
June 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM

can’t believe this still needs to be said, but: stop following altNPS. none of them work for the NPS and they exist to do Qanon numbers station crap and sell merch. it’s annoying for a lot of us that are actually NPS. thanks

Aves Maria (@avesmaria.bsky.social) 2025-06-15T19:33:58.660Z

Celerity

(50,358 posts)
14. Alt NPS is a resistanceporn dodgy acct., posting bollocks to clout-chase, same as many other BlueAnon grifters out there
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 02:15 PM
7 hrs ago

It is absolutely not a valid source of info.

Bernardo de La Paz

(56,490 posts)
28. Indicative, but not reliable or definitive. At least they have a methodology.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 03:09 PM
7 hrs ago

What do No Kings and Indivisible say?

2 Meow Momma

(6,809 posts)
39. Zoom mtg by Indivisible tonight to discuss and plan what's next.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 07:34 PM
2 hrs ago

I’ll report back if they give numbers.

c-rational

(3,055 posts)
35. I do not know anything about Alt NPS just what my gut says, and being an engineer, I like numbers...here we go
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 06:29 PM
3 hrs ago

A NYC street with sidewalks is ~102' x 900'. This leads to 92,000 SF (square feet). Including the intersections I bump it up 10 % to say 100,000 SF per block x 17 blocks full (from 42nd to 26/25th) leads to 1,700,000 square feet. The maximum density of humans packed shoulder to shoulder is ~1/meter squared gives ~168,000 people. I calculate that because it was a march and the line continually refreshed there were actually ~.5 million protesters in NYC easy. That times the 5 largest cities - Boston, Phili, Chicago, LA and SF gives 2.5 million. With an additional 2295 protests, I do believe we exceeded the 3.5% threshold. That means the average of the other events was a little over 3,200. I want numbers.

Old Crank

(5,766 posts)
16. 8.3% of the registered voters in 2022
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 02:29 PM
7 hrs ago

That is a huge number to mobilize against the government.

Blue Full Moon

(2,270 posts)
17. We had a group of pro king Un-Americans show up
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 02:37 PM
7 hrs ago

The leader of the protest called the cops. The police escorted them away from us. We drowned them out by all of us chanting, love not hate makes America great. They gave up.

Brother Buzz

(38,621 posts)
18. Quite a few people were initially pooh-poohing these numbers
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 02:38 PM
7 hrs ago

But I talked with my son last night, and what he told me convinced me these numbers are genuine.

He was traveling in Oregon, and he said every rural Podunk town had an event. Dozens of small communities.

He said even wide spots on the road had off the reservation events.

He gave everyone a horn toot and thumbs up, and still had time to get home an attend the big one in Portland.

Bernardo de La Paz

(56,490 posts)
30. Earlier numbers had no methodology and deserved to be pooh-poohed, as I did pooh-pooh them.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 03:13 PM
7 hrs ago

Today's count (by one group) is more useful because at least they have a methodology.

But it is not definitive. I think the No Kings and Indivisible numbers will be more reliable.

Regardless, thanks to everyone who participated.

chouchou

(1,977 posts)
21. Even in Red Sarasota, the crowd was substantial. ..and one other sad note...
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 02:43 PM
7 hrs ago

Several of my Liberal friends (Older ladies and gentleman) were afraid to protest.
"I wouldn't be able to defend my self" "I served in war but those days were many decades.."
It's a damn shame that older citizens are afraid to say-what-they-want-to.
Yours truly would have bit their right-wing ears! I don't give a you know what.

relayerbob

(7,214 posts)
25. That doesn't even count the honking cars
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 03:04 PM
7 hrs ago

And the online troops who were unable to go for whatever reasons.

LilElf70

(907 posts)
26. This is the
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 03:08 PM
7 hrs ago

best news I've heard in quite a long time. It sure brings hope that we will somehow save our democracy, and remove these corrupt magats in power.

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Cha

(311,959 posts)
44. So Very Welcome, dweller!
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 08:08 PM
2 hrs ago
I think we need Dems on Air giving out the Actual Numbers of how many were there for No Kings Day.. since the M$M won't do it.

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2 Meow Momma

(6,809 posts)
45. Ezra w/ Indivisible said conservative estimate 5 million on a debrief zoom call.
Mon Jun 16, 2025, 09:25 PM
48 min ago

We are 1/2 way to the 3.5% magic number it’ll take to build the power we need, but it must be SUSTAINED. In other words, we are going to keep going, keep working, keep speaking in whatever form we are able to do.

Go to nokings.org/next to find out how to keep momentum and what comes next.

July 17 will be “good trouble lives on day”. More info and links at nokings.org/next.

Btw, this debrief meeting is on YouTube so I learned…probably on a nokings channel or indivisible channel.

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