Massive Turnout: The Nation Protests Trump -Medford Residents Show their Colors

Here in Medford, Oregon we had a large No Kings Day protest which my wife Shirley and I went to. It was fantastic to see all of the smiling, laughing, and singing people lining both sides of the streets downtown.

(Photo: Shirley and I joined a crowd of roughly 2,000 people filled East McAndrews Road in east Medford today.)

The energy was positive, and we met fellow Americans that love this country and want the corrupt Trump regime to disappear. All ages turned out. It was inspiring seeing elderly people who once protested against the Vietnam war standing alongside youths who want freedom from the autocracy that Trump brought to this country.

The event took place with no arrests or any major incidents. It was well organized and respectful.

Every state in the nation has risen up in protest with thousands of Americans of every race and religious beliefs coming together in what will turn out to be the biggest protest in American history. The last No Kings Day in June saw five million gleeful participants. Estimates of today's turnout are north of seven million according to several news sources.

Americans in Seattle, Spokane, Phoenix, Atlanta, Washington DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, Medford, Boulder City, Boston, New York, and over 2,500 cities stretched across our great nation turned out with a big message, "We intend to defend Democracy."

As the government shutdown approaches its third week, millions of demonstrators joined protests in more than 2,500 cities and towns in all fifty states, with global cities joining in, to stand up to what the organizers called Trump's "authoritarian power grabs."

"There is no greater threat to an authoritarian regime than patriotic people power," Ezra Levin, a co-founder of Indivisible, one of the protest organizers, said.

As it Stands, it was an uplifting experience and a declaration that we want a free nation.