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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

gelliottmorris.com"No Kings Day" protests turn out millionsOur unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.

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.

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At the one I attended people were coming and going over the course of the event. Which indicates the total who attended was higher by some margin than the max crowd size at any given point.

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: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-d...

gelliottmorris.com"No Kings Day" protests turn out millionsOur unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.

I think your figure for Boston is a large overestimate. The source is a unattributed number in a news article with no sources; that's not reliable!

The spreadsheet has less than half the locations - but that doesn’t mean the data is inherently underestimated by half. From the ~750 locations on the spreadsheet, there were 2.7 million attendees! The spreadsheet uses that to estimate total turnout across the nation.

I started one in my small town because I hate large crowds. More people joined who felt the same. Also you can't count the cheers and honks etc we got as well. I think the GOP are in a world of hurt and they are to stupid to see it.

I can't speak to all of these, but I do know that there were ones that popped up in places that weren't planned. I saw that there was a large group in Gulfport, in St. Petersburg. It wasn't a planned location.

Hi, organizer in New York here. Your New York numbers are way off. It was about 200k. Corrections should be going out. We filled over a mile of the city with dense crowd for 3 hours. That whole time the march route was refilling with new people. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

theguardian.comMillions across US turn out for ‘No Kings’ protests against Donald TrumpProtesters demonstrate at about 2,000 sites nationwide on day US president holds military parade in Washington

Estimates from April 5 was 5+ million. There were definitely more yesterday. Many small towns are being ignored in this data. My town had about 700 protesters and has a population of 11k. Each town next my town also had a protest.

The spreadsheet uses a median average and a 75% mean average to account for the abundance of small towns in attendance, and over representation of big cities in the data. What it doesn’t account for is if there were more than the ~2000 protests that happened.

This is also different methodology than was used for April 5. If you compare the AltNPS counts and assume that they used the same methodology both times, it’s clear that there WAS about 2x turnout this time! We just don’t know what their methodology or data source is, so it can’t be peer reviewed.

The "crowd-sourced" sheet I've seen estimated 5,000 for Denver, which is absurd -- that's what was estimated for Boulder, and half of what was estimated for the smaller city of Fort Collins, CO. The local news made an estimate from a drone or plane *after the No Kings event ended.* So frustrating.