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Over 1 000 People Join No Kings Protest In Arlington Texas Fort

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over 1 000 people join no kings protest in arlington texas fort

Protesters lined the walkways of East Abram Street in front of the Tarrant County subcourthouse in Arlington on June 14. The protest was one of hundreds across the nation protesting President Donald Trump on his birthday. While a majority of protesters held signs that read No Kings, the name of the protest event, there were a range of issues on display, including anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement and anti-Department of Government... Local organizer Carol Raburn said that “well over 1,000 people” attended and that the protest was bigger than she anticipated. “All the stuff going down in Los Angeles is scaring people,” Raburn said. “So they kind of want to get out and express their emotion.

This gives them an outlet and lets them feel like they’ve done something to show they care.” The No Kings movement was created by 50501, a national movement spawned online that organized protests in every state following President Trump’s 2024 election win. The decentralized structure of 50501 allows local organizers to join the larger movement in its overarching efforts to “uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach,” the group’s website says. Crowds in Fort Worth and Arlington will join over 2,500 rallies across the country for a No Kings protest Oct. 18, protesting the perceived authoritarianism of the Trump Administration. Fort Worth’s crowd will gather in Burk Burnett Park, and Arlington’s will meet outside the Arlington Sub Courthouse.

Both events will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. In June, police estimated about 2,000 people attended the protest in Fort Worth, and over 1,000 people attended Arlington’s. Both stayed peaceful. Organizers are coordinating with the police department to avoid potential violence, said Sabrina Ball, an organizer for the event. Several progressive activist groups are organizing the Fort Worth protest, including Indivisible TX-12, which Ball, a house district coordinator for the Tarrant County Democratic Party, helped form in January after President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Indivisible is a nationwide network of progressive activist groups that started following Trump’s 2016 election to mobilize action against the administration and the Republican Party. The organization is a primary planner of the No Kings protests. A crowd estimated at over 1,000 people lined both sides of Abram Street in front of the Tarrant County Subcourthouse in Arlington on Saturday morning to make their voices heard. The “No Kings Day” rally wasn’t scheduled to start until 10 a.m., but a respectable crowd had already gathered by 9:30 a.m. Participants waved American flags and handmade signs while chanting “Immigrants are welcome here” and “Justice now!” The mood at the protest seemed more like a block party than a demonstration, but the participants were dead serious when it came to expressing their concerns for the direction they feel the United...

Patti Coggins, a retired Army combat medic, said she showed up at 9 a.m., grabbed a bite to eat at the nearby Shipley Donuts and headed to the courthouse. Her sign showed a crossed out crown and the numbers 8647, slang for throwing President Trump out of office. Coggins said she’s worried about the wealthy getting tax breaks while things like Social Security are in jeopardy. She’s also concerned about what she sees as a lack of decency in the Trump administration. To stream WFAA on your phone, you need the WFAA app. Example video title will go here for this video

Example video title will go here for this video DALLAS — Protestors gathered in cities across North Texas and across the country for "No Kings" demonstrations Saturday to express frustration about the direction of the country under President Donald Trump. Thousands, including an estimated 10,000 in Dallas alone, took part in "No Kings" demonstrations in North Texas earlier this summer, which were organized to coincide with a military parade in Washington for the 250th... Thousands more took part in events in cities across the country. Despite afternoon rain, thousands took to the streets of North Texas for protests against the Trump administration on Saturday. NORTH TEXAS - Despite afternoon rain, thousands took to the streets of North Texas for protests against the Trump administration on Saturday.

People brought signs and marched at the "No Kings" protests. Across the country, large crowds gathered in over 2,500 cities in protest against President Donald Trump. It was no different here in the Metroplex, as thousands took to the streets for the "No Kings" protests. Updated on: October 19, 2025 / 3:06 PM CDT / CBS Texas Despite a rainy afternoon, thousands of North Texans showed up for Saturday's "No Kings" protests, which have grown into a movement across the country. More than 2,000 rallies were held nationwide, including more than a dozen in North Texas.

"Good spirits out here, good energy, and just people who care about what's going on," said Lakisha Bibins. "It tells you that this topic is important, you know, anti-immigration, divisiveness, human rights," said Maurico Cornejo. Arlington resident Greg Juarez, 34, chants during the “No Kings” protest June 14 in Arlington. Juarez wore an Uncle Sam costume. Hundreds of residents gathered for the “No Kings” protest June 14 at the Tarrant County Sub-Courthouse in Arlington, pushing back against President Donald Trump’s administration. The growing movement and organization describe the president’s administration as authoritarian.

Protests were intentionally organized on the same day as the Miltary’s 250th anniversary parade, which also falls on Trump's birthday. Participants lined up on Abram Street from 10 a.m. to noon, holding up signs, chanting, and receiving support from those driving by. Similar events took place across North Texas, including Fort Worth, Dallas and Denton, where thousands of people were reported to be in attendance. Anti-Trump protesters mobilized in force across Arlington today (Saturday) as part of nationwide “No Kings Day” demonstrations ahead of the military parade in D.C. Waving signs, banners and American flags, they cheered from overpasses and chanted outside the Clarendon Metro station.

An estimated 5,000 people lined long stretches of Langston Blvd from Rosslyn to Falls Church, in an attempt to form an enormous, 5.2-mile “human chain.” In Falls Church earlier in the day, they packed five blocks of Broad Street. Many of the protesters were Arlington residents, while others traveled to the county in order to be close to D.C., where no official “No Kings” events were planned. Concerns ranged from immigration policy to mass federal layoffs to funding for health care, environmental programs and USAID. “Nobody wants their grandma to lose Medicaid, and so we just feel we need to step up and say something,” Micaela Pond, founder of We of Action Virginia, told ARLnow. “It’s not about being bad sports.

It’s about basic human rights in our Constitution being violated.”

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