Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Those who give us hope: The Millions on Saturday
A remarkable thing is going to happen on Saturday: Millions of Americans are going to gather all across the country for No Kings rallies. Here in Minneapolis, we are going to gather at the state Capitol, joined by Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, and thousands of our neighbors.
There is a way in which this is a tradition going on 250 years now here in the USA. Consider these admonitions and complaints about the government from the Declaration of Independence, referring to the then-King, and remember our current grievances:
--" He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that
purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing
to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the
conditions of new Appropriations of Lands."
-- "He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good."
-- He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large
districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of
Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and
formidable to tyrants only.
-- He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
-- He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of
Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
-- He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
-- For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders
which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
-- For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
-- For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offenses:
-- He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
-- He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us...
