50501: How It Started and Who Is Behind It

50501 is easy to describe and hard to pin down. It is a movement of volunteers that began as an internet post, has no named leadership on its website and no donation button, and held its first protests within days. That makes it a good test of the module's rule that a claim needs a source: most of what people say about who is "behind" it cannot be checked, and this lesson says which parts can.

How it started

According to NPR and Wikipedia, 50501 began with a Reddit post in late January 2025 by a user named u/Evolved_Fungi, which led to the subreddit r/50501. The exact day is not given, and no source read for this lesson names the user's real identity. NPR credits the account with originating the idea and names no founder. Wikipedia says the account left the movement before the June 2025 No Kings protests.¹² NPR gives the name as "50 protests. 50 states. 1 movement." The Idaho Press in February 2025 wrote "50 states, 50 protests, 1 day" and by October 2025 wrote "One Movement," so the wording changed over time.¹³

NPR reported that the group's online following in February 2025 was about 102,000 members on Reddit and more than 7,000 on Discord. Its national press liaison was Sydney Wilson, a Pittsburgh organizer, who explained timing a protest to Presidents Day this way: "We figured it was a nice little punch."¹

Rolling Stone's April 18, 2025 feature by Tim Dickinson adds the founder account's own words as the magazine printed them. The account called the idea a "simple, self-replicating instruction set" and "something hashtaggable," and wrote "I don't want to be the leader." Rolling Stone called the founder a cipher, said the account did not answer an interview request, and reported that the account's posts describe an engineer with a marketing degree.²³ This module saw those words only as Rolling Stone quoted them, not on Reddit, so they are single-source.

The early days of action

The first protests came at state capitols on February 5, 2025. Organizers claimed 72,000 people at 67 protests in 40 states, according to USA Today as reported by Wikipedia. A second day, February 17, was billed "Not My Presidents Day" and also "No Kings on Presidents Day." Others followed on March 4, April 5, April 19 and May 1.²⁴

Who is behind it

Structure

The movement's website calls it grassroots and decentralized, built by volunteers, with a "non-exhaustive list" of groups in its Group Directory. It says the first protests were "a decentralized rapid response" and that the site, "like this movement, is built by volunteers." It names no leaders on the home page and has no donation option, only a feedback and support form.⁴ NPR reported that it is made up of volunteers and local organizers and says it is not affiliated with any political party.¹ Those are the organizers' statements, and the sources cannot confirm them independently.

Rolling Stone reported in April 2025 that there was "no formal 50501 group, no 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4)," and that the movement could not accept donations.²³ Its national spokespeople describe working groups and local hubs rather than a membership roster; their words are set out under In their own words and in the record below.

Allies

50501 partnered early in February 2025 with Political Revolution, a group formed after Bernie Sanders's 2016 campaign that is separate from Our Revolution. Smart Girls, founded by Amy Poehler and Meredith Walker, promoted early protests.¹² 50501 helped organize the April 5 Hands Off! day with Indivisible and Women's March, a day that union partners including the AFL-CIO, CWA, AFSCME 3299, the NTEU and the UAW also backed.⁵ Indivisible, according to Snopes, conceived and organized the June and October 2025 No Kings days with partners (lesson 13).⁶ 50501 is a looser network that joined those coalitions, not the same organization as Indivisible. No union tie specific to 50501 turned up.

Money

No national incorporated entity called 50501 was found, and no funding of 50501 itself was found in the sources read. IRS data on ProPublica's Nonprofit Explorer do list state-level entities that carry the name: NH 50501 (a 501(c)(4), ruling June 2026), 50501 DC Inc (a 501(c)(4), listed from September 2025) and Voices Of Florida Fund Inc (a 501(c)(3), ruling August 2024), which the nokings.org partner list shows as "50501 / Voices of Florida Fund." None had a filing posted, so there are no revenue figures for them.²⁴²⁵ Factually, a fact-checking aggregator, said it found no direct evidence tying Open Society grants to a legal entity named 50501.⁷ What is documented is money to allies. Snopes counted $5,010,000 from the Open Society Foundations to the Indivisible Project from 2021 to 2023, according to its list of grants, none of it tied to protests. Open Society spokesperson Sean Savett said it "did not provide any funding to organizations specifically for the No Kings rallies." A report by The National News Desk, carried by WLOS and KUTV, described a two-year, $3 million grant to the Indivisible Organization "to support the grantee's social welfare activities"; the sources do not say whether that is part of the $5.01 million.⁶⁸

Splits and disputes

Two sources point to friction inside the online movement, and neither gives details that can be checked. Rolling Stone saw chat in a Portland Discord server about the "acrimonious departure of a splinter group."²³ An anonymous blogger (a Substack called neoliberalbrainrot, April 26, 2025) described a dispute between the founder account and national organizers over control of the subreddit, a trademark attempt and the Facebook page.²⁶ The blog is hearsay, this module could not verify it, and it also makes an allegation against a named account that this lesson does not repeat. Wikipedia says only that the founder account left before the June 2025 No Kings protests.² The supportable statement is that a control dispute was mentioned in passing and its details are unverified.

Philosophy and demands

The website describes the fight as "democracy against fascism and the billionaire class." It states, "50501 is a non-violent movement defending democracy against fascism."⁴ A group statement NPR quoted: "We reject fascism. We reject the oligarchy." NPR listed early demands including impeachment and removal of President Trump, removal of Elon Musk from his federal role, restoring rescinded diversity initiatives and investigation of appointees tied to Project 2025. Wikipedia lists later demands that include abolishing ICE and ending the wars in Gaza and Iran, but the movement's values page could not be retrieved and no single official platform was found.¹² A critic, the photojournalist Erin McCarley, wrote in CounterPunch in November 2025 that there is no comprehensive list of demands and that the network is top-down and aligned with the Democratic Party. That is her opinion, and it is attributed to her.⁹

On conduct, Erica Chenoweth, co-director of the Crowd Counting Consortium, told NPR that over 99.5 percent of April and May 2025 protest events had no injuries, arrests or property damage. That statistic covers protest events generally and not 50501 alone.¹⁰

Turnout, and who counted

Organizers' numbers run higher than academic counts, every time a comparison exists. For Hands Off! on April 5, 2025, organizers said 3 to 5 million at more than 1,400 sites (Wikipedia), while the Crowd Counting Consortium, an academic project co-directed by Harvard's Erica Chenoweth and the University of Connecticut's Jeremy Pressman, counted 919,000 to 1.5 million.¹¹⁵ Lesson 13 covers the later days.

National counts for the 50501 days

Three kinds of number appear in this lesson and the next. An organizer claim is a figure the organizers published. A CCC estimate is a range the Crowd Counting Consortium published. A raw sum is this module's own addition of the low and high tallies in CCC's public data for every recorded event that has a tally. Events without a tally add nothing and CCC may add records later, so a raw sum is a floor and not a CCC estimate.²⁷

Day	Organizers' claim	CCC published estimate	Raw sum of tallied events in CCC data (a floor)
Feb 5, 2025	72,000 at 67 protests in 40 states (USA Today, via Wikipedia)	None found	About 17,000 to 28,000 across 174 recorded events; incomplete for that day
Feb 17, 2025	None found in the sources read	None found	About 27,000 to 35,000 across 221 recorded events
Apr 5, 2025 (Hands Off!)	3 to 5 million at more than 1,400 sites (Wikipedia)	919,000 to 1.5 million (CCC authors, Waging Nonviolence)	Not computed here

The February raw sums are small partly because many events carry no tally. They are shown to make the method visible, not to replace a count.

Idaho counts from the Crowd Counting Consortium

The same public data hold 467 rows for Idaho events from February 2025 through May 2026, and 77 of them list Idaho 50501 as an organizer. Many Idaho rows take their numbers from organizer postings on Mobilize and from local news. The raw sums for seven key days are below, and the chart repeats them.²⁷

Day	What it was	Idaho events recorded	With a tally	Raw sum, low	Raw sum, high	Largest tallied site
Feb 5, 2025	First 50501 day	2	2	224	224	Boise, 200 ("hundreds," from an Instagram post by the 50501 Movement)
Feb 17, 2025	Presidents Day	2	1	13	13	Moscow, 13. The Boise event has no tally in the data, although the Idaho Press reported over 1,000.
Apr 5, 2025	Hands Off!	15	12	5,953	7,788	Boise, 2,000 to 2,500; Ketchum, 800 to 1,000
Apr 19, 2025	National Day of Action	6	5	2,420	2,510	Boise, at least 2,000
Jun 14, 2025	No Kings	22	18	10,469	11,726	Boise ("thousands," tallied at 2,000) and Coeur d'Alene ("over two thousand," tallied at 2,000)
Oct 18, 2025	No Kings 2	19	15	10,288	11,248	Boise ("several thousand," tallied at 3,000)
Mar 28, 2026	No Kings 3	22	16	11,263	12,429	Boise, roughly 5,000

For October 18, 2025, Idaho 50501 shared a list totaling more than 26,000 people statewide, according to the Sandpoint Reader.²⁸ The raw sum for that day is 10,288 to 11,248 from 15 tallied events out of 19 recorded. The sources read do not reconcile the two numbers: this module saw the Reader's report of the total but not the list, and the raw sum leaves out untallied events. Report both, each with its source.

Idaho 50501

Idaho 50501 formed in the first weeks of the national movement. The Idaho Press (February 18, 2025) named Steve Bryan, 72, and a person identified only as "Kay" as co-founders.³ Its subreddit, r/idaho50501, hosts event threads without naming individual organizers. An Idaho 50501 Substack carries a press release dated September 18, 2026, headed "NO KINGS 4," for the October 17, 2026 event; the page's header reads Idaho Vanguard News and the author line reads Pine Irwin, whose role was not confirmed, and the text past the opening lines was behind a paywall.²⁹

• February 5, 2025, Boise. "Several hundred," according to Boise State Public Radio, about 300 according to the Idaho Press later. Organizer Makayla Roy. Chants of "Do your job" were aimed at Sens. Risch and Crapo.¹²
• February 17, 2025, Boise. Over 1,000, according to the Idaho Press. KIVI quoted organizer Kay: "We are just regular citizens of the United States and we are really concerned about where our country is headed." Asked about counter-protesters, an Idaho State Police trooper, Sgt. Davis, noted that Idaho is an open carry state: "Everybody's carrying."³ KIVI quoted organizer Kay.¹³
• April 19, 2025, Boise. More than 2,000, per the Idaho Press, with Joe Termes identified as one of the local organizers. Rallies were also held in Driggs, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Falls, Lewiston, Pocatello and Twin Falls.¹⁴
• June 14, 2025. No Kings, Boise. "Thousands." The Idaho Press called it the chapter's eighth official rally.¹⁵¹⁶
• October 18, 2025. No Kings 2, Boise. Estimates differ: about 5,000 by a state police trooper (Idaho Press), about 10,000 by a KIVI reporter, "thousands" by the Capital Sun.¹⁷¹⁸¹⁹
• March 28, 2026. No Kings 3, Boise. About 5,000 by a Capital Sun reporter's estimate. Speakers included Democratic gubernatorial candidates Maxine Durand and Terri Pickens, Reclaim Idaho's Luke Mayville and Melanie Folwell of Idahoans United for Women and Families, and the Idaho Press said Joe Turmes organized for Idaho 50501 and that 26 booths of groups and Democratic candidates were present.²⁰²¹
• October 17, 2026. No Kings: Vote Early, Boise, at the Capitol steps. The Idaho Capital Sun reported the event with no crowd number and with the November 3 general election as the focus.³⁰ KIVI, as carried by East Idaho News, said "hundreds" gathered and saw no organized counter-protesters during about an hour.³¹ No official was quoted in those stories.

The publicly named Idaho figures in the news coverage are Bryan, Kay, Roy, Termes (also spelled Turmes), Chris Ross, who gave a written statement, and the spokesperson Sonya Christensen. This lesson names them because the stories do, and no more. It makes no claims about their politics beyond what they said.

The Crowd Counting Consortium credits Idaho 50501 as an organizer of 77 events from February 5, 2025 to May 29, 2026, which is the end of its data. Beyond Boise, its rows list Idaho 50501 events in Coeur d'Alene, Ketchum, Nampa, Rexburg, Idaho Falls, Moscow, Sandpoint and Driggs on days that include April 19, May 1 and August 2, 2025. Forty-three of the events, all in Boise and all on Fridays from August 8, 2025 through May 29, 2026, are coded by CCC as protests aimed at Sen. Risch, with claims that include his refusal to hold a town hall and a call for a ceasefire in Gaza.²⁷ No arrests, injuries or property damage are recorded for the Idaho events on the seven key days in the table above. That is absence in a data set built from public reports, not proof.

In their own words and in the record

This section sets what people connected to 50501 said, in their own words where a source verifies them, beside what reporters and others recorded. Each item says who wrote it and where it stands: self-published by the movement, said by an ally, written by a critic, or reported by a news outlet. Quotes are short and attributed. Where this module saw a quote only as another outlet printed it, the item says so.

Statements by the people involved

• Hunter Dunn, national media liaison, to Rolling Stone (April 18, 2025). A spokesperson speaking to a reporter. He described membership by declaration: "you're 50501, if you say you are." He called local hubs "federated" and the national level a "pantry" of resources.²³ That matches the website's decentralized description, and it is why this lesson attributes each statement to the person who made it and not to "50501."
• Sarah Parker, executive director of Voices of Florida, to Rolling Stone. A spokesperson and organizer. She called the movement "bottom up, not top down," said it runs on working groups and not leaders, and said her organization gave de-escalation guidance to first-time protest leaders.²³
• The coalition's own site, nokings.org (read October 27, 2026). Self-published. It says "50501 activists came up with the rallying cry" of No Kings.³² The coalition credits 50501 for the theme, which agrees with Wikipedia's account in lesson 13.
• Sonya Christensen, Idaho 50501 spokesperson, written statement to the Idaho Capital Sun (October 18, 2025). "Our Founding Fathers rejected the idea of a monarchy for a reason."¹⁷
• Joe Turmes, Idaho 50501 organizer, to the Idaho Press (March 28, 2026). He described the aim of the day's 26 booths as getting people "introduced to the folks that are doing the actual work."²¹ That is a public statement that the rally was meant to connect attendees to continuing groups. Lesson 13 sets such statements beside Pierson's analysis.
• Ezra Levin, Indivisible co-executive director, to Rolling Stone (April 2025). An ally speaking about an ally. He called 50501 a "very legitimate, organic, grassroots group of folks."²³
• Idaho 50501 press release (September 18, 2026). Self-published. The event was billed "Empower the Vote & Vote Early."²⁹

Sources compared by stance

Source	Stance and type	What it contributes	How far it can be checked
Rolling Stone (Tim Dickinson), April 18, 2025	National news feature; second hand with first person quotes	Founder a cipher; no formal group; Dunn and Parker named; Portland splinter chatter	Read in full for this module's research; the founder account's quotes are single-source through the magazine
NPR (Chandelis Duster), February 16, 2025	National news explainer	Reddit origin; 102,000 Reddit and 7,000 Discord members; Sydney Wilson's "punch" quote	Read; names no founder
nokings.org "About"	Self-published by the coalition	Credits 50501 with the No Kings theme	Read directly
CounterPunch (Erin McCarley), November 2, 2025	Opinion by a critic of the network	No list of demands; top-down; aligned with the Democratic Party	Opinion; offers no independent verification
neoliberalbrainrot (Substack), April 26, 2025	Anonymous blog; hearsay	A reported dispute over the subreddit, a trademark attempt and the Facebook page	Unverified; not repeated beyond that summary
InfluenceWatch profile of 50501	Adverse research site	Names a national organizer, Kay, as a lead organizer	A pointer only. This lesson does not equate her with the Idaho "Kay."
Reno Gazette-Journal, April 10, 2025	News report of a governor's claim	Headline: Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo says 50501 protesters were paid by the Democratic Party	Headline and address only; the article was not read and no evidence was seen
Idaho Press, KIVI, Boise State Public Radio, Idaho Capital Sun, East Idaho News	Local news; second hand with first person quotes	Idaho counts, names and quotes	Each is cited above; estimates are the reporter's or an officer's, not an official count

People and personalities

50501 has no membership list and no roster of officers, so these profiles stop at what each person said or did in the cited stories. Being quoted at a rally or in a chat server is not membership in anything. No person here is tied to any group beyond what a source states, and none is connected to the extremist movements in lessons 7 to 10. Some are private citizens who spoke to reporters in public; the lesson names them because the stories do.

National voices

• The founder account (u/Evolved_Fungi). Posted the idea in late January 2025 as a template meant to copy itself, then deliberately stepped back. Did not answer Rolling Stone's interview request. The real name is not published in anything read, and the account left before June 2025, according to Wikipedia. The lesson's earlier rule stands: no source supports naming a founder.
• Hunter Dunn. Twenty-two in April 2025 and a soon-to-be political science graduate of Pepperdine University, introduced by Rolling Stone as 50501's national media liaison. He is a spokesperson and not the founder.
• Sarah Parker. Thirty-two in April 2025, executive director of Voices of Florida, a reproductive rights group, and described by Rolling Stone as a mentor to new activists. Her group's fund is a 501(c)(3) and appears on the nokings.org partner list as "50501 / Voices of Florida Fund."
• Sydney Wilson. A Pittsburgh organizer and 50501 press liaison in NPR's February 2025 explainer, who explained the choice of Presidents Day.
• Ezra Levin. Indivisible co-executive director. An ally and co-organizer of Hands Off!, not a 50501 officer.

Idaho organizers and how they were reported

• Steve Bryan and Kay. Named by the Idaho Press on February 18, 2025 as co-founders of Idaho 50501; Bryan was 72, and "Kay" is identified by first name only. Kay told KIVI the organizers are "regular citizens." Whether this Kay is the national organizer named Kay on InfluenceWatch is not known.³¹³
• Makayla Roy. Organizer of the February 5, 2025 Boise rally, according to Boise State Public Radio.¹²
• Joe Turmes (spelled Termes in some stories). A local organizer for April 19, 2025 and an Idaho 50501 organizer on March 28, 2026.¹⁴²¹
• Chris Ross and Sonya Christensen. Ross gave a written statement for the June 2025 event; Christensen was the spokesperson for October 2025.
• Pine Irwin. The author line on the Idaho 50501 press release for October 17, 2026. The role is not confirmed.

Documented dealings with others were few and calm in the sources read. At the February 5, 2025 rally, chants of "Do your job" were aimed at Sens. Risch and Crapo.¹² At the February 17 rally, asked about counter-protesters, an Idaho State Police sergeant noted that Idaho is an open carry state.³ From August 2025 the Friday events aimed at Sen. Risch recurred for months with no arrests recorded in CCC's data.²⁷

Claims about 50501, and what was found

Claim (about the No Kings days that 50501 helped organize)	Who said it	What the sources show
"Funded by Soros, and sponsored by the Communist Party USA"	House Speaker Mike Johnson, as reported by Newsweek, ahead of the October 18, 2025 protests	Open Society gave Indivisible about $5 million in 2021 to 2023, and said it funded no rally. No fact check of the Communist Party USA claim was found, so that part is unverified.
"I looked at all the brand new signs I guess it was paid for by [George] Soros and other radical left lunatics." "It looks like it was. We're checking it out."	President Trump, aboard Air Force One, October 19, 2025, as quoted from Breitbart by The National News Desk (via WLOS)	No evidence was given in the report.
"$300 million in billionaire funding" and paid protesters	A viral chart traced to Seamus Bruner of the Government Accountability Institute	Snopes rated it "Mostly False" and concluded it is false that billionaires spent $300 million on No Kings; the figure added up publicly listed grants to groups tied to No Kings, not money spent on the protests. No Kings national spokesperson Eunic Epstein-Ortiz told Snopes by email, "No Kings is not an organization, nor is it a formal entity that can accept donations."
The demonstrations were "part of Antifa" (Newsweek, citing CNN); "a rally sponsored by communists"	Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy; Rep. Nancy Mace on X	None of the sources read for this lesson show a court or agency linking the coalition to antifa.

Factually found no direct evidence tying Open Society grants to a legal entity named 50501, and Snopes found grants to Indivisible but none specifically for the rallies, per Open Society.²²⁶⁸

Unknowns this lesson leaves open

• Who Evolved_Fungi is and the exact date of the post.
• Idaho 50501's leadership beyond the names in news stories, and whether it has any registered entity (the Idaho Secretary of State business search was not checked).
• An official or CCC-published count for October 18, 2025 or March 28, 2026. None was found; this lesson uses raw sums of CCC's public data, labeled as such.
• A direct read of USA Today's origin feature, which was blocked. Rolling Stone's feature was read.
• Whether a control dispute inside the online movement occurred, and what it was about.

Source notes for reporters

• Say "organizers said" or "the Crowd Counting Consortium counted" with every turnout number.
• Do not say who founded 50501 by name; no source supports a name. Hunter Dunn is a national media liaison, not the founder.
• A claim that someone is "behind" 50501 needs a document, a statement or a record. A grant to Indivisible is not a grant to 50501.

Learn more

• 50501: The movement's own statements; attribute them to 50501.
• Crowd Counting Consortium: Academic protest tallies.
• Snopes: Fact checks of the funding claims.

Notes

1. "50501 movement Presidents Day protests explainer," NPR, February 16, 2025. Read it online. ↩
2. "50501 movement," Wikipedia, citing NPR, Rolling Stone and USA Today. Read it online. Secondary source; underlying articles not all read. ↩
3. Idaho Press, February 18, 2025, report on the Presidents Day protest at the Idaho Capitol. Read it online. ↩
4. 50501 movement website. Read it online. The organizers' own description. ↩
5. "Hands Off protests," Wikipedia. Read it online. ↩
6. Snopes fact check on billionaire funding of No Kings (October 2025), republished by Yahoo. Read it online. ↩
7. Factually, fact-check page on 50501 funding. Read it online. An aggregator; treated cautiously. ↩
8. Charlotte Hazard, The National News Desk, via WLOS, "Trump calls the 'No Kings' protests a joke and 'ineffective,'" October 20, 2025. Read it online. ↩
9. Erin McCarley, "How to recognize an astroturf movement," CounterPunch, November 2, 2025. Read it online. Opinion. ↩
10. "The strategy behind the nonviolent protest movement in the U.S.," NPR, June 17, 2025. Read it online. ↩
11. "New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history," Waging Nonviolence (Crowd Counting Consortium authors), August 2025. Read it online. ↩
12. Boise State Public Radio, February 6, 2025, on the Idaho Capitol protest. Read it online. ↩
13. KIVI, Presidents Day protest at the Idaho Capitol. Read it online. ↩
14. Idaho Press, April 2025, on the April 19 protest at the Idaho Capitol. Read it online. ↩
15. Idaho Press, June 2025, on the Boise No Kings protest. Read it online. ↩
16. Clark Corbin, Idaho Capital Sun, June 14, 2025. Read it online. ↩
17. Idaho Capital Sun, October 18, 2025. Read it online. ↩
18. Idaho Press, October 2025, on the Boise No Kings rally. Read it online. ↩
19. KIVI, October 2025, on the Boise No Kings turnout. Read it online. ↩
20. Idaho Capital Sun, March 28, 2026. Read it online. ↩
21. Idaho Press, March 2026, "No Kings 3 brings thousands to Boise." Read it online. ↩
22. Newsweek, "MAGA rages at No Kings protests, sponsored by communists." Read it online. Reports the officials' statements. ↩
23. Tim Dickinson, "What is 50501? Anti-Trump Protest Group Has Become a Grassroots Giant," Rolling Stone, April 18, 2025. Read it online. ↩
24. IRS exempt-organization data as displayed by ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, searched for "50501" on October 27, 2026. NH 50501 (EIN 41-3816755), 50501 DC Inc (EIN 33-4530176) and Voices Of Florida Fund Inc (EIN 99-1225544) were listed with no filings posted. Read it online. ↩
25. nokings.org partner list ("Partners" page), read October 27, 2026. A self-published list by the coalition. Read it online. ↩
26. Anonymous blog post, "What is going on with the 50501 subreddit," neoliberalbrainrot (Substack), April 26, 2025. Hearsay; unverified. Read it online. ↩
27. Crowd Counting Consortium, Phase 3 public data (2025 to present), version 18, updated September 10, 2026, Harvard Dataverse (CC0). The raw sums in this lesson are this module's own additions of the data's low and high tallies, not CCC estimates. Read it online. ↩
28. "Sandpoint No Kings rally ranks among largest in the state," Sandpoint Reader, October 23, 2025. Read it online. ↩
29. Idaho 50501 Substack, press release "For Immediate Release: NO KINGS 4," September 18, 2026. Self-published; only the opening lines were readable. Read it online. ↩
30. Idaho Capital Sun, "Idaho's upcoming Nov. 3 general election top focus for Boise No Kings protest," October 17, 2026. Read it online. ↩
31. East Idaho News (KIVI), "Hundreds gather at Idaho Capitol for No Kings rally ahead of early voting," October 17, 2026. Read it online. ↩
32. nokings.org, "About No Kings," read October 27, 2026. Self-published by the coalition. Read it online. ↩