Rachel Maddow

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At the first No Kings Day protest last June, organizers say more than 5 million people showed up at marches and rallies all across the country.

Then the second No Kings was in October.

Just four months later, organizers said more than 7 million people showed up.

How many people do you think are going to show up for the third one this Saturday?

Each of the dots on this map marks where an individual No Kings protest is being held in the United States.

There are so many protests that from a distance, the map is basically useless.

The only thing you can see is areas where no one lives, a couple of them.

There were 2,500 protests at the first No Kings.

There were 2,700 protests at the second No Kings.

Organizers say for this one, there are already more than 3,100 protests planned all over the country.

The flagship one will be in Minneapolis, the place that has spent the last four months showing the rest of the country what it looks like to stand up and fight back.

Tonight, Bruce Springsteen announced that he will be performing at that flagship protest.

Joining us now is Ezra Levin.

He's the co-founder of Indivisible, one of the grassroots groups that has helped lead the organizing for the No Kings protest.

Ezra, it's nice to see you.

Thanks for being here.

Indivisible does lots of different kinds of organizing.

How do these large, very decentralized No Kings protests—we'll now have the third one of them this Saturday—how do they fit into the overall movement to oppose Trump and to limit his freedom of movement as president?

In terms of the sort of atmosphere in the country, I will say that it's two different but related feelings that it creates in me to see a gigantic protest of a million people, you know, in New York or someplace where there's lots of people have come together, and also to see five people out on a street corner in a rural place where there doesn't have a lot of population.