Across the country, Americans are preparing for another round of protests against Donald Trump and his administration. People in over 30 states plan to take part in the “Fight the Trump Takeover” demonstrations on Saturday. The goal is to push back against the Republican efforts to redraw congressional districts.
The nationwide protests come after a fight in Texas over new electoral maps. Democratic lawmakers left the state after Trump asked Texas Republicans to guarantee the party five extra congressional seats ahead of next year’s midterm elections, even though electoral maps are only supposed to be redrawn every 10 years after the Census.
“Trump is trying to steal the 2026 election by rigging the system and changing electoral maps,” the “Fight the Trump Takeover” website says. “He started in Texas, but he won’t stop there. We are fighting back.”
Saturday’s rallies are supported by several organizations, including Move On, Planned Parenthood, the Human Rights Campaign, and Indivisible.
Ezra Levin, co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible, spoke to Antonia Hylton on Thursday’s “All In” about the upcoming protests. “Look, my expectation is that courage is contagious, and we’ve seen a lot of courage out there,” Levin said, referring to Texas Democrats leaving the state to prevent Republicans from passing gerrymandered maps.
“That took guts. That was courage. And the question is, how do you make that contagious? It can’t all be on the Texas [Democrats]. We’ve got to do our part. Saturday is the part where we make it contagious.”
Indivisible was also one of the groups behind the record-breaking “No Kings” protests. Organizers said more than 5 million people joined the June 14 event, making it one of the largest single days of protest in U.S. history.
When Levin was asked if he expected Saturday’s rallies to draw similar numbers, he told Hylton: “In the fight against authoritarianism, not every protest, not every action, needs to match the size or scale of the one before it. That’s not how you build a strong opposition.”
Levin added that success isn’t just about how many people join, but about keeping up pressure over time: “What we’ve learned from fights against autocratic rule overseas, and from historical fights in the South and elsewhere, is that you have to keep building. It is like a muscle—you have to keep working it.”
