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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Aug 13

Here is the chart showing the growth of reported protest over time, 2025 vs. 2017, referenced in the piece below.

Line chart showing a steep blue line indicating the growth of the number of protests in 2015 over time, compared with a green line showing a more modest growth of the number of protests in 2017.

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Aug 13

And as always, if you think we’re missing a record, you can scroll down on this page and submit it here:

Publicly available data on political crowds in the United States, including marches, protests, demonstrations, riots, and other actions.

ash.harvard.edu

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Aug 13

More from our team soon. Meanwhile, the data are available here:

dataverse.harvard.edu

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Aug 13

Two caveats: (a) our data collection has improved over time, but we don’t think that’s explaining most of the growth across years; (b) the political conditions under which we are collecting data are not identical across years; more on the latter point here:

Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.

One Million Rising — No Kings

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Aug 13

5. Other signs of durability & commitment during this period include historic turnout at the One Million Rising online trainings, the first of which on 7/16 had over 130,000 sign-ups. This was probably the largest nonviolence training in U.S. history.

www.nokings.org

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Aug 13

4. Consistent with our past reporting, 2025 continues to see far more protests than were recorded at this time in 2017—a trend that continues through at least the end of July. This reinforces the sense of a growing & durable pro-democracy movement at the grassroots.

Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.

American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Aug 13

3. Over 99.5% of reported protests had no injuries or property damage, with the latter reported in only 10 locations (just under 0.5%). As we’ve reported before, this is an unprecedentedly tiny fraction for a movement of this size and geographic dispersion.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed 2017 in size, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.

New data shows No Kings was one of the largest days of protest in US history

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Aug 13

2. No Kings was comparable in scale to the Women’s March, albeit across far more locations. The Women’s March involved actions in over 650 locations, while No Kings saw events in over 2150 as many locations, with events organized in big cities, small towns and places in between.

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Aug 13

1. No Kings was likely the 2nd-largest single day demonstration since Trump took office in 2017. We estimate that between 2m and 4.8m people participated, making its turnout comparable to that of the 2017 Women’s March (between 3.2m and 5.3m people).

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Aug 13

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has finalized our participation estimates for No Kings Day on 6/14. Here are five key takeaways🧵:

The historic number of No Kings protesters and their expansive geographic spread are signs of a growing and durable pro-democracy movement.

Crowd Counting Consortium – Ash Center

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Aug 13

And as always, if you think we’re missing a record, you can scroll down on this page and submit it here: ash.harvard.edu/programs/cro...

Publicly available data on political crowds in the United States, including marches, protests, demonstrations, riots, and other actions.

ash.harvard.edu

Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Aug 13

More from our team soon. Meanwhile, the data are available here: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/cr...

dataverse.harvard.edu

Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Aug 13

Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.

One Million Rising — No Kings

Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Aug 13

5. Other signs of durability & commitment during this period include historic turnout at the One Million Rising online trainings, the first of which on July 16 had over 130,000 sign-ups. This was probably the largest nonviolence training in U.S. history www.nokings.org/rise.

www.nokings.org

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Aug 13

4. Consistent with our past reporting, 2025 has seen far more protests than were recorded at this time in 2017—a trend that continues through at least the end of July. This reinforces the sense of a growing and durable pro-democracy movement at the grassroots. wagingnonviolence.org/2025/03/resi...

Protests of Trump may not look like the mass marches in 2017, but they're far more numerous and frequent — and also becoming more strategic.

American Spring? How nonviolent protest in the US is accelerating

Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Aug 13

Contrary to conventional wisdom, anti-Trump protests this year have dwarfed 2017 in size, and they have been extraordinarily peaceful.

Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Aug 13

Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · Aug 13