By Ysabella Mar Rongo
An estimated 8 million people nationwide — including over 2,100 in the Verde Valley — took to the streets for No Kings 3, the largest protest in U.S. history
Cottonwood, AZ — More than 2,100 Verde Valley residents exercised their First Amendment right to peaceful assembly on March 28,2026, joining an estimated 8 million Americans across more than 3,300 cities for No Kings 3 — now recognized as the largest single-day protest in United States history. From West Sedona to Jerome, residents gathered to send an unambiguous message: the Constitution is not negotiable – we have No King in the USA.
Five events took place across the valley:
In West Sedona, approximately 750 marchers set off from Red Rock High School and gathered at The Commons for a Freedom Festival rally featuring former Flagstaff Mayor Coral Evans and writer Kelli Klymenko, along with food trucks and live music.
In Cottonwood, a morning rally at Riverfront Park drew 300 to 400 participants for music and community, and visits to information booths, including voter registration, climate action, and proposed 2026 ballot initiatives. A separate all-day demonstration at the corner of SR89A and 260 drew 468 people throughout the day.
In the Village of Oak Creek, 580 protesters gathered at the roundabout at Jack’s Canyon and Highway 179. In Jerome, 75 demonstrators joined the weekly protest at the Jerome Town Steps.
The protests come amid local and national concern over what is widely seen as an unprecedented consolidation of power by the Executive Branch including the use of federal agencies to circumvent congressional authority, the deployment of ICE in ways that have terrorized immigrant and non-immigrant families and destabilized communities across the country, and the erosion of constitutional checks and balances that have protected Americans for more than two centuries. Participants came not only as concerned citizens, but as neighbors — many of whom have watched ICE operations disrupt schools, workplaces, and families in their own communities.
The First Amendment exists precisely for moments like this. When government overreaches, the people’s answer is to show up. On March 28th people showed up, and there is already talk about the next time.
National organizers credited the movement’s scale with drawing in new participants beyond those who marched. “By being huge, and being everywhere, they invite new people into our movement,” the Indivisible Team noted, “not only those who attend, but those who drive by and get inspired, or see the scale of opposition on TV and realize they aren’t alone.”
Local organizers noted that they saw many new faces among participants. Their ages varied from school age children attending with their parents, to the young adult musicians who performed at both venues, to adults and senior citizens. Some said, “I’ve never done anything like this before,” or “I haven’t seen action like this since the 60’s!” A number of protesters on the corner in Cottonwood said they were visitors who saw the action and decided to join because they wanted to be part of the national message of this day.
The momentum from No Kings 3 is expected to continue. National organizers are launching community meetings to welcome newly politically awakened protesters into sustained local action around ICE monitoring, election protection, and noncooperation, and are mobilizing toward a national day of economic disruption on May Day. Visit https://www.
All participants adhered to the No Kings commitment to peaceful, nonviolent protest. Organizers were trained in de-escalation and worked with local partners to ensure a safe and lawful exercise of First Amendment rights.
Local groups supporting the Verde Valley actions included: After the March Indivisible, Camp Verde Indivisible, Democrats of the Red Rocks, Indivisible Cottonwood/Cornville/
23 Comments
Good article!
Not good article!!
Great article and great turnout
Not good article and paid attendees!
Ysabella,
great article and thank you for including photos of veterans expressing their constitutional right to protest a criminal dictatorship. “The People” have spoken and yet the crimes and lies coming out of the Whites House continue daily.
There are no crimes and lies coming out of the White House, only the lies of the Dimocrits and their supporters!!!
And what lies are those Bruce MKBRC Hard Pass et al? Please elaborate and present your evidence of Democrats lying and how you think that would in anyway be connected to the No Kings March protesting No Kings just like our forefathers did. Guess you Gasden Flag Waving 2nd Amendment absolutists don’t know Jack about history and that’s why you’re all supporting a lying draft dodging fascist dictator over Democracy, Liberty, Freedom, Justice and the belief that all people are created equally!
You live in an Alternative Facts fantasy not reality!
Not a great article and the White House is not committing crimes and lies!! The only ones lying to the American public are Dimocrits and those supporting No Kings Day!!!
Not a great article and no crimes and lies coming out of the White House. The only crimes and lies are those coming from Dimocrits supporting things like No Kings marches!!!
You repubs voted a felon,pedophile and rapist into office and think they are no crimes coming out of the white house, thats funny. Watch something besides fox and newsmax
So who exactly paid millions of people to protest your criminal in the Whites House? Elon is is the wealthiest fascist Afrikaner M’erican so I’m guess it must have been him? The only paid actors are the minorities who get paid to attend ill Douch’es rallies where the Draft Dodging Convicted FELON hopes to be anointed Queen of Fascist M’erica. It’s quite obvious by the expressions upon their faces when they see and hear his Royal Travesty slur his speech like a drunk with a mouth full of marbles. You don’t see the crimes being committed by MAGA because you are MAGA (Morons Always Grifting America). Seems even the MAGA sycophant loyalist of SCOTUS have turned upon the Liar and Thief and made rulings against him without hesitation and to his Bigly Orange Pumpkinheaded Face, at which point his diaper got lodged in his KFC Big Bucket and he stormed out crying and waving his tiny little cowardly fist in the air. The end of MAGA is fast approaching due to its own criminality, hatred and ignorance and yet you continue to be complicit and cheer for more of the same. Not sure which rock you came from under, but it’ll be a bigly pleasure watching you and your ilk scurry back beneath them come the midterms. Unfortunately for you all, you’ve made yourselves and your hatred of your fellow M’ericans be well known and documented. You’re likely in one of the many old Criminal Trump rally’s held adjacent Senior Bobs which have been well documented in writing and photography by local sources. It’s going to be a scary time for you criminal clowns. Kinda like the scary times M’erica had to endure under your Orange Moron’s gestapo round ups and killings of Americans exercising their 1st and 2nd Amendment rights. You know the same Amendments you snowflakes claimed to be the ultimate laws of the land but only when applied to you jackasses who distort them for their own personal benefit.
I’ll bet you $100 here and now that your “innocent” draft dodging insurrectionist convicted felonious sex offender and Putin Puppet gets impeached shortly after the midterms as will JD couch humper Vance and they and all the MAGA leadership at every level of government also get impeached. I’ll bet an additional $100 that they all face actual real investigations and ultimately true justice for their crimes which will be blown wide open by numerous lawsuits against them.
Are you willing to make a bet to the contrary? I won’t go over $100 for each bet so just a simpleton yes or no will do.
How in the F do you get-
“The only crimes and lies are those coming from Dimocrits supporting things like No Kings marches!!!”
Out of a match that simply says No Kings shall be allowed to reign in America ever! It’s what the freakin war of independence was about after all? What are you some kind of Red Coat Benedict Arnold who wants to be British rather than an American?
Or do you just like seeing wealthy criminals sitting upon their stolen loot mounds like an Obese Orange Ebaneezer Scrooge while he lies and steals America’s soul? I’d put me money on the latter mate seeing as you can’t see the forest for the trees.
mbkrc must be short minded for malfunctioning brain kid repeating crap. Think about what you said here and you might realize how absolutely gob smacking insane you sound. Defending a criminal who straight out lied to all of his constituents regarding draining the swamp which he filled with snakes and more criminals, releasing the complete unredacted Epstein Files rather than delaying Justice non stop with his sycophant AG and Deputy AG then starting a Wag the Dog illegal War just to change the focus off the Epstein coverup. Then there’s the little violent mob insurrection he instigated on live television only to have fools like you somehow believe you didn’t see what you saw and everyone else saw too. The Access Hollywood “I grab em by the pussy” admission caught on tape. The hush money payments to porn Star sex workers who he paid to spank him and have sex with him 🤮while his 3rd wife sat home with his newly born 5th known child. Yep-we’re all full of it a your convicted felon sex offender is an innocent little angel who never did the things we all saw and heard with our own eyes and ears mate. Give us a break and try being honest with yourself just this once. You were duped by the biggest con man in the nations history. You fell for all the lies hook line and sinker! You were bamboozled as my favorite American sayin goes. But you won’t because you don’t know what reality is anymore and believe only what your propaganda networks tell you to believe. Sure is working wonders for disease control allowing brain washed wankers such as yourself spew lies about and refuse vaccinations proven to save lives only to have once dormant diseases spreading like wildfire and killing your fellow citizens. Are you still waiting on JFK and JFK Jr’s rotting corpses to show up in Daley Plaza on flat earth Texas? Of course you are! You’re bat shit crazy and that’s why MAGA loves to use and abuse you and your sensibilities. Go ahead now, buy that Grifters sac religious autographed Bible, get a 100K in worthless bitcoin memes of King George da Turd’s modified head shot superimposed on everyone else’s body except his own KFC grease bucket of a sickly bruised and rashed body supported by cankles supported by show lifts. Get yourself one of those Russian knock off Rolex watches for 100K. Do it all! Because you know if you don’t you’ll be kicked out of the “he mans people and women haters club” and get labeled a RINO or perhaps even a Donestic Terrorist! Yike O’s there mate. My native born country has a King and Royal Family but they have no military power or authority and get arrested for being Epstein Class Pedo’s just like anyone else except your King in his own mind. Nobody but the wealthy and simple minded pay any mind to the royals. Perhaps if Don Don plays nice with Charles when he visits Trump’s gawdy palace, Charles will let him set upon the throne and wear the crown of stolen gold and gems like when he got to sit in the dump truck and pretend to blast the air horn? But he will never be an actual King of anything except convincing fools of his innocence as he robs them deaf dumb and blind!
No paid attendees, just everyday folks turning out to make their voices heard. It was great seeing so many people in the Verde Valley community voicing support for our public schools at the Riverfront Rally.
Strong schools create strong communities.
You repubs voted a felon,pedophile and rapist into office and think they are no crimes coming out of the white house, thats funny. Watch something besides fox and newsmax
Some words of wisdom for Troll mbkc from a local lyrical master-
Our home, our rules
Respect them or
Bitches receive stitches
Trolls receive 86’s
Stick around if you’re house-broken
Can’t hold your shit, hold your tongue, you got to go
Should you choose to react like an imbecile?
You in turn will be treated so
Yes, we’re being condescending
Yes, that means we’re talking down to you
With all that racket from your lips a-flapping
We assumed you didn’t notice
Haters, isolators
No one misses these
Bitches receive stitches
Trolls receive 86’s
Stick around if you’re house-broken
Can’t hold your shit, hold your tongue, you gotta go
Should you choose to react like an imbecile?
You in turn will be treated so
Yes, we’re being condescending
Yes, that means we’re talkin’ down to you
With all that racket from your lips a-flapping
We assumed you didn’t notice
Haters, isolators
No one misses these
Bitches receive stitches
Trolls receive 86’s
You speak like someone who has never been
Smacked in the fucking mouth
That’s okay, we have the remedy
You speak like someone who has never been
Knocked the fuck on out
But we have your remedy
You speak like someone who has never been
Smacked in the fucking mouth
That’s okay, we have the remedy
You speak like someone who has never been
Knocked the fuck on out
But we have your remedy
You speak like someone who has never been
Smacked in the fucking mouth
You speak like someone who has never been
Knocked the fuck on out
Knocked the fuck on out
-Puscifer
You maga elected a convicted felon, rapist and pedophile and think there are no crimes coming out of the white house that’s funny
MAGA gets lied to on a daily basis so they’re forced to create more lies, propaganda and misinformation to pretend they and their King are not the criminals everyone sees them for. Just like little kids caught in a lie then lying Again Again to make the first lie seem to be truth when it is the furthest thing from truth and reality. How’s the price of gas MAGA? How’s the astronomical price of groceries doing for you MAGA? And how’s that No More Foreign Wars working out for you MAGA? Probably as well as the full en redact Epstein Files promised you are doing! They’re in the trash and toilet or have been given to our enemies with our National Security Secrets and Constitution.
MAGA you wouldn’t know the truth if it bit you in the arse!
MAGA is a cult. With that said they cannot and will not see what this president is.
Marjorie Taylor Green was an outspoken supporter and he was okay with that until she wanted the Epstein files released (which he promised to do before the election). Then he threw her under the bus.
This week Tucker Carlson said he should not follow through with his plans to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age. The president’s answer to a vocal supporter via FOX News was Tucker has a “low IQ”. Another one under the bus and your next if you even think about leaving the cult and not doing your own serious thinking about what is becoming to Democracy here in the USA under his “leadership”.
I am absolutely Gob Smacked!Trump’s “No Wars” administration “automatically” registering men 18 and older. Probably designed by DOGE to enlist mostly minority males. He would’ve shite his pants had that been the case when his da paid a corrupt doctor to declare him ineligible 5 times in 5 years. Then again he only ever cared about his chuffed little criminal self. Still waiting for him to toss on a tactical uniform adorned with a fruit salad of “give me awards” that say he’s a war hero despite being a draft dodger and nothing more or less than that. Truly wonder what Melonia was trying to tell the country yesterday about having open public Congressional hearings for the Epstein coverup? Pam Bondi needs be Subpoenaed
by Congress forthwith along with her Deputy AG-King’s attendant an Trump Criminal Attorney. They need to be given the Oath to tell the truth, whole truth and nothing but the truth regarding the Epstein coverup. The survivors of Epstein and his unnamed Co-Conspirator pedo sex offenders should be seated facing them not behind them! And any attempt to praise the King in order to avoid answering legitimate legal questioning should be held in contempt of Congress. Any findings of obstruction or hindrance of legal due processes for the victims should immediately be referred to a Federal Court for trial. What do Marjorie Taylor Green, Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson all have in common with one another? They were all lied to and duped by the Orange Con Artist. They have all since awakened from their Q/MAGA induced propaganda comas and all three are now calling for Trump to be removed from office using your 25th Amendment procedure. Really is quite the gas seeing MAGA step in dog crap then pretend they didn’t only to have to scrape it all off with their shite covered hands. Don’t think history will forget what part they each played in getting the criminal monster they had elected and protected will ever be forgotten no matter how hard MAGA tries to destroy history.
Automatic registration for US military draft to begin in December
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5822914-automatic-registration-military-draft/
Hungarians vote in landmark election closely watched by EU, Russia, US
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungarians-vote-landmark-election-closely-watched-by-eu-russia-us-2026-04-11/
Want to know our future? Watch closely what happens in Hungary! Hungary and Russia are the Alt Right’s wet dreams come true. In their tiny little minds MAGA thinks Hungary and Russia are great White Countries led by great guys. They want our country to be White and led by the same sort of criminal maniac that leads those fascist countries off the backs of the poor and middle class. No way in Hell Orban loses! Not with Putin and Trump backing him and 16 years in office rigging the Hungarian elections!
I was wrong! Orban lost and conceded without contest. Strange ending to the so called “strong man” and former Socialist Leader that both Putin and MAGA lusted.
Now we just have to wait and see if his successor is better or worse than he was.
The 2026 war on Iran has seen the U.S. sustain significant losses in military equipment, including drones, radar systems, and aircraft worth over
$The 2026 war on Iran has seen the U.S. sustain significant losses in military equipment, including drones, radar systems, and aircraft worth over
$2.35 billion, alongside at least 15 military fatalities and hundreds of injuries. Despite aerial destruction, Iran has maintained its nuclear stockpile, forcing the U.S. into difficult negotiations.
Center for American Progress
+2
Key U.S. Losses and Strategic Setbacks
Equipment and Costs: Losses include F-15s, a THAAD radar system, KC-135 refueling aircraft, and multiple MQ-9 Reaper drones.
Strategic Vulnerabilities: The conflict has severely depleted U.S. munitions for Patriot missile defense systems, reducing readiness for other potential conflicts.
Operational Failures: The war has not achieved the goal of eliminating Iran’s nuclear capabilities, with materials potentially hidden, as reported by.
Regional Instability: Iran has successfully targeted U.S. bases and disrupted the Strait of Hormuz, causing massive global oil price surges.
Loss of Influence: The unilateral nature of the conflict has strained ties with NATO allies, and the regime in Iran remains in power, appearing to hold the upper hand in subsequent negotiations.
Center for American Progress
+5
Personnel Casualties
As of early April 2026, the U.S. Central Command reported 13-15 military service members killed and over 500 wounded.
Wikipedia
+1
2.35 billion, alongside at least 15 military fatalities and hundreds of injuries. Despite aerial destruction, Iran has maintained its nuclear stockpile, forcing the U.S. into difficult negotiations.
Center for American Progress
+2
Key U.S. Losses and Strategic Setbacks
Equipment and Costs: Losses include F-15s, a THAAD radar system, KC-135 refueling aircraft, and multiple MQ-9 Reaper drones.
Strategic Vulnerabilities: The conflict has severely depleted U.S. munitions for Patriot missile defense systems, reducing readiness for other potential conflicts.
Operational Failures: The war has not achieved the goal of eliminating Iran’s nuclear capabilities, with materials potentially hidden, as reported by.
Regional Instability: Iran has successfully targeted U.S. bases and disrupted the Strait of Hormuz, causing massive global oil price surges.
Loss of Influence: The unilateral nature of the conflict has strained ties with NATO allies, and the regime in Iran remains in power, appearing to hold the upper hand in subsequent negotiations.
Center for American Progress
+5
Personnel Casualties
As of early April 2026, the U.S. Central Command reported 13-15 military service members killed and over 500 wounded.
Wikipedia
+1
No wonder why Trump’s Casino went bankrupt multiple times! If he thinks this is winning I’d sure hate to see what he thinks losing is. Hopefully he finds out in November!
Veterans and Family Members of Veterans Peacefully Protesting The Kings Lies and Illegal Wars he promised the Nation he would never get us involved in. You’ll note they all got arrested for not having a permit but they did not assault the Capitol Police on behalf of a lying grifting Draft Dodging idiot either. This is how our Democracy used to function until it went Fascist! Just yesterday the Fascist Administration’s puppet personal AG announced charges against The Southern Poverty Law Center which investigates and tracks HATE GROUPS just like MAGA around the country and the globe. The fascist tyrants are doing everything they can to silence the truth but like a wildfire the truth keeps popping back up no matter how hard they try to extinguish it!
Karma is Coming for the Haters, Epstein Class Pedophiles and Grifters known as MAGA!
https://youtu.be/DxzbpLti72I