No Kings Rally II March 28, 2026. We Need Every American To Show Up!

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Last October, millions of Americans turned out for the first ever No Kings protest, whose purpose was to demonstrate opposition to the madman currently occupying the White House — what’s left of it. He has an obvious fixation with being the next Louis XIV, the French king who surrounded himself with gold embellishments and mirrors so he could see his likeness everywhere he looked. Today, the alleged US president is rushing to build his own Hall of Mirrors like the one at Versailles so he can constantly bask in his own magnificence.

On March 28, 2026, another day of protest will take place against the man who creates videos of himself dumping excrement from an airplane on the people beneath him who refuse to kowtow to his madness.

According to the organizers, “We are showing up together again on March 28. When our families are under attack and costs are pushing people to the brink, silence is not an option. We will defend ourselves and our communities against this administration’s unjust and cruel acts of violence. America does not belong to strongmen, greedy billionaires, or those who rule through fear. It belongs to us, the people.” Check their website to find the location of a protest near you.

A History Lesson

Some will shrink from the task. It is always easier to do nothing than to do something. But for them, please pay attention to the words of Heather Cox Richardson, who wrote on Substack on March 16 about how a group of committed citizens organized to rid themselves of the British Army in Boston in 1776.

“The battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, meant that Bostonians could no longer be neutral in the growing tension between the Tories and the Patriots. They would have to choose where their loyalties lay: with the Patriots trying to protect their traditional rights or with the Tories claiming the king had new, radical powers that override the rights of Englishmen,” Richardson wrote.

“Even before the British soldiers made it back down the Battle Road from Concord on April 19, militiamen — both white and Black, free and enslaved — from the Massachusetts countryside, furious that soldiers of their own government had shot at them and killed their neighbors, rushed to surround Boston, laying siege to the soldiers and British officials there. Townspeople like Henry and Lucy Knox had to decide where to place their loyalties.”

Not everyone was in favor of dissolving the bond between the colonies and England. In May, the Second Continental Congress sent a so-called “Olive Branch Petition” to King George, which suggested a reconciliation. The king responded by sending General Thomas Gage to Boston to direct a military response to the upstart colonists. George III declared Massachusetts to be in a state of rebellion, but offered amnesty for all who would lay down their arm — except for Samuel Adams and John Hancock. Knox joined the insurrectionists, using his knowledge of artillery to help build fortifications around Boston.

Cannons At Fort Ticonderoga

300 miles away, there were cannons at Fort Ticonderoga, which was only lightly defended. In May 1775, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress authorized Benedict Arnold of Connecticut to raise men to capture the cannons. On May 10, the colonists captured Fort Ticonderoga in a surprise attack that found the defenders asleep in their beds and seized more than 180 cannons and other weapons. The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, but it resulted in no breakthroughs by either side. However, it did show the colonists that they could hold off the British army.

George Washington arrived in the Boston area in July to take charge of the Continental Army. He and Henry Knos became fast friends. Riflemen and militias arrived from Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, as well as the New England colonies — Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and the Green Mountains.

By the fall of 1775, “it was not at all clear that the Patriot cause would survive.” With all enlistments in the Continental Army due to expire at the end of the year, Washington knew he had to act quickly. Henry Knox developed a plan to retrieve the cannons from Fort Ticonderoga, and in November Washington ordered him to go ahead.

Getting the weapons to Boston involved unimaginable hurdles. Knox selected 59 cannons, some of which weighed more than 5,000 pounds. Together, the arsenal weighed nearly 60 tons. They did not arrive outside of Boston until March of 1776. On the night of March 5, under cover of darkness, the Patriots moved their guns and defenses into position on Dorchester Heights.

“My God,” General Howe said when he saw the fortifications. “These fellows have done more work in one night than I could make my army do in three months.” Richardson reports, “The British shot at the defenses, but their shot fell short. Remaining loyalists in town wrote a letter to Washington, promising him that the British would not burn the town if the Patriots would let them leave unmolested. Washington agreed.

“General Howe ordered the soldiers to torch the town if anyone disturbed their departure. On March 10, he began to load the British ships with soldiers and the Loyalists who wanted to go with them, including Lucy Knox’s parents, who would never see their daughter again. For a week, March winds battered at the loaded ships, keeping them trapped in the harbor. Finally, at 4:00 am on March 17, 120 ships carrying more than 10,000 soldiers and more than 1,000 Tories weighed anchor and left Boston.”

Richardson notes, “That evacuation, 250 years ago … was a major victory for Washington and the Continental soldiers, illustrating that a ragtag bunch of countrymen and women, working together, could beat the military might of the British army and navy when it turned against its own people. Watching the British retreat reinvigorated the Patriots after a discouraging winter and gave them confidence that their determination to protect their rights was not only a just cause, but a winning one. The ships sailing out of Boston Harbor helped solidify that message.”

The Power Of The People

What does this history lesson have to do with events today? Richardson says, “What began in Boston spread across the colonies as neighbors brought their carpentry and maritime skills, cooking and medical understanding, military tactics, and endurance to the cause of liberty. The evacuation of Boston had taught them that if they worked together, those skills would be enough to rout the world’s strongest military.”

Over time, the United States has forgotten the lessons learned in Boston 250 years ago. It allowed its military to be fought to a standstill in the jungles of Vietnam. Years later, the US was bloodied in battle once again by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Today, the awesome military power of the United States is once again proving unable to bring a foreign country to its knees.

Perhaps it is time to relearn the lessons of 1776. Bombing people back to the Stone Age is a stupid and wasteful use of precious resources. It takes more than air power to win a war, a fact that has escaped the notice of the artificial intelligence resources the Pentagon is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on.

Need more reasons to join the protests on March 28? JC Bruce, a Florida blogger with more than 750,000 subscribers, wrote this week that Pulitzer Prize winning author Gene Weingarten has posted what may be the longest sentence ever on social media. Here it is in its entirety:

In the last two weeks alone, Donald Trump has destabilized the Middle East, turned the United States into a pariah state, killed more than a hundred little girls by mistake then denied he had done it and then admitted he might have done it but he didn’t know for sure because he hadn’t bothered to look into it, caused gas prices to spike by 25%, enabled Israel to commit atrocities against Lebanon, begged for military help from our historic allies whom he had previously insulted and alienated, and then threatened to punish those same allies if they don’t help him, said many in the media were “guilty of treason” for not cheerleading his benighted, unpopular war, gloated about having castrated the fourth estate, proudly identifying his conquests by name in a social media post, declared the Iran war over, then not over, and then over, again, then said that we had “totally demolished” a key Iranian oil facility, but added that he might bomb it a little more “just for fun,” continued pardoning his cronies and white-collar felons whose crimes have already wiped out nearly $2 billion in victim repayment and taxpayer recovery for various frauds, said that a former U.S. president he wouldn’t name had told him he regretted not bombing Iran first, but all four living former presidents immediately denied having said it, saw his approval rating plummet like a flapping turkey dropped from a helicopter, said he might “take” Cuba, revealed that his administration was considering withholding HIV aid to Zambia “on a massive scale” unless that impoverished country gives us access to their copper, cobalt and lithium stores … and played at least four rounds of golf.

If that is not enough to get you out of your comfort zone and motivate you to participate in No Kings Day II, we can’t imagine what would. Please join your friends and neighbors on March 28 as we exercise our First Amendment right “to peaceably protest and petition the government for redress of grievances.” See you there!