The crowd at today's #NoKings protest in Arlington, TX, was larger than it was last June. Here's what it looked like after about an hour. This time there was also an endless parade of protesters in cars displaying signs. My guess is that many people couldn't find a place to park nearby.

I found a spot at the heart of today's #NoKings protest in Arlington, TX. Here's what it looked like near the beginning. There were no constables around the courthouse, and a single police car only came by twice. Nothing could be more peaceful than this, and they knew it.

And here's the end of today's #nokings protest in Arlington, TX. Trump's birthday parade was weak and minuscule compared to this and the thousands of other protests across the nation today.

This was the scene about 1 hour into today's #nokings protest in Arlington, TX. The crowd had grown substantially by then.

Here's the beginning of today's #nokings protest in Arlington, TX. I was right in the middle of it. People were still arriving. The peaceful and boisterous crowd eventually stretched for several blocks in both directions.

This was the warmup as I was just arriving at yesterday's Tesla Takedown protest in Southlake, TX. For me it was a great warmup for raining on Trump's birthday parade on June 14.

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