Greenville, South Carolina.
NO KINGS 3 brought together protestors in at least 3300 places--large, small and in-between--and perhaps most importantly, in every congressional district in the US there was at least one protest.
Minneapolis
Initial estimates suggest that at least 8 million people participated. It was the largest cumulative protest on one day in American history.
Seacoast, New Hampshire
The emphasis seemed to be on de-centralization: that is, more protests in more places, rather than epic gatherings in big places. For instance, here on the North Coast, the previous No Kings demos have been in Eureka, CA. This time there were also events in Trinidad (to the north, where there were more protestors than the town's population) and Garberville (to the south) and probably elsewhere between--though Eureka still gathered several thousand people, likely the largest so far.
There were epic gatherings as well, and sometimes quite close together: Minneapolis and St. Paul, the largest protests in the state's history; Denver and Boulder, Colorado, just 30 miles apart; 200,000 in Boston, while there were more than 160 protests in other locations in the Commonwealth.
According to reporting by Rachel Maddow, the trend this time was for more protests in red states in places they hadn't been before, and much larger protests even in dark red places than before. Missoula, Montana had two to three times the numbers as the last No Kings.
Virginia
Again this time, mostly peaceful. There were some arrests in Los Angeles, but in Eureka, the only police activity was finding a lost dog. Mission accomplished.
Oklahoma
2 from Eureka, CA
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