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Hundreds of thousands of people flooded streets across the country in the "Free America Walkout," a mass coordinated protest marking exactly one year since Trump's second inauguration. The walkout, spearheaded by the Women's March—the same organization that mobilized millions against Trump's first administration in 2017—organized over 800 events across all 50 states with more than 38,000 people pre-registered for rallies from Tampa to Los Angeles to New York City.
The protests primarily targeted ICE and immigration enforcement policies following the killings of Renee Good and other violence during Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis. Videos captured dozens of protesters converging in major metropolitan areas including Atlanta, New York City, Minneapolis, and Washington, D.C. The scale of resistance reflected growing opposition to the administration's deportation campaigns, Venezuela invasion, Greenland threats, and federal worker purges.
According to Crowd Counting Consortium data, the number of protests in the U.S. during Trump's second term surpassed those at the same point in his first administration, with more than 10,700 protests in 2025 alone—a 133% increase from the 4,588 recorded during 2017. The Free America Walkout represented the largest single-day coordinated demonstration since the 2017 Women's March and came three days before Minnesota's historic general strike.