Malden turned out to City Hall Plaza for the local iteration of the 2026 No Kings rally, one of thousands of such events held in cities and towns across the country and internationally. Anna Geoffroy, who acted as security warden, said about 250 people attended, with many planning to continue on to the Boston protest.
Neighborhood View caught up with residents of all ages who took to the streets to express their opinions with chants and creative signs.
The program opened with an address from House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, whose district includes Malden. Clark brought a national message to a local crowd and cited the city’s role in the American Revolution — Malden was the first town to formally instruct its representatives to vote for independence from Great Britain.
“It was the Malden Instructions that laid out what the Declaration of Independence was going to be, and Malden was the first in the colonies to call out that the king, that could watch the slaughter of his own people and not call out against it, had no place in government,” Clark said…