CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. – A crowd of hundreds gathered in Christiansburg Saturday afternoon with a resounding message: There are no kings in America.
Chants, signs, and honking car horns filled the air as demonstrators joined a national day of action known as the “No Kings” protest, aimed at what organizers describe as the creeping shadow of authoritarianism in American governance.
“Trump has essentially been ruling by decree. The courts have not been effective in stopping him,” said Dale Wimberley, a local organizer with NRV Indivisible. “And that’s not American. We don’t do kings here. They’ve been illegal since 1776. So, we are here to speak out against that and to claim our democracy and demand we get it back.”…