We the people are speaking out at every capital in every state, today, now!

A growing movement opposing President Donald Trump’s early actions is organizing protests across all 50 states on Wednesday.

What to Know:

The movement uses the hashtags #buildtheresistance and #50501 (50 protests, 50 states, one day).

Many demonstrations are planned at state capitols, while others will take place in major cities.

Flyers circulating online denounce Project 2025 and call for action against fascism and deportations.

Organizers, like Kelsey Brianne in Michigan, are mobilizing communities with grassroots efforts.

Protests have already begun, with thousands marching against deportation policies in Los Angeles on Sunday.

The movement has a website at 50501movement.carrd.co and is active on Instagram, Reddit, Bluesky, Discord and Signal.

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      There have been protests at the buildings he’s illegally occupying, but there’s also so many tunnel systems in DC I’m sure they could get in there too. What we need is handcuffs of these rat fucks.

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    The left’s answer to the right’s 1950s is the 1960s approach.

    Learn from the Civil Rights movement.

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    Next phase should probably be to protest at DC. Camp the fuck out there and strike as a nation until Dump is handled.

    Take the 60s Civil Rights approach to this.

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    The crowds would be much larger if most of us heard about this earlier than 11:58 am today. Absolute garbage organization for this one. I’ve marched in D.C. on more than one occasion and knew about the event at least a month in advance every time.

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          I agree kinda. However, I’m not discouraging them as to their protesting potentially being useless now. I’m trying to stop you from doing that negative thing/showing others it’s fine to do it now.

          There are valid reasons why not to protest/revolt before the election. No one knew how it would turn out, Rs could have been crushed. Even with Trump, it wasn’t incredibly likely that he would let Musk completely dismantle everything. Of course it was a possibility, but it’s a bit different to protest a possibility and to protest something actually happening, so I think it’s fine if you would protest in the one case but not the other.

          Was that more helpful?

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    I was at the Boston event. At several points people started loud trans right chants which I think is a strategic mistake. This makes it too easy to reframe this as a trans protest rather than anti facism/anti 2025 since a huge portion of the population just dismiss trans rights protests out of hand.

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      People dismissing trans right: fuck yeah this is a good time

      The same people when their own rights are dismissed: wait what the fuck why can you get away with this, this is bullshit

      The huge portion of the population better wake the fuck up because as long as the powers can oppress trans people, they can and will oppress you too.

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    could we be doing this for more than one day? it’s barely even a protest if it’s just on one day.

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      I believe this was intended to kick things off, spread awareness and get the ball rolling. Surely more will follow!

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        I don’t doubt it. it would be cool and inspiring to help this became a whole movement. I’ll have to protest from inside though until the weather stops being frostbite-inducing (hopefully soon)