Tuesday, September 30, 2025

✊ The Big List of Protests

 https://theblop.org/

✊ The Big List of Protests

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Event Flyer

Join the Corner Protest

Fort Collins, CO

We invite you to participate in the Corner Protest every Tuesday and Thursday. Our goal is to promote positive engagement and raise awareness about democratic values at the southwest corner of Drake and College in Fort Collins.

🗓️
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
️🕒
4:15 PM
📝
SW Corner of Drake and College

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Event Flyer

No Kings

Rogers, AR

A gathering on public sidewalks near the offices of Senator Tom Cotton and Representative Steve Womack, organized by Indivisible NWA, to likely discuss or protest policies.

🗓️
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
️🕒
11:00 AM
📝
Public sidewalks near offices
👥
Indivisible NWA
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ICE OUT OF IOWA! Rally & Demonstration

Decorah, IA

Join us to rally and demonstrate for immigrant rights at The Water Street Park.

🗓️
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
️🕒
5:00 PM
📝
The Water Street Park
👥
50/50, Decorah Community for Immigrant Rights, IOWA Coalition

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Event Flyer

Protest: ICE Out of SA!

San Antonio, TX

Join us in demanding safety and fair treatment for all immigrants. ICE and private prison company GEO Group are breaking international human rights laws by detaining people without due process, imprisoning refugees, and separating families.

🗓️
Thursday, October 2, 2025
️🕒
10:00 AM
👥
GEO Group
Event Flyer

Corner Protest

Fort Collins, CO

We invite you to join the Corner Protest held every Tuesday and Thursday to positively engage in protecting democracy and addressing civic concerns.

🗓️
Thursday, October 2, 2025
️🕒
4:15 PM
📝
SW Corner of Drake and College
👥
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Saturday, October 4, 2025

Event Flyer

Olympia Visibility Brigade Overpass Bannering

Tumwater, WA

Join us on the bridge with high-visibility protest signs, flags, and a good mood. This event aims to make good trouble by highlighting that democracy is under attack.

🗓️
Saturday, October 4, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
📝
Pedestrian Bridge / I-5
👥
Olympia Visibility Brigade

Monday, October 6, 2025

Event Flyer

Olympia Visibility Brigade Overpass Bannering

Olympia, WA

Join us at The Kiss, Percival Landing, in downtown Olympia with your high-visibility protest signs and flags to make good trouble. This event aims to raise awareness and encourage political activism.

🗓️
Monday, October 6, 2025
️🕒
4:30 PM
📝
The Kiss, Percival Landing
👥
Backbone Campaign

Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Event Flyer

Corner Protest

Fort Collins, CO

Join us in positive engagement every Tuesday and Thursday to protect democracy. Whether right or left, we know what's wrong. We the people must act together.

🗓️
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
️🕒
4:15 PM
📝
SW Corner of Drake and College

Thursday, October 9, 2025

Event Flyer

Corner Protest

Fort Collins, CO

Join us for a peaceful protest aiming for positive engagement at the corner of Drake and College in Fort Collins. We address issues affecting democracy and encourage community participation.

🗓️
Thursday, October 9, 2025
️🕒
4:15 PM
📝
SW Corner of Drake and College
👥
[]

Saturday, October 11, 2025

Event Flyer

Olympia Visibility Brigade

Lacey, WA

Join us for overpass bannering with high-visibility protest signs to stand up for democracy on the Chehalis Western Trail/I-5 bridge.

🗓️
Saturday, October 11, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
Event Flyer

Bridge Brigade

Join us as we gather to promote themes of defending democracy and freedom.

🗓️
Saturday, October 11, 2025
️🕒
6:00 PM
📝
UNT Pedestrian Bridge

Sunday, October 12, 2025

Event Flyer

The Internet's October Surprise

Washington, DC

Trump's powerful online opposition puts down the mouse and gets out of the house.

🗓️
Sunday, October 12, 2025
️🕒
10:00 AM
👥
TORPEDOTRUMP.COM

Monday, October 13, 2025

Event Flyer

Olympia Visibility Brigade Overpass Bannering

Tumwater, WA

Join us for overpass bannering with the Olympia Visibility Brigade. Bring high-visibility protest signs, flags, and a good mood to make good trouble.

🗓️
Monday, October 13, 2025
️🕒
4:30 PM
📝
Pedestrian Bridge / I-5

Saturday, October 18, 2025

Event Flyer

No Kings 2.0

Centralia, WA

The event promotes the constitutional principle that no individual should be above the law and discourages monarchy or privileges based on birth or title. Organized by LD #20 Democrats, Centralia.Mobilize, and Rural Lewis Indivisible.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
1:00 PM
📝
George Washington Park Sidewalk
👥
LD #20 Democrats, Centralia.Mobilize, Rural Lewis Indivisible
Event Flyer

No Kings Rally

Portland, OR

Join us for the "No Kings" rally at the Battleship Oregon Memorial to engage in a public demonstration.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
1:00 PM
📝
Battleship Oregon Memorial
Event Flyer

Rhode Island Says No Kings March and Rally

Providence, RI

Join us for a march and rally advocating unity, joy, and empowerment. Bus tickets to the State House are available.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
1:00 PM
📝
State House
👥
[]
Event Flyer

Join the Movement - No Kings

Logan, UT

We invite you to join us at the Historic Cache Courthouse to revive democracy through fairness, freedom, equal rights, justice, and environmental restoration. Participants are expected to practice nonviolence.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
1:00 PM
📝
Historic Cache Courthouse
👥
We the People Cache Valley
Event Flyer

No Kings!

St. George, UT

Join us for an event emphasizing freedom of speech, featuring a quote by George Washington. Supported by Together Works, Indivisible, and the Washington County Democratic Party.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
1:00 PM
📝
Vernon Worthen Park
👥
Together Works Southern Utah, Indivisible, Washington County Democratic Party
Event Flyer

NO KINGS

North Kingstown, RI

We are organizing a public gathering to express that power belongs to the people, with a focus on community engagement.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
10:00 AM
📝
Public Sidewalk
Event Flyer

NO KINGS 2

Ogden, UT

Join us for a peaceful protest to unite against undesired power structures.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
10:00 AM
📝
Municipal Building
👥
[]
Event Flyer

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.

Greeley, CO

The event emphasizes a theme of rejecting traditional power symbols. It takes place on October 18.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
10:00 AM
📝
800 10th Ave, Greeley, CO 80631
👥
[]
Event Flyer

We Say No Dictators

[Various Locations in Hawaii], HI

We are organizing an anti-dictatorship rally across islands on October 18, 2025, to stand against dictatorship.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
10:00 AM
📝
Multiple details per island
👥
Indivisible Hawai‘i Statewide Network
Event Flyer

Down With The King & The Billionaire Regime

Joplin, MO

Join us in Joplin for a rally against the alleged ruling class and their influence.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
11:00 AM
👥
501 Joplin, No Kings, Free States
Event Flyer

Down with the King & the Billionaire Regime

Joplin, MO

Join us to protest against the King and the Billionaire Regime on October 18th at 7th & Rangeline in Joplin, MO.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
11:00 AM
👥
501 Joplin, No Kings, Free States
Event Flyer

No Kings in Northern NV

Reno, NV

Join us at the Bruce Thompson Courthouse & Federal Building in Reno to assert the message 'No Thrones, No Crowns'. An event standing against monarchy and celebrating independence since 1776.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
11:00 AM
📝
Bruce Thompson Courthouse & Federal Building
Event Flyer

No Kings

Buffalo, NY

Join us at Niagara Square for the "No Kings" event featuring activities and perspectives from various organizations.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
11:00 AM
📝
Niagara Square
👥
WNYCOSH, 501, Power to the People New York, Clean Air Coalition, WNY Environmental Alliance, Standing Our Ground, Buffalo Prenatal Perinatal Network, 1199 SEIU, Elbows Up!, Rainbow Collective
Event Flyer

NO KINGS

Windsor, CO

Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on posters, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this country to fight dictatorship together. In America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty. Grow our movement and join us. A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
11:00 AM
📝
7th Street & Main Street
👥
[]
Event Flyer

No Kings

Greensburg, PA

We are organizing a nationwide protest at the Westmoreland County Courthouse to pressure Congress, stand up for righteousness, and advocate for the impeachment and removal of those in power if necessary. Join us to uphold justice and affirm that there are no kings in America.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
📝
Westmoreland County Courthouse
👥
WTF
Event Flyer

No Kings Loveland

Loveland, CO

Join us for a volunteer-organized visibility event for No Kings, focused on empowering people and activism.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
📝
Dwayne Webster Veterans Park
👥
No Kings
Event Flyer

NO KINGS 2.0

Centralia, WA

Join us in promoting the principle that no individual is above the law, and discouraging any system granting special privileges based on birth or title.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
👥
LD #20 Democrats, Centralia.Mobilize, Rural Lewis Indivisible
Event Flyer

NO KINGS

Westerly, RI

We're lining the sidewalks on Franklin Street to show that America has no kings. Bring a friend, a young person, or an instrument to join the event.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
📝
Franklin Plaza or Mill Pond Plaza
👥
South County Rising
Event Flyer

NO KINGS 2.0

Clarkston, WA

Join us in opposing monarchy and supporting democracy. This public gathering aims to unify participants in the fight against fascism.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
Event Flyer

No Kings 2.0

Omaha, NE

Join us to stand against tyranny, rally for our rights, and demand a democracy by the people, for the people. Activities include local activism, mutual aid, civic engagement, and volunteering opportunities, with featured speakers, live music, food, and games.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
📝
Turner Park
👥
OMAHA 50501 OMAHA, INDIVISIBLE NEBRASKA, WOMEN'S MARCH NEBRASKA, LIKE MINDED FRIENDS, MOVE ON, OMAHA METRO VISIBILITY BRIGADE
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No Kings 2.0

Bend, OR

This is a PEACEFUL protest dedicated to positive change through nonviolent action. Join us for activities including a gathering at Drake Park, a Sidewalk March, and a congregation at Peace Corner.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
2:00 PM
📝
Drake Park
👥
Indivisible Bend
Event Flyer

Down with the King

Mobile, AL

Join us for a Halloween-themed protest. Wear a costume or dress in all black to participate!

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
4:00 PM
📝
Government Plaza
👥
Indivisible Mobile
Event Flyer

NO KINGS Rally

San Antonio, TX

Join us at Travis Park to stand against monarchical power. The rally advocates for power belonging to the people, with activities including a march expressing resistance to monarchy.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
4:00 PM
📝
Travis Park
👥
BEXAR DEMOCRATS, 50501, PSL San Antonio, SATX Indivisible
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NO KINGS 2.0

Reno, NV

Join us on October 18 to ensure our voices are heard loudly and clearly. Organized by Indivisible Northern Nevada.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
See Flyer
👥
Indivisible Northern Nevada
Event Flyer

NO KINGS

This event, titled "NO KINGS", is set to take place at Waterfront Park.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
See Flyer
📝
Waterfront Park
Event Flyer

NO KINGS

Join us to emphasize that America has no kings and that power belongs to the people.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
See Flyer
👥
Indivisible NWA
Event Flyer

No Kings 2 Mass Protest

We are organizing a mass protest to stand against military occupation of cities, secret police operations, kidnapping of citizens, protection of sex traffickers, and election interference. Join millions defending the Constitution, rights, and lives.

🗓️
Saturday, October 18, 2025
️🕒
See Flyer

Monday, October 20, 2025

Event Flyer

Olympia Visibility Brigade: Overpass Bannering

Lacey, WA

Join us in a high-visibility protest against attacks on democracy. Bring signs and flags to the bridge on Chehalis Western Trail / I-5 in Lacey to make good trouble.

🗓️
Monday, October 20, 2025
️🕒
4:30 PM
📝
On the bridge at Chehalis Western Trail / I-5
👥
OVB

Saturday, October 25, 2025

Event Flyer

Olympia Visibility Brigade: Overpass Bannering

Tumwater, WA

Join us with your high-visibility protest signs, flags, and a good mood on the pedestrian bridge over I-5 in Tumwater to make good trouble and take a stand.

🗓️
Saturday, October 25, 2025
️🕒
12:00 PM
📝
Pedestrian Bridge / I-5

Monday, October 27, 2025

Event Flyer

Overpass Bannering

Olympia, WA

Join the Olympia Visibility Brigade by bringing high-visibility protest signs, flags, and a good mood for an activism event intended to promote civic engagement and visible dissent.

🗓️
Monday, October 27, 2025
️🕒
4:30 PM
📝
Boulevard Rd SE / I-5
👥
Olympia Visibility Brigade

Monday, December 15, 2025

Event Flyer

Christmas Wonderland Market

Springfield

Join us for a festive day of holiday shopping, food, and fun.

🗓️
Monday, December 15, 2025
️🕒
10:00 AM
📝
Riverside Park
👥
Springfield Community Center

 

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 donald (no relation) wiggly

 

donalds campaign still limps along like dear old uncle wiggly,

we can all make the madness stop by voting for hillary bigly

Monday, September 29, 2025

the 40 days of trumpmas - a surreal serial poem

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Remember, remember! The fifth of trumpvember

 the 40 days of trumpmas - a serial poem

 

for 40 days the trumpeter reigns,

his lies and hate on whom he disdains,

but election day will come so soon,

we'll no longer hear the orange baboon;

 

in 39 days full of world wide problems.

we could elect him to get rid of the muslims,

but as he'll rant on trivialities of his presidential life,

what could be worse? - you could be his wife;

 

in 38 days just what will you do?

the donald has said he likes lgbtq,

but as he bullies his women and all his men too,

if youre questioning, what stops him from bullying you?

 

in just 37 days, some people are saying,

(or pleading or hoping or some even praying)

the duke of prunes will dye his forelock purple my friend,

and thus make america grape again,

 

our days are down to just 36,

before our problems the don will fix,

he will on day one do what hes said - true,

he'll wall out our enemies - and fat women too!

 

on the 35th day of trumpmas

yes just seven weeks remain!

will the polls and tallies deliver us

donald with his golden mane?

 

34 days and the vice-pipers have piped,

though pence didnt say why donalds suit shouldnt be striped,

he wouldnt defend his master's string pulling,

to make america great? - who do they think they're fooling?

 

just 33 days till the macho tornado,

unless its blown away by hurricane machado,

with women and voters he has so much to loose.

keep your mouth shut donald (unless youre changing your shoes)

 

32 days and we’ve been hit by the big blowhard,

donald spoke here in fla (oh, we had a hurricane too)

this administration gives us playing the race card, a weak economy, and unemployment

but if you want a job you could be donald’s campaign manager (unless youre a jew)

 

31 days, just a month, remains;

will the donald say hes sorry, and his baser impulses restrain?

or keep blaming bill clinton for our moral demise;

when trump speaks to us, our NO votes must be our replies!

 

election comes this time (in 30 days) each 4 years,

time for praise and tears and fears;

as polls will open in many states,

vote early, please dont vote late!

 

down to 29, just a leap february,

and theres still the donald quite

contrary;

donald donald, how does your garden grow?

quoth the master debater, "with pretty maids groped in a row"

 

just 28 days - later or soon,

and the zombies will rise, led by the big goon;

unless everyone gets a reality inoculation,

i might have to move to canada for a well deserved vacation; 

 

now just 27, less than 4 weeks,

no time for you to say 'yikes!' or 'eeeks!'

obama wants to go to mars and colonize it for man,

lets send trump tomorrow! and colonize it for orangutan!

 

26 days are all that remain,

will our democracy and economy go down the drain?

if we all keep listening to the blustering oaf,

will he give jobs and prosperity? - or just half a loaf

 

25 days - will more women speak?,

of the antics of donald who the presidency seeks,

dating 14 year old girls or groping their mothers,

how did the gop pick him over the others?,

 

24 days - were down to two dozen,

the next woman who speaks just might be your cousin,

or mother or sister, aunt, niece, even daughter,

describing the circumstance in which donald caught her,

 

23 days left and trump doesnt yet have as many accusers,

as cosby, but he assures us that they are all really losers,

sent by bankers or hillary with secret agendas,

to disrupt our election of him - our defender!,

 

22 days and we know charity begins at home,

but donalds attention is so prone to roam,

his gift that disappeared to 911 survivors from his foundation?,

oops! maybe donald spent it on a vacation,

 

21 days and trump says the election may be rig-ly,

if hes not the winner and his total's not big-ly,

tremendously higher than hillary gets,

he warns his supporters may all lose their wits,

 

20 days left and while george zimmerman still walks free,

the man who shot at HIM got 20 years - while trayvon got eternity,

trump wants us to support our cops and maintain law and order,

he'll put all the inner city dwellers in jail, and send the immigrant criminals far across the border,

 

19 days left till we all go to pretend,

to elect someone to lead us, as if on it our lives depend,

but wise man, donald trump, already really knows,

who we really voted for - a wolf in president's clothes?,

 

18 days and we bad hombres demand a rebate,

on the ill feelings left since the comments of one candidate,

the debaters have met in their final grudge match,

but only donald can say from whose hands victory will be snatched,

 

17 days and our government is corrupt with quid pro quo,

did you take latin at wharton? is that how you know?,

donald wants us to fire at them all - the bureaucrats lined up in rows,

and believe me, corruption is a subject. that donald really knows,

 

16 days - lets set term limits on all our office holders,

and put all our women in binders - or maybe in folders,

donalds endless complaints are becoming a sour whine,

have a little cheese with that, from wisconsin, where 

hillary's doing fine,

 

15 days and on stocking covered thighs did linger,

two miniature hands with two thumbs and eight tiny fingers,

they belonged to the donald who believed that he owned,

any thing that he wanted - or anyone he got alone,

 

14 days yes only two weeks,

till the duke of orange assends to the throne he seeks?,

to rule all americans, the strong and the weak?,

and dominate the globe with power that's peak?,

 

the 13th day to go - does that seem unlucky?,

not for donald whos lately been appearing quite plucky,

claiming media, polls, and parties are against him,

and rallying his multitudes with wit waxing dim,

 

on the 12th day of trumpmas donald awoke with a jerk,

promptly fired his latest campaign manager (who considered that a perk),

if youre "AAAfroAAAmurikan" and unemployed i can put you to work,

barked donald the businessman from behind his sly smirk,

 

it's the 11th and engineer casey trump is in the caboose,

i hear some of you saying oh no! what's the use,

our campaign will probably just go off the tracks,

but donald says its ok - cause he's got "the blacks",

 

just ten days left yes only one-zero,

til donald is hoping that he'll be your hero,

as new hillary emails come under investigation,

donald hopes to rename camp david to camp donald for

his vacations,

 

like a cat has nine lives we're left with only 9 days,

till we're subject to donald? and his old wicked ways,

on foreign affairs he says he'll save us from isis,

but his domestic affairs are misogyny and crisis,

 

our days are numbered - yes only eight,

till once again we make america great,

by getting rid of candidates who have nothing to add,

goodbye donald you wont make america sad,

 

just one week to go - its day minus seven,

till america's lifted above - to trumpty dump heaven?,

where for rich folks like donald opportunity abounds,

and we keep the working poor with a wall that surrounds,

 

how the time it does fly its already day 6,

till americans problems the donald will fix,

his solutions begin on trumpday number one,

dont you like them? they'll come at the barrel of a gun,

 

Five days to go, baby, One in five,

No one here gets out alive, now,

david dukes not opposed to all jews,

he backs trump - who are you going to choose?,

 

only 4 days left till the armaged-don,

he'll seize power by the horns once he has won,

and donnie will be what he longs for - a winner,

using the FBI to wreak havoc on hillary the sinner,

 

only three left, just a triad of days,

and the donald his supporters continues to amaze,

with hoopla and folderoll made up in his head,

his winning temperament will leave us all dead,

 

just a pair of days - 2 - till trump paradise,

since these words you're reading please heed my advice,

the creatures that surround us are beginning to bite,

'blacks for trump' fear the Illuminati so lets turn out their light,

 

just a single day left till our thanksgiving,

deliver us from donald and preserve the living,

forget sanity and disgard your misgivings,

but pray hard to your gods that they'll be forgiving,

since we've got the nukes why can't we use'em?,

on the road to 2016 why couldn't we lose HIM?,

 

and trumpmas now has finally come,

the tallies will count up to a winning sum,

unless the earth is struck soon by a cataclysmic comet,

to elect a candidate who just makes you want to vomit?,

we wish you a merry trumpmas at this time each 4 years,

if you have'nt voted you've lost the chance to mitigate your fears,

cause donald duck is ready to lead, forget your crocodile tears,

so you'd better get the vaseline and lubricate your rears!

 

stay informed 5

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https://www.youtube.com/@RepRoKhanna/videos 

https://www.politico.com/ 

https://www.youtube.com/@ForbesBreakingNews/videos 

https://www.nbcnews.com/ 

https://www.nvunheard.org/protest-listings/?q=ergonomic%20backpack

 

real change

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real change

 

were gonna have real change not obama change — send your real change to donald for president dot com

Delaware court grants win for Twitter in first hearing in Musk trial

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/07/19/twitter-elon-musk-trial/

twitter wins first round

 

Republican push for tips on Charlie Kirk posts drives firings of public workers

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A makeshift memorial for Charlie Kirk at the Phoenix headquarters of Turning Point USA on Sept. 17.

Scores of public employees have been terminated, some at the behest of elected leaders.

By Jonathan Shorman for Stateline


Hours after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Suzanne Swierc shared two thoughts on her private Facebook page — that the killing of the right-wing activist was wrong, and that his death reflected “the violence, fear and hatred he sowed.”

The post upended her life.

Indiana Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita soon obtained a screenshot of the post by Swierc, an administrator at Ball State University, and added it to an official website naming and shaming educators for their comments about Kirk.

Libs of Tik Tok, a social media account dedicated to mocking liberals, shared her comments with its 4.4 million followers on X. A week after the post, the university fired her.

“The day that my private post was made public without my consent was one of the worst days of my life,” Swierc told reporters this past week. She said she received calls, texts and other harassing messages, including one suggesting she should be killed, that left her terrified.


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A wave of firings and investigations has swept through academia and government in the wake of Kirk’s death, as state agencies, colleges and local school districts take action against employees over comments perceived as offensive or inappropriate. Dozens of workers in higher education alone have lost their jobs.

A Texas State University student was expelled after he publicly reenacted Kirk’s assassination; Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans had called for the student’s expulsion. Clemson University in South Carolina fired one worker and removed two professors from teaching. The University of Mississippi fired an employee. An Idaho Department of Labor employee was terminated.

The purge is driven in part by Republican elected officials who are encouraging Americans to report co-workers, their children’s teachers and others who make comments seen as crossing the line. They have been egged on by the Trump administration, with Vice President JD Vance urging listeners of Kirk’s podcast to call the employer of anyone “celebrating” his killing.

Vice President JD Vance hosts an episode of "The Charlie Kirk Show" at the White House, following the assassination of the show's namesake, Monday, Sept., 15, 2025, in Washington. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
JD Vance hosts an episode of "The Charlie Kirk Show" at the White House on Sept. 15.

President Donald Trump has threatened to expand the crackdown beyond Kirk, warning falsely in the Oval Office last week that negative press coverage of him is “really illegal,” despite constitutional protections for freedom of the press.

At Kirk’s memorial service, Trump said, “I hate my opponent.” His choice to lead the Federal Communications Commission threatened ABC over comments about the reaction to Kirk’s death made by the late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel and the network pulled his show for several days.

Mark Johnson, a First Amendment attorney based in Kansas City, Missouri, who has been practicing law for 45 years, said he had never seen a moment like the current one.

“Not even close,” Johnson said. “What’s been happening in the last month is astonishing.”

In Indiana, Rokita is using his office’s “Eyes on Education” webpage to publicize examples of educators who have made controversial remarks about Kirk. The page, billed as a transparency tool, housed a hodgepodge of submitted complaints about teachers and schools in the past. Now, it also includes 28 Kirk-related submissions as of Thursday afternoon.

Wisconsin Republican U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden threatened to strip an entire town of federal funding after a high school math teacher noted on her personal Facebook page that Kirk had in the past said some gun deaths are worth it to have the Second Amendment. The teacher has been suspended.

FILE - President Donald Trump shakes hands with moderator Charlie Kirk, during a Generation Next White House forum at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, March 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
Donald Trump shakes hands with Charlie Kirk during a March 2018 event at the White House.

Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters, who is leaving his job next month to head up a conservative teachers organization, has launched investigations of school employees in response to tips submitted to Awareity, an online platform that allows parents and others to report concerns. Last week the Oklahoma State Department of Education said it had received 224 reports of “defamatory comments.”

Florida Republican U.S. Rep. Randy Fine has urged people with information about anyone celebrating Kirk’s death who works in government in Florida to contact his office. And South Carolina Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace wants federal funding cut off for any school that fails to fire or discipline staff who “glorify or justify” political violence.

“It’s at a scale never before seen and I think it’s completely unhinged,” Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors, said of the rush to fire higher education faculty.

Free speech consequences?

Kirk, who founded the campus conservative activism organization Turning Point USA and was close to Trump, was a hero to many Republicans. They saw a charismatic family man and a Christian unafraid to take his hard-right vision onto liberal college campuses.

But many Democrats and liberals experienced Kirk as a provocateur with a record of incendiary remarks about people of color, immigrants and Islam. While many of Kirk’s opponents have condemned the assassination, some have also emphasized their disagreement with his views or suggested his death arose out of what they saw as his hateful rhetoric.

Charlie Kirk hands out hats before speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. (Tess Crowley/The Deseret News via AP)
Charlie Kirk hands out hats before speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on Sept. 10.

“I have faculty who are getting fired, who have tenure and are getting fired, for saying things like ‘I condemn political violence but the words that Charlie Kirk used, he sort of reaped what he sowed,’” Wolfson said. “All things told, I may not agree with that statement, but that’s a perfectly reasonable thing for somebody to say. Certainly not something to be fired for.”

Some Republicans have long denounced what they view as past Democratic censorship, including Biden administration efforts to pressure social media companies to censor content during the COVID-19 pandemic. They have also criticized firings and pushed back on perceived political correctness run amok during the height of the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements, moments of ascendant progressive influence.

But as the current round of terminations plays out, some conservatives argue public employees who speak out about Kirk are facing the consequences of their actions. Oklahoma state Rep. Gabe Woolley, a Republican, said individuals in a taxpayer-funded role who work with children should be held to a high level of accountability.

“I think the most important factor to consider … is that these people chose to enter the public square on public social media accounts and to mock and celebrate the death of an American patriot who was a Christian martyr who was killed for his faith doing what God called him to do,” Woolley said.

Woolley added that “if you choose to make something public, you should not be shocked or surprised by any type of public pushback.”


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Swierc described a relatively restricted Facebook account. It was private and couldn’t be found by searching for her name; only individuals with mutual Facebook friends could request to add her as a friend. She did not list her employer on her profile.

Swierc’s post on Kirk could only be seen by her Facebook friends. At some point, someone — Swierc doesn’t know who — made a screenshot of the post. It was then circulated publicly and ended up on Indiana’s “Eyes on Education” page.

People place lit candles below a photo of Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of Turning Point USA who was shot and killed, at a vigil in his memory, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025, in Orem, Utah. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
People place lit candles below a photo of Charlie Kirk at a vigil on Sepy. 11 in Orem, Utah.

On Sept. 17, Ball State University President Geoffrey Mearns fired Swierc, who had been director of health promotion and advocacy within the Division of Student Affairs. In a letter informing Swierc of her termination, Mearns wrote that many current students had written to the university to express concern and that her post had caused unprecedented disruption.

Swierc filed a federal lawsuit against Mearns on Monday, alleging he violated her First Amendment rights. Swierc, who is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, wants a court to order Mearns to expunge her termination from her Ball State University personnel file, along with unspecified damages.

“I do not regret the post I made, and I would not take back what I said,” Swierc said during a virtual news conference organized by the ACLU of Indiana. “I believe that I, along with every person in this country, have First Amendment rights to be able to speak on a number of things.”

Ball State University declined to answer Stateline’s questions, citing the lawsuit. In an unsigned public statement on the day of Swierc’s firing, the university said the post was “inconsistent with the distinctive nature and trust” of Swierc’s leadership position and had caused significant disruption to the university.

Swierc’s lawsuit is one of a growing number of legal challenges to firings and employee discipline over comments about Kirk. On Wednesday, a federal judge ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate an art professor who had placed on administrative leave after calling Kirk a “Nazi” but later deleted the post and apologized.

Aggressive state attorney general

Swierc didn’t name Rokita, the attorney general, as a defendant in her lawsuit, but the official has loomed over the situation.

Two days after Kirk’s assassination, Rokita urged his followers on X to submit to him any evidence of educators or school administrators celebrating or rationalizing the killing. He wrote that they must be held accountable and “have no place teaching our students.”

But Rokita has also said the Indiana Attorney General’s Office isn’t investigating individuals submitted to his “Eyes on Education” page — suggesting the effort is mainly intended to generate public pressure against employers. Each example on the page lists contact information for the school’s leadership and in some instances information about the next local school board meeting.

“For a government official, especially of that caliber, to be creating a database and doing this has an incredibly chilling effect on speech,” said Ashkhen Kazaryan, a senior legal fellow at The Future of Free Speech, a nonpartisan think tank located at Vanderbilt University that promotes the values of free speech and free expression.

Rokita didn’t agree to an interview. “Our goal is to provide transparency, equipping parents with the information they need to make informed decisions about their children’s education,” Rokita said in a news release.


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On Monday, Rokita sent a six-page letter to school superintendents and public university administrators, providing guidance on the legal authority to fire and discipline teachers for speech related to Kirk. The letter suggested that speech occurring on social media is a factor that weighs in favor of the authority to fire an employee because it carries the risk of being amplified and disrupting school operations.

Rokita also analyzed comments about Kirk by a U.S. history teacher in Indiana who had said the assassinated activist can “suck it” and referred to comments made by Kirk in 2023 that some gun deaths every year are the cost of Second Amendment rights. The district’s employer had chosen not to terminate the teacher, but Rokita laid out a legal justification for firing the employee.

He concluded the letter by writing that many schools would be within their legal authority to fire teachers “who have similarly contributed to the divisive and, for many, painful eruption of controversial discourse on social media and elsewhere concerning Charlie Kirk.”

Joseph Mastrosimone, an employment law professor at Washburn University, said private employers have broad discretion to fire workers over speech. But the government is different, he said, with the First Amendment providing at least some level of protection to employees.

Decades of court cases have established the core principle that if a public employee is speaking in their capacity as a citizen on a matter of public concern, then the government can only take action if the speech causes significant disruption to the delivery of the public service and that disruption outweighs the employee’s interest in the speech, he said.

Mastrosimone said if a teacher’s message made in his or her own time is causing community outrage and pandemonium, “that’s probably going to count as some disruption.”

“And there might be sufficient disruption to outweigh whatever interest the employee has in the speech,” Mastrosimone said. But the closer the teacher’s message is to core political speech — such as voicing support for a candidate for office — the more the scales tip in favor of the employee being able to speak without fear of discipline.

“It is certainly a matter of public concern, what’s going on here with the Charlie Kirk assassination. The interests are probably pretty high, I would think,” Mastrosimone said.

Push to honor Kirk

As some Republican officials have called for action against public employees who have made comments about Kirk, they have often drawn a line at what they see as celebrating or glorifying his assassination. Walters, the outgoing Oklahoma state superintendent, has gone further and is investigating districts for “refusing to honor his memory.”

Cartoon by Clay Jones

The Oklahoma State Department of Education last week said in addition to reports on individual teachers, it was investigating 30 reports of schools that didn’t observe a moment of silence. Three reports alleged schools weren’t flying their flags at half-staff.

On Tuesday, Walters announced an official push to start a Turning Point USA chapter in every Oklahoma high school. Later that day, he announced he would resign as superintendent to become CEO of the Teacher Freedom Alliance, a new group that casts itself as a conservative alternative to teachers’ unions.

Walters’ Turning Point effort comes after Oklahoma state Sen. Shane Jett, a Republican, filed three pieces of legislation to honor Kirk, including one that would establish “Charlie Kirk Free Speech Day” and another requiring public colleges and universities to develop a “Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza” on their campuses.

Walters and Jett didn’t respond to interview requests.

“Charlie Kirk inspired a generation to love America, to speak boldly, and to never shy away from debate. Our kids must get involved and active,” Walters said in a news release on Tuesday. “We will fight back against the liberal propaganda pushed by the radical left and the teachers' unions. Our fight starts now.”

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