As outlined in prior posts, including on September 1, 2025 and on February 9, 2026, the current Federal regime has attacked vital civil rights and civil liberties and, more generally, the rule of law repeatedly and aggressively since taking power. In this context, the orientation and priorities of the United States Department of Justice, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the United States Department of Labor, and other law enforcement agencies have been changed in radical ways.

As also outlined in such previous posts, unions and other nonprofit organizations, State and Local public officials, and members of the general public have pursued court litigation and other types of advocacy around the country to challenge the escalating violations by the Federal administration. The other types of advocacy feature historic and rapidly expanding public marches and rallies to oppose the Federal regime’s abuses of power.

The first set of broad-based marches and rallies against the Federal administration’s agenda and conduct involved approximately 3 million people nationwide on April 5, 2025. The second set of broad-based marches and rallies involved approximately 5 million people nationwide on June 14, 2025. The third set of broad-based marches and rallies involved approximately 7 million people nationwide on October 17, 2025. The fourth and most recent set of broad-based marches and rallies involved approximately 9 million people nationwide on March 28, 2026. In that context, there were over 3,000 actions in small towns and large cities in ever State as well as actions on all seven continents.

The actions on March 28, 2026 are the largest single-day protest in the history of the United States. Like regarding the prior broad-based marches and rallies, unions such as the AFL-CIO, civil rights and civil liberties organizations such as the ACLU, and democracy protection organizations such as Public Citizen provided key support to the millions of ordinary people who organized the grassroots mobilization on March 28, 2026. The unprecedented activation of people in every part of each State comes from the understanding that, as the civil rights and civil liberties icon Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously observed, “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”