50501 Movement Fuels Anti-Trump Rallies Across the US: Live Updates
50501 Movement Fuels Anti-Trump Rallies Across the US: Live Updates
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.
I'll pose this (revised) question here because I think it might have better visibility.
instead of protesting at the capitals of our states -- why don't we protest at the HQs of the departments Musk is attacking?
lots of benefits
- heightened on-site security
- lots of witnesses
- impenetrable wall of pissed-off Americans
- attacking the administrations goals
I mean...has nobody thought of this yet?
it would at least slow the destruction down, and it's not like we don't know what these people look like.
just 24 hour, round-the-clock, protests to keep the jackals at bay. only badged people get in or out. like white blood cells fighting off an infection.
The Founding Fathers would have you protest at the homes of the legislature
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.
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.
The left's answer to the right's 1950s is the 1960s approach.
Learn from the Civil Rights movement.
The protests didn't make nearly any national news. Hope the next ones go better.
That's because the news is controlled by the oligarchy. It's up to us to spread the word. Share as much content as you can!
I mean my news gave it a fair shot, but ultimately it was just about 50 people waving signs in the middle of a city where 50 people are not even a noticable increase of people usually on that street. I'd say my news was even being generous, by zooming in to try to make the "crowd" fill the screen, but there just wasn't enough to go on.
We have to face facts that this was a pretty poorly planned event. Someone thinks of going for it on January 25th and expects to organize a national protest in all 50 states with boots on the ground with less than two weeks total in the middle of a school/work day?
If this were, say, the first of a routine series of protests, ok, then over iterations it might have a chance to grow. If it was to be some overwhelming event, well you'll need more actual planning to get there. As a disorganized blast of thought for a one and done... it was not a good idea.
Share where? All the platforms that you're implying people should share it on are either controlled by the oligarchs as well, or so sparsely populated you're going to only reach some absurdly small percent of the population.
I'm not trying to be a downer, it's better to be doing something than nothing, but if the oligarchs you're protesting own Facebook, Twitter/X, Google, AWS, etc, it just seems clear to me that if you can't rely on the news to report about it, you definitely can't rely on sharing to spread the word about it.
The revolution will not be televised
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.
I saw a bunch of posts on lemmy the past 24 hrs
Meta stifled posts about this.
But, unfortunately, I didn't see any on Mastodon or Bluesky (granted my circle there is smaller).
This is the way these things work though. This will get attention. The next one will be even bigger.
This needs to be every week.
We don't have a month. Look at how much has already happened in the last two weeks. People need to see what's going on Now.
This is a response to the rapid escalation of events since the inauguration which only occurred just over two weeks ago. Things are moving fast. The past week has been dizzying, by design.
There will likely be a lot of protests by many organizations that may be organized at the national level or locally until things change for the better, people give up, or people are stopped by the forces we need to protest against. Try to find protests and participate in the ones that you can.
edit: I'm not going to tell you what groups to organize with, but look into groups that organize locally and nationally.
Things are moving very quickly right now.
I saw it on the first or second of February. Definitely was short notice.
I heard about it yesterday, but had no time to arrange to take off work.
Yeah I heard about it like 2 hours ago. How tf am I supposed to prepare for that?
Annapolis
Austin
Hartford
Madison
Boston
DC
Trenton
It may not seem like much, but news does travel the world. They have to realize we're not all idiots over here.
Columbus
Denver
Denver grew!
Proud of Denver, the turn out is incredible today!
Raleigh
Charleston
Richmond
Albany
Saint Paul
Lol, every other capital gets named, but Minnesota's. Was this one not in Saint Paul?
That was my bad. It was a hectic day trying to keep up 😅 I'm not even an organizer of the event. Just a guy trying to spread the word.
Pittsburgh
I thought the protests were only at the State Capitals. I would've shown up to the Pittsburgh area one yesterday had that been known to me
You should post these to more communities since it might get removed from this one
I've spoke with the mods. We should be good now.
Wonderful, thank you for collecting and posting all these!
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.
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.
With allies like these
No. It is time to stop being complicit in trans erasure. No more of this “wait your turn” shit. I will not leave my queer brothers, sisters, and everything between/beyond behind for some vague notion of “optics.” We bring them with us. They deserve justice and support.
Stop sacrificing marginalized groups for broader appeal it doesn’t even grant. Hell be brutally practical: We sacrificed Palestinians and LGBT folks for the election, what did we gain from it?
I don't think that having an effective strategy with a small set of demands focused on American's top concerns right now, immigration, cost of living, & inflation, doesn't mean we leave anyone behind. we still bring them with us.
We champion nationally on broadly popular pain points. We mobilize locally on protecting our friends. Use the protests and activism to identify, young, future political leaders. Bring them up through the city council. Bring them up to the Mayorship. Governorship.
I can't fathom a world where Republican politicians will ever say "yeah okay were wrong trans people have rights - our bad". Ever. We have to force them, but we don't have that power. We don't have the power for a segregation-like showdown. What supreme Court is going to uphold trans rights? Who's going to call in the national guard? What do you propose we do in places that red senators live and breathe that makes them reconsider?
We have to get the red states involved - broadly. We need to need a general strike. We need unionization. We need to take back our power with collective action. We need to be an unstoppable phalanx of pain that will burn all the wealth and value they steal from us to the ground until we get what we want.
We need to have momentum and energy and excitement and a slate of candidates in 2026 that will stand up and FUCKING FIGHT. We need to replace the impotent, geriatric representatives we have with someone whose spine isn't already bent.
The most impactful thing we can do to protect and help our brethren is to get power and give them their rightful seat. That starts locally. So fight with them. Fight for them. But have it be separate from the opposition to what is going on in D.C.
But what do I know. I'm not an organizer or an activist or a strategist. I'm as good as a 5 yr old. It just seems to me that true salvation will only come from running head first into states rights. Long term building of future leaders. National holiday election day, mandatory voting, and strong pushes to remove the cap on the house of representatives so that the voice of the people is just a little less distorted by money and land. That's my victory.
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Fuck off with this. Trans people are our brothers and sisters and they deserve our vocal and unabashed support just like anyone else. These policies are going to kill many of them. Our love for them may save lives because it shows them that people have their backs. And it is simply the right thing to do. Triangulating is not working as a political strategy. Stand on some fucking morals for once.
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Fascism is all about finding a minority and shitting on them. This version is leveraging trans people and immigrants to shit on. Being vocally pro trans is about as anti fascist as you can be right now.
Fascism seeks to divide people. We fight that by fighting for the people who are most marginalized and who they wish to separate from our communities.
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Completely agreed.
Nice to finally see some movement from you guys. Keep it up!
could we be doing this for more than one day? it's barely even a protest if it's just on one day.
I believe this was intended to kick things off, spread awareness and get the ball rolling. Surely more will follow!
I wonder what's going on in Sacramento, that we have no pics.
California has been crushing it since Sunday by shutting down the freeways. I don't know if anyone bothered to go to Sacramento though.
As an Inland Imperial from the regions hairy ass crack I have nothing but respect from anti Trump protesters. Though ive been staying home since denying commerce is the best I can do, definitely isnt combining with the fact that my 2001 3 cylinder Toyota Tacoma is borderline out of gas. Nope, definitely not.
No one ever had a worse day for not going to Sacramento.
Sacramento here we go!
I don't know if this'll be removed but self-posts without news articles aren't allowed here (rule 2).
Is there a community for content like this? Like a focus on our participation in activism/resistance? Even if not here, this is amazing and something I'd still like to see somewhere.
Good call, I edited in an article.
I would really like to see such a community (and on a different instance). I mainly posted this because I don't see much coverage anywhere.
Live honey trap coverage: A protest with no other goal but be "antiTrump" planned by the CIA to get a list of targets is going off without a hitch. Soon facial recognition will learn the identity of the most easily swade parts of the anti Trump population.
Wear a mask and shades plus leave your phone at home if you're worried about being tracked. It's really not that hard to figure out.
Juggalo makeup is good for messing with facial recognition software.
CIA and FBI where dismantled by executive order ... soon they'll be replaced by the SS.