Agent 99 made their way to Dover Street in Easton to document the hundreds of Mid-Shore residents who joined the nationwide “No Kings” protests on Saturday. As the images show, the participants were unmistakably local—neighbors rather than rumored outside agitators. Americans of all ages turned out with signs and slogans celebrating 250 years of living in a nation with no kings.
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Mary Smith says
“No Kings” fits Talbot County all too well. Unelected groups act like royalty, deciding how land can be used and stifling small businesses. Every attempt to improve daily life runs into another restriction, all under the banner of “conservation,” even when it harms working families.
The effects are easy to see: few jobs, unaffordable homes, services far away, long drives through traffic for the simplest errands, growing addiction problems, and families moving away because steady work is hard to find. Even getting timely medical care has become a challenge.
This is what happens when local power drifts away from the people who actually live here. When special interests use endless barriers to shape every decision, freedom and opportunity fade. Talbot County deserves planning and zoning that serve residents, not the preservation of privilege.
Lucy Miziolek says
Love the music you put with these pictures of a peaceful community standing up for what is important to them.
Glenn Baker says
Anyone under 65 in that rally?
Any native born people or only come here’s from the North?
Sad looking representatives of Talbot County.
We know what they are against, what are they for?
Who is their Leader?
Lots of questions, few answers.
Rick Hughes says
It was a great day for Democracy on Saturday when 1,600 locals showed up to exercise their right to freedom of speech and to peacefully assemble and protest. Regardless of ideology or partisan politics, every American should recognize these rights as sacred in a free society and essential to Democracy. The protestors were bound by many common interests, among them the idea that government should work for ALL, should protect the MANY from the FEW and not just be used as a battering ram by those who covet power as a way to enrich themselves (personal or corporate) or to divide the American people as a way to conquer. We have more in common than not, yet division is tearing us apart. Now is the time to come together for a honest exchange of thought and ideas, before so much is obliterated that we will go financially and morally bankrupt as a country trying to put the pieces back together again. Amazingly, the No Kings protest in Easton resembled a family reunion or block party with lots of hugs and smiles and laughter with kids in strollers to adults in their 90s. It was hopeful and festive, even in the midst of so much national chaos. And yet, the local internet trolls have been out in full force with name calling and demeaning language pointed directly at people they may not even know, people that are otherwise their Talbot neighbors and who they’d never speak to like that in person. We are broken as a country, but it isn’t too late. We need leadership and representation. Andy Harris… please remember that we are ALL your constituents, not just your base. Let’s talk! For everyone else, on both sides of the aisle: please tone down the rhetoric, fact check before going off half cocked, call lies out, call bad behavior out. Let’s regain civility and work together to reunite. We don’t have to agree on everything, we never will. But if we come to the table, together, we can find actual solutions instead of the constant rabid partisanship that is eating the body politic from within. We all need to be the adults in the room!
Totch Hartge says
Yes there were young people, brown people, tan people. No orange people except on posters.
Great enthusiasm and pride. We will win.
Caroline Thomas says
I was there, lots of people under 65. As a matter of fact, I was across the street from two young couples with three children. Good for those parents!
As for what we stand for, it is democracy and following the constitution, for inclusion and kindness.
In my opinion, it makes no difference if you’re from here or there. We stood together in peaceful protest of this administration that we don’t agree with, as is our right.
Betsy Jallade says
I also drove the No King protest route and I didn’t see “ 1600” locals , I was born in Easton Memorial Hospital (75 yrs ago )and raised in Easton and lived in St . Michaels for 20 years as an adult . I was a downtown merchant and worked in retail in Easton for 50 yrs . Point being , I know a lot of people and I didn’t see anyone I recognized as a “ local “ on the route . I saw a lot of friendly strangers waving, though. I can’t help but question who are these people , where did they come from and have they been paid to be here?
Rick Hughes says
Hi Ms. Jallade, I was at the No Kings rally the entire time. I personally knew a couple of hundred people and I spoke with many, many there that day. Most I encountered live in Talbot County. Some were on vacation or visiting family and took advantage of this protest location because they weren’t home. You and I don’t know each other, but I live in Easton, was born in Cambridge 65 years ago and I’m 10th generation Eastern Shore. But that doesn’t make me, my voice or my vote anymore more valuable than my neighbor who moved from South Carolina last year or more than someone who was visiting last Sunday. As for people being paid to attend rallies – that is simply a fiction spread to discount the fact people show up. Nobody was bused in, nobody was paid. There has never, to my knowledge, been anyone who went out, signed up, got paid for being at a protest and then brought proof of that to the attention of anyone else. It is a red herring, as they say. Now, Mr. Andy Harris loves to pull that old line out whenever he sees large gatherings of people that aren’t his supporters. First, he’s not being factual. Second, how the heck would he know who is a resident of his District or not? He won’t hold an in person Town Hall or meet with those who aren’t his base. If you know Andy, please share this reply and let him know that thousands of his constituents would like to talk and would love to be represented too.