‘No Kings,’ just Democrats: The ‘nonpartisan’ protest forgot to hide the blue jerseys

THE DAILY BS: HOW MUCH CAN YOU HANDLE?

SPARE ME THE BS (I’ve got things to do).

National No Kings organizers insist their October 17 voter events are nonpartisan and prohibit overtly Democratic campaign messaging.
In Newark, Delaware, a local organizer’s event page encourages blue clothing and suggests signs including “Vote Blue Nov 3” and “Time for a Blue Tsunami.”
Fox News identified similar conflicts elsewhere, exposing a gap between the coalition’s national rules and some local organizers’ political appeals.

LAY IT ON ME (I’ve got time).

Folks, welcome to the strictly nonpartisan protest.

Please collect your strictly nonpartisan sign, put on your strictly nonpartisan blue shirt, and remember: We would never tell you which party to vote for.

Apparently, that’s what the local organizers are for.

The No Kings movement is holding another nationwide day of action Saturday, this time focused on getting Americans to vote early in the November midterms.

1/ 🚨 NEW @FOXNEWS DIGiTAL INVESTIGATION: “NO KINGS” SAYS NO PARTISAN POLITICS. ITS FOOT SOLDIERS SAY “VOTE BLUE.”

About 300 organizations with $2.5 BILLION in annual revenues are mobilizing anti-Trump hate to today get out the vote in “No Kings” protests.

The national organizers wrote explicit rules:

❌ No “Vote Blue”
❌ No “vote them out”
❌ No preferred election outcomes
❌ No Democratic clubs
❌ No party coordination

❌ My favorite: “Don’t throw personal attacks at opposition,” for a day called “No Kings” directed as a personal attack on one man: President Trump.

Then I looked at what organizers are actually doing on the ground: they’re breaking their own rules.

🧵 THREAD with the receipts.

WATCH @aishahhasnie as she breaks down our findings with me at about 12:15 PM ET. I look forward to the conversation!

— Asra Nomani (@AsraNomani) October 17, 2026

And the movement’s national leadership has one very clear instruction. Keep it nonpartisan.

The coalition’s official website declares that its events are “nonpartisan” and designed to increase participation by all eligible voters. Its organizing materials go further, warning local chapters not to turn the activities into campaign rallies for individual candidates or political parties.

According to a Fox News Digital examination of the rules, organizers specifically prohibit “vote Blue” messaging, candidate endorsements, party coordination, and calls to elect a Democratic Congress.

That sounds straightforward enough.

Until you visit the website of Indivisible Newark DE. The Delaware chapter’s official event page promotes its October 17 demonstration at South College Avenue and West Main Street.

Along with the location, time, and march instructions, it tells participants: “Wear blue to signify the blue tsunami we are hoping we will see in Nov!”

Not exactly a mystery which party that tsunami is supposed to help.

And the chapter thoughtfully offers suggested protest signs. Among them:

“No Kings, Vote Blue”

“Time for a Blue Tsunami”

“Vote Early, Vote Blue”

“Vote Blue Nov 3”

Well, that’s certainly one way to take the guesswork out of a nonpartisan event.

The remarkable thing isn’t that Democratic activists want Democratic victories. They’re entitled to campaign for whomever they wish. The remarkable thing is that the national organization’s own rules tell participants not to do exactly what some local organizers are encouraging.

And Newark isn’t the only example drawing attention.

Fox News also highlighted the Indivisible chapter in Kingstowne, Virginia, which promoted its rally with a message about removing elected leaders who fail to represent voters’ interests.

“We vote for leaders to represent our interests,” the group wrote, before urging voters to remove those who do not.

Meanwhile over on Blue Sky, No Kings rallies are getting announced for Saturday. Expect wall to wall fawning by legacy press.

Reminder: Indivisible, the group that runs these historically Boomer centric rallies, has taken in over 7 million from the Soros Open Society Foundation as of 2025.

— Andrew Kolvet (@AndrewKolvet) October 14, 2026

The national instructions reportedly prohibit similar “vote them out” appeals at official No Kings activities.

The contradiction gets even more entertaining when you read the coalition’s guidance about what qualifies as nonpartisan. Merely calling an event nonpartisan, organizers acknowledge, does not make it so.

That’s a useful principle. Perhaps somebody could forward it to Delaware.

The broader movement includes organizations such as Indivisible, the American Civil Liberties Union and numerous labor and advocacy groups.

National leaders say their objective is voter participation, election protection, and training volunteers to help eligible Americans understand their voting options.

Those are activities that can be conducted without endorsing a party. And not every local No Kings event is promoting Democrats. Some organizers have explicitly invited eligible voters from both parties to participate.

But Fox’s investigation found instances where partisan advocacy and the official nonpartisan standard appear to collide. That creates an obvious credibility problem for a movement asking the public to trust its organizing principles.

NO KINGS. VOTE EARLY. VOTE BLUE. https://t.co/LyBmwl1Z4x

— Democrats (@TheDemocrats) October 17, 2026

When the instruction sheet says one thing and the event advertisement says another, people are entitled to notice.

The distinction also matters legally. Different nonprofit organizations operate under different tax rules, and whether any particular activity violates federal election or tax law requires a separate factual and legal analysis.

No Kings says it wants Americans to participate in democracy. Fine.

But if an event is supposed to be nonpartisan, it probably shouldn’t need a sign reminding everyone to vote Democratic.

Unless, of course, the word nonpartisan now comes in only one color. Blue.

And just when the No Kings movement had enough trouble explaining its nonpartisan blue shirts, Saturday delivered another unexpected development.

Its official Instagram account disappeared.

At approximately 1:30 p.m. Eastern, Meta suspended the coalition’s main account during the nationwide protests, temporarily cutting organizers off from one of their primary communication channels.

No Kings co-founder Ezra Levin wasn’t amused.

“They suspended it. We didn’t have access to it. We couldn’t post to it,” Levin complained during an interview with MeidasTouch.

He quickly raised the possibility that the suspension reflected something more sinister.

“We might be seeing something similar from Meta in our country right now,” Levin warned, invoking a dispute in Brazil involving the company’s treatment of political movements.

Other activists demanded immediate restoration, suggesting that the interruption amounted to an attack on political organizing.

Then Meta explained what actually happened.

“When accounts post, share or comment at very high frequencies it can trigger automated systems,” company spokesman Andy Stone explained.

“Unfortunately, that automated action was clearly taken in error.”

Meta apologized and restored the account. Organizers said they subsequently regained administrative access, though the interruption had lasted several hours in various forms.

So the movement spent Saturday confronting two separate emergencies: explaining why “Vote Blue” is somehow nonpartisan, and determining why Instagram briefly decided its enthusiasm was excessive.