{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"No Kings Ever","home_page_url":"https://nokingsever.us","description":"No Kings Ever","author":{"name":"No Kings Ever"},"items":[{"id":"the-power-of-protest","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/ed2553cc-1447-4d5b-8584-6e04c7bda726/28nat-nokings-01-tkgj-superJumbo.jpg\"/><p>On Saturday, millions of Americans took to the streets to protest their country’s slide towards authoritarianism in general and many of the policies of the Trump Regime in particular. By all accounts, No Kings III was th...</p>","url":"https://nokingsever.us/f/the-power-of-protest","title":"THE POWER OF PROTEST","date_modified":"2026-03-31T17:26:00Z"},{"id":"there-is-no-goal-when-performance-politics-becomes-murder","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/ed2553cc-1447-4d5b-8584-6e04c7bda726/there%20is%20no%20goal.jpg\"/><p>There has always been a performative aspect to politics. In democratic systems, candidates have to capture the attention of voters. In non-democratic states, rulers are required to display their power in order to maintai...</p>","url":"https://nokingsever.us/f/there-is-no-goal-when-performance-politics-becomes-murder","title":"THERE IS NO GOAL: When Performance Politics Becomes Murder","date_modified":"2026-01-27T00:39:06Z"},{"id":"we-disagree-no-really-we-do","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/ed2553cc-1447-4d5b-8584-6e04c7bda726/we%20disagree%20010426.jpg\"/><p>The feckless response of the Democratic party leadership to Trump’s military adventures in Venezuela is just the latest instance of their inability to mount an effective resistance to the regime’s authoritarian agenda. T...</p>","url":"https://nokingsever.us/f/we-disagree-no-really-we-do","title":"WE DISAGREE. NO REALLY, WE DO.","date_modified":"2026-01-05T00:01:12Z"},{"id":"the-bully-president","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/ed2553cc-1447-4d5b-8584-6e04c7bda726/the%20bully%20president%20121225.jpg\"/><p>The throughline in everything Trump does is cruelty. MAGA cruelty, as expressed in the actions of this administration, displays the same capriciousness, the same lack of discipline, as the leader of this criminal enterpr...</p>","url":"https://nokingsever.us/f/the-bully-president","title":"The Bully President","date_modified":"2025-12-12T15:54:03Z"},{"id":"at-what-cost-democracy","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/ed2553cc-1447-4d5b-8584-6e04c7bda726/campaign%20finance4.jpg\"/><p>At No Kings Ever, a part of our agenda is a Constitutional amendment to strictly limit the use of private political contributions and create a system of publicly-funded campaigns. The bar for amending the Constitution is...</p>","url":"https://nokingsever.us/f/at-what-cost-democracy","title":"At What Cost Democracy?","date_modified":"2025-12-09T21:25:10Z"},{"id":"it-is-time-to-amend-the-constitution","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/ed2553cc-1447-4d5b-8584-6e04c7bda726/constitution_1_of_4_630.jpg\"/><p>We Are All Constitutionalists</p>","url":"https://nokingsever.us/f/it-is-time-to-amend-the-constitution","title":"IT IS TIME TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION","date_modified":"2025-11-17T17:04:58Z"},{"id":"radical-democracy","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/ed2553cc-1447-4d5b-8584-6e04c7bda726/radical%20democracy.jpg\"/><p>When the United States declared its independence from the British Empire, it put forward a radical proposition in politics: that all people were born with inalienable rights. These human rights were the right to life, li...</p>","url":"https://nokingsever.us/f/radical-democracy","title":"RADICAL DEMOCRACY","date_modified":"2025-11-03T21:21:41Z"},{"id":"it-is-happening-here","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/ed2553cc-1447-4d5b-8584-6e04c7bda726/Some%20National%20Guard%20troops%20in%20DC%20now%20carrying%20.jpg\"/><p>No Kings Ever recently posted a meme that described how Trump might attempt to start a civil war. A commenter, who indicated they were a veteran, stated that he had “faith in those who served, and are currently serving, ...</p>","url":"https://nokingsever.us/f/it-is-happening-here","title":"IT IS HAPPENING HERE","date_modified":"2025-10-11T23:20:16Z"},{"id":"the-fallacy-of-american-nationalism","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/ed2553cc-1447-4d5b-8584-6e04c7bda726/Nationalism_1-5b83d8dd10de7463e84444a643bcd59b.jpg\"/><p>MAGA’s appeals to American nationalism come straight from the playbook of the worst fascist regimes of the 20th century. But unlike European countries that manifested authoritarianism, an American nation does not exist. ...</p>","url":"https://nokingsever.us/f/the-fallacy-of-american-nationalism","title":"THE FANTASY OF AMERICAN NATIONALISM","date_modified":"2025-09-26T19:09:24Z"},{"id":"how-to-subvert-the-constitution-while-making-it-look-like-justice","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/ed2553cc-1447-4d5b-8584-6e04c7bda726/160526_gma_kerley4_16x9_992.jpg\"/><p>Trump and his MAGA Congress do not have to explicitly outlaw the form or content of the speech or expression with which they disagree. Those pointing to the1st Amendment and casting the Regime’s pressure campaign as a Co...</p>","url":"https://nokingsever.us/f/how-to-subvert-the-constitution-while-making-it-look-like-justice","title":"HOW TO SUBVERT THE CONSTITUTION WHILE MAKING IT LOOK LIKE JUSTICE","date_modified":"2025-09-18T20:07:41Z"},{"id":"the-paradox-of-tolerance","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/ed2553cc-1447-4d5b-8584-6e04c7bda726/Trump-2024-%E2%80%93-Fuck-Your-Feelings-%E2%80%93-Bump-425f42b.jpg\"/><p>The paradox of tolerance is a concept developed by the philosopher Karl Popper. He argued that tolerant societies that extend tolerance to intolerant people run the risk of enabling the intolerant; eventually being overw...</p>","url":"https://nokingsever.us/f/the-paradox-of-tolerance","title":"THE PARADOX OF TOLERANCE","date_modified":"2025-08-29T19:18:54Z"},{"id":"the-cancer-of-fanaticism","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/ed2553cc-1447-4d5b-8584-6e04c7bda726/010621_Attack-on-the-Capitol-007.jpg\"/><p>Conservatives have long referred to liberalism as a disease. While it is hard to understand how the desire for equality, civil rights and an equitable economy (aka life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness) constitutes ...</p>","url":"https://nokingsever.us/f/the-cancer-of-fanaticism","title":"The Cancer of Fanaticism","date_modified":"2025-08-18T16:49:27Z"},{"id":"the-trump-laws","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/ed2553cc-1447-4d5b-8584-6e04c7bda726/Trumpoathofoffice2025.jpg\"/><p>No Kings Ever is calling for a commission to study and propose legal (and perhaps constitutional) limits on the behavior of elected officials. Here is a start. We’ll call them the Trump Laws:</p>","url":"https://nokingsever.us/f/the-trump-laws","title":"The Trump Laws","date_modified":"2025-08-14T01:00:04Z"},{"id":"democratize-the-senate","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/ed2553cc-1447-4d5b-8584-6e04c7bda726/360_senate_filibuster_1220.jpg\"/><p>  As originally conceived, the United States Senate was significantly less democratic than its Congressional counterpart, the House of Representatives. Since 1790, we have changed how Senators are elected, moving that fu...</p>","url":"https://nokingsever.us/f/democratize-the-senate","title":"Democratize the Senate","date_modified":"2025-08-08T13:32:35Z"},{"id":"an-america-for-the-21st-century","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/ed2553cc-1447-4d5b-8584-6e04c7bda726/a%20new%20america%20072325.jpg\"/><p>If there is one lesson we can learn from the last ten years, it is that we cannot return to the normal we once knew.</p>","url":"https://nokingsever.us/f/an-america-for-the-21st-century","title":"An America for the 21st Century","date_modified":"2025-07-24T14:24:06Z"},{"id":"the-gerrymandered-states-of-america","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/ed2553cc-1447-4d5b-8584-6e04c7bda726/gerrymandering%20072125.jpg\"/><p>No Kings Ever is calling for an end to gerrymandering and a Constitutional amendment to guarantee voting rights. The need for these reforms is urgent, as MAGA continues to suppress and disenfranchise voters, while riggin...</p>","url":"https://nokingsever.us/f/the-gerrymandered-states-of-america","title":"The Gerrymandered States of America","date_modified":"2025-07-22T13:30:45Z"},{"id":"when-resistance-is-not-enough","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/ed2553cc-1447-4d5b-8584-6e04c7bda726/No_Kings!_Protest_at_the_Minnesota_State_Capit.jpg\"/><p>Resistance--the refusal to passively accept a situation--is an important first step in the process of self-determination. Intuition, the sense or feeling that something is wrong, awakens us to resistance. Eventually, res...</p>","url":"https://nokingsever.us/f/when-resistance-is-not-enough","title":"When Resistance Is Not Enough","date_modified":"2025-07-14T15:00:00Z"},{"id":"action-over-anxiety","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/ed2553cc-1447-4d5b-8584-6e04c7bda726/action%20not%20anxiety%20070225.jpg\"/><p>Let’s talk about the 800lb. gorilla in the room: we are all feeling afraid and discouraged right now. MAGA controls the executive branch, the Congress and the Supreme Court. They are steamrolling over the Constitution an...</p>","url":"https://nokingsever.us/f/action-over-anxiety","title":"Action Over Anxiety","date_modified":"2025-07-02T21:30:24Z"},{"id":"the-trump-trap","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/ed2553cc-1447-4d5b-8584-6e04c7bda726/Donald_Trump_speaking_at_CPAC_2011_by_-786813b.jpg\"/><p>Donald Trump’s super power is his ability to command attention. Whether you love him or hate him, agree with him or not, Trump has kept himself at the center of American political life and conversation for most of the la...</p>","url":"https://nokingsever.us/f/the-trump-trap","title":"The Trump Trap","date_modified":"2025-06-27T01:57:02Z"},{"id":"world-war-ii-defeat-before-victory","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/ed2553cc-1447-4d5b-8584-6e04c7bda726/USS_Yorktown_(CV-5)_is_hit_by_a_torpedo_on_4_J.jpg\"/><p>  If you follow the news, you are likely angry, scared and, let’s admit it, disheartened. I know I am. It is during times like these that a little historical perspective can be helpful. I am not a historian, but I’ve alw...</p>","url":"https://nokingsever.us/f/world-war-ii-defeat-before-victory","title":"World War II: defeat before victory","date_modified":"2025-06-20T02:13:56Z"},{"id":"why-did-we-start-no-kings-ever","html_content":"<img src=\"https://img1.wsimg.com/isteam/ip/ed2553cc-1447-4d5b-8584-6e04c7bda726/protest%20background.jpg\"/><p>We started No Kings Ever because everyone who is to the left of MAGA needs to organize and go on the offensive against trump and Project 2025. For too long, Democrats and liberals have been on the defensive; reacting to ...</p>","url":"https://nokingsever.us/f/why-did-we-start-no-kings-ever","title":"Why did we start No Kings Ever?","date_modified":"2025-06-10T17:56:19Z"}]}