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1,840 protestsabout economy & cost of living in the last 12 months

The research record (Crowd Counting Consortium) runs through May 31, 2026; it's published a few months after the fact. Protests since then come from organizers' public listings on Mobilize and community reports, which are less complete and lean toward groups that use Mobilize. About the data

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Protests
1,840About 35 a week
People who turned out
37k–41k Sum of crowd estimates for the 214 protests that have one
States & territories
47 Most in North Carolina (516)
Most protested issue
Healthcare Main issue at 1,125 protests

Week by week

Protests per week, colored by the main issue. Spikes are national days of action.

  • Economy & cost of living

What people protest

Protests per issue. A protest with several demands counts toward each.

Who protests what

Share of each issue's protests whose claims were coded left- or right-leaning, from most left to most right. Lean describes the demands, never the people.

  • Left-leaning
  • Neither or mixed
  • Right-leaning

Where

Number of protests in each state. Switch to per million residents to compare states of different sizes.

Who they target

The agency, company, official or body each protest's demands were aimed at.

Most active organizers

Groups listed as organizers, by number of protests in this view.

OrganizationRelative activityProtests
Engaged Defenders for Democracy
Economy & cost of living, group
330
Indivisible
Economy & cost of living, group
278
Indivisible Charlotte
Economy & cost of living, group
77
Indivisible Lancaster Together
Democracy & government, group
69
50501
Economy & cost of living, group
32
SEIU
Economy & cost of living, union
32
Democratic Progressive Caucus of Palm Beach County
Economy & cost of living, group
31
Indivisible Southern Delaware
Economy & cost of living, group
31
Racial Justice Coalition of San Diego
Economy & cost of living, coalition
31
Coastside Indivisible
Economy & cost of living, group
30

How it went, from people who were there

No firsthand reports for these protests yet. When people who were there add a report, how it went (tone, police presence, arrests) shows up here.