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61,992 protestsin 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
61,992About 1191 a week
People who turned out
3.8M–4.9M Sum of crowd estimates for the 6,964 protests that have one
States & territories
55 Most in California (9,124)
Most protested issue
Executive power Main issue at 21,282 protests

Week by week

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

  • Reproductive rights
  • Education
  • Economy & cost of living
  • Civil rights
  • Environment & climate
  • Democracy & government
  • Technology
  • Foreign policy & war
  • Immigration
  • Labor & work
  • Policing & justice
  • Guns
  • Public health policy

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

Protests per million residents (2020 Census), which evens out big and small states.

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
Indivisible
Democracy & government, group
9782
No Kings
Democracy & government, group
4959
50501
Immigration, group
1129
MoveOn Civic Action
Immigration, group
1046
United We Dream
Immigration, group
1046
American Civil Liberties Union
Immigration, union
1045
Disappeared in America Campaign of the Not Above the Law coalition
Immigration, coalition
1045
Voto Latino
Immigration, group
1045
May Day Strong
Foreign policy & war, group
935
Engaged Defenders for Democracy
Economy & cost of living, group
802

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.