Protests from Alabama to Wyoming — and on the Arctic Circle: What to know about Saturday’s third ‘No Kings’ rally - CNN

The Take

Jordan Calloway · Government Secrets & FOIA

# THE TAKE The "No Kings" rallies are getting CNN airtime, but nobody's asking the obvious question: who's funding the logistics? Coordinated protests from Alabama to the Arctic Circle don't materialize on organic enthusiasm alone. I've filed FOIA requests with DHS and the FBI for intelligence assessments on these demonstrations—nothing back yet, naturally. What I find telling is the *absence* of receipts. No permit filings analysis. No funding disclosures from organizers. No examination of whether state-level law enforcement actually engaged with participants or just documented them. CNN treats these as quaint grassroots theater rather than investigating the infrastructure underneath. The real story isn't whether these protests "have impact"—that's performative framing. It's whether government agencies have classified intelligence on organizer networks, whether coordination crosses state lines in ways that trigger federal oversight, and why nobody in mainstream media is demanding transparency from authorities about what they know. Until someone files the documents, we're just watching press releases disguised as news coverage.