Leaders of the "No Kings" coalition said its main Instagram account was suspended for roughly 90 minutes on Saturday as nearly 3,000 events were taking place across the country as part of the group's early-voting push ahead of the November midterms. Even after the page became public, organizers said they remained unable to access the account's backend for roughly four hours, preventing them from posting or communicating with their network. "We cannot post or communicate with our network, meaning Meta is still actively depriving us of our platform at a critical time." The coalition called the suspension “unjustified.” Meta said access was disabled in error because of an automated action.
"When accounts post, share or comment at very high frequencies it can trigger automated systems," Meta spokesperson Andy Stone wrote on X on Saturday. "That's what happened with the No Kings IG account in the lead up to today's day of action. Unfortunately, that automated action was clearly taken in error.
Everything is now working as it should and we sincerely apologize." The "No Kings" movement is a nationwide anti-Trump protest and organizing coalition that emerged in 2025 after the president returned to the White House and organizers felt he was wielding power that went against the United States' founding principles. The first major wave of protests came June 14, 2025, on the same day the president held a military parade marking the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary.
Protestors held signs with messages calling out various Trump administration policies, including mass deportations, while others showed artwork of crowns crossed out. While the messaging has largely been about Trump himself, the group behind the "No Kings" movement, Indivisible, has maintained that the key message is that political power should remain with the people, rather than leaders in Washington, D.C. "October 17 is a celebration, an orientation, and an activation—all designed to drive mass early vote participation and build the nationwide capacity we’ll need to ensure the countless efforts to undermine our elections are met with the overwhelming nonviolent people power needed to defeat them," a "No Kings" spokesperson recently said.
Organizers told Newsweek that they did not yet have a nationwide crowd estimate, but said nearly 3,000 "No Kings: Vote Early" events were taking place across all 50 states and Washington, D.C. The movement describes the events as a day of nonpartisan voter participation, encouraging eligible voters to make voting plans and cast ballots early for the November 3 midterms. Events included rallies, marches, voting-information drives and organized trips to polling locations.
In Washington, D.C., demonstrators gathered near the Lincoln Memorial, where signs included “VOTE EARLY” and “HANDS OFF MY VOTE!” The reported that a few hundred people appeared to be gathered there. In Atlanta, City Council member Michael Julian Bond urged participants to use what he described as their democratic “power” to vote. That is the power to vote.
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