Governor Patrick Morrisey has directed the West Virginia National Guard and the West Virginia State Police to stand ready to stop any violence at protests this weekend.

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The goal is to pull attention from a military parade in Washington, D.C., and instead bring attention to the joy of using Americans' right to protest,

Thousands of people rallied around Atlanta as part of the "No Kings" day events on Saturday, June 14, organized in opposition to President Donald Trump on the day of a military parade in Washington, D.

On a day that the president spent millions of tax dollars to celebrate his ego, millions of Americans protested his flailing rule.

Eight readers on why the Saturday demonstrations felt like a turning point.

A demonstrator was shot and killed at Salt Lake City’s “No Kings” protest when a man believed to be part of the event’s peacekeeping team fired at another man allegedly aiming a rifle at protestors, authorities said Sunday.

Mayor @QuintonLucasKC says on 95.7FM @kcmotalkradio that he will NOT be participating in any of the ‘No Kings’ protests this weekend. Check the full interview via www.TonysKansasCity.com embed . . .

This comparison does a disservice to the difference in scale between the two. Though estimating crowd size is tricky and subject to bias, it seems clear that the anti-Trump “No Kings” protests drew millions of attendees in the U.S. while the Army/Trump parade enticed thousands.