'Be Loud. Stay Peaceful': Anti-Trump Protests to Take P​lace Nationwide

"We the people reject Project 2025."

That's one of the rallying cries of demonstrations scheduled to take place at state capitols and other locations across the United States on Wednesday. The protests are a part of "Movement 50501," which describes itself as "a decentralized rapid response to the anti-democratic, destructive, and, in many cases, illegal actions being undertaken by the Trump administration."

Many of the actions are scheduled to start at noon, including one in Washington, D.C. A list of the scheduled protests, which are taking place in dozens of states, can be found here and here.

"50501" stands for the call to have 50 protests in 50 states on one day. Materials created for Movement 50501 list various goals for the protests, including opposing executive overreach and the "purging" of civil servants as well as decrying Project 2025—a hard-right policy blueprint from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.

On the first day of his second term in office, Trump signed a slew of executive orders declaring a national emergency at the southern border, going after birthright citizenship, implementing a 90-day pause on foreign aid, and more. In the past few weeks, billionaire Elon Musk and his representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency have carried out a broadside against multiple federal agencies, exerting leverage over them with the aim of carrying out deep cuts to spending and staff.

Compared to the large anti-Trump demonstrations that characterized Trump's arrival to the White House 2017, there have been fewer mass in-person actions this time around—though protest actions have taken place, such as businesses shuttering in observance of "a day without immigrants" on Monday and a rally in Los Angeles on Sunday over Trump's anti-immigrant agenda.

On the 50501 movement's Reddit page, a user called "honeydoulemon," who identified themselves as a moderator on the movement's Reddit and Discord pages, wrote early Wednesday that 67 actions have been planned. "We are not an organization. We are a true, blue grassroots movement made up of tens of thousands of Americans—volunteers who passionately believed in saving our democracy," wrote honeydoulemon.

"Be loud. Stay peaceful," they added.

The movement is supported by the group The Political Revolution, an organization of volunteers that grew out of the Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) campaign, according to the group's website.

"To those concerned with legitimacy, this movement has been organized over the past ten days by average Americans just like you. While we wish we had more time to gather resources and the support of established groups, the situation in our country requires a fast response, and we have worked tirelessly to make our voices heard," wrote The Political Revolution in a statement Wednesday.