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  • Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder.

  • Americans across the country will take to the streets today to protest against the Trump administration.

  • NPR's Joel Rose reports the No Kings protests are planned at more than 2,000 locations.

  • The organizers of the No Kings protests say they're expecting millions of people to demonstrate against what they call the Trump administration's authoritarian agenda.

  • Leah Greenberg is with the nonprofit group Indivisible, one of the organizers of the events.

  • There is nothing.

  • more American than saying that we don't have kings and exercising our right to peaceful protest.

  • Republicans meanwhile are trying to portray the protesters as radical and violent.

  • House Speaker Mike Johnson has described the event as a hate America rally,

  • while other GOP leaders suggested the events are likely to turn violent.

  • The organizers reject those claims as an attempt to smear the protesters and emphasize that the events are intended to be peaceful.

  • Joel Rose, NPR News Washington.

  • And it leads to Republican governors are mobilizing their state's National Guard,

  • Texas Governor Greg Abbott is sending guard troops to the state Capitol in Austin and a spokesman for Virginia Governor Glenn Yonkin says he has put troops on active duty in case they're needed.