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“No Kings” Movement Needs a Hand-Held Mirror

By Cole Mason

Oct 29, 2025
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I live in Santa Barbara, and to be honest, I don’t love what the city (and state) has become. The dominant worldview is wildly out of sync with my own. That reality hit home again last weekend during the latest “No Kings” protest in Alameda Park—a march aimed at Donald Trump, his immigration policies, and just about everything else that earns him the “O…

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