YAKIMA, Wash. – Thousands of people gathered at Yakima Valley Mall to participate in the second No Kings protest, challenging the Trump administration. The event was part of a nationwide movement with over 2,500 protests across the country, including in Central Washington.

Yakima Indivisible volunteers emphasized that the message of the day was about unity.

“There’s so many things that we agree upon that we should be searching for those things and believing that you can be frustrated later about the budget or whatever. But saving democracy is important,” said Scott Dolquist, steering community chair of the chapter. He explained the goal of the demonstration.

“We’re trying to begin to look at how we bridge the divide, how we talk more civilly to each other and because we’re not going

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