MEDINA, Ohio – When Medina County Indivisible hosted a Hands-Off rally in the Medina square back in April, roughly 600 people attended. Organizers hoped to double that number for the Oct. 18 No Kings Rally and the group surpassed its goal.

“I was counting people from the gazebo, so it was hard to get a good count,” said Mosie Welch, an organizer for Medina County Indivisible. “We had at least 1,500. But there was another gentleman who also counted, and he thinks it was closer to 2,000.”

Welch said she talked to a number of people at the rally who said they were attending their very first protest.

“Some of them said they had never stood out with a sign before,” she said. “Some said they identified as a Republican, but they are horrified by what is going on right now. But the whole event

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