On Saturday, I joined the No Kings Day (NKD) protest in the US state of Pennsylvania. The mood was markedly different from the last protest I attended earlier in June. Last time, I felt afraid—using that word several times in my June dispatch . So much has changed since then.

This time, I felt the opposite: joy, excitement, relief. October is one of the best months in Pennsylvania, and it was a beautiful day for NKD. Traffic was slow for miles around the suburban location where I was headed, and at first I assumed it was for a fall festival. No—it was all No Kings Day traffic.

I really liked what Heather Cox Richardson said recently in a post called “The Tide Turned This Week.” That’s exactly what I felt on the ground today. Our rights no longer feel abstract or confined to the arc

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