As massive crowds in the downtowns of large cities made national headlines for participating in ‘No Kings’ protests on Saturday, people also took to small town streets and county highways in rural southwestern Minnesota.

Hundreds lined up outside a Kwik Trip in Cokato (population 2,782), along a Main Street in Hutchinson (population 14,599), and atop a county highway pass in Glencoe (population 5,744).

These gatherings were three out of over 2,700 rallies in urban and rural areas across all 50 U.S. States, many of which were organized by the national nonprofit Indivisible Project. Together, protesters made up an estimated 7 million, according to organizers. Their shared goal: to voice their frustrations with the administration of President Donald Trump.

Unlike protests in urban areas th

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