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No Kings rallies draw scrutiny after Instagram outage, partisan push

By Drooid · Oct 18, 2026, 2:31 AM UTC · How we work

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Instagram Account Restored

The No Kings coalition held roughly 3,000 early-voting rallies and marches in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026.
Meta said an automated system mistakenly disabled the coalition’s Instagram account, which was restored after about four hours.
Organizers said the rallies were nonpartisan voter-registration drives aiming for record early-voting turnout.
White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis urged the coalition to change its name before November 3 midterms.

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Soros Funded Influence

The No Kings coalition organized roughly 3,000 rallies and marches in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. on Oct. 17, 2026.
Investigations found Democratic groups, including Indivisible, led the rallies despite the coalition’s nonpartisan rules.
Indivisible, which received millions from George Soros, displayed “wear blue” signs urging “Vote Blue Nov. 3” in Newark, Delaware.
A webinar participant was told by Indivisible founder Ezra Levin to make the event about President Donald Trump.

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Historical Context

In the 2008 presidential race, the Obama campaign pioneered large-scale digital mobilization, using the DNC-created Votebuilder database (launched 2007) to give volunteers neighborhood-level voter lists and leveraging social media—over 2 million Facebook supporters and 35 % of Americans watching online video for election news. This tech-driven GOTV push helped raise a record turnout of about 131 million votes.

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Instagram Account Restored

The No Kings coalition held roughly 3,000 early-voting rallies and marches in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026.
Meta said an automated system mistakenly disabled the coalition’s Instagram account, which was restored after about four hours.
Organizers said the rallies were nonpartisan voter-registration drives aiming for record early-voting turnout.
White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis urged the coalition to change its name before November 3 midterms.

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