ALEXANDRIA, Va.— On South Washington Street, 26-year-old environmental engineer Nayely Cruz Hernandez had a straightforward message for voters as she joined a phalanx of protesters lining the street for nationwide "No Kings" protests against President Donald Trump: "Vote blue.""We got to take the power away from Trump, from the Republicans," Hernandez told Fox News Digital.
"So we got to win the House, we got to win the Senate, not only in Virginia, but across the country."Standing beside her boyfriend, Noah Schwarzott, 25, their 13-year-old Maltese-poodle, Maybellene, in her arms, Hernandez acknowledged that national No Kings organizers had their own rules for the protests to be "nonpartisan," but she wasn't following orders.'NO KINGS' FOOT SOLDIERS IGNORE ORGANIZERS' WARNING, GO ALL IN FOR DEMOCRATSDemonstrators rally in Alexandria, Va, as part of the nationwide "No Kings" protest on Oct.17, 2026.
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organizers can say whatever," she said."But I'm saying vote blue, because why are we here? Who's in the House? Who's in the Senate? Who is the President? It's red, it's Republicans, and it's Trump."A Fox News Digital investigation documented about 300 organizations with $2.5 billion in combined annual revenues behind the "No Kings" protest network, including Democratic-aligned advocacy groups, major labor unions and nonprofits including MoveOn, the American Federation of Teachers and the ACLU.Cruz Hernandez ended by introducing Maybellene and declaring that the dog was "telling you to vote for Don Beyer," a Democratic member of Congress who represents Alexandria, Arlington and other Northern Virginia communities.The national organizers' position is that the Oct.
17 events must be "nonpartisan." That's to comply with the federal laws that regulate the nonprofits that fund the No Kings protests.Crowds gather in Alexandria, Va., for the "No Kings" protest.(Asra Q.
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