Latest No Kings protest urges Granite Staters to vote

The theme of Saturday’s nationwide No Kings protest was “vote early.”

However, New Hampshire — which saw demonstrations in Portsmouth, Nashua, Littleton and other cities — doesn’t allow early in-person voting. All voting in New Hampshire, by state law, takes place on Election Day, which is Nov. 3 this year, or via mail.

No Kings is a left-leaning coalition that has organized protests across the country since President Donald Trump retook office early last year. Those protests have aggressively opposed Trump’s second-term agenda. On Saturday, they added a new goal: increasing voter turnout.

In Concord, a crowd amassed outside the State House, a common rallying spot for demonstrators, in the early afternoon. On the State House lawn, advocacy groups set up tents to hand out fliers and recruit members and protest organizers set up a stage where musicians sang and leaders rallied the crowd.

In the crowd of several hundred people was Jane Stapleton, of Concord. Her message: “Vote and know what and who you’re voting for.”

“Because I wonder if the majority of people who voted for him in the last election are in support of and say that they’ve voted for what’s happening right now,” she continued. 

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Trump’s approval rating among Republicans alone was 76%, according to a Fox News poll released Wednesday. That’s down 16% since March 2025. Amongst all respondents it was 36%.

“Wake up because democracy is falling under this administration,” Stapleton said. “That’s 100% what’s happening.”

She held up a sign that said “no kings and no liars, no pedophiles,” referring to Trump’s previously extensive ties to the notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

There were nearly 20 official protests in New Hampshire Saturday and more than 2,500 across the United States, according to the national No Kings organization. This is the fourth protest under the No Kings banner.

The first three were designed to “send a message that the American people were not simply going to sacrifice their constitutional rights, that they were willing to stand up,” Ezra Levin, co-founder and co-executive director of Indivisible which is part of the No Kings coalition, told States Newsroom. Saturday’s, he said “is therefore not just to protest and get attention to the fact that people aren’t afraid to stand up, but to use this tool that is available to us right now in October … your constitutional right to vote.”

Election Day is a little over two weeks away and Democrats hope to take advantage of Trump’s low approval ratings and the fact that parties in power typically do poorly in midterm elections.