By Mike Wood
PEACHHTREE CORNERS, Ga. | A broad national coalition led by the advocacy group Indivisible has organized “No Kings” rallies nationally on Saturday, October 18, 2025. Metro Atlanta rallies will take place in the Atlanta Civic Center parking lot and in at least five other area communities.
The rallies seek a peaceful day of national protests, action, and mass mobilization in response to the increasing authoritarian actions of the Trump Administration. According to the “No Kings” mission, “NO KINGS is more than just a slogan; it is the foundation our nation was built upon.”
In response, the Administration has sought to associate these rallies as organized by Antifa and, in the last four weeks, has taken Antifa-related actions.
President Trump signed an executive order designating Antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization.” However, no Antifa “organization” exists. Loose associations of people who consider themselves to be part of an anti-fascist movement merely refer to themselves as “Antifa.”
The executive order states “Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law.” Explicitly? No national organization exists, much less has a mission statement, by-laws, officers, or official members.
The Administration realizes that there is no “enterprise” that “explicitly” does anything. The president is merely attempting to put the ideas of “Antifa” and “terrorism” into the minds of his voters and other supporters. At a White House “Antifa Roundtable” the most notable aspect was President Trump shifting the executive order definition of Antifa from being an organized criminal enterprise to a more nebulous ideological concept. He stated:
“It should be clear to all Americans that we have a very serious left-wing terror threat in our country, radicals associated with the domestic terror group Antifa.
“In July, approximately a dozen Antifa-aligned militants stormed the ICE facility in Texas.
“The epidemic of left-wing violence and Antifa-inspired terror has been escalating for nearly a decade.”
Note the sleight of hand in Italics. It has gone from “Antifa is an enterprise” to “the people who did disagree with federal government actions are somehow associated with, or philosophically aligned with, or inspired by Antifa.” Those are very different distinctions, and they matter.
Perhaps what the Administration is trying to do is label you a terrorist.
If you attend one of the “No Kings” rallies around Atlanta, you may want to prepare for confrontations with federal agents armed to battle so-called “Antifa terrorists.” Attend these “No Kings” rallies anyway to make the voices of true American patriots heard across our country.
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