# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-10-19T19:44:44.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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On Saturday, October 18, thousands of demonstrators in Carrboro, Pittsboro, and Hillsborough made signs, donned costumes, and stepped out to voice their distaste with the actions and policies of President Donald Trump’s administration.

Chapelboro.com sent reporters to each of these demonstrations to hear what they had to say.

In Carrboro, protestors gathered at the Town Commons to voice their frustration and find community support. Trisha Lester, one of the Carrboro No Kings organizers, said more than 2,000 people registered for the town’s demonstration. She said that Republican messaging against the demonstration only bolstered attendance.

“As you may well know, there were 2,600 events across the country,” she said. “And once the Speaker of the House started spewing out the propaganda about the No Kings Day, saying that we were terrorists and all such inappropriate names, it made the number of people registering double in one day.”

State Sen. Graig Meyer was one of the speakers in attendance in Carrboro. He laid out some of the specific issues that the demonstrators were rallying against.

“Their trickery and their thievery is not the point,” he said. “The point is their cruelty, because they’re doing it to advance the Trump agenda. They’re doing it to double health care premiums. They’re doing it to ensure that billionaires are never held accountable for polluting our air and water. They’re doing it to make sure that corporations get everything they want out of the Trump administration. They’re doing it because they can rip off your vote and then rip off your pocketbook. We have to say, no, no kings, but we also have to provide an alternative agenda.”

Full story on Chapelboro.com.
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#nokings #carrboro #pittsboro #hillsborough

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