By Chris Talgo
The mixed messaging, cognitive dissonance, and blatant hypocrisy on display at the latest round of “No Kings” protests in places like New York City reached epic proportions this past weekend.
If you were in New York City on Saturday during the third edition of the No Kings movement, you would have seen a smorgasbord of far-left groups aiming to sow the seeds of revolution in America.
You would have seen numerous flags adorned with the hammer and sickle. You would have been surrounded by collectivist swag and literature for sale, including copies of The Communist Manifesto. You would have seen banners with socialist slogans celebrating depraved monsters like Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong. Worst of all, you would have been inundated with chants like, “There is only one solution — communist revolution.”
The No Kings movement is a sham. Far from a grassroots movement, it is a highly coordinated, well-funded network of far-left groups that seek to replace America’s founding principles.
On its website, No Kings states, “Throughout 2025, in the face of unprecedented attacks, millions of us joined together in our communities and held the largest single day of morally grounded, nonviolent direct actions by any movement in US history. Each time we show up, we disrupt President Trump’s attempts to rule through repression and remind the country, and the world, that people power is our path to a truly free America.”
For starters, I take umbrage with the claim that the 2025 No Kings rally was one of the most significant “movements” in American history. Honestly, that type of embellishment undermines the truly monumental strides made under the civil rights movement or the movement for women to gain the right to vote.
Furthermore, it makes no sense because if the United States really were a monarchy with Donald Trump atop the throne, wouldn’t Trump just use his divine right as king to outlaw any and all pesky protests against his kingship?
Wouldn’t the king of America suppress freedom of speech and freedom of association, like King George did way back when the states were just colonies of the British Crown?
The simple fact is that the American system, although far from perfect, is light-years away from resembling a monarchy.
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Incredibly, this inconvenient truth was ignored by the millions (apparently) of Americans who took to the streets in the name of No Kings.
I bet many, maybe even most of these misguided Americans, are unaware that No Kings “partners” with some very shady organizations, such as “73 for Palestine,” the “Democratic Socialists of America,” and “Rise Up for Justice.”
I can almost guarantee that nearly all the No Kings protesters were blissfully unaware that the funding behind the latest rally came from some very sinister characters, most notably Neville Roy Singham.
“Over nearly a decade, Singham has financed a constellation of activist institutions that promote revolutionary socialist politics and frequently collaborate in protest campaigns, including the People’s Forum in New York, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the ANSWER Coalition and CodePink, whose co-founder Jodie Evans is married to Singham. These groups work closely with the Freedom Road Socialist Organization,” reports Asra Q. Nomani of Fox News.
Singham was born in America, became a billionaire tech tycoon, and then moved to China because he considers himself a Maoist at heart. While in China, Singham has become cozy with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), while coming under mounting scrutiny “as a foreign agent of the Chinese Communist Party.”
According to Republican Rep. Jason Smith (MO-08), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, “Mr. Singham has a long history of questionable ties that have attracted the attention of federal law enforcement.”
I should not be the only American alarmed by the fact that a CCP fanatic like Singham is pouring millions of dollars into the No Kings movement.
What’s more, I should not be the only American struck by the juxtaposition that a Maoist, who left the freedom and opportunity afforded by the United States after becoming filthy rich, would fund a No Kings rally while simultaneously advocating for communism in the very place that allowed him to become fabulously wealthy.
Life under communism, as history has shown, is arguably far worse than life under a benevolent king. Although I am not arguing in favor of a monarchy, I think I would rather live under a sovereign emperor than a ruthless communist dictatorship.
By the way, the United States has been celebrating its opposition to kings long before the No Kings movement came into being. We call it Independence Day, and it happens to fall each summer on July 4.
Chris Talgo ([email protected]) is editorial director at The Heartland Institute.
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