in red states

Along with the millions who attended No Kings rallies across the country this weekend, thousands of people at roughly 20 different events in West Virginia joined in the protests against President Trump and the actions of his administration. Protestors turned out in metropolitan cities and small towns from Huntington to Charles Town to voice their objections to the president’s immigration, domestic and foreign policies – and sometimes to the president himself. 

“Our president should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us. Yet, he’s committed multiple crimes against humanity and been convicted of crimes, and he’s not been held accountable,” said Kirsten Nelson, a social worker in Morgantown with two military sons, one of them currently deployed.  

She was with her father, Byron Nelson, a retired West Virginia University professor, who said the protest harkened back to his time protesting the Vietnam War. 

Demonstrators in Charleston, Parkersburg and Huntington braved the cold Tuesday to demand an end to what they called the authoritarian policies of the Trump administration.

In Morgantown, six protesters, including three local pastors with the Moral Mondays movement, were arrested outside of the offices of Sen. Shelley Moore Capito.