This photo captures a moment from the 18 October 2025 "No Kings" Protest in Washington, D.C. Participants are raising and waving American Flags and protest signs together in response to a speech by Senator Bernie Sanders. Protesting plays a major role in American history, and is a significant piece of the cultural fabric of Washington, D.C. As the nation stands at the threshold of its next quarter-millennium, the freedoms of speech and expression will remain as central to the American experiment as they have for the last 250 years.