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 as they listen to a speech by Senator Bernie Sanders. Protesting is an institution in American history, and in Washington, D.C. it is in many ways a subculture of its own. In 2025, the freedoms of speech and expression remain as central to the American experiment as they have been over the past 250 years.