Thousands of South Carolinians are expected to gather at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Statehouse to be a part of what organizers say will be the largest organized protest in American history.

A coalition of civil rights groups is pulling together millions of participants at more than 2,500 event sites in each state, Europe and Canada.

The nationwide protests coincide with an ongoing government shutdown, threatening federal workers and services, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in several U.S. cities and the Trump administration’s musings about invoking the Insurrection Act to quash political dissent.

“We are under an authoritarian regime right now in the United States,” said Charleston County Democratic Party Chair Thomas Dixon. “But there are people who really want to

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