Several thousand Vermonters flooded downtown streets and village greens across the state Saturday as part of the latest wave of nationwide protests against President Donald Trump.

On a crisp fall day, protesters planned to gather at the courthouse grounds in St. Johnsbury, Vergennes City Park, the South Royalton green, the Manchester roundabout and the Brattleboro common.

The latest round of “No Kings’ protests was organized by progressive groups to demonstrate against what they call Trump’s “authoritarian power grabs.” They followed a similar event in June that coincided with a Trump-backed military parade in Washington D.C.

Burlington was a locus of activity. Three groups marched from various neighborhoods and converged downtown, where more than a thousand crowded City Hall Park and

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