Anti-Trump No Kings Head Vows Campaign Against ‘Cowering’ Democrats Who Caved on Shutdown
— Tommy moderna-vaX-Topher (@tommyxtopher) November 11, 2025
Activist Ezra Levin told independent journalist Jim Acosta that Democrats who “cowered” by caving in to President Donald Trump to end the government shutdown can expect to feel the full force of the “No Kings” movement in their next primaries.
Democrats and their allies are livid over a deal that a small group of Democratic senators made with Republicans in order to end the government shutdown.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), Sen. Angus King (I-ME), Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) voted to advance a bill that would reopen the government in exchange for some job protections and a promise to hold a vote on Obamacare subsidies in December.
Levin — who is the leader of the massive No Kings protest movement and the progressive Indivisible nonprofit — popped up on Monday’s edition of The Jim Acosta Show to vent about the deal, telling Acosta that he will throw his support behind Democrats who will stand up to Trump:
JIM ACOSTA: I mean, you know, a lot of Democrats like yourself woke up this morning really pissed at Chuck Schumer. And there’s a key, I mean he’s a fellow New Yorker, I guess Hakeem Jeffries feel like has to say it, fellow leadership has to see it, but look, that doesn’t go down good.
EZRA LEVIN: It’s no longer about them. Can I be honest, Jim? It’s not about them? They have shown us time and time again this year that given the chance, they will cower.
Given the chance they will capitulate. If they can find plausible deniability, they will give in the regime.
At some point, we’ve got to ask ourselves, do we have self-respect? Are we willing to take no for an answer that they are unwilling to be the leaders that we need them to be?
And if we’re willing to take that for an answered, fine. We’ve got the Democratic Party we’re gonna have.
But what I would encourage people to think about is there is a better way. This is not the entirety of the Democratic Party.
We have Maxwell Frost, we’ve got Jasmine Crockett, we’ve Chris Van Hollen and Chris Murphy(s), we’ve got Bernies and Warrens. There is a faction of fight back Democrats.
And it happens to be that that faction, which is somewhat ideologically diverse, that faction is ascendant. That faction is a ascendant, that is where rank and file Democrats are.
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If there’s a silver lining to all this, it’s that this capitulation was so complete that it will be impossible to hide. Everybody can see that the party is not up to the task now, and so we should be asking every single Senate Democratic candidate, are you supporting Chuck Schumer for leadership?
And if you are, you don’t got my vote, you didn’t get my donation, you You don’t get my support, you don’t my attention.
So Indivisible today, it’s going to go out in about an hour or so, Jim, we’re launching the largest primary program in the history of Indivisible and it’s going to be focused not on ideology, but on building a democratic party that fights back.
That is what we’re going to focus with on. And we’re gonna be working with Indivisible groups from around the country to build that party. Wow.
JIM ACOSTA: So that’s a big deal and I mean if you’re marshaling the resources of you know, the what what put on no kings and so on.
This is this is a big. Deal. I mean this this is going to you know get some some folks a little worried back in Washington
Watch above via The Jim Acosta Show.
