SOUTH BEND — Democrat Valerie McCray lost the election as U.S. senator to Republican Jim Banks last fall. But, as she told a crowd of roughly 200 people in the bone-chilling 31 degrees at downtown’s Jon Hunt Memorial Plaza, that only “left me free to fight back with both hands and feet.”

The protest was one of 50 planned protests Wednesday in cities across the country organized by the 50501 Movement — 50 states, 50 protests, one day — and Political Revolution. The movement is against Trump's recent spate of executive orders and Project 2025,

The protests on Feb. 5 were the latest in a string of marches in Glendale and Phoenix opposing federal immigration policies.