On Saturday, over 1,500 ‘No Kings’ protests are scheduled all across the nation. In North Dakota, ten of those protests will be taking place across the state. “Every single time we do one of our events,

Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Thursday he would be deploying over 5,000 Texas National Guard members across the state in anticipation of Saturday’s protests, according to the Texas Tribune. Roughly 2,500 of those were diverted from Operation Lone Star border assignments, according to the Austin American-Statesman.