Under gloomy skies and light rain, a crowd gathered outside Wake Forest Town Hall Saturday, holding homemade signs and occasionally erupting with applause as speakers urged them to turn their opposition to the Trump administration into action at the ballot box.
“Do we believe in the power of the people? Do we believe in the power of our vote?” Keith Shannon, political action chair for the NAACP’s Wake-Wendell branch, asked the crowd.
His message was direct: Vote early, make a plan and help someone get to the polls.
The Wake Forest gathering was one of many No Kings events across
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