Small towns in Montana rally for 'No Kings': Daily Montanan

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Even Polebridge.. at the Northwest Entrance to Glacier National Park about 45 miles north of me on North Fork Road... the town isn't even on the electrical grid (Mercantile has the best Bearclaws)

Small towns in Montana rally for 'No Kings' • Daily Montanan

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Small towns in Montana rally for 'No Kings' • Daily Montanan
HAMILTON — DILLON — POLEBRIDGE — Kent Kernahan, of Corvallis, said he’s a Methodist minister’s child, and he demonstrated Saturday at the No Kings Indivisible Bitterroot rally after asking himself wha...
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October 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM

Even Polebridge.. at the Northwest Entrance to Glacier National Park about 45 miles north of me on North Fork Road... the town isn't even on the electrical grid (Mercantile has the best Bearclaws)

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GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
Small towns in Montana rally for ‘No Kings’

Montanans rallied across the state, 31 events planned

BY:
KEILA SZPALLER, JORDAN HANSEN AND MICAH DREW
OCTOBER 18, 2025
4:45 PM

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HAMILTON — DILLON — POLEBRIDGE — Kent Kernahan, of Corvallis, said he’s a Methodist minister’s child, and he demonstrated Saturday at the No Kings Indivisible Bitterroot rally after asking himself what his father would have done. … Kernahan carried a sign that said, “Lord, Please Forgive Trump,” along with an image of the Gadsden “Don’t Tread On Me” image.

Among more than 700 people who lined several blocks of U.S. Highway 93 in downtown Hamilton, Kernahan said the symbol represents opposition to the king of England stepping on the colonies, but it’s misunderstood by some who claim it. … “I don’t think it means what they think it means,” Kernahan said.

No Kings Indivisible Bitterroot, part of a national No Kings rally and among a couple of dozen planned demonstrations in Montana, took place in Hamilton, a smaller community of roughly 5,000 in the Bitterroot Valley.

Montana supported GOP President Donald Trump with 58% of the vote in 2024, but Ravalli County, a Republican stronghold in the red Bitterroot, backed him with 69%.

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KEILA SZPALLER
Keila Szpaller is deputy editor of the Daily Montanan and covers education. Before joining States Newsroom Montana, she served as city editor of the Missoulian, the largest news outlet in western Montana.

JORDAN HANSEN
Jordan Hansen is a reporter with the Daily Montanan, covering state politics, transportation and agriculture. Jordan was previously a reporter at the Everett Herald, Missoulian and the Montana Standard.

MICAH DREW
Micah writes about Montana's environment and state and local politics. He's been known to run long distances around the Flathead Valley and Glacier National Park where he lives, works and plays.

Daily Montanan is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization.