Los Angeles, California. June 14, 2025.

American Opposition founder Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos helping lead the No Kings march in Los Angeles, California on June 14, 2025.

American Opposition founder Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos helped lead the No Kings march in Los Angeles and delivered the following speech to the attendees:

My name is Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos, and I’m the founder of American Opposition.

I came to Los Angeles today for one reason: To look this this regime and its enforcers in the eye, and tell them to their faces that we are not afraid.

We see the uniforms. We see the rifles. We see the armored vehicles in the streets of our cities. And we see exactly what Donald Trump is trying to do.

He is not defending America. He is attacking it.

He has deployed our military—not to protect us from a foreign enemy, but to silence dissent at home. He is trying to scare us into submission. To make us believe we are powerless. To condition us to accept his rule.

Well, I have a message for Donald Trump, for every officer who obeyed his order, and for every coward who has stayed silent as he’s tried to set our Constitution on fire:

You will not intimidate us.

We do not kneel to kings in this country.

We do not obey tyrants.

And we sure as hell do not back down from a fight for our own freedom.

I’ve seen this before. I grew up under Joaquin Balaguer in the Dominican Republic—an elected fascist that was what Trump hopes to become. He wore the mask of democracy while building a regime of fear. He silenced truth, jailed opponents, deployed soldiers against civilians, and corrupted every institution of government.

And I’ll tell you what I learned: You cannot reason with fascists. You must stop them.

That’s why we built American Opposition—not to beg for our rights, but to defend them. Not to plead for justice, but to demand it. Not to whisper, but to roar.

We are here today to confront a president who pardons traitors and prosecutes truth-tellers.

To confront a system that sends soldiers to face citizens, but won’t lift a finger to stop billionaires from robbing our country blind.

To confront the idea that we must choose between safety and liberty—because history has shown us that when you give up liberty for safety, you end up with neither.

Let me say this clearly to every soldier and Marine deployed here today: I know you signed up to defend this country, not to threaten it. You swore an oath—not to Donald Trump, but to the Constitution of the United States.

If that oath still means something to you, then do not follow unlawful orders.

Do not point your weapons at the people you swore to protect.

And do not allow yourself to become the boot of a dictator.

You still have a choice. So make the right one.

The people gathered here today—we are not your enemies. We are your fellow Americans. We are your brothers and sisters. We are the ones still fighting for the dream that inspired you to serve.

For a future without fear.

For a government that answers to the people.

For a country where power is earned, not seized.

Where no man is above the law—and no voice is beneath it.

So let’s show the world what it means to be an American.

Let them hear our voices, unshaken by riot shields or rubber bullets.

Let them know that no matter how many soldiers and Marines Trump sends, he will never conquer this country—because this country belongs to all us.

And let’s remind Trump and his enablers of the fundamental truth carved into the bones of our republic: That out of many, we are one.

He will never divide us, and we will never be conquered.

Los Angeles, I am so proud of you. Thank you, thank you, thank you! May God bless the United States of America.