As President Trump’s multimillion-dollar military parade and festival commenced in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, “No Kings” marches—billed by organizers as a rejection of authoritarianism—filled the streets of cities nationwide. In Texas, protesters marched in dozens of cities, from El Paso to Beaumont, Brownsville to Wichita Falls, waving flags and signs objecting to the administration’s policies. Following a series of actions protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in cities including Austin and San Antonio, Saturday’s events made up the largest protest to take place so far during Trump’s second term.

Before the protests, Governor Greg Abbott deployed five thousand Texas Army National Guard members and at least two thousand Department of Public Safety troopers to cities across the state, warning protesters on X that they would be “ready to respond immediately to any acts of violence or chaos.” On Saturday afternoon, DPS released a statement that it had received a “credible threat toward state legislators” attending the Austin protest; by late afternoon, DPS announced a man had been arrested in connection with the threats. Protests, in Austin and nationwide, went on as planned.

To capture the breadth of these actions, we compiled the most compelling images from protests around the state.

Lauren Castro, Isabel Maney, Scott Ray, Mimi Swartz, and Daniel Vaughn contributed to this report.