Texans are hitting the streets this summer to protest the militarized, hostile takeover of our lives, families, and freedoms by the billionaire-backed Trump regime. Between ICE protests, No Kings Day events, and annual parades, protests, and collective actions for Juneteenth and Pride—June 2025 is marked by displays of our inter-connected fight against authoritarianism, propaganda, and prejudice. 

History is happening. In front of our eyes and on our screens, we’ve watched gigantic groups of people taking back their encroached-upon, constitutional rights to protest and assemble. We watched images of people brutalized by ICE and local law enforcement, and at the same time others marked by gestures of fierce resistance against fascism through chants, collective power in taking up space on our streets, and direct action in stopping abductions.

Anti-ICE protesters in San Antonio streets, with National Guard troops nearby, Saile Aranda/TPR

Provided here is a list of where and how to show up this summer for your family, friends, and neighbors—tracking events across Texas relating to anti-authoritarianism, community, and coming together. 

Anti-ICE Protests and No King’s Day: Saturday, June 14

Note: ICE is known to take advantage of targeting likely places for immigrants to show up, between raiding mom and pop restaurants, barging into family homes, and countless other due process violations—you can be sure that they will show up to a protest if they know it’s coming. Be aware and be safe if you choose to attend an anti-ICE protest. 

The Trump regime is stoking violence and fear by wielding our National Guard, ICE, and appointed local law enforcement—paid for by our taxdollars—against us, our parents, and even children. MAGA extremists are trying to scare you into hiding, to let them hurt our peers, cast them as criminals, and then respond accordingly to turn our country into a police state. 

Nobody asked for this. Not local authorities in San Antonio, where the National Guard may break up demonstrations on Saturday. Not friend’s moms and next-door neighbors who have been pulled from their houses in Brownsville, or off the streets and into vans in Dallas. And, certainly not those who were detained after having court cases dropped, abducted by ICE agents waiting outside of their immigration court appointments in Houston.

Between it all, our neighbors have shown up and refused to sit by as Trump performs a hostile takeover of our government, and attempts to wield the military and second-largest investigative agency in the US against its own citizens. He has our military officers (cherry-picked and screened their political agreement beforehand) booing state leaders in partisan speeches. This is a fascist power grab, and a move toward Trump justifying grounds for martial law. Everyday Americans recognize this, and they’ve protested it. 

We witnessed peaceful protests met with brute force. We’ve seen the damage that “less-than-lethal” rubber bullets leave on neighbors who locked arms with their community members. That’s why it’s crucial that we stand together, on the streets or not, immigrant or not, and against narrow-minded, racist, xenophobic ideas of what makes an “American.” We can join together with folks across racial differences to demand fair immigration processes and a democracy that works for all Americans.

Listed below are protests you can attend in Texas, and some key resources. 

• Click here for Sat. June 14, “No Kings” events in Texas! Join people across the country to protest Trump’s abuses, and support our immigrant communities—plus marginalized neighbors at risk. Note: use caution in your online activities, and avoid signing your name on forms like this. Instead, review the details.
• Click here for a review on your rights to protest.
• Click here for what to wear, and bring to a protest.
• Click here for how to identify ICE vehicles.
• You can also help immigrant communities without protesting! You can support immigrant legal aid groups, fundraise and donate, raise awareness, and more.

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Juneteenth: Thursday, June 19

No matter your race, class, gender, or identity: it is vital for every Texan to stand up for the liberation and equity for their neighbor. Though the entire country can celebrate on June 19, Texans honor Juneteenth with a special significance—knowing that its history is grounded in Galveston, Texas, where Black Texans finally gained independence, two and half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. 

This year, after a horrific legislative session that will segregate our school systems once again, and recent gerrymandering attempts in North Texas: we explicitly honor Black history, and the ongoing fight for freedom and a government for all—for our Black, immigrant, and queer neighbors. Please reference our previous articles, or podcast episodes on the importance of this federal, commemorative day, today. 

Opal Lee, “grandmother of Juneteenth,” MarketWatch/Don's and Opal Lee

Here’s a few Juneteenth celebrations you can attend, by region.

• Austin 
• Corpus Christi
• Dallas-Fort Worth, and another event: DCDP Annual Burger Bash
• El Paso
• Houston, and another event: “Her Name Was Irene”
• Galveston
• San Antonio

Pride: ALL MONTH 

Whether you’re dressing up in drag, prepping for upcoming parades, or throwing on one of our custom, union-made “Y’all Means All” t-shirts: showcasing your pride for an inclusive Texas is a political, imperative act during these unstable times for our state. Pride feels different this year in the midst of unrelenting attacks in the Texas Legislature: with extremists trying to make Texas an uninhabitable place for our LGBTQ+ family, friends, and neighbors—and yet we’re still here.

When we showed up to the Capitol a month ago with allies at the All in for Equality Advocacy Day to show our collective power, we knew we were up against some of the worst bills for queer Texans yet. Today, with the legislative session—and waiting for some of these bills to become law—we’re looking at Pride 2025, and ready to bask in the resilience it takes to be out, loud, and proud in Texas.

Here’s a few Pride celebrations you can attend, by region.

• Austin, and another event: People’s Pride March
• Corpus Christi
• Dallas-Fort Worth
• El Paso
• Houston
• Laredo
• San Antonio
• Make sure to check our Instagram for highlights on Texas queer history, like this retrospective on drag queens in San Antonio!