‘No Kings’ protesters spurn organizers' rules: ‘This is as partisan as you can get’

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — On South Washington Street, 26-year-old environmental engineer Nayely Cruz Hernandez had a straightforward message for voters as she joined a phalanx of protesters lining the street for nationwide " No Kings " protests against President Donald Trump : "Vote blue." "We got to take the power away from Trump, from the Republicans," Hernandez told Fox News Digital.

"So we got to win the House, we got to win the Senate, not only in Virginia, but across the country." Standing beside her boyfriend, Noah Schwarzott, 25, their 13-year-old Maltese-poodle, Maybellene, in her arms, Hernandez acknowledged that national No Kings organizers had their own rules for the protests to be "nonpartisan," but she wasn't following orders. 'NO KINGS' FOOT SOLDIERS IGNORE ORGANIZERS' WARNING, GO ALL IN FOR DEMOCRATS "The No King ... organizers can say whatever," she said.

"But I'm saying vote blue, because why are we here? Who's in the House? Who's in the Senate? Who is the President? It's red, it's Republicans, and it's Trump." A Fox News Digital investigation documented about 300 organizations with $2.5 billion in combined annual revenues behind the "No Kings" protest network, including Democratic-aligned advocacy groups, major labor unions and nonprofits including MoveOn, the American Federation of Teachers and the ACLU.

Cruz Hernandez ended by introducing Maybellene and declaring that the dog was "telling you to vote for Don Beyer," a Democratic member of Congress who represents Alexandria, Arlington and other Northern Virginia communities.

The national organizers' position is that the Oct.

17 events must be "nonpartisan." That's to comply with the federal laws that regulate the nonprofits that fund the No Kings protests.

PARTY POOPERS' FIGHT CARD: JANE FONDA, 'NO KINGS,' COMMUNISTS ROLL OUT RIVAL SPECTACLE TO TRUMP'S 250TH Her comments directly contradicted the written instructions of the national "No Kings" organization and its leaders at the Indivisible nonprofit, prohibiting calls to "vote Blue," elect Democrats or endorse candidates and target individuals.

Nearby, a man held a sign by a far-left group called "Refuse Fascism" with another message defying the organizers' guidance: "TRUMP MUST GO NOW!" Another man held an inflatable balloon mocking Trump as a baby in a diaper.

Another sign said "86 47," the controversial message former FBI Director James Comey posted on social media and which federal prosecutors deemed an overt threat against Trump.