As President Donald Trump prepares to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary today with a UFC event at the White House, a national network of angry activists has assembled its own fight card: a celebrity concert headlined by Jane Fonda, hundreds of «watch parties,» local organizing events including a «RAGE AGAINST THE CAGE!» protest and a coordinated operation aimed at fighting Trump «through the midterm elections and beyond.»

About 400 organizations in the «No Kings» coalition with combined annual revenues of about $3 billion have organized Sunday’s nationwide protest operation. Internal planning documents obtained by Fox News Digital show organizers’ plan to using the concerts, watch parties and local gatherings to build momentum for a political organizing network.

At 4 p.m., in one of day’s many planned sideshows, «Refuse Fascism,» a pro-communism group, plans its «RAGE AGAINST THE CAGE!» protest at McPherson Square near the White House. UFC fighter Sean Strickland released a video on social media, saying he had booked a ticket to protest at the White House for allegedly being cut from the main event for criticizing the state of Israel and the war in Iran. «Ill bring a bullhorn,» he wrote in his social media post.

Meanwhile, the Women’s March, a multi-millon-dollar nonprofit enterprise, has rented portable toilets that its staffers are setting up from noon to 6 p.m. at Farragut Square, blocks from the White House, for a protest dubbed «Dump on Trump.»

Sean Strickland appears on stage during the UFC 328 press conference at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., on May 7, 2026. (Ed Mulholland/Zuffa LLC)

A 16-page «No Kings Event Host Toolkit» describes June 14 as an opportunity to convert mass demonstrations into local political infrastructure. Organizers frame the event as a counter to Trump’s hosting of the White House UFC event, saying «we will be doing the real work of democracy.» The materials describe watch parties as «strategic community gatherings designed to build deep local connections and lay the grassroots infrastructure we need to defend our rights through the midterm elections and beyond.»

Indivisible, a Democratic nonprofit funded by mega-donor George Soros, handed the headline role to the 88-year-old Fonda’s «Committee for the First Amendment,» which is hosting the day’s premiere counter-event in New York City at a 90-minute concert, «Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment,» starting at 7:30 pm. at a theater called «The Town Hall» on 43rd Street. This weekend, tickets in the orchestra section sold for $330.15.

Jane Fonda attends the closing ceremony red carpet at the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France, on May 24, 2025. (Gisela Schober/Getty Images)

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The «Committee for the First Amendment» describes itself as «a large collective of artists, storytellers, and cultural leaders» launched in October 2025 with about 500 leading figures from the entertainment industry. They invoked the name of a group established in 1947 by Hollywood celebrities, including Lauren Bacall, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball and Groucho Marx, to challenge Sen. Joe McCarthy’s investigations into the spread of communism in the U.S. and Hollywood. Later, some members of the original «Committee for the First Amendment» were identified as communist, and original members of the group wrote that they were duped into joining the effort. Ronald Reagan, then an actor, reportedly called committee member «suckers.»

Actor Humphrey Bogart even published a politically frank column, headlined, «I’m No Communist,» urging fellow celebrities not to be «used as dupes by Commie organizations.»

Fast forward to today, and the anti-Trump concert will feature left-wing activists including Fonda, whose controversial 1972 trip to communist North Vietnam earned her the nickname «Hanoi Jane» and sparked backlash from critics who accused her of aligning with the North Vietnamese communist regime during the Vietnam War. She’s scheduled to be joined in New York City by 1970s «godmother of punk» Patti Smith, actress Bette Midler, singer Rufus Wainwright, singer Sasha Allen, former MSNBC host Joy Reid and actor Wilson Cruz.

Lauren Bacall embraces and kisses Humphrey Bogart in a scene from the 1944 film «To Have and Have Not.» (Warner Brothers/Getty Images)

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Organizers describe the event as «an uplifting evening of song, solidarity, and action» celebrating freedoms of «speech, religion, press, assembly, and protest.»

But the internal planning documents reviewed by Fox News Digital show the concert is the public-facing component of a much broader anti-Trump organizing effort designed to be a funneling agent for «the midterm elections and beyond.»

The day’s messaging guidance casts the June 14 showdown as an alternative political narrative of «people power.»

«The lead-up to America’s 250th is a test of who we are,» the guidance goes. «President Trump is choosing self-promotion. We’re choosing community, participation and people power.»

Organizers repeatedly frame the effort as direct counterprogramming to Trump’s event. One suggested message prepared for supporters states: «On June 14, President Trump hosts a UFC cage fight at the White House. The main event will be in our living rooms.»

The «No Kings» coalition’s internal materials outline an extensive organizing apparatus. Host toolkits instruct local organizers to recruit co-hosts, appoint «greeters» and safety leads, collect attendee contact information, identify future organizers and schedule follow-up organizing meetings after the concert.

One host guide tells organizers their goal is to «bring people in and move them to ongoing participation.» Another instructs hosts to determine «who might help you with organizing moving forward.» Before attendees leave, organizers are directed to create «a clearly defined plan» and schedule another organizing meeting within two weeks.

Taken together, the documents show an effort focused not merely on a single day of protest but on building durable activist networks after June 14.

The coalition’s messaging guidance makes that objective explicit. One recommended talking point states: «He wants attention. We’re building a movement.»

At the same time, organizers stress legal compliance and message discipline.

The protests include a «reimbursement» program, and the material explicitly states that it’s administered through Indivisible Civics, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. In a departure from the clearly partisan nature of «No Kings» protests that have as an underlying theme that Trump is «a king,» the guidance for today states that events «cannot include lobbying or partisan political activity.»

The reimbursement material reveals for the first time that participating groups may receive up to $500 in reimbursements for watch parties connected to the event.

Jane Fonda and Rep. Ilhan Omar appear onstage during the No Kings Rallies in St. Paul, Minn., on March 28, 2026. (Adam Bettcher/Getty Images)

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The guidance further states that event’s can’t be «co-hosted with any political party or partisan organization» or «feature candidates running for elected office.» The document also specifies that the program «cannot reimburse expenses from political rallies or protests (e.g. ‘No Kings’) or events hosted to prep for those activities.»

The politics has been very thinly veiled. At the last «No Kings» protest in St. Paul, Minn., just like with earlier rallies, organizers, including Fonda, openly embraced Democratic politicians like Rep. Ilhan Omar, without any Republican lawmakers around.

Organizers emphasized strict commitment to a «NONVIOLENCE CLAUSE.» One host guide warns: «DO NOT DELETE THE NONVIOLENCE CLAUSE. Your event will not be approved without this language.»

Beyond the celebrity headliners, the campaign’s leadership network overlaps with activists and organizations that have been the subject of congressional inquiries for their alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

Documents released by the House Ways and Means Committee show that attorney Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit, represents the People’s Forum, a nonprofit that has received millions of dollars Neville Roy Singham, an American businessman and self-described Marxist who lives in Shanghai, supporting the Chinese Communist Party. According to her official biography, Verheyden-Hilliard also serves on the steering committee of Fonda’s «Committee for the First Amendment.» Verheyden-Hilliard hasn’t respond to requests for comment from Fox News Digital.

The operation is also supported by a professional communications infrastructure. Press inquiries for «Rise Up, Sing Out» are directed to Sunshine Sachs Morgan & Lylis, a prominent New York-based public-relations firm known as «SSM&L.» The organization created many of the planning documents for the New York City headline event, its name on the metadata of several documents. The PR company didn’t respond to a request for comment.

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Después de mucha expecativa, el primer ministro de Pakistán, Shehbaz Sharif, anunció este domingo que Estados Unidos e Irán llegaron a un “acuerdo de paz” que detiene de inmediato todas las operaciones militares en Medio Oriente, incluído el Líbano.

De acuerdo a lo detallado por Sharif, la firma del pacto tendrá lugar en Ginebra el próximo 19 de junio.

“Con el acuerdo ya en vigor, los mediadores facilitarán una serie de reuniones esta semana. Estos debates previos a la implementación sentarán las bases para las conversaciones técnicas y la ceremonia oficial de firma”, escribió en X el mandatario paquistaní, mediador clave entre Washington y Teherán.

Apenas minutos después, el presidente Donald Trump anunció que el acuerdo negociado con Irán “ya está completo” y ordenó la reapertura inmediata del estrecho de Ormuz y el levantamiento del bloqueo naval estadounidense que permanecía vigente en la región.

En las próximas horas el presidente norteamericano viajará a Francia para participar del G7, en Evián, por lo que hay expectativa por su posible presencia el viernes en Suiza para ser él quien firme acuerdo.

A continuación, la cobertura minuto a minuto de la nueva coyuntura en Medio Oriente:

Iran’s decision to hold a July funeral for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is a high-stakes bet that any emerging peace deal with the United States will hold, potentially creating a «target-rich» gathering of Tehran’s most isolated leaders, a counterterrorism expert warned Sunday.

The multi-day state funeral, announced by Iranian state media on June 13, is scheduled to begin in Tehran on July 4 and end with Khamenei’s burial in the holy city of Mashhad on July 9, Reuters reported.

According to Dr. Omar Mohammed, director of the Antisemitism Research Initiative at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, the timing serves as a deliberate message to America.

«A mass funeral is the most target-rich event this regime could stage, and now they would not risk one until they are confident it wouldn’t be hit,» Mohammed told Fox News Digital.

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«But it is the staging of this funeral that is the message, and the message is aimed at America as much as at Iranians.»

The announcement also coincided with a major diplomatic breakthrough, coming as President Donald Trump announced that a peace deal with Tehran is expected to be signed Sunday.

«The regime could sign a deal that lets it keep its leverage, then bury its leader as the victor who won it,» Mohammed said.

«Announcing the funeral Saturday as Pakistan said the final text of a deal was reached and signing is close, is their bet that the ceasefire holds into July.»

Khamenei was killed on Feb. 28 during the opening salvo of U.S. and Israeli airstrikes against Iran, ending a 36-year tenure leading the Islamic Republic. He was 86.

Experts say the regime is using the four-month delay since the February strikes to completely reframe the narrative of the conflict.

«Khamenei goes into the ground as a man America murdered, so the deal becomes a tactical pause — revenge deferred, not abandoned,» Mohammed observed. «The deeper logic is that you bury the leader as a victor, not a victim.»

«They can now stage the funeral as the war’s victory monument: the martyred Imam laid to rest as the man whose resistance forced America to terms,» Mohammed added.

«The four-month delay was not only security. It was waiting for a win to bury him.»

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Supporters gather in Baghdad’s Sadr district holding Iranian flags and posters of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei following the announcement that he was killed in U.S.-Israeli attacks on March 1, 2026. (Murtadha Al-Sudani/Anadolu)

Following three days of public ceremonies in Tehran, the procession will move to the clerical heartland of Qom on July 7 before concluding in Mashhad on July 9.

Analysts note the dates heavily leverage deep Shia religious iconography, falling directly within the holy mourning month of Muharram.

«This is also a staged passion play, not a schedule because the dates fall within Muharram, the Shia mourning month centered on Imam Hussein’s martyrdom at Karbala, and the burial on July 9 is timed to the eve of another Imam’s martyrdom,» Mohammed said.

«The body goes into the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad — the only one of the 12 Imams buried in Iran, and the holiest site in Iranian Shiism — giving the regime a permanent martyr’s shrine and mobilization site for years.»

Mohammed noted that scheduling the opening ceremonies on the 250th anniversary of America’s Independence Day carries deliberate geopolitical signaling.

«The regime had room to choose which Muharram days and, at a minimum, it’s a message they are happy to broadcast; very possibly it’s the point — while America marks 250 years, Iran opens the funeral of the leader America killed and calls it the beginning of its victory.»

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is shown in a portrait image. (Fox News)

The highly public, multi-city route presents a massive security vulnerability for Iran’s new leadership.

Khamenei’s son and successor, Mojtaba Khamenei, has remained entirely in hiding due to targeted security threats and reported injury since the war began.

«By every tradition, the son leads the prayers and stands at the grave; it is the act that consecrates the succession,» Mohammed noted.

«But Mojtaba has not appeared in public since the war began, runs the country by courier, and is a designated target — and a funeral is a pre-announced time and place. For a man whose every confirmed sighting is a coordinate, July 9 in Mashhad is the most dangerous appointment of his rule.»

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«The regime is boxed: It needs the son at the father’s grave to crown the dynasty, but putting him there exposes him as never before,» Mohammed concluded.

«If he appears, it’s his first sighting and a gamble; if he doesn’t, the dynasty is consecrated by an absence.»