“Signs of Fascism” March and Protest
BOCA RATON, FL (Boca Post) (Copyright © 2026) — Another political demonstration is scheduled for Saturday morning outside the Home Depot at Westwinds Shopping Center in unincorporated West Boca Raton, with organizers promoting it as a march and protest focused on what they describe as “growing signs of fascism” nationally.
Indivisible Boca Raton, a local anti-Trump activist group closely affiliated with the “NO KINGS” Coalition, says the event will take place on the public sidewalk near the entrance to the Home Depot plaza at 9820 Glades Road. The group held a similar demonstration last month, as first reported by Boca Post. Organizers say the gathering will begin with a march at 10 a.m., followed by a protest from 10:30 a.m. to noon outside the store.
In written materials circulated by the group, Indivisible Boca Raton frames the demonstration as a warning about “authoritarianism,” describing it as something that “does not arrive all at once” and arguing that it can appear through incremental changes, “normalized policies,” and “quiet complicity.” The group says the Saturday action is intended to “call out” what it describes as a pattern that includes mass detention, erosion of civil liberties, criminalization of dissent, and silence from powerful institutions.
The planned protest comes weeks after another Indivisible Boca Raton-led demonstration at the same Home Depot corridor drew significant attention and competing crowd estimates. Boca Post previously reported on the group’s Jan. 10 protest along Glades Road, where Boca Post estimated roughly 100 people based on drone footage we posted on Facebook. Other outlets reported exactly 500 protestors turned out, a number that was shared as an expectation in advance by organizers.
Boca Post’s reporting on the Jan. 10 event also documented that the demonstration itself remained peaceful during the morning hours, with participants standing along the sidewalk holding signs as traffic moved through the area. Several Palm Beach Sheriff’s deputies were observed on scene, and the protest concluded without disruptions to store operations during the event window described by organizers.
However, court records and sheriff’s office documentation show there was an arrest connected to that same day’s protest activity along Glades Road. Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Thomas Edward Landry, 67, on Jan. 10 after deputies said he committed battery during an incident near the demonstration. Deputies say Landry punched a protestor in the chest with a closed fist and then struck his fire helmet, knocking it off his head.
Indivisible Boca Raton has continued to promote its organizing work in newsletters and messages that tie street demonstrations to broader political goals, including volunteer recruitment and election-cycle outreach. In recent communications, the group also referenced recent speaker programming and shifting political campaigns, noting that Jennifer Jenkins—previously described by the organization as a U.S. Senate candidate—dropped out and endorsed Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, and that Jenkins is now running for U.S. Congress in Florida’s 6th Congressional District.
Separately, Boca Post’s most recent reporting on protest-related arrests in Palm Beach County includes a Feb. 15 incident near Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, where deputies arrested a 76-year-old Lake Worth man after investigators said he struck a woman multiple times with a metal flagpole during a demonstration along Summit Boulevard.
For residents and drivers in the West Boca corridor, Saturday’s Home Depot protest is expected to take place along a heavily traveled stretch of Glades Road near U.S. 441, with organizers specifically directing participants to the sidewalk outside the plaza entrance. The group has published a defined time window for the march and protest, and past demonstrations at the same location have drawn visible roadside participation and reactions from passing drivers.
What happens next will depend on turnout and how the demonstration unfolds on site. Organizers have set the schedule for Saturday morning and have publicly identified the Home Depot at Westwinds Shopping Center as the location for the protest activity.
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