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I followed the money behind the No Kings protest in St. Paul, Minn., and uncovered an estimated $250,000 paid to 9 vendors to produce an event that was about the size of a Def Leppard concert.

Sources said that the Democratic nonprofit Indivisible paid the bill. It didn’t respond to numerous requests for comment.

How did I piece this together?

Well, I have a rule when reporting on the protest industry: be the first there and one of the last to leave.

That’s how I met Slamhammer Sound & Roadcase Co. production manager Matt Svobodny, one of the very nice hard-working members of the production crew behind the scenes in St. Paul, as they were breaking down the set for the No Kings protest, long after Bruce Springsteen and most of the anti-Trump protesters had left.

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