The turnout on Saturday was in the tens of thousands, but nowhere near their goal of a million people and well below the 400,000 plus who came to DC for the 2017 women's march. It doesn't even come close to the turnout for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's rally to restore sanity and or fear back in 2010. There are two pieces of the puzzle here that are important to recognize are both true and seem at odds with each other, but are not. The first is that this rally was a horrible failure. The turnout wasn't even close to what the organizers and propagandists like Alex would have wanted, having built this up as their last fight for the country.

So Owen has arrived in Houston and he says the turnout is bigger than expected. Things are a little bit more difficult to assess in terms of the turnout in Houston, but that's just because it's nighttime. There's no doubt that it's more people than we're in Austin, but it still looks pretty thin. Low bar. If I had to guess the number, I would feel fairly comfortable in the 100 to 150 territory.

From what I can tell, there was a turnout of about 25 in Baton Rouge for Owen's arrival.