She sold her Tesla eight days ago for $5,000 below the blue book price, and today she was one of about 250 people gathered at an intersection near a Tesla dealership in Superior, Colorado, carrying a sign that read, “Teslas have 💩 resale value. I would know. I just sold mine.”

Laura, who did not want to give her last name for fear of retribution, called the sale of her Tesla a “personal hit for the greater good.”

“Owning a Tesla right now is making a statement that I don’t want to make,” she told the Colorado Times Recorder, adding that she was super excited when she bought the Tesla in 2018 but relieved when she traded it in for a Kia.

What was the tipping point that moved her to sell? “I spend a lot of time in Rocky Mountain National Park,” she said, “Hearing about park employees being laid off was the first part of the tipping point. Then the news about Medicaid.”

News outlets reported hundreds of “Tesla Takedown” protests across the United States, Canada, and Europe today in opposition to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s work with President Donald Trump to cut federal agencies and workers, sometimes only to rehire them and sometimes releasing inaccurate information about the cost savings and other issues involved.

“It’s us against the oligarchs, us against the billionaires,” said Jenett Tillofson of Broomfield, a streetside protester. “They have all the money and they want more.”

Speaking above a steady drone of honking cars, Laurel Bender of Boulder said, “I’m angry and upset that we are losing our democracy, and every day something good is being decimated. I’m not sure this is doing any good, but I have to do something.”

Asked why he was protesting, Craig Hebrink of Broomfield said, “I’m here because I think what Elon Musk is doing to our government is a travesty, and the best way to fight now is to tank Tesla’s stock.”

Asked to respond to the protest, an employee in the empty Tesla building on Marshall Road near the demonstration declined to comment.

Many protesters said they felt they had to do something.

“We are trying to speak with our presence that we are not okay with what’s going on in America,” said Nicholas Flores, who said he’s protesting at least once a week somewhere.

“Elon should go back to making cars,” said Jenny Jenkins of Westminster.