Bernie Sanders will be at the Ford Idaho Center on Monday. What to know

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York are set to visit Nampa on Monday as part of Sanders’ “Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here” tour.

The event will take place at the Ford Idaho Center, with doors scheduled to open at 3:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public, but attendees are encouraged to RSVP online.

The rally will kick off with live music by Built to Spill at 5 p.m., and speeches will follow at about 6 p.m.

Speeches from Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez are expected to be “focused on the takeover of the national government by billionaires and large corporations, and the country’s move toward authoritarianism,” according to the Ford Idaho Center event page. The stop in Nampa is part of a broader tour that included events in cities such as Tucson, Arizona, and Denver in March.

The Nampa Police Department expects 10,000-12,000 people to attend the show, Deputy Chief Curt Shankel told the Idaho Statesman on Friday. Police haven’t received any indication of threats to the event, Shankel said, “but we do have plans in place for protesters arriving and designated locations for those individuals to set up.”

“We will have officers on the interior and exterior for the event,” Shankel added. “They will be there pre-event, during the event and post-event as people are leaving the premises.”

The current leg of the tour begins in Salt Lake City on Sunday, continues in Nampa and then heads to California before finishing in Missoula, Montana, next Wednesday.

Other rallies on the tour have drawn massive crowds. The Phoenix stop saw 15,000 people in attendance, while there were reportedly 34,000 people in the crowd in Denver, according to Newsweek and NPR.

Earlier in the day before the Denver rally, Colorado Public Radio reported that another 11,000 people showed up for the event in the small town of Greeley, Colorado. Thousands more gathered at multiple stops in Wisconsin, and 9,000 people showed up in the suburban Detroit city of Warren, according to PBS. No violence has been reported at the rallies.

No bags, signs or firearms are allowed at the event. Free parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

For more information and to RSVP, visit the official event page.