We’re a group of citizens in Austin, Texas who started meeting and organizing in February, 2025 to take action against the Trump regime’s lawless attacks against our Constitution, free expression, higher education, civil rights, human dignity, and so much more.

We exist to take action together, to share information and resources, and to make resistance visible and fun.

You can learn more about our values, our goals, and our “secret sauce” here.

We’re trying to …

- Connect like-minded neighbors and friends, giving us a place to share ideas, learn, and take action together.

- Look for ways to take action together, whether that means supporting our neighbors or protesting government-sponsored cruelty.

- “Let 1,000 Flowers Bloom” — Allow project ideas to generate organically, giving members multiple opportunities to use their time and energy creatively and productively. Want to host an empty chair town hall? A neighborhood clothing swap? We’re here for all of it.

- Keep building momentum. The 2025 elections revealed a deep and broad dissatisfaction with the direction our country is taking. We’ll keep inviting more of our neighbors to join us to …

- Build a better future together. Across our community, our state, and our nation, people are desperate for a positive and hopeful vision for our future. When we listen to each other and lean into points of connection and agreement, we can break out of the overtired culture war that only attempts to divide us.

For a quick digest of what we’ve done together so far, check out our video!

For starters, we’re not party-affiliated. We welcome anyone who wants to turn the page on the MAGA politics of hate, division, corruption, and cruelty. Our goal is to harness the power of joy and community to achieve long-term social change.

- Our FORWRD-To-Win group is planning a midterm-focused project for us.

- We’re hosting local events — like a clothing swap and a bake sale — to support our vulnerable neighbors.

- We’re planning where to take our flash mob next, potentially combining it with a voter registration drive.

- We are always on the lookout for more project ideas, so if you have one, please reach out!

Sign up for our twice-monthly newsletters. That will get you an invitation to join our Signal group, and keep you up-to-date on our events and projects.

If you’d like to launch FORWRD in your community, we’re here to help. Get in touch with us and we’ll start planning together!

It was originally an acronym, standing for

Flock
Of
Reasonable
Women
Restoring
Democracy.

Our co-founder Melanie Mullan came up with it, providing the excellent metaphor of birds who “flock” together to protect themselves from threats.

Then DeDe Church pointed out that we could tell folks “it’s FORWARD without an A because we don’t have any assholes,” and that works, too.