Is Forward Blue associated with No Kings Day protests

1. What the records show about No Kings: a decentralized national coalition

No Kings has presented itself as a large, decentralized movement that coordinated thousands of local events across the United States—its own site claims more than 2,700 events and millions of participants on October 18, 2025, and the coalition has publicly promised continuing mobilizations and weekly calls to action ^{[1] [5] [6]}. Major reporting and civil liberties groups framed No Kings as a coalition opposed to perceived abuses of executive power under the Trump administration; outlets and analysts described the October and June mobilizations as among the largest coordinated protests in recent U.S. history, citing multi‑million attendance estimates from both organizers and independent data journalists ^{[2] [7] [3]}.

2. Who the sources name as organizers and sponsors

Contemporary coverage and coalition materials consistently enumerate familiar progressive organizations and local coalitions: Indivisible, 50501, the Women’s March, American Federation of Teachers and an array of ACLU affiliates and local groups appear in reporting and event listings as sponsors or partners for No Kings actions ^{[2] [4] [3]}. News reporting on specific actions (for example, New York City and nationwide walkouts) and the No Kings site itself emphasize alliances with labor groups, local grassroots chapters, and civil‑liberties organizations rather than single commercial or newly minted political firms ^{[4] [1] [3]}.

3. The supplied reporting does not mention “Forward Blue”

Across the provided sources—news stories, the official No Kings site, coalition announcements and third‑party summaries—there is no reference to an entity called “Forward Blue” as an organizer, sponsor, funder, or named partner of No Kings Day protests; the named coalition members and sponsors are the groups cited above, and the reporting focuses on those coalitions rather than other organizational actors ^{[2] [4] [1] [3]}. Because the documents made available for review do not include any mention of Forward Blue, there is no direct evidence in this corpus tying Forward Blue to No Kings activities.

4. Why claims of association might nevertheless circulate

Misattribution can arise when multiple decentralized coalitions, local chapters, and grassroots groups converge under a broad banner like “No Kings”; similar-sounding names (for example “Project 2026” or “Blue Wave” merch and printables found online) can be conflated with formal sponsorship, and social media amplification often turns informal participation into perceived endorsement ^{[8] [1]}. Additionally, partisan actors and commentators have incentives to amplify or invent organizational ties to score political points—reporting and data analysis also show a surge in protest activity across many issue areas, creating a noisy ecosystem where informal supporters and local groups can be mistaken for formal partners ^{[9] [7]}.

5. Bottom line and limits of this analysis

Based on the supplied reporting and the official No Kings materials, there is no documented association between Forward Blue and No Kings Day protests in this set of sources—named organizers and endorsers are those cited above, and the No Kings site and multiple news outlets do not list Forward Blue among partners ^{[1] [2] [4] [3]}. This analysis is limited to the documents provided: if Forward Blue exists and has relationships with No Kings that are documented elsewhere (press releases, filings, social posts or local event pages not included here), those items were not part of the dataset and therefore cannot be confirmed or refuted by this report.