Dallas-Fort Worth is once again preparing for a round of Anti-Trump protests, as the incoming 50501 group takes aim with a new wave of “demonstrations.”
The anti-Trump organization whose name stands for “50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement ” is holding over 400 protests across the country this weekend. Fort Worth will host one of the group’s bigger local protests, with the event scheduled from noon to 4 p.m. this Saturday at Burk Burnett Park.
Much of the online promo for the upcoming DFW protest has come from local Indivisible chapters, which have become increasingly active in Texas’ liberal political circles. Indivisible is a nationally active progressive group backed in part by left-wing billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, which has granted the organization around $7 million since 2018, as previously reported by DX.
Local offshoots like Indivisible TX-24 have recently made headlines for organizing protests outside a Tesla dealership in Southlake, and canvassing for school board candidates in Grapevine-Colleyville ISD. Now, those same activists appear to be playing a key role in driving turnout for Saturday’s 50501 event, with promotional posts and rally plans circulating on the same Indivisible-affiliated social media accounts that helped stage earlier April 5 protests.
Building on those series of April 5 rallies that swept through cities like Dallas, Arlington, and Denton, this latest round allegedly aims to organize voices against what organizers describe as “overreach” within the federal government.
“Our movement shows the world that the American working class will not sit idly by as plutocrats rip apart their democratic institutions and civil liberties while undermining the rule of law,” a statement from the group’s website declares.
Much of the organizational momentum has come from the contentious website Reddit, where loosely affiliated groups have been using subreddits and Discord servers to plan and promote protests across the country.
The April 5 protests saw crowds gather under the “Hands Off!” banner, crying out over Trump’s policies, with a cloudy focus on his relationship with billionaire Elon Musk.
While Fort Worth didn’t have an officially coordinated protest on that date, at least 100 demonstrators still assembled outside a Tesla dealership. As The Dallas Express previously covered, the group’s past demonstrations came at a time where multiple Tesla dealerships were hit with violent attacks across America, and some Tesla owners even reporting being targeted on the streets.
However, none of that stopped 50501 from returning to DFW this weekend. This weekend’s Fort Worth protest will be the city’s first formally organized event connected to the 50501 group.