From RG Herd
Polls & Back — 2026 Central Iowa Election Rideshare
Free rides to and from polling places in the Des Moines metro and nearby Central Iowa communities on November 3, 2026.
From RG Herd
Free rides to and from polling places in the Des Moines metro and nearby Central Iowa communities on November 3, 2026.
Independent infrastructure • Mutual aid • Community control
RG Herd builds and operates privacy-first communication, coordination, publishing, and support infrastructure for people and organizations doing real community work. We create safer ways to connect, organize, publish, and support each other without making corporate platforms the center of community life.
Network
RG Herd connects secure communication, coordination tools, public analysis, and independent media into one working network. Each system has a lane. Together, they give people and organizations practical infrastructure they can use without handing control to corporate platforms.
Private, encrypted connection for members, rooms, updates, and community trust.
Intake, assignments, status, and response tracking when people need more than chat.
Updates and analysis on surveillance, civil liberties, platform risk, policy shifts, and digital infrastructure.
Broadcast capacity for streams, updates, signal boosts, and unfiltered community media.
Signal Defense Kit
Privacy, comms, and infrastructure tools for staying connected, reducing tracking, securing devices, preserving data, and learning how communities can build their own local infrastructure instead of depending on corporate platforms.
Iowa Mutual Aid
RG Herd is building an Iowa-based mutual-aid network that brings together secure communication, coordination, technical support, public resources, independent publishing, and practical help for people and community groups.
That can mean organizing rides and resources, supporting community projects, helping people navigate difficult situations, providing privacy-first infrastructure, hosting public-interest work, or building tools that make local response easier to sustain.
Your group stays your group. Your project stays your project. RG Herd provides the infrastructure, coordination, technical support, and operational backbone to help people do the work they are already trying to do — without taking it over.
ARGUS | Operator Interface
ARGUS is RG Herd’s purpose-built mutual-aid operations platform. It turns requests for help into structured records that dispatchers can triage, assign to eligible responders, track through status changes, organize by zone, and close with notes and audit history intact.
Responder presence and availability stay separate from dispatcher actions, role-based access limits who can do what, and the record of each assignment survives beyond the chat that started it. | base | handles trusted communication; ARGUS handles the work itself — what is open, who owns it, what changed, and what still needs attention.
Public releases: ARGUS v1.0.0 REDLINE v0.1.0
Access
Public RG Herd resources are open. Private communication, mutual-aid records, coordination systems, and administrative tools use controlled access based on what someone actually needs to do.
Individuals and organizations can request access, support, or infrastructure without becoming part of RG Herd itself.
ALERTS, RGTV, Signal Defense Kit resources, public documentation, and open-source projects are available without an RG Herd account.
| base |, ARGUS, beta systems, and other protected services are opened when the work requires private communication, coordination, or operational access.
Organizations and independent projects can request secure rooms, hosting, coordination tools, publishing support, deployment help, or guidance toward infrastructure they control themselves.
Mission
RG Herd builds and operates practical infrastructure for mutual aid, community support, secure communication, independent publishing, coordination, and technical resilience. We use that infrastructure directly, support people and projects that need it, and document what we learn so others can build on the same ideas.
The goal is not to pull every project into RG Herd or build another platform people have to depend on. The goal is to give people useful tools, reliable support, and infrastructure they can trust — while keeping control as close as possible to the people doing the work.
Operate systems we can secure, repair, move, and adapt without depending entirely on someone else's platform.
Keep decisions, data, access, and ownership close to the people and projects the infrastructure exists to serve.
Turn resources, technology, coordination, research, and community knowledge into concrete help when someone needs it.
