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15/05/2026

FRIDAY FEATURE: Voices of the System
Interview with Anthony Medina (Texas death row)

Voices of the System is a project Tony and I created together as an essential part of the Together4TonyFord campaign, with the intention of creating space for voices that have been hidden, ignored, silenced or misunderstood for far too long, especially voices from Texas Death Row and other death rows across the country. This project is about humanity, about listening, about allowing people to speak for themselves instead of constantly being spoken about.

Every single participant featured within Voices of the System is intentionally chosen by Tony himself, and equally with my agreement and support.

Anthony Medina is a very close and longtime friend of Tony’s, and Tony specifically wanted him to be interviewed and included within this platform. We invite you to truly sit with his words, listen to his perspective, and see the human being behind the system, beyond labels, assumptions and headlines.

✍️ If you know someone whose voice deserves to be heard, or someone who may want to become part of Voices of the System, feel free to contact us on social media or via [email protected]

Luna

13/05/2026

Wednesday Things to Know: 'Behind the cell door'

When i took pictures of this specific artwork by Tony, I had this vision in my head, so i took “Behind The Cell Door” and carried it upstairs to the attic of my building. I placed it directly in front of the old grey attic door. The moment I saw it through the camera, I knew instantly why this vision had stayed in my mind so strongly... attics have always felt like spaces where things are placed once people no longer know what to do with them anymore. Forgotten spaces. Silent spaces. Places filled with things that once held meaning, memories, life and value… but were eventually pushed away from sight and suddenly that attic door became some kind of metaphor for what this piece really represents...

this is what long term isolation often becomes: human beings placed out of sight, emotionally distanced from society, slowly disappearing behind steel doors, concrete walls and silence.

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“I believe that we all live behind a cell door of sorts… something constructed by society, by others, or even by ourselves, that keeps us from truly being free.”

When Tony created this Broken Art piece, his question was simple but devastating: “Can people really see us?”

the human being behind the cell door...

On Texas death row, men spend years, sometimes decades, confined in concrete isolation. Recreation is limited, often unpredictable, sometimes denied entirely. Human contact disappears. The walls begin to psychologically close in. Frustration turns into rage, silence, exhaustion, hopelessness. The body remains alive while parts of the spirit slowly begin suffocating under confinement.

In this piece, Tony pressed handprints and fists against the mesh, stained with symbolic blood, representing the desperation, anger and psychological violence of prolonged isolation. At the center stands an avatar body marked with his name and TDCJ number. But where the face should be, there is a mirror.

So the real question is:
What do YOU see when you look behind the cell door? A monster?
A prisoner? A forgotten human being?
Or yourself?

Luna

11/05/2026

Monday Motive: Behind the cell door (Broken Art by Tony Ford)

What happens to a human being when life is reduced to controlled movement, and silence so heavy it begins to reshape the mind itself....? Months blur into years, years blur into entire lifetimes spent staring through narrow windows and listening to the echoes of other unseen lives existing behind steel and concrete. And yet behind those doors… there are still human beings: Men who remember what their mother’s voice sounded like.... who still dream at night, who create art, write poetry, mentor others, study, laugh, grieve, and try desperately to hold onto fragments of themselves before isolation slowly erodes them away. People in the outside world never really speak about the psychological disappearance and what happens when the world decides certain human beings are no longer worth emotionally seeing. Actually one of the cruelest parts of long term confinement: not only being physically locked away, but slowly becoming invisible to society itself. One of the moments that affected me the most emotionally was when I first received Tony’s Broken Art pieces in my hands...and physically touching them, feeling the weight of them, the texture, the energy trapped inside them. And then I turned this piece around… And written across the back, in large words, were the words:

"LET ME OUT.”

That moment stayed with me more than anything.... It was a psychological imprint of 35 years of confinement....
a human being i love deeply trying to survive mentally, emotionally and spiritually inside a place designed to break people apart.... A cry from the depths of isolation itself.... This piece is about confronting humanity... behind every cell door exists a nervous system, a memory, a childhood, trauma, fear, regret, hope, creativity, love, and the universal human need to be seen, heard, and understood. These are not monsters existing somewhere far away from us, they are human beings capable of suffering, capable of transformation, capable of beauty and capable of breaking.... not so different from you... not so different from me.

See the human behind the cell door...

Luna

10/05/2026

Mother's Day: Honoring Those Special Activist Mother's

There is a pain this world rarely speaks about, it's the pain of a mother forced to watch her child disappear behind concrete walls, razor wire, steel doors, and death sentences. A pain stretched across decades, a grief that never fully sleeps, a love forced to survive inside prison visiting rooms, collect calls, letters stained with tears, and the unbearable waiting .... no one really realize that these mothers become warriors without ever asking to be, they carry entire movements on exhausted shoulders while society tells them to stay silent... They fight systems built to erase their sons, they stand outside prisons in the heat, in the rain, in the cold, they scream for humanity in places designed to destroy it... but they always continue to fight... because a mother’s love is one of the strongest forces to ever exist... with this post we honor the activist mothers, mothers who marched, mothers who protested, mothers who never stopped believing, mothers who died carrying the weight of injustice in their hearts...

Today we especially honor Tony's mother and Sandra (mother of Rodney Reed: Innocent on Texas Death Row), whose spirit now rests beyond this world, but whose voice, strength, and fight remain alive through everyone continuing the struggle for their innocent sons. These women do not simply raise children, they also raise resistance.

And history will remember them long after these cruel systems fall.

Happy Mother's Day!

Luna

08/05/2026

James Broadnax Remembrance Week/ FRIDAY FEATURE with Valerie Harris

Tony and I planned this James Remembrance Week together in honor of his brother James “JB” Broadnax, who was executed by the State of Texas on April 30th for a crime he did not commit.
Throughout this week, we wanted to remember JB not only through grief, but through the voices, memories, love, and humanity of the people who knew him personally. Tony specifically wished for the voice of Auntie Valerie Harris to be included.

This final part of our James Remembrance Week is dedicated to allowing JB to continue being heard. To remind people that he was more than a case...

Valerie Harris talks about her last encounter with James in this video. Her nephew Christopher Young was executed by the State of Texas on July 17, 2018 and she has been a faithful soul to many people on death row ever since. We love her all.

Please continue keeping his loved ones, his wife, his family and everyone impacted by this loss in your thoughts and prayers.

Luna and Tony

08/05/2026

James Broadnax Remembrance Week/ FRIDAY FEATURE with Richard Burr, Laurence Thrush, Anthony Medina (TX DR) and Kristopher Love (TX DR)

Tony and I planned this James Remembrance Week together in honor of his brother James “JB” Broadnax, who was executed by the State of Texas on April 30th for a crime he did not commit.
Throughout this week, we wanted to remember JB not only through grief, but through the voices, memories, love, and humanity of the people who knew him personally. Tony specifically wished for the voices of Kristopher Love, Anthony Medina, Laurence Thrush and his Attorney Richard Burr to be included, so that people could hear directly from those who stood beside James and carry his memory with them still. This final part of our James Remembrance Week is dedicated to allowing JB to continue being heard. To remind people that he was more than a case...

Please continue keeping his loved ones, his wife, his family and everyone impacted by this loss in your thoughts and prayers.

Luna and Tony

06/05/2026

James Broadnax Remembrance Week

Wednesday Things to Know:

Many people don’t understand what an ex*****on day feels like for the men inside death row. These are men who have lived side by side for years, sometimes over 30 years. They’ve watched each other grow, change, reflect, and become more than the worst moment of their lives. They’ve built bonds, routines, conversations, brotherhood. And then one day, they watch that same person be taken away in a van. Not knowing if there be a stay or something change at the last moment... Or if this is really the end... these days are full of waiting, silence and hope fighting against a feeling deep down that this is inevitable. And then there is grief and anger, the reason for these emotions is because they are forced to witness what many of us never see, a system taking a life, sometimes an innocent one. This does something to the men inside. Something most people on the outside will never fully understand.

Tony wrote this to honor James on our remembrance week, his brother, but also to give a real glimpse into what an ex*****on day in Texas death row looks like. Not from the outside, but from within. From someone who stood there, watched, breathed through it, and carried that moment with him.

the human impact is profound. It affects not only the condemned person, but also their families, loved ones and friends. This whole process, often stretching over many years, is marked by uncertainty and psychological strain that can be deeply damaging for everyone involved.

Lets never forget that ex*****on days are not just the end of one life, but they ripple through everyone left behind.

Rest in peace, James Broadnax (executed by the State of Texas on April 30th, 26)

Luna

*****on

04/05/2026

James Broadnax Remembrance Week:

Monday Motive: Tony's letter to James Broadnax

This is a final personal letter from Tony, written directly to James. They were friends for many years on Texas Death Row and shared a deep level of trust, experience, and understanding throughout that time.

This is a personal reflection and expression of grief. It does not justify or accept what was done by the system.

The death penalty must be abolished once and for all, that's what we fight for!!!

Rest in eternal peace, James.

Luna

*****on

01/05/2026

Friday Feature: 5 things people don't understand about supporting someone on death row

What we talk about is what happens when a human being is placed in a system designed to isolate, silence, and erase… and someone chooses to stay, to show up, to listen, to see. Over time, that connection becomes more than support, It becomes structure, It becomes dignity. It becomes resistance... And sometimes… it becomes the very thing that keeps a person from disappearing within themselves.

So we ask you:

What does support really mean to you?

Luna and Tony

29/04/2026

Wednesday: Things To Know | The Psychological Impact of Death Row, and the Undaunted Spirit

How many people have felt curled up on the floor, crushed by injustice, grief, fear, or survival, believing that one wrong movement could break them?

This is lived reality for Tony.

Tony’s broken art piece “Undaunted” emerges from the raw psychological and physical violence of decades on Texas death row. Beatings while handcuffed. Forced strip searches and daily humiliation. Retaliation. Isolation cells. Vermin-infested confinement. Extreme cold. Psychological torment. Men driven into psych units. Su***de attempts. Blood on cell walls. No, this is not fiction, this is not symbolism for shock value.... This is the raw truth of what people have endured. And yet, from within that machinery of dehumanization, Tony asks something extraordinary:

Can you still see the fight for freedom?

Can you see the bloody handprints, the bloodied fist marks, the struggle to take flight?

Can you see the spirit that refused to be broken?

Undaunted is not simply an artwork about suffering.

This is survival refusing erasure.

As Tony says:

“…a rebellion builds from deep within your soul and screams out, HOW DARE THEY…”

That is the undaunted spirit.
And this piece asks a harder question, not only can you see it in Tony…

Can you see it in yourself?

Because this work is also about every person who has ever felt trapped, violated, silenced, or pushed to the floor of their own soul, and still rose.

This is the psychological impact of death row, this is the horror too often hidden, this is the story the system does not want seen.

And this is why we fight.

➗ Share Tony's fight & join the movement!

Luna

28/04/2026

WHO WE ARE | DISCLAIMER

If you’re new here, welcome to Together4TonyFord.

This campaign was created out of urgency, love, and the fight for Tony Egbuna Ford’s freedom. This account is run in direct coordination with Tony. Because Tony does not have direct access to social media, his voice is shared here through correspondence, approved writings and the ongoing exchange that shapes this platform, managed by Luna (Tony's wife).

THIS IS THE ONLY REAL TONY FORD ACCOUNT!

This page exists to raise awareness about Tony’s wrongful conviction, generate support, share his art and activism, and amplify voices too often silenced by the system.

What this page is not:
This is not performative activism.
This is not prison voyeurism.
This is not content for shock value.
This is not a space for disrespect, harassment, or dehumanization.

This is a space rooted in dignity, truth, resistance, and action.

We welcome dialogue and ask for respect.

If you are here to learn, support, ask questions, or use your voice, you are more than welcome here.

Together, we build stronger.

Thank you,
Luna and Tony

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