[3] It was founded by then-National Coalition Party (NCP) member of parliament Harry Hjallis Harkimo and six other people as a political movement.

[7] The movement had been founded by him and seven others and registered with the Finnish Patent and Registration Office [fi] one day before Harkimo's resignation from the NCP.

[8] The seven founding members are Harkimo, former SDP party secretary Mikael Jungner, Alex Nieminen [fi], Helene Auramo, Karoliina Kähönen, Sarian Antila, and Tuomas Enbuske.

[18] Because the movement was not a registered party, each of its candidates had to gather signatures of at least 100 voters to form a constituency association [fi].

[19] In June 2019, Harkimo announced that the Movement Now would start collecting signed support cards in order to become a registered political party.

In economics, it supports reducing the corporate tax and what they see as unnecessary regulations on businesses, and in social policy, the party defends legalizing the sale of alcohol in grocery stores.

In international policy, although the party believes that the European Union has been beneficial for Finland in many respects, the Euro currency has not, and that the debt and migration crises, along with Brexit, has forced the EU to reconsider in which areas Brussels is needed and where it is not.

It also believes that all incoming immigrants should prove that they will be active members in Finnish society, and that those who provide false information or committed serious crimes such as terrorism should be deported.