WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
Marble Falls Call me Joe Sausagehead! There was no way that I thought Trump could get away with his assault on mail ballots and taking control of state generated voting lists, but damned if the rightwing US Supreme Court majority in a 6-3 decision just pulled an okey-doke to let him take a …
Marble Falls How could it get worse in the US now? Just watch it, because it’s happening in real time, maybe not to everyone yet, but absolutely to those with more money than month. Just as a reminder, Trump’s big bad budget bill was financing continued tax breaks to the rich by taking away …
Marble Falls I first met Jerome Smith in 1976. I didn’t know who he was or anything about him then. We had just opened the ACORN office in New Orleans on Howard Avenue near Lee Circle. One of our primary funders then was the Sherwood Forest Foundation, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The money …