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 First, a Zoom call ended with some “good news” – James O’Keefe was arrested in Minnesota on felony charges connected with election fraud. A Minneapolis friend and comrade sent a message crowing that “his bull-stuff doesn’t play in Minnesota.” Messages on Facebook trumpeted the same news. Today’s report was going to …
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 Yikes, it’s déjà vu all over again. I got an email and then an invitation to a zoom radio broadcast. The Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a group I knew and had actually done some workshops with in Youngstown some years ago, had been subpoenaed by the Justice Department over voter registration. Was …