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".
Pearl River Here’s a treat, as well as a bit of déjà vu. Here in the age of Mamdani in New York City and the many years that ACORN alone and via the Working Families Party was in the middle of elections in the city, I stumbled onto an ACORN forbearer with a similar …
New Orleans There is an undeclared civil war in America now. Trump and his administration have weaponized and mobilized the federal government in one initiative after another against people in the United States. Seeing himself as having unlimited powers and enabling his administration to ignore the law and deal brutally with opponents, whether …
Pearl River The equal time provisions under decades of FCC actions have largely been eroded and haphazardly enforced, if all. Ostensibly, provisions still exist on the books as statute and via FCC regulations. “Under section 315, if a broadcast station permits any legally qualified candidate for public office to use its facilities, it shall …