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 Admittedly, President Trump is committed to expanding his power exponentially without any regard to the ostensible limits of democratic practice and institutions. His capacity for arbitrary and unilateral dictates is unrivaled, with fresh examples almost daily, whether cloaked in executive orders or delivered when hurling firings like fastballs at the head. …
Marble Falls Facebook showed me a picture from seven years ago on this date, in the way they do, when we were moving our post-Katrina, Airstream “land yacht” from Rock Creek, Wyoming, to Manderson, Wyoming, going south. I’m not there now, but in the Ozarks. My computer tells me it’s already 85 degrees …
Marble Falls The Texas legislature is famously hyper partisan now and attracting attention nationally for its efforts to gerrymander some additional congressional districts to help Republicans maintain control of the US House of Representatives. Democrats have threatened to walk out on the effort, but it’s almost a symbolic protest. Several states in the …