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".
New Orleans What’s the old saying? An enemy of my enemy is my friend. Something like that, I think. All of which made reading some parts of a piece on Lauren Windsor’s almost one-woman campaign to pop James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas and zing conservative Republicans a guilty pleasure. It seems that Windsor …
New Orleans It may be high-low bargaining, but at least progressives played their hands powerfully in order to get to try to get to the maximum number on Biden’s so-called social services infrastructure bill, retailed at $3.5 trillion. Pramila Jayapal, Democratic Congresswoman from Seattle, and head of the 100-member Progressive Caucus in the …
Little Rock Senator Manchin is all about West Virginia. Talk to people in that small state, and they all have a Manchin story. He regularly calls into the popular middle-right talk radio station. He’s out and about. Hey, people living in Washington, DC, have summer homes and getaway cabins in West Virginia. It’s not …