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 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 …
New Orleans As the fog clears, I’m going to beat this drum once again about the outrageous scam called Opportunity Zones that were part and parcel of the Trump tax giveaway and in this case were done in the name and off the backs of the poor. My blood was back on boiling …