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 A little more than a year out from the US election, it’s getting really scary out there. The sides are forming, and there’s little middle ground, with the space in between often being filled with little more than the impunity of power answering only, “because I could.” Sure, the top of …
New Orleans The Ohio vote on the efforts by the Republican-dominated legislature to raise the bar on initiative amendments to the constitution by citizens was an almost 3 to 2 beat down with the NO votes at over 1.7 million and the YES votes hardly 1.3 million. Conservatives had tried to pitch this vote …
Marble Falls Voters in Ohio are trying to protect their ability to bring initiative petitions to the ballot in a closely watched election in August of all times. In an ongoing trend, Republican legislators are trying to make the process harder, in the Ohio case to keep voters from having their say about …