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 From what I read; it’s getting rougher out there. Bullying has always been a problem in the schoolyard since time immemorial. With social media, all stops are off with teens, women, and anyone even slightly different than the herd. Those of us now long grown can be thankful that we escaped the …
Little Rock Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis in a Twitter technical meltdown has finally announced his bid for the Republican nomination for president. The kowtowing Republican supermajority in the Florida legislature has gone out of their way to pass wild and wooly legislation to establish his ultra-conservative bonafides. Less well known nationally has been the …
New Orleans In what still seems the political “age of Trump,” probably the wrong question to ask, is “what are they thinking?” With misinformation, boundless conspiracies, and many feeling free to talk about scuttling elections and civil war, I’m probably out of line even wondering. Nonetheless, even acknowledging that the American political lists …