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 If Marjorie Kelly has her way, the term “wealth supremacy” will be as common in political, cultural, and economic discussions as white supremacy. That’s just part of what she was telling me and tens of thousands of others on Wade’s World. Her argument in a nutshell is that the toxicity of …
New Orleans When Oliver Anthony (nee Christopher Anthony Lunsford) sings about the “rich men north of Richmond,” he’s talking about the people in Congress and all of those folks in Washington, D.C. and its suburbs. The news says that these same rich men did get it together in a roughhewn temporary coalition of …
Marble Falls You could see this coming from miles away, as I had predicted in several irresistible “I told you so” moments as hardline, right wing conservative Ohio Republican Jim Jordan’s campaign for Speaker of the US House of Representatives crashed and then burned. In the end, it wasn’t even close, but was …