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 Wow, this is getting really serious now! Being older than dirt, I’m familiar with hearing comrades and friends in conversation over the last numerous decades calling this politician or whomever a fascist for one reason or another. It was common as an approbation for Lyndon Johnson during the Vietnam War and for …
New Orleans It may have been hardball politics by both Democrats and Republicans, but it was a fair play within the chalk lines to raise the penalty flag on President Biden’s rough outing in the debate with Trump. Now the tables have turned though, and it’s equally fair to wonder what’s going on …
New Orleans Evangelicals have been a force in American politics for decades now. I’ve paid attention, but have seen them as one of an array of special interest, pressure groups, so have taken a sort of live-and-let-live attitude that they were all part and parcel of the democratic process. That is starting to seem …