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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".

Category: Politics

Protest as “Domestic Terrorism” – Really, Georgia?

Dollar Stores Politics Protests March 2, 2023 by Chief Organizer

New Orleans   Recently, while I was working with our dollar store project in Atlanta, I started hearing about a protestor killed in an encampment during a sweep by police forces that involved a long-running protest over the location approved for a police and training facility.  It was all news to me, either generally below my …

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Aggressive Purges are the Wrong Tactic in New Orleans

Politics Voting March 1, 2023 by Chief Organizer

New Orleans      If I had good sense, I’d keep my mouth shut, but that’s almost impossible, as I follow closely the perverse effort in our headquarters city of New Orleans by some people to force voters off the election rolls in order to advance an unrelated issue. A bunch of people have been promoting …

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Red State Rearguard Attacks on Alternative Energy

Policy Politics Utilities February 23, 2023 by Chief Organizer

Marble Falls      Coming to Arkansas in 1970, it was hard to find a state that voted for more Democrats.  Sure, there was the one northwestern congressional district in the Ozarks that had leaned Republican since protesting the state’s Civil War secession, but Arkansas was a barometer state in presidential politics, having voting for whoever …

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