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".
New Orleans Of all the surprises of this election season, one of the biggest to me has been the conservative effort to overtly subjugate women. In general, I’m not surprised to find that the right wants to put women in the kitchen-cage and the maternity ward, but to move this from a constant undercurrent …
Marble Falls I’m afraid that I’m living in an alternate political reality. Everything I read, from the Trumpers to mainstream media, tells me that as a progressive, I’ve mysteriously gone from marginal to powerful. How and why did this happen, and how come I don’t have more to show for it, if it’s true? …
Marble Falls There’s no question that President Biden’s announcement that he would not be a candidate in the coming election, his endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, and her surge over the last two weeks has totally altered the US presidential campaign. The reaction from many sectors and large parts of the Democratic …