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".
San Francisco There were a number of interesting things I learned moving from one meeting to another from Santa Rosa to San Francisco yesterday. People made some interesting points and observations. There was one on this blue island of progressive opinion pocked with wealth and privilege that surprised me, even as it made sense …
Calgary Trump’s first one-hundred days are almost off the calendar, and, there’s no question, he’s breaking records and making history. Most of it are not the things that would normally be what would make a president proud. His popularity has fallen faster than ever than his predecessors in this normally honeymoon period. The stock …
Marble Falls It’s not often all of us in the cheap seats get a ringside view of what big time negotiations look like, especially between nation states, but we’re getting an huge eyeful, courtesy of Trump and his tariff tantrums. The whole world watched with some degree of horror as he huffed and …