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 Freedom Path is a conservative advocacy organization, but it may have done advocacy groups of all flavors and persuasions a favor by challenging the US Internal Revenue Service on the issue of fuzzy and non-existent standards for what determines political activity by a tax-exempt nonprofit organization. Freedom Path is classified as …
Pearl River There’s a long chapter in the autocrats’ playbook on going after the nonprofit sector. In India, Russia, Turkey, Hungary, Morocco, and countless other countries, first you attack and cut off foreign funding. Next you investigate them forcibly and publicly with uniformed police, guns drawn, and seize records, computers, phones, and bank accounts. …
Marble Falls Chris Lahane has built an almost legendary political legacy over the last 20 years back to his Obama days, within the Democratic Party ranks, and as a wildly compensated gun-for-hire to a laundry list of tech companies, regardless of the questionable program of his commercial activities. All of which makes him …