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".
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 …
Marble Falls We’ve done study after study of nonprofit hospitals, particularly on the question of their charitable status. Benefiting from a tax-exemption, they are required to be charitable. A condition of the amendments upon the passage of the Affordable Care Act more than a decade ago insisted that if they were not significantly and …