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".
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 …
From: December 25, 2022 Baja California We knew the weather was going to be bad. As the holidays closed in on us, we were running from the forecasts, not just to Mexico for the first time in four years, but to Baja, where the temperature this time of year in the arid desert between …
Marble Falls There was an energy crisis before the current climate-change continual crises during the Jimmy Carter presidency in 1979, more than forty years ago, that was driven by a drop in oil production during the Iranian revolution. President Carter spoke to Americans and the world in his famous “malaise” speech, where he …