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 Visiting the California Bay Area on my annual spring multi-meeting tour, unsurprisingly, the new Trump administration, its operations, excesses, and follies invariably sucked up no small amount of conversation. Nonetheless, life goes on, even as heads shake with everyone waiting for the next shoe to fall. Reading the tea leaves, there’s …
Lyon At the Voter Purge Project, we keep hoping secretaries of state around the United States have sort of learned their lesson. We don’t really believe that, but given how difficult it is to convince people that constant monitoring and tedious database care is essential to protect voter lists, we’re always hoping the …
Marble Falls Georgia makes just about anyone’s list of battleground states for the November US presidential election, but there’s every indication that it’s a battleground for voters simply trying to get on the voter rolls and then stay on the rolls without being purged either deliberately or through technical sloppiness. Most recently, reports by …