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 The Cost of Voting in the American States, 2022, is an invaluable guide that provides a nonpartisan, in fact, academic, ranking of what states do to make it harder or easier to vote in terms of access, convenience, registration, and other factors. This is a public service provided by political science …
New Orleans Certainly January 6th was an assault on everything we believe about democracy in the United States, because it was a dramatic attempt to undue the will of the American people as expressed throughout the country in their election ballots. In that case, despite the continued furor, it didn’t work, and Joe …
May 22, 2022 Pearl River We all know the warning: don’t poke the bear. Most of us don’t have much of a chance to put that warning into practice, because we aren’t near bears. Those of us who do run into them from time to time, take it to heart. The Georgia legislature may …
May 17, 2022 San Francisco While all eyes are on the Supreme Court because of the abortion leak, there’s other damage being done. A 6-3 decision announced this week, in what we might have hoped was a quixotic case involving Ted Cruz, brought more horror to our future, this time to the electoral …
May 13, 2022 New Orleans It’s not just January 6th that shows how transferring accountability from institutions and governments to rank-and-file citizens can go awry. There seems to be a collapse in the thin wall between legitimate citizen action and calls to citizen vigilantism popping up more and more. I stand behind no …