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 Yikes, it’s déjà vu all over again. I got an email and then an invitation to a zoom radio broadcast. The Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a group I knew and had actually done some workshops with in Youngstown some years ago, had been subpoenaed by the Justice Department over voter registration. Was …
Pearl River My vote was canceled. Yes, I know that’s not supposed to happen, but in the wake of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority gutting the voting act and greenlighting gerrymandering to protect party majorities, it’s on. Maybe not everywhere, but in red states where Republicans might not have already sewed up all of …
Pearl River Oh, mercy, save us from Trump’s SAVE Act, which is all about restricting access to the ballot, fixing things that are not broken, and maintaining power in the hands of the minority, rather than the majority. Currently, amid a flurry of preposterous threats by Trump, the bill is bottled up in Congress, …