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 Nothing is ever as simple as it seems. We’ve all heard that line since childhood. I only repeat it to underline my argument about the claims of New Orleans recall campaigners to demand voters be moved to the inactive list to assuage their fears that their petition efforts have …
Marble Falls Since the fall of 2019, when ACORN, Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center, and the Ohio Voter Project organized the Voter Purge Project, we have painstakingly processed the voter lists in numerous states around the country as a bulwark against voter suppression. In the beginning, we were only handling a dozen or so …
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 …