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".
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 …
New Orleans Our major project to prevent voter suppression is called the Voter Purge Project. We have been processing the voter files for all registered voters in 27 states, about 140 million voters, for the last several years. This effort was key moving into 2020, and seems to be as critical as we …