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 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 …
Santa Fe The electoral map for the midterm elections this November based on the 2020 census is still unsettled and contentious. The New York Times recently weighted in that despite all of the sound and fury, the national map was still about what and what for each major party with no real difference …