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 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 …
Little Rock Looking at the silver lining, rather than the clouds, it was encouraging this early in an election year to see voter registration replace voter suppression in the news for at least a minute, although certainly they are intimately connected. One of our partners on some issues involving voter purges and analysis at ACORN’s Voter …