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 Now that the candidates for the US presidential election are no longer presumed, but set firmly in concrete, the fight will be ratcheting up to win voter support. Interestingly, in such a divided country with such well-known and established candidates, the undecided voters are likely few, making the nonvoters critical to the …
New Orleans Britney Spears sang it loudly, “hit me one more time.” She wasn’t talking about decisions of the US Supreme Court and its historically ultra-conservative majority, but she could have been. This gut punch came from an analysis of the impact of their Shelby decision in 2013 that eliminated a central plank …
Amsterdam Unbelievably, there are now organized teams of people working to suppress the vote, especially in battleground states, by convincing local election officials to needlessly, and illegally, purge voters from the roles. ACORN’s Voter Purge Project has monitored an increasing number of states since 2019, largely at the macro-level, looking for anomalies on large …