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 …
New Orleans If I had good sense, I’d keep my mouth shut, but that’s almost impossible, as I follow closely the perverse effort in our headquarters city of New Orleans by some people to force voters off the election rolls in order to advance an unrelated issue. A bunch of people have been promoting …
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 …