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 The Cost of Voting in the American States, 2022, is an invaluable guide that provides a nonpartisan, in fact, academic, ranking of what states do to make it harder or easier to vote in terms of access, convenience, registration, and other factors. This is a public service provided by political science …
New Orleans There seems to be a day for almost everything in these days and times, and my inbox was flooded with notices about a new day, at least to me, which is National Voter Registration Day. Heck, why not?!? It does seem an exercise against the wind. With the right’s drumbeat of …
New Orleans If the Congressional investigation committee, the so-called January 6th committee, chaired by Mississippi Representative Bennie Thompson, is even half-right, this whole matter of former President Trump and the Capitol assault has now transcended partisan politics and score settling. This matter has now become a matter of protecting the country and any …