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".
Marble Falls I’m afraid that I’m living in an alternate political reality. Everything I read, from the Trumpers to mainstream media, tells me that as a progressive, I’ve mysteriously gone from marginal to powerful. How and why did this happen, and how come I don’t have more to show for it, if it’s true? …
Marble Falls Virtually, every day, rain or shine, the Peoples’ Daily News has to be written and produced for the “voice of the people” stations in New Orleans and Little Rock. Recently, there was a brief squib about the decline of traffic enforcement and what that meant for both increased fatalities and perhaps a …
Marble Falls Every once in a while, Google Alerts will pull something up that surprises, when they are acting not like a contemporary search for mentions of ACORN, but more like the Wayback Machine archiving the internet. Recently, they ran something from the Minneapolis Star Tribune and its political column almost fifteen years ago. …