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 There’s no question that President Biden’s announcement that he would not be a candidate in the coming election, his endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, and her surge over the last two weeks has totally altered the US presidential campaign. The reaction from many sectors and large parts of the Democratic …
Marble Falls In puzzling out the big city, New Yorker Donald Trump and his appeal, there’s some interest in the media and in the mainstream about what’s up with rural America. Is this the “real” America, as some conservatives claim, or is this just the hotbed of the left-behinds and white Christian nationalists, …
Marble Falls I’m on the record in Nuts and Bolts on stray dogs as a ubiquitous issue around the world for community organizers, along with garbage pickup and bad drainage. I argued that if we could build organizations that could campaign and win on these three issues, we could organize the world. All …