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".
Atlanta Our daily paper in New Orleans gets thinner and thinner. In the latest reduction, the formerly four sections have now been combined into two sections. Metro is just another flip of the page from the front, and the Living section finds its way around Sports. It may be skinny and offer little but …
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 …