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 Reading a recent article in the New Yorker about the emerging strategy of the pro-life movement in these changing and challenging times, I was forced to come to grip with the concept of a “New Right.” Just as there was a New Left once upon a time, why couldn’t there be a …
Marble Falls Watching the shake and bake in the wake of the election reminds me of a universal law of looking at money, I learned as an organizer working for ACORN and presenting budgets, expenses, and audits to the board over the years. The questions from people were rarely about the big items like …
Marble Falls Exhausted from a long drive, sitting next to mi companera for assistance, I set about trying to join Bluesky with mixed feelings. I’m not really a Twitter X guy. Yeah, in automation mode, ACORN’s comms guy shares the Chief Organizer’s Report on that platform, but at a personal level I dropped …