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 Whoever believed that sucking up doesn’t work doesn’t have a clue to understanding the emerging Trump administration. The litmus test for thriving and surviving in Trump world is the ability to master limitless groveling, it seems. The evidence is everywhere. Foreign leaders, remembering the first term, are reportedly reminding each other …
Pearl River As Trump II starts to fire up, the situation of immigrants is going to be front and center. In a surprise to some perhaps, the issue of the border, which has been a hot button for Texas’ governor in recent years, also brought almost all of the largely Hispanic Texas border counties into …
Pearl River I can’t be the only one who is sick and tired of the battleground, swing states political organizing practice, because I sure as heck am up to my eyelids with that mess. Living in Louisiana, if I didn’t read the national papers daily, I might have forgotten there was a presidential …