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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".

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Fat Lady Hasn’t Sung, but She’s Warming Up

DC Politics National Politics March 16, 2016 by digital

Newark   How many Tuesdays can be super? We must have calendared three or so by now? In the latest, Donald Trump obliterated the field, besting the combined totals of both Florida’s own Senator Marco Rubio and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, sufficiently to force Rubio to drop his bid for the nomination. Trump also won …

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Is Senator Ted Cruz Most Hardball Campaigner Since Nixon?

DC Politics Ideas and Issues National Politics March 10, 2016March 10, 2016 by digital

New Orleans   There are a long list of things that can be said about Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz, many of them darned close to scary, but I have to admit one thing that has become increasingly clear about him: he plays hardball! His strike zone is high and hot towards the head with wickedly …

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Trump May Be Bad for Republicans but End Up Good for America

Ideas and Issues March 4, 2016 by digital

New Orleans   The Republicans are going after the mogul, Donald Trump, hot and heavy now. They’re hitting him both high and low….in fact very low, though the lower they go, the better he seems to like it and the more some people like him. Fox News seems to have invited him to a butt-whipping in …

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Rooting for Trump?

DC Politics National Politics February 21, 2016February 22, 2016 by digital

New Orleans   Nevada results are in with Hillary Clinton edging Bernie Sanders by 5 percentage points, but perhaps more tellingly leveraging huge support from African-Americans to put a stake through the heart of his campaign. A coming romp for Clinton in South Carolina could end everything but the shouting. Donald Trump rolled the field in …

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White, Right, and Ready to Fight – Yikes!

Ideas and Issues January 6, 2016January 6, 2016 by digital

New Orleans   Richard Trumka, head of the AFL-CIO, has started releasing tweets directed at Donald Trump along the theme of “don’t be fooled by a fool.” Undoubtedly he is responding to the chilling cascade of poll results that indicate that Trump and his fellow traveler, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, are winning the popularity contest in …

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