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 Many news reports are out now reminding all of us about the tragedies wrought by flash floods in the Texas Hill Country a year ago that hit youth camps and other communities with terrible death and damage. A report on the precautions at Camp Mystic, where more than 25 children were …
Marble Falls Talking to Katie Gaddini about her “I spy” sociological study of how conservative, largely evangelical Christian women were increasingly become the backbone of MAGA support was an eye opener. Gaddini had spent almost a decade interviewing people who were both big and small in the movement in order to get a …
Marble Falls At a local farmer’s market there was a stack of boxes of donuts and a table next to them with a small chalkboard that said, “Donuts for Fathers.” I was sitting in my truck as mi companera made the rounds to her delight. One father picked up a donut and laughed …