Full Name
Wade Rathke
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Wade Rathke is the founder and Chief Organizer of ACORN International as well as Local 100 United Labor Unions and the Publisher of Social Policy magazine. Wade is also the founder, and served as the Chief Organizer of ACORN for 39 years.
He has worked for and founded a series of organizations dedicated to winning social justice, workers rights, and a democracy where “the people shall rule”.
Recent Articles by Author
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Book Bans and Librarians
Book bans are a conservative cause du jour in many parts of the country. PEN America reports that there were over 12,000 books that were banned in public schools in 2025. Texas and Florida are at the top of the leader board in this new censorship movement. School administrators on the chopping…
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Midterms - Pinch me, I’m hope I’m not dreaming!
In the United States, we are only one-month away from the midterm elections. Elections haven’t been going all that well for us on the big cycles in recent years, so we may have to relish some good news before the election with the full recognition that it may be a mirage. But this could really…
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Voting Lists and Mail Ballots
There’s nothing good about the latest retreat by the Supreme Court on voting rights as they temporarily allowed the Trump administration to move forward to use the postal service to somehow police and restrict mail ballot delivery for the coming midterm election. It doesn’t take much imagination to…
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Homeland Security Unbound
Reports on the broad and unconstitutional investigations launched by agents from US Homeland Security read like something from East Germany or the KGB files of years ago. Government agents unbound by law or ethics acting with impunity to surveil citizens involved in the simplest protest and…