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Thanks From ACORN - Now Let's Move A Progressive Agenda!

Bertha Lewis | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics


Bertha Lewis

If I could hug everyone at once, I would. Without everyone who stood with us it would have been impossible to fight back the way we did.

McCain Adviser Can't Name Instance Of Voter Fraud From Fake Regulations

ProPublica | Posted 11.02.2008 | Politics


For weeks Republican leaders have warned that widely reported problems with fake voter registrations could result in a flood of phony votes in pivotal...

ACORN's Plan To Turn Registrations Into Votes

Bertha Lewis | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics


Bertha Lewis

We want to assure you that partisan attacks will not interfere with ACORN members' determination to involve low-income, minority, and new American voters across the country.

Obama Could Lose Election Due To Voter Suppression

Judah Freed | Posted 10.31.2008 | Home


Judah Freed

Republicans are seeking to suppress the voter turnout among youth, minorities and poor people. If Republicans can prevent enough Democrats from casting ballots, McCain could win the election.

7 Ways to Steal Back Your Vote

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics


Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast

You can have all the paper ballots in the world, but if you don't demand to look at them, publicly, in a recount, you might as well mark them with invisible ink. Democracy requires vigilance.

Secret Acorn Memo Reveals Vote Fraud Plan

David Misch | Posted 10.30.2008 | Entertainment


David Misch

From: Ex. VP, Destroying Fabric of Democracy Comm. To: All fraudsters Re: Fraud Fellow Fraudsters: After months of planning, the DFoD Committee has ...

Drinking the ACORN Kool-Aid: How Cries of Voter Fraud Cover Up GOP Elections Theft

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics


Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Palast

While Republicans had the media searching for links between Obama and ACORN, RNC operatives were busily completing one of the most massive voter suppression and purging efforts in American history.

How to Stop the Rigging of Election '08

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics


Sarah van Gelder

The issues of ACORN and voter fraud are a smokescreen designed to cover a much more serious issue with a long and ugly history: the suppression of the vote of groups that tend to vote Democratic.

House GOP Leader Boehner: Cut Off ACORN Funds

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 10.22.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — House Republican leader John Boehner on Wednesday urged President Bush to block all federal funds to a grass-roots community group ...

Unchallenged Lies and Unexamined Cliches -- CNN Interview of Sarah Palin by Drew Griffin

Linda Bergthold | Posted 10.21.2008 | Media


Linda Bergthold

What is most disgraceful about this interview is the flaccid and uncritical role of the interviewer -- Drew Griffin. How can he call himself a journalist?

ACORN Not An Issue: City Election Officials

WBBM 780 | Nancy Harty | Posted 10.21.2008 | Chicago


A longtime community group that is a point of controversy in the presidential election over voter registrations is NOT registering voters here in the ...

ACORN Organizers Fight Back Against Attacks (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.21.2008 | Politics


Brave New Films explains what the voter fraud allegations against ACORN are really about: suppressing the low-income vote and throwing the election re...

Final Acts of Ugly Desperation

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 10.20.2008 | Politics


Jeff Schweitzer

If McCain cannot attract voters to him, the only strategy left is to prevent voters from getting to the polls to support his opponent.

The ACORN Hysteria

Rick Hasen | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics


Rick Hasen

Fraudulent voter registrations don't translate into election fraud at the polls that has any reasonable chance of influencing an election, much less a presidential election.

CNN Airs At Least 54 Misleading Segments On ACORN

Media Matters | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics


From October 6 through October 15, CNN ran at least 54 segments mentioning allegations that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now ...

FBI Investigating ACORN For Registration Fraud

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating whether the community activist group ACORN helped foster voter registration fraud around the nation before...

Mass Voter Fraud: A Conservative Myth

Think Progress | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics


As the 2008 election process draws near -- and with early voting in many states having already begun -- conservatives are raising a great hue and cry ...

Jason Linkins

GOP Presses ACORN Debate With Costumed Chipmunks

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics


In the clearest sign yet that we Americans do in fact have portions of our minds left to lose comes this news of the ever-evolving attempts of the rig...

A stolen election?

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 10.15.2008 | Politics


Christina Bellantoni

First published at WashingtonTimes.com The accusations against ACORN keep on coming, with more and more examples piling up of fraud in critical battl...

Making Sense of ACORN

Josh Brusin | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics


Josh Brusin

It seems that ACORN is the GOP scapegoat this year. They tipped their hands when they labeled Obama a dastardly "community organizer" repeatedly at their convention.

McCain, Palin: Demonizing the Poor

Bob Ostertag | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics


Bob Ostertag

Who is at fault? The poor, of course! They forced those nice bankers to write all those mortgages at usurious rates! Probably forced them into those golden parachutes as well. Bolsheviks all!

The Purge Surge: Why the GOP Is Nuts About ACORN

Rick Hasen | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics


Rick Hasen

Obama is running way ahead in the polls, and if he wins in a landslide it is not because Donald Duck has voted thousands of times in key swing states.

WHY Are Republicans Accusing ACORN Of Voter Fraud?

Dave Johnson | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics


Dave Johnson

The Republican noise machine is going absolutely full-force after ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), accusing them of comm...

Attacks on ACORN Based Not on Facts, But on Fear of 1.3 Million Poor People Registering

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. | Posted 10.10.2008 | Chicago


Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.

ACORN, along with Project Vote, just announced that they had registered 1.3 million poor people this year. No wonder the GOP is up in arms. They're scared of too many poor people preparing to vote this year.

Raided ACORN Office Supported Work Release Program; Likely To Draw GOP Fire

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 10.07.2008 | Home


M.S. Bellows, Jr.

"It would be interesting if our participation in a program encouraged by the Nevada Department of Corrections somehow led the Secretary of State to raid our offices."