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	<title type="text">The Chief Organizer Blog</title>
	<subtitle type="text">WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of &#34;Nuts &#38; Bolts&#34;, &#34;Citizen Wealth&#34;, &#34;Global Grassroots&#34;, and &#34;The Battle for the 9th Ward&#34;.</subtitle>

	<updated>2026-08-16T16:25:03Z</updated>

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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Homeland Security Unbound]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-08-16T16:25:03Z</updated>
		<published>2026-08-16T16:25:03Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Pearl River      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 targeting organizations and labor unions &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Distributed Organizing, Old and New]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-08-16T16:23:16Z</updated>
		<published>2026-08-16T16:23:16Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Pearl River      I’d ripped out an article in the New Yorker six months ago by Charles Duhigg entitled “One Direction:  What MAGA can teach Democrats about organizing – and infighting.”  I’ve carried it around with me, so long that, picking it up now, I have only the first three pages and have to go &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[AI Gonna Take You Down]]></title>
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		<id>https://chieforganizer.org/?p=45824</id>
		<updated>2026-08-14T16:56:55Z</updated>
		<published>2026-08-14T16:56:55Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Artificial intelligence" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Politicians" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Politics" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Protests" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="United States" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Pearl River      The American people, and many around the world, may have finally stumbled onto a crossroads with big tech after watching them change the world, line their pockets, and data mine all of us, living and dead.  The hill where the die is being cast, if not the one, they will necessarily die &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[West Bank Settler Terrorism]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-08-13T18:00:20Z</updated>
		<published>2026-08-13T18:00:20Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="ACORN International" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Pearl River      There’s no question that the Israel actions on the West Bank are completely out of control when US Ambassador, former Arkansas Governor, and consistent Israel apologist, Mike Huckabee, refers to the settlers as “Israeli terrorists.”  These comments came after settlers pitched tents and created encampments in front of three Palestinian houses, blocking &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Birthright Citizenship – The Rest of the Story]]></title>
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		<id>https://chieforganizer.org/?p=45815</id>
		<updated>2026-08-12T21:38:07Z</updated>
		<published>2026-08-12T21:38:07Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Human Rights" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            New Orleans       The anti-immigrant mad dogs of the Trump administration, including the president, have, from the first day of Trump’s second term, attempted to end birthright citizenship.  In the last term of the Supreme Court on a closer than expected vote, the court ruled that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution was clear, &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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