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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>2026-06-03T19:12:06Z</updated>

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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Less a Blink than a Wink]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-06-03T19:12:06Z</updated>
		<published>2026-06-03T19:12:06Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Corruption" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Trump" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            New Orleans        This is a one-finger clap at some good news.  After pushback from his own party and almost everyone else in the US and across the world, the White House has been signaling for several days that Trump was backing off the $1.8 billion slush fund.  The Department of Justice and its &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Backstory on a Sleaze Bucket]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-06-02T22:49:23Z</updated>
		<published>2026-06-02T22:49:23Z</published>
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		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            New Orleans        Rumor has it that Trump is increasingly coming to recognize that the gale winds of opposition from all corners, including his own Republicans, have made the $1.8 billion slush fund created for his pleasure and distribution politically untenable. They may let it die a slow death thanks the federal judge who &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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			<name>Chief Organizer</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Stuck at the Bargaining Table]]></title>
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		<id>https://chieforganizer.org/?p=45533</id>
		<updated>2026-06-02T14:43:09Z</updated>
		<published>2026-06-02T14:43:09Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Labor Organizing" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Unions" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            New Orleans       Several years ago there seemed to a spurt of union organizing success in unusual places.  The results were impressive.  More than 500 Starbucks stores have organized.  Amazon workers in a Staten Island warehouse won an election.  Even REI coop retail workers won elections.  Spoiler alert.  This is the story of the &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Blocking Narcissism and Grift]]></title>
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		<id>https://chieforganizer.org/?p=45529</id>
		<updated>2026-05-30T22:39:42Z</updated>
		<published>2026-05-30T22:39:42Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Corruption" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Grift" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Trump" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Marble Falls       Maybe, just maybe, there are limits to the fawning by the Republican US Congress and the level of corruption and grift that Trump and his family are allowed.  I hesitate to generalize because with this crew, it’s whack-a-mole with more that crops up even as restrictions are imposed elsewhere.  Regardless, it’s &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Flood Warnings Matter]]></title>
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		<id>https://chieforganizer.org/?p=45524</id>
		<updated>2026-05-29T15:10:23Z</updated>
		<published>2026-05-29T15:10:23Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Environment" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Marble Falls        Sitting in the KABF studio in Little Rock about 3 PM, I heard beeping on a colleague’s phone on the other side of the room.  Seconds later, my phone went crazy as well.  We were being warned about the possibilities of flash floods in the area.  Earlier in the afternoon, there &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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