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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>2026-10-25T16:50:40Z</updated>

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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Independent Unions Are Filling Some Gaps]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-10-25T16:50:40Z</updated>
		<published>2026-10-25T16:31:10Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="AFL-CIO" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Polling" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Unions" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Wade&#039;s World" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Marble Falls      These days should be the best of days for workers to organize unions, even as they may be among the worst of days in terms US labor law and the NLRB under Trump that is administering the law for private sector workers. Polling indicates support in the general public for unions &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Before the Cut, Think Twice]]></title>
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		<updated>2026-10-24T14:11:35Z</updated>
		<published>2026-10-24T14:11:35Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Health Care" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Marble Falls      Few of us who ever had a saw in hand, hovering over a piece of lumber, that have not heard the old adage, “measure twice, cut once”.  Something similar might be good advice in making decisions about your own health, especially when it comes to surgeries. Randomized controlled trials are recognized &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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			<name>Chief Organizer</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[How Safe is US Voting?]]></title>
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		<id>https://chieforganizer.org/?p=46099</id>
		<updated>2026-10-24T14:08:04Z</updated>
		<published>2026-10-24T14:08:04Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Ballot" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Voting" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            Marble Falls      With all of the self-serving disinformation coming from down low and up high about the security of voting in the midterm elections, it’s fair to ask, “what’s the real deal?”  I tuned into a webinar presented by SciLine and organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, who are &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[SNAP Bureaucratic Pushout in Real Life]]></title>
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		<id>https://chieforganizer.org/?p=46095</id>
		<updated>2026-10-22T22:23:55Z</updated>
		<published>2026-10-22T22:23:55Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Big Beautiful Bill" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="BRAVO" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="SNAP" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            New Orleans       I’ve been talking about Trump’s Bad Budget Bill for some time and its determination to push out of the SNAP food stamp system, and soon Medicaid, people and families that are eligible using onerous work requirements and bureaucratic obstacles.  Don’t take my word for it or just nod when you hear &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Big Money for Bad Immigrant Detention Policies]]></title>
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		<id>https://chieforganizer.org/?p=46090</id>
		<updated>2026-10-22T22:19:04Z</updated>
		<published>2026-10-22T22:19:04Z</published>
		<category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Big Beautiful Bill" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="ICE" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Immigrant" /><category scheme="https://chieforganizer.org" term="Impunity" />
		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[            New Orleans      Watching “The Mayor of Kingstown” on Netflix is an eerie experience of art seeming to be different from life in a darker, more violent sense, but maybe in fact this series is a warning about life duplicating art.  We’re only two seasons down as we follow the tale of how a &#8230; ]]></summary>

		
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