Leftist meddler extraordinaire George Soros has named President Obama’s far-left ambassador to South Africa, Patrick Gaspard, as acting president of his philanthropic network, the Open Society Foundations (OSF), effective at the end of the year. There is an excellent chance … Continue reading Soros picks ACORN, SEIU hack Patrick Gaspard to head Open Society Foundations
Wow, a not-overtly-political or partisan fundraising email from MoveOn.org arrived in my email inbox. Or so I thought. It begins innocently enough. Dear MoveOn member, Hurricane Harvey is shaping up to be “one of the worst flooding disasters in U.S. … Continue reading MoveOn solicits Hurricane Harvey donations for Texas ACORN: Texas Organizing Project is a direct successor organization to the Texas chapter of ACORN
I’ve been so busy covering the leftist uprising in the country that I just noticed that Project Vote announced it was shutting its doors on May 31 of this year. Project Vote, the voter mobilization division of now-defunct ACORN, leaves behind a legacy … Continue reading EXCLUSIVE: ACORN’s Project Vote is dead: If you hate voter fraud, you should be happy
Article by Matthew Vadum as published Aug. 29, 2017 at FrontPageMag: An ACORN offshoot and other left-wing pressure groups are suing California in federal court because the state hasn’t made it easy enough for Democrats to flood voter rolls … Continue reading ACORN sues California to allow more illegals to vote: Bill Clinton’s Motor-Voter law has made massive voter fraud possible
My article in today’s FrontPage magazine: Ferguson Rent-A-Mobs Exposed By Matthew Vadum ACORN’s successor group in Missouri has been paying protesters $5,000 a month to generate civil unrest in Ferguson, the troubled St. Louis suburb where black youth Michael Brown was killed by a white police officer last August. We know this because some of the protesters haven’t been paid and, now, they are demanding what they were promised. They held a sit-in at the offices of Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) and posted a demand letter online. MORE is the rebranded Missouri branch of the former Association … Continue reading Ferguson Rent-A-Mobs Exposed
I made “Hannity” the TV show — at least in the form of video footage. This video shows a clip from Thanksgiving (Nov. 22, 2012) that contains one of my segments from the documentary “District of Corruption.” In it I’m talking about ACORN and Saul Alinsky. (hat tip: Big Government) Continue reading My appearance on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity”
My Front Page Magazine article from July 26, 2012: ACORN Political Money Laundering in Texas By Matthew Vadum The taxpayer watchdog group Cause of Action is accusing the former Texas branch of ACORN of illegally diverting charitable funds for political activity benefiting Democrats. ACORN’s Texas chapter may have changed its name but it still appears to be involved in the same kinds of financial shenanigans that made the radical group synonymous with corruption and sleaze. President Obama used to work for ACORN and represented it in court as an attorney. There are two ACORN spinoff groups allegedly involved in the … Continue reading ACORN Political Money Laundering in Texas
Project Vote, the branch of ACORN that President Obama used to work for, filed suit against Pennsylvania claiming the Keystone State isn’t doing enough to help welfare recipients vote themselves greater taxpayer-funded benefits. (View the complaint here.) Not surprisingly Project Vote is acting for Action United, a rebranded state chapter from the old ACORN network of activist groups. Action United is a business name for Pennsylvania Communities Organizing for Change Inc. (PCOC). PCOC is run by the same old Pennsylvania ACORN activists and its headquarters is in the same office as the old Philadelphia branch of ACORN. I warned in … Continue reading ACORN unit Project Vote represents PA ACORN offshoot in lawsuit
The Left is going all-out to push the tired old meme that asking a voter for photo ID somehow discriminates against minorities, the poor, and other aggrieved groups. Longtime fellow-traveler and ACORN apologist Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of the Nation magazine, is trying to raise money by promoting this ridiculous idea. Not unexpected but still tedious. Make that very tedious. Here’s a copy of a fundraising letter I received today from her: Continue reading Paranoia from The Nation magazine
My article from today’s Front Page Magazine: Obama Gives $446 Million to ACORN Veteran By Matthew Vadum A former senior ACORN official has been put in charge of close to half a billion taxpayer dollars in Illinois, one of the most corrupt states in the Union and the home state of America’s Community Organizer-in-Chief. What could possibly go wrong? In 2010 the Obama administration designated $7.6 billion for a foreclosure relief program. Of that total $445.6 million will be administered by ACORN alumnus Joe McGavin, now a director at the Illinois Housing Development Authority. As Judicial Watch discovered, McGavin was … Continue reading Obama Gives $446 Million to ACORN Veteran
(originally posted at NewsReal) The Democratic Party is officially encouraging supporters to go to Speaker John Boehner’s house and dump garbage on his lawn in order to intimidate him into rubber-stamping President Obama’s destructive spending spree. Such protests can easily turn violent, especially with the tense, hyper-partisan atmosphere on Capitol Hill right now. Is it a coincidence that not long after longtime ACORN operative Patrick Gaspard took over as executive director of the Democratic National Committee the DNC is planning destructive ACORN-like protests? Not bloody likely. As chief of the DNC’s day-to-day operations, Gaspard runs Organizing for America, the Saul Alinsky-inspired organization created to wage war on American democracy. … Continue reading DNC-Sponsored Mob Violence Possible: ACORN, Obama Behind Plan To Dump Garbage On Speaker Boehner’s Home?
An oldie but a goodie. On the June 18, 2009 edition of the “Rush Limbaugh Show” host Rush Limbaugh read aloud from my June 19 blog post at the American Spectator blog. And yes, he did pronounce my surname correctly. The point of the blog post was that radical activist group ACORN and AmeriCorps –which at the time was embroiled in scandal after President Obama fired Gerald Walpin, its inspector general– go way back. Here’s the video clip: Continue reading Rush Limbaugh reads Matthew Vadum’s work on air
As the remnants of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now regroup in order to bring chaos to the 2012 election cycle, ACORN’s renamed New York chapter is teeming with activity. The successor organization, called New York Communities for Change (NYCC), operates out of the same office on Nevins Street in Brooklyn that is home to ACORN and its partisan arm, the socialist Working Families Party of New York. Longtime ACORN leader Jon Kest is executive director of NYCC. Kest is the brother of Steve Kest, former executive director of ACORN, who has joined fellow radical community organizer Van … Continue reading ACORN Sprouting Fresh Branches
Attorney General Eric Holder has made it abundantly clear he has absolutely no interest in investigating his radical friends at ACORN. Holder’s Justice Department released a legal opinion last week that allows the Obama administration to ignore the will of Congress which has voted overwhelmingly to suspend federal funding of ACORN until at least Dec. 18. He’s also ignored the 88-page report on ACORN’s systemic corruption and flagrant racketeering activities that was issued this summer by Republican investigators on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Apparently, public outrage at the continuing antics of the corrupt radical advocacy group that used to employ President Obama and … Continue reading Eric Holder Won’t Investigate His Radical Friends at ACORN