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ACORN sues California to allow more illegals to vote: Bill Clinton’s Motor-Voter law has made massive voter fraud possible

Matthew Vadum

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

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Race Riot Romance

Matthew Vadum

My article from the Aug. 14, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: Race Riot Romance By Matthew Vadum The fatal police shooting of a young black suspect in a Midwestern town last weekend has given the Left yet another opportunity to advance its destructive, racially polarizing agenda. After 18-year-old Michael Brown, a black man was killed by police in Ferguson, a mostly black community in St. Louis County, Mo., the city and region surrounding it have been under siege. Not content to wait for the wheels of the justice system to spin, some view this tragedy as a license to riot. … Continue reading Race Riot Romance

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Voter Fraud Redefined

Matthew Vadum

Here’s my November 8, 2012 column from American Thinker: Voter Fraud Redefined By Matthew Vadum Voter fraud ain’t what it used to be. Left-wingers have been deliberately dumbing down the definition for years. In all my years as a journalist covering American politics, I have understood that voter fraud, a phrase coined by lawyers, was a blanket term that refers to a host of election-related offenses.  Lawyers frequently make up terms for specialty areas — for example, elder law, environmental law, probate law, and wrongful dismissal law. Voter fraud, also known as vote fraud, election fraud, and electoral fraud, refers to the … Continue reading Voter Fraud Redefined

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Obama’s Pre-Election Gift to Illegal Aliens

Matthew Vadum

My article from today’s Front Page Magazine: Obama’s Pre-Election Gift to Illegal Aliens By Matthew Vadum In a move more imperial than presidential, President Obama last week granted what amounts to a kind of de facto citizenship to as many as 1.4 million young illegal aliens. From the Rose Garden of the White House on Friday Obama announced plans to bypass Congress and partially implement the so-called DREAM Act which would have offered a path to U.S. citizenship for youthful illegals who served in the armed forces or attended college. The administration says 800,000 illegal aliens could benefit although Jon … Continue reading Obama’s Pre-Election Gift to Illegal Aliens

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VADUM: Revving up the race card: Democrats’ backers deploy radical tactics to expand welfare state

Matthew Vadum

Here is my oped from the Friday edition of the Washington Times: VADUM: Revving up the race card: Democrats’ backers deploy radical tactics to expand welfare state A George Soros-funded pressure group is behind a new drive to teach Democratic congressmen how to smear their opponents as racist. By Matthew Vadum Last week House Democrats were tutored by the radical, left-wing, racial spoils group known as the Center for Social Inclusion. The group was brought in “to address the issue of race to defend government programs,” Joel Gehrke reported in the WashingtonExaminer. “The prepared content of a Tuesday presentation to … Continue reading VADUM: Revving up the race card: Democrats’ backers deploy radical tactics to expand welfare state

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Economic Terrorism’s Big Comeback

Matthew Vadum

(originally published at Front Page Magazine, a publication of David Horowitz Freedom Center) Economic Terrorism’s Big Comeback By Matthew Vadum Radical activist groups associated with President Barack Obama have launched a campaign of economic terrorism and sabotage – possibly with his blessing. Mortgage and student loan strikes, crippling bank boycotts, intimidation, and who knows what else are all on the agenda. The idea of leftists using terrorism to achieve political objectives isn’t new. Leon Trotsky supported the use of terrorism to advance so-called social justice. Decades before an ice-axe found its way into his skull, Trotsky argued in Dictatorship vs. Democracy that … Continue reading Economic Terrorism’s Big Comeback

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Richard Kim of the Nation magazine: Clueless, useful idiot, or coverup leader?

Matthew Vadum

ACORN was founded in part to carry out a subversive plot to radically transform America into a socialist nation. Small-c communist professors Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven wrote an article called “The Weight of the Poor” that was published in the far-left magazine the Nation in 1966. The plan was to overwhelm welfare rolls to bring the system to collapse. Nowadays Piven claims she didn’t mean what she wrote, insisting it was just a modest essay published in an obscure magazine. She never mentions that the article was so popular the magazine printed an extra 30,000 copies, an unprecedented number, and … Continue reading Richard Kim of the Nation magazine: Clueless, useful idiot, or coverup leader?

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Please buy my book!

Matthew Vadum

I have a preview article out on my new book, Subversion Inc. Read the article here. (PDF) Here is the beginning of it: The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is part political group, part crime syndicate, part terrorist organization. Much of the time it operates outside the legitimate political process, waging war against the framework of society. ACORN is in the business of subverting the American system, so what Americans saw on the undercover “pimp and pro” videos released in 2009 was just another day at the office at ACORN. But the darkest side of ACORN has remained largely unexplored – until now ACORN, which until … Continue reading Please buy my book!

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Bloodthirsty Leon Trotsky inspired Cloward and Piven

Matthew Vadum

It’s May Day, a day of celebration for communists and community organizers alike. On that note, although the bloodthirsty Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky was long dead before community organizing picked up steam in the United States in the 1960s, he served as an inspiration to Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Trotsky, who was assassinated in 1940, was instrumental in the Bolshevik Revolution and founded the Red Army. Cloward and Piven were, like Trotsky, what Joseph Stalin referred to as “ultra-leftists.” Stalin, himself a homicidal monster, considered ultra-leftists to be dangerous and uncontrollable because they were content to set the … Continue reading Bloodthirsty Leon Trotsky inspired Cloward and Piven

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ACORN’s goal is to hurt people, not help them

Matthew Vadum

ACORN is a profoundly antisocial organization. It celebrates and promotes the worst pathologies in society in an effort to kill the American experiment in self-governance. The small-c communist organization was created not to help people, but to hurt them. Growing out of the now-defunct National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO), ACORN was created to get people to go on welfare. No joke. The group came out of the so-called welfare rights movement led by radical anti-American activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Cloward died in 2001 but Piven still teaches at CUNY and advocates violence as a tool of revolutionary political change. Getting … Continue reading ACORN’s goal is to hurt people, not help them