Until now, the Obama administration, the New York Times, and Congressional Democrats failed to criticize the right wing media for their serious violations of ethics, good taste, and truth-telling. But apparently the attack on National Public Radio, inspired by the stance of NPR's top executives, was the straw that finally...

With progressives demoralized by November's election and Obama's retreat on the Bush tax cuts, a group of activists are fighting back against the Glenn Becks, Andrew Breitbarts and the rest of the Fox News propaganda machine. Last week a new watchdog group, IndictBreitbart.org, launched a campaign...

As the Tea and the Republican Party activists were gearing up for their election day campaigns, including plans to intimidate Democratic leaning voters from casting ballots, ACORN, responsible for registering millions of young, minority, and working class voters, closed its last door, ending its 40-year run as arguably...

A raging debate has ensued around whether NPR correctly fired Juan Williams because his remarks were inconsistent with its editorial standards. Some say Williams undermined his credibility as a news analyst. Others accuse NPR of bungling its response and stifling free speech. What's been missing in the debate over his...

James O'Keefe, the conservative activist known for manipulating the mainstream media by making undercover videos that helped destroy the progressive community group ACORN, plotted to humiliate CNN and its investigative journalist Abby Boudreau.

He planned to record a meeting using hidden cameras aboard a floating "palace of...

A week after Katrina hit New Orleans, Federal Government officials and private relief organizations were still discussing how to send aid to the area. ACORN, which had been organizing low-income and working class residents in the city since the 1978, had already moved into action.

Banks were giving their...

Despite a slew of independent investigations exonerating ACORN of misdeeds, on Friday, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturned federal court Judge Nina Gershon's decision that cutting off ACORN's funding punished ACORN without a trial. Gershon had ordered the United States government to restore ACORN's funds.

This is part of my What Happened to ACORN series.

Last week a group called New York Communities for Change (NYCC) joined with New York City Comptroller John Liu and seven of New York's largest unions to demand that Wall Street's biggest banks reform their loan modification policies...

Yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued a case challenging Congress's unconstitutional defunding of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). The case charges Congress with violating the Bill of Attainder provision in the U.S. Constitution, violating the Fifth Amendment right to due process, and infringing on...

On Monday, June 14, a preliminary probe by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)of ACORN has found no evidence the association or related organizations mishandled the $40 million in federal money they received in recent years.

A review of grants by nine federal agencies found no problems...

What's the difference between James O'Keefe, who made national headlines with his ACORN undercover video, and ACORN? O'Keefe is a criminal and ACORN is not. Yesterday O'Keefe pleaded guilty to charges of entering federal property under false pretenses when he attempted to embarrass Senator Mary Landrieu because of...

New Jersey's Governor Chris Christie recently terminated Supreme Court Justice John Wallace, a moderate and professional jurist, and replaced him with Anne Patterson, a lawyer who has largely devoted her life to defending big, arrogant corporations. Jersey governors have the power to oust or reappoint for life a...

Rebecca Hyatt of Westminster, a student at Golden West College, remembers getting a letter in the mail saying she was a Democrat. "What the F*k," Hyatt thought.

Twenty-six-year-old Daniel of Santa Ana, who considers himself a Republican, was unaware he was registered to vote as a Democrat.

"Dang! I had...

One trick in Karl Rove's playbook is to falsely accuse the opposition of whatever Rove's attack strategy is up to. Today that trick is getting played out in New Jersey. After leading Republicans like Sarah Palin have spent months whipping up vitriolic attacks on Democrats, they are now seizing on...

The New York Times hit ACORN with a one-two punch last weekend, making sure that the community organizing group -- flattened by attacks from the right and withdrawal of funding from liberal foundations -- stays knocked out. Both articles -- Ian Urbana's Saturday story, "Acorn on Brink of...

Mainstream press will ignore this story or botch it by repeating unfounded and misleading allegations against the group.

In the latest of a slew of actions exonerating ACORN of wrongdoing, yesterday U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon granted a permanent order against the United States government for withholding funds from...

This week, the FBI arrested 25-year old James O'Keefe and three other men, charging them with plotting to tamper with phones in the New Orleans office of Senator Mary Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana. The four men appeared in federal court Tuesday afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Louis Moore wearing red...

A federal judge blocked U.S. officials from enforcing a funding ban on ACORN, one of America's most effective anti-poverty groups. Congress cut off funding for ACORN -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- in September after right wing Web sites and TV news outlets -- mostly Fox...

Acorn is getting a bum rap -- in the news media, among politicians, and even by some foundations.

The attacks are worrisome not just because they have harmed an effective grass-roots organization but also because they show how the nation's increasingly polarized political environment, exacerbated by the news media, can...

By now most Americans have heard of the group, ACORN. It is so unique the mainstream press, especially the Washington Post, CNN, and other television networks are ill prepared to explain what it really is. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now is a nation-wide anti-poverty group that has,...