“ACORN” on The Daily Caller

In memory of Andrew Breitbart, The Daily Caller put together a list of six videos illustrating the media mogul’s use of video to tell relevant and impactful news stories that informed the national discussion in the latter years of his life. (more)

Add longtime Service Employees International Union leader and ACORN founder Wade Rathke to the chorus of left-wing voices who leveraged the occasion of conservative firebrand Andrew Breitbart’s death to vent their spleens. (more)

A newly released internal audit appears to indicate that the Government Accountability Office and President Barack Obama’s Department of Housing and Urban Development incorrectly argued that a specific organization wasn’t ACORN-affiliated. (more)

In an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) founder and Service Employees International Union organizer Wade Rathke acknowledged that the tea party movement has been more effective than Occupy Wall Street in influencing American politics. (more)

Officials with the revamped ACORN office in New York — operating as New York Communities for Change — have fired staff, shredded reams of documents and told workers to blame disgruntled ex-employees for leaking information in an effort to explain away a FoxNews.com report last week on the group’s involvement in Occupy Wall Street protests, according to sources. (more)

When scandals expose systemic voter fraud in your organization, Congress seizes your bank account, and a popular YouTube video shows your employees helping a pimp and a prostitute break the law, there are few avenues open to you. Unless, of course, you change your organization’s name and hope no one notices. A new report from Judicial Watch alleges that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), did just that. (more)

An organization affiliated with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) received a new cash infusion from U.S. taxpayers in early September, amounting to $350,000. (more)

An affiliate of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) received another $300,000 in taxpayer funding in early August, The Daily Caller has learned. (more)

In spite of a law aimed at de-funding the controversial organization, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is still receiving taxpayer money through an offshoot group. (more)

It is no secret that Americans are less than 100 percent confident that government is working for them. Allegations of electoral fraud, whether true or not, taint the entire political process by further undermining our collective faith in democracy. A 2005 bipartisan commission spearheaded by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker came to a similar conclusion. Underscoring the point, the commission noted that “[p]hoto IDs currently are needed to board a plane, enter federal buildings, and cash a check. Voting is equally important.” (more)

The Supreme Court isn’t going to listen to ACORN argue that they really should be eligible for federal funding. (more)

WASHINGTON — ACORN, the controversial and defunct community activist group accused of a variety of criminal activities, will not get a chance to air its grievances about losing federal funding before the Supreme Court, the justices announced Monday. (more)

The defunct political advocacy group ACORN has pleaded guilty to one count of an election law violation in Las Vegas, Nevada. (more)

One of the few folks I have added to my “hero list” of late is James O’Keefe, the intrepid activist who exposes the left for what they are by secretly videotaping them. (more)

A longtime ACORN operative is about to take over the reins of the Democratic National Committee as its executive director – just in time to begin initial preparations for President Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. (more)

In a letter Thursday, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine announced that he had selected Patrick Gaspard to serve as the political party’s new executive director. (more)

A Las Vegas judge has spared senior ACORN executive Amy Adele Busefink jail time for her role in a notorious voter fraud conspiracy. (more)

Everybody knows about ACORN, the dead, but not really dead activist group charged with all sorts of improprieties and illegalities, the most significant of which is voter fraud, including registering Mickey Mouse to vote. (more)

The Federal Emergency Management Agency improperly awarded a $450,000 grant for fire safety and prevention to a New Orleans affiliate of Acorn, the embattled community organizing group, according to an investigation by the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security. (more)

Yet another former ACORN employee was convicted of voter fraud last week. This brings the total number of convictions for former workers from the embattled group to at least 15 so far this year. (more)