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Last night, Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) introduced an amendment to the stimulus package that would prohibit the "direct or indirect use of funds to fund the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)."  This is the latest example of the GOP's ongoing ...

Meet Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita. By now, you might know him as the Republican official who stood idly by while a legitimate voter suppression battle developed in Lake County. He then promised to conduct a criminal investigation into the suspicious voter ...

Robert Greenwald's Brave New Films just released a new five-minute video that gives various members of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) an opportunity to defend themselves from widespread claims that they're attempting to steal the election.  ...

On Friday's week-in-review edition of WTTW's Chicago Tonight, the panel discussion at one point turned to the controversy surrounding ACORN's voter registration drives in certain swing states.  When asked by host Joel Weisman to lay out the "vote fraud charges," ...

Following the death threats and vandalism last week, we now have more evidence of the real-world ramifications brought on by the Republicans' ACORN hysteria:

In an exclusive interview with 12 News, 58 year-old Nancy Takehara of
Chicago says she was going door-to-...

The Indianapolis Star has an article out today that CNN's Drew Griffin really needs to read.  It clearly reports what we've been pointing out for weeks (and what reporters like Griffin have been intent on ignoring) -- that ACORN was required by law to turn in all ...

Last night on CNN's Larry King Live, Bill Maher made a brief but effective comment about the ACORN controversy manufactured by Republicans in recent weeks, which he called "completely bogus" and another example of how "people don't really get the true ...

That's the number of segments CNN has run in the last ten days on allegations that ACORN is responsible for voter registration fraud in multiple states.  According to Media Matters, which tallied the segments, only one of these 54 reports mentioned both of these salient points...

It appears that the GOP believe so strongly in their false claims
that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
is out to commit "election fraud" that they're now issuing warnings in
places where the group isn't even registering voters...

Politico's Ben Smith has the goods, as well as the above photo:

The beleaguered Democratic-leaning community group Acorn sends over
this photograph: John McCain, in March of 2006, sitting beside Florida
Rep. Kendrick Meek at an event Acorn co-sponsored in ...