An inside ACORN source has just confirmed this to me: the Texas chapter of ACORN has pretended to break off from the national group and has incorporated itself under the name Texas Organizing Project.

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The other five ACORN chapters that have dumped the ACORN brand are Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), Missourians Organizing for Reform Empowerment (MORE), New York Communities for Change, New England United for Justice (Massachusetts) and Arkansas Community Organizations.

ACORN Housing, which operates nationwide, changed its legal name to Affordable Housing Centers of America.

There is no word yet if ACORN Housing will continue to offer a drop-in legal clinic for pimps and prostitutes.