Let’s Increase Social Security, Not Cut It!
Here they come again: Billionaires, wailing that Congress must – MUST! – act immediately to slash the monthly Social Security checks that mi...
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Beware of Billionaires
What a show, huh? Big-name corporations went all out this July 4th with a patriotic ad blitz professing their devotion to America’s democrac...
Friday Signpost: "Most politicians want to hold office. That's the problem."
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jimhightower.substack.com Greetings, Lowdowners! When I was down visiting with...
Shouldn’t Nature Have A Legal Right To Exist?
America’s legal system proclaims that even lifeless man-made, paper entities called “corporations” are endowed with the human rights of life...
Of Course the System Is Rigged – Look at Elon Musk!
From Q-Anon nuttiness to JD Vance’s “Deep State” quackery, wacko right-wing conspiracies have oozed into the center Republican politics. But...
How Inequality Happens
High-dollar corporate executives and Wall Street bankers keep telling us that it’s lonely at the top. Well, they should try toiling at the b...
What’s “Supreme” About Our Extremist Supreme Court?
Question: How many legs does a dog have if you count the tail as a leg? Answer: Four – calling the tail a leg doesn’t make it one. Likewise,...
Watch Hightower at the Texas Democratic Convention in Corpus Christi
Greetings, Lowdowners — Deanna here! Friday we told you what was coming: Hightower on the main stage at the T exas Democratic Party Conventi...
Friday Signpost: A Kitchen Table in Lampasas, Then and Now
Greetings, Lowdowners—Deanna here! Last week we gave you the pesticide hearing story — Willie Nelson, Barbara Jordan, and a fight Hightower...
Is Your Lush, Green Lawn Killing Mother Nature?
Sometimes, little things can be a big deal. For example, in considering ways to help protect Mother Earth from global environmental rampages...
Good News: Wind Energy Now Surpasses Blowhards of Dirty Energy
Once upon a time, conservative ideologues opposed government interference in the holy magic of the marketplace. Take energy policy, for exam...
"My Lead-Off Witness Was Willie Nelson": Inside One of Hightower's Biggest Fight as Ag Commissioner
Greetings, Lowdowners—Deanna here! This summer, we're doing something a little different. Over the next few weeks, we're opening the gates a...
Business That Delivers for the Common Good
I’ve always supported small business, including having my own little media operation that has long allowed me to run my mouth for a living....
AI Billionaires Want You to Save Them When They Need a Bailout
Step right up folks! Please don’t crowd! No need to shove, plenty here for everyone! Welcome to the Bonanza Extravaganza of the Artificial I...
The System Is NOT “Rigged”… Say Those Who Rigged It
Millions of us are mad as hell at the moneyed establishment for constantly rigging the system against America’s workaday majority. Those rig...
The Gilded Age of Billion-Dollar Political Bribery
Remember long, long ago in the old-timey days of politics, way back… maybe 10 years or so? In those olden times, if someone or some corporat...
VIDEO: Democrats Can Win the Heartland
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jimhightower.substack.com Last week, Hightower and I sat down for a couple bee...
Good News: Small Groups Can Defeat Corporate Giants
From corporate polluters to political bosses, power elites try to create a myth of inevitability, trying to make workaday people feel helple...
Shouldn’t Public Protection Be for, You Know, the Public?
A core role of the US Department of Justice is to protect people from abusees by giant corporations. But DOJ’s present inhabitants have twis...
Would You Buy a Lump of Coal from Trump?
Has your family consumed its lump of coal today? One of the most perverse presidential moves ever is Trump’s Big Government decree to force...