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Jim Hightower
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America's #1 populist! NYT bestselling author, former twice-elected Ag Commissioner of Texas, radio commentator and populist agitator for over 50 (!) years. Find out more at jimhightower.substack.com!
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Hate junk in landfills? Hate hyper-consumption culture? Try this instead— repair cafes!

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Creating Our Own Thanksgiving Blessing
These days, with so much economic greed and political meanness in the news, it’s hard to lift your head up and notice the common goodness and community spirit that’s actually flourishing all around us...
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November 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Walmart’s Thanksgiving package dinner actually costs *more* this year, despite the lies they and Trump are touting.

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Trump and Walmart Make a Hash of Thanksgiving Dinner
Oh, thank goodness for Donald Trump!
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November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Why do pundits keep insisting that Democrats move even further right, when the evidence is right here that voters—and especially fed-up non-voters—want policies that actually support them?!

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The Path to Winning in 2026… and Beyond
As one who ekes out a modest living running my mouth on radio and Substack, I hesitate to critique others who do the same – even though I might disagree entirely and emphatically with them.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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They literally make jokes while starving people and put on Gilded Age parties while taking away heat from families’ homes.

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Trump’s “Project 2025” Sings Woody Guthrie’s “Mean Talking Blues”
Years ago, Woody Guthrie wrote “Mean Talking Blues,” a stinging satire of malicious right-wing officials who take perverse pleasure in demonizing, holding down, and punishing poor people:
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November 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Food monopolies screw everyone but the monopolists.

#FarmAction @nfudc.bsky.social

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Let’s Bust the Food Monopolists Profiteering on Thanksgiving
Oh, happy day!
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November 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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You can beat billionaires if you’ve got a good old fashioned populist campaign, AND populist policies like public campaign financing.

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How to Run a People’s Campaign and Win
An 1887 critic of Britain’s government rightly proclaimed that “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” For today’s American government, though, that adage needs a small but s...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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What if… I’m just spitballin’ here… we didn’t *buy* everything we need, but actually shared what we have in our communities?

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Instead of Consumerism, Let’s Try Consumer Sharing
How about some good news for a change?
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November 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Wonderful news out of NYC! @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @brennancenter.org

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November 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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The kids are alright. 👏👏👏

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A Biblical-Level Warning from a High School Student
An essential part of our children’s education is learning proper moral behavior.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Jim Hightower has it right — “our country’s true political spectrum doesn’t run right to left, but top to bottom. Right-wing/left-wing is ideology. Top to bottom is life. And most people know that they’re no longer in shouting distance of the moneyed elites at the top.”
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November 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Despite extremist lies and media punditry, we agree on way more than we disagree on. Really!

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Uniting the United People of the United States of America
A headline on a recent news article caught my eye, for it declared, “Americans Disagree on Everything.”
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October 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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***WARNING: TEXAS IS EXPERIMENTING***

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Another Hellacious Idea from the Texas Laboratory of Bad Government
Texas: What the Hell? The Lone Star State’s government, a wholly-owned corporate subsidiary, solidified its ranking this year as America’s #1 innovator of really bad public policies.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Having a private concierge is what separates you commonplace millionaires from the filthy rich, evidently.

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What Separates the Merely-Rich from the Filthy Rich?
Roaring 20s novelist, F.
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October 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Wacky idea.

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What If the Democrats Started to Support Democrats Again?
When will top Democratic party officials recognize that today’s electorate is not made up of moderate centrists?
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October 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Oh look, a predatory capitalist and convicted felon built a museum honoring predatory capitalism... right across the street from the White House.

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Let Me Take You Inside Michael Milken’s Museum of Greed
Years ago in Juarez, Mexico, I wandered into a carnival sideshow that flabbergasted this Texas country boy.
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October 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Trump and his cabal of moneyed elites and Christian Nationalist extremists are out to purge, erase and officially censor the historical presentations of our parks, libraries and museums.

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America’s History, Says Lord Trump, Is Exactly What I Say It Is
Our country’s magnificent National Park System has been called “America’s greatest idea.”
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October 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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From staffer dz: I let Hightower know this morning that his account here had been verified. Hightower responded:

"Since I was a child, I've always wanted a Blue Check, and 8 decades later, my dream has come true. As Texas House Speaker Gib Lewis once said, 'I'm filled with all humidity.'"
October 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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“In the plane with us was a witty populist, Jim Hightower…. Having grown up in the swampy Texas Gulf Coast, I asked Hightower to tell me about the parched, flat, brown land below us. ‘That,’ he quipped, ‘is the freakin’ moon.’” A delightful review by @paulbegala.bsky.social
First They Drove Out the Comanches. Then They Changed the Country.
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October 8, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Greg Abbott's ~true~ god is "guiding" his presidential ambitions.

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Abbott Says His Presidential Ambition Is “God’s Design”
Sometimes, cosmic oddities come together in comic ways.
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October 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Global pesticide giants are secretly working on preventing Americans from suing them for causing cancer with their products.

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Warning: Just Reading About Bayer’s Greed Can Cause Headaches
Listen now | Here they come again! Another far-right-wing mob, spurred on by Trump, is storming our US Capitol!
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September 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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The exciting new thing being pushed by non-profit hospitals is to spend big chunks of their tax-free revenue on their area’s professional and college sports teams. For what? Get this: To buy the naming rights to the teams’ stadiums and ballparks!

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CEOs of Tax-Exempt Hospitals Learn to Game the System
All across the country, nonprofit hospital chains are literally upping their game.
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September 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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When right-wingers screech that “fiscal prudence” demands they slash the program’s benefits, that’s bank-robber code for looting wealth you’ve banked for years in this People’s retirement system.

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No Need to Raise Social Security Taxes – Make the Rich Pay Their Full Share!
My life goals have never included making a lot of money… and I’ve certainly succeeded in that regard.
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September 16, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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History lesson! The first person reported to have used the word “WOKE” was Huddie Ledbetter, the legendary Black blues artist known as Lead Belly.

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The Secret History of “Wokeness”
In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Humpty Dumpty scornfully declares that, “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean.”
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September 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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All in favor of DOUBLING Congress' pay say "aye!"

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I Ask You: Is This How to "Fix" Congress?
Nearly all Americans agree that Congress has become a sad joke – a blight of irritating gnats.
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September 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Vox Populist: Jim Hightower on Trump’s Parade, Soldiers Facing “Food Insecurity,” and Florida Billionaires "defecating on the commoners."

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Soldiers Experience Food Insecurity; Billionaires Pollute Florida Town
Words from populist author, public speaker, and radio commentator Jim Hightower.
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September 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM