Jim Hightower

National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the book, "Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow," Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks. Twice elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower is a modern-day Johnny Appleseed, spreading the message of progressive populism all across the American grassroots. He broadcasts daily radio commentaries that are carried in more than 150 commercial and public stations and on the web.

As We Gape at the Trump Sideshow, Corporations Are Picking Our Pockets

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Jim Hightower, Humor Times

We have been captured by the mesmerizing All Things Trump sideshow — while we are being robbed blind. As America rapidly urbanized in the 1920s and ’30s, nearly … Read more

It’s Not Socialism; It’s What the People Want

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Jim Hightower, Humor Times

It ain’t “socialism” in the classic government-runs-everything sense, it’s democratic populism, reversing decades of policies that take from the many to give to the wealthy few. “Socialism,” snarled … Read more

Push, Push, Push: How Movements Succeed

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Jim Hightower, Humor Times

Candidates and volunteers who lose a vote but run good campaigns are, in fact, winners. It’s how movements succeed. There’s a sports cliche, often applied to political races, … Read more

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