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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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I wonder why so many states pass laws that only benefit the wealthy…?! Thanks, @jamellebouie.net, and to researchers Nicholas Carnes and Eric Hansen at @dukesanford.bsky.social.

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Why America’s Legislatures Routinely Screw Working Families
As we head into a momentous election year, with state and national legislative seats up for grabs, even let-them-eat-cake Republicans are scrambling to sound sympathetic to today’s hard-hit working-cl...
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December 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Looking for the Christianity in Christmas this year.

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A Christmas Message: There’s No Jesus in “Christian Nationalism”
In keeping with the season, I offer a little political anecdote about Christmas.
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December 25, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Local and state lawmakers are standing up to the threats that AI poses to us mere humans. Heck, even Congress is! But greased wheels get their squeaky way…

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AI Profiteers Cash-In By Being Naughty This Christmas
The high priests of Holy High Tech are in a huff, wailing that they’re being bothered by you busybodies, Luddites, and commoners – ie, The People.
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December 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Remembering my friend and former Austin Mayor Frank Cooksey not just for his exemplary service, but as a reminder and celebration of the power that local officials hold to make our everyday lives just a little bit better.

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Friday Signpost: Politics from the Ground Up
Remembering Austin Mayor Frank Cooksey
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December 19, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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I’ve searched my heart for the perfect gifts for our Congress critters, our GOP and Democratic leaders, our American CEOs, our Wall Street hedge-funders, and yes— even Trump and family.

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Special Gifts for Special People
Ho-Ho-Ho, wait till you hear about the gifts I’m giving to some of America’s power elites for Christmas.
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December 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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New Mexico went from being ranked dead last in child well-being to being the first state providing free child care to every family. How?

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How New Mexico Got Child Care for All – And How You Can, Too
Ahh, Christmas time!
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December 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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🔥 Give 'em hell for the holidays! ✨
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December 15, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Where corporations fail, public enterprise can fill the need—with savvy, community and fairness. @ilsr.bsky.social

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Instead of Monopolistic, Profiteering Corporations, Let’s Try Free Enterprise
Having grown up in a small-business family, I’m a big proponent of free enterprise.
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December 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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The wrong kind of Marxist healthcare reform, amirite?

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Health Care by Kafka, Groucho, and Trump
What a mess.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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The “Advanced Recycling” that ExxonMobil has conjured up turns out, shockingly, not to be the plastics savior they tout it as.

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Big Oil’s Slick Attempt to Greenwash Its Massive Plastic Pollution
Let’s all sing the holiday classic: “All I want for Christmas… Is Something Not Made of Plastic.”
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December 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Don't let the corporate overlords fool you: They are robbing you of your livelihoods.

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AI Bots Aren’t Taking Our Jobs – Corporate Profiteers Are
Look out – the corporate cat is out of the bag!
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December 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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A quick note to you from my writer's perch, a.k.a., my kitchen table. TL;DR> Get 50% a one-year subscription to my substack! jimhightower.substack.com/cybermonday2...
December 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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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