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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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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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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.”
Jim Hightower’s Radio Lowdown
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.'"
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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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Thanks for the shoutout, friend!
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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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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