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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 16h

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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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 5d

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 @jimhightower.com · 6d

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 6d

Wonderful news out of NYC! @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @brennancenter.org

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 6d

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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Linda Hillemann📎 @lhillemn.bsky.social · 7d

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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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 12d

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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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 14d

***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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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 19d

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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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 21d

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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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 26d

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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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 28d

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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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 29d

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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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · Oct 8

“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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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Oct 10

Thanks for the shoutout, friend!

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Oct 7

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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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Sep 23

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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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Sep 18

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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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Sep 18

Appreciate you!

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Sep 16

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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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Sep 11

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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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Sep 9

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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The Progressive Magazine @theprogressivemag.bsky.social · Sep 4

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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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Sep 4

#LoomeyTunes? When even Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks your policy is barbaric, you know we've fully lost the plot. 🍉

Shoutout to @lsarsour.bsky.social for actions and more.

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This Trump Looniness Is Even Too Much for Marjorie Taylor Greene!

Some days I don’t know whether to rage in fury, weep quietly, or just throw up.

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · Sep 2

RFK Jr. wants to make us "healthy" without doing anything that's actually good for people. Amazing.

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Kennedy’s “Healthy Food” Reform Gets Eaten Up by Big Food Corporations

Bobby Kennedy, Jr.

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