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.

What Nation Besides Israel Is Killing Gaza’s Innocent Palestinians?

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Netanyahu is restricting humanitarian aid from reaching the Palestinians, yet our government is his biggest enabler. “Somebody better investigate soon.” That’s a lyric in Bob Dylan’s Oxford Town, … Read more

Senator Katie Britt Plays a Cruel Political Game to Exploit a Mexican Rape Victim

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Poor Senator Katie Britt, Republican from Alabama, set up by her party’s operatives to do the GOP’s televised SOTU response. Poor Senator Katie Britt, Republican from Alabama. She … Read more

Tom Paine: What a Guy!

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The greatest of America’s “Founding Fathers” was none other than Tom Paine. In my view, the greatest of America’s “Founding Fathers” was not George Washington or Thomas Jefferson … Read more

Abortion Ban Extremists Are Using a Slave Law to Repress Women

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Two tyrannical Texas politicians responsible for the most draconian abortion ban in the country want to revive a slave-law concept. Here’s our big word of the day: Extraterritoriality. … Read more

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