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.

Want Environmental Progress? Follow the Kids

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One breakthrough for environmental progress was made recently by young climate activists in deep-red, rural Montana. “OK, boomer.” That’s a snarky phrase currently some use to mock 60- … Read more

The Billionaires Behind School Privatization

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The ultra-rich love to enact their extremist right-wing policy, including with school privatization. If you’re trying to enact an extremist right-wing policy, but the public keeps rejecting it, … Read more

Trucking Industry Wails About Its Labor Shortage: Here’s a Solution

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Seemingly intractable problems sometimes have an obvious solution – here’s one for the trucking industry. Seemingly intractable problems sometimes have an obvious solution standing right in front of … Read more

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