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Jim Hightower
Author, agitator and activist Jim Hightower spreads the good word of true populism, under the simple notion that "everybody does better, when everybody does better." Read more at hightowerlowdown.org!
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Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Aug 20, 2026
Wow, here’s some blockbuster economic news from Team Trump: The income gap between the rich and the rest of us is over!How do we know this? Because Scott Bessent says so. Who’s he? Secretary …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Aug 18, 2026
“If you find that you’ve dug yourself into a hole, the very first thing to do is quit digging.”That old country saying has a newly-urgent relevance to us today, for Big Tech, Big Finance, …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Aug 13, 2026
The great thing about “art towns” is, of course, the artists who live there and their art. So why are so many art town officials deliberately and stupidly driving artists out of town?I live …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Aug 11, 2026
It’s no secret that voters are increasingly disgusted by today’s extremist, right-wing Republican lawmakers. But less known is the fact that extremist GOP lawmakers are even more disgusted by you voters!They’re so disgusted that …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Aug 6, 2026
Until recently, corporate executives were eager to demonstrate how “green” they were. But then came Trump, trashing the very idea of a green economy.So, to appease the vengeful Republican, obsequious CEOs rushed to dump …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Aug 4, 2026
Not that it matters, but sometimes I wonder if the billionaire potentates of artificial intelligence ever wonder why they’ve become so despised.I doubt it, since introspection doesn’t seem to be in the DNA of …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jul 31, 2026
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jimhightower.substack.comIn 1982, the Dallas Morning News editorial page had a name for a guy who wanted to bring back farmers markets …
0:50Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jul 30, 2026
Here’s an interesting fact: Dinosaurs dominated Earth for 165 million years – and they assumed they always would.Which brings us to… well, us. We bipedal, far-ranging, Homo sapien primates have certainly established our dominance …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jul 28, 2026
Does becoming a billionaire turn one into an insufferable jerk, or is that an innate quality they bring to the position?Big-name billionaires – like Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg – literally flaunt their irrepressible jerkism, …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jul 23, 2026
Some presidents are known as uplifting orators; our present president is known for petulant putdowns.Periodically, Trump discovers a new pejorative that he considers clever, so he wears it out attacking his endless list of …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jul 21, 2026
Executives climbing the corporate ladder to the top seem to lose IQ the higher up they get.That might explain why John Deere’s top corporate bosses have imposed an astonishingly stupid policy on America’s farmers. …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jul 16, 2026
Here they come again: Billionaires, wailing that Congress must – MUST! – act immediately to slash the monthly Social Security checks that middle-class and poor retirees count on.Plutocratic elites and their anti-government ideologues periodically …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jul 14, 2026
What a show, huh? Big-name corporations went all out this July 4th with a patriotic ad blitz professing their devotion to America’s democracy.But it amounted to a Firecracker of Hypocrisy, for many of these …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jul 10, 2026
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jimhightower.substack.comGreetings, Lowdowners! When I was down visiting with Hightower in May, I asked him a question that I’ve always wanted to …
0:47Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jul 9, 2026
America’s legal system proclaims that even lifeless man-made, paper entities called “corporations” are endowed with the human rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.But if a fabricated, inanimate, corporate thing can have …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jul 7, 2026
From Q-Anon nuttiness to JD Vance’s “Deep State” quackery, wacko right-wing conspiracies have oozed into the center Republican politics.But don’t let their goofiness obscure the fact that there is indeed a very real plot …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jul 2, 2026
High-dollar corporate executives and Wall Street bankers keep telling us that it’s lonely at the top. Well, they should try toiling at the bottom of America’s pay scale.The radical rise of inequality in our …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jun 30, 2026
Question: How many legs does a dog have if you count the tail as a leg? Answer: Four – calling the tail a leg doesn’t make it one.Likewise, calling a small group of partisan …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jun 28, 2026
Greetings, Lowdowners — Deanna here!Friday we told you what was coming: Hightower on the main stage at the Texas Democratic Party Convention, introducing Clayton Tucker, the Lampasas rancher carrying the populist torch into this …
4:45Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jun 26, 2026
Greetings, Lowdowners—Deanna here!Last week we gave you the pesticide hearing story — Willie Nelson, Barbara Jordan, and a fight Hightower and his team won by building a movement before he ever needed the movie …
10:27Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jun 25, 2026
Sometimes, little things can be a big deal. For example, in considering ways to help protect Mother Earth from global environmental rampages by us humans, look out your window.In many cities and most suburbs, …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jun 23, 2026
Once upon a time, conservative ideologues opposed government interference in the holy magic of the marketplace.Take energy policy, for example. Right-wing cheerleaders of fossil fuels demanded that government must keep its fat thumb off …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jun 19, 2026
Greetings, Lowdowners—Deanna here!This summer, we're doing something a little different. Over the next few weeks, we're opening the gates a bit — giving free subscribers a taste of some of the exclusive stories, video, …
5:38Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jun 18, 2026
I’ve always supported small business, including having my own little media operation that has long allowed me to run my mouth for a living.One of the greatest aspects of being small – as opposed …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jun 16, 2026
Step right up folks! Please don’t crowd! No need to shove, plenty here for everyone!Welcome to the Bonanza Extravaganza of the Artificial Intelligence “BOOM.” Silicon Valley billionaires are now proposing a scheme to deliver …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jun 11, 2026
Millions of us are mad as hell at the moneyed establishment for constantly rigging the system against America’s workaday majority.Those riggers could save face by making some basic reforms, but instead, they’re getting mad …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jun 9, 2026
Remember long, long ago in the old-timey days of politics, way back… maybe 10 years or so?In those olden times, if someone or some corporations gave a million dollars to a political candidate, the …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jun 5, 2026
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit jimhightower.substack.comLast week, Hightower and I sat down for a couple beers with author Cory Haala, who’s just released When Democrats Won …
5:23Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jun 4, 2026
From corporate polluters to political bosses, power elites try to create a myth of inevitability, trying to make workaday people feel helpless, too small to change the injustices of the system. Don’t bother is …
2:10Jim Hightower's Radio Lowdown · Jun 2, 2026
A core role of the US Department of Justice is to protect people from abusees by giant corporations.But DOJ’s present inhabitants have twisted that mission bassackwards – using the agency to protect corporate abusers …
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