Jim Hightower

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For us Texans, there’s nothing new about Bible-thumping politicians bedevilling us with the foolishness of their dogmatic Christian piety. jimhightower.substack.com/p/why-louisi...

Why Louisiana’s Kids Won’t Listen to Their Pious Governorjimhightower.substack.com For us Texans, there’s nothing new about Bible-thumping politicians bedevilling us with the foolishness of their dogmatic Christian piety. A century ago, for example, a proposal was made to offer bili...

Time to fight, y'all. Don't wait on national "leaders" who lack the guts to stand up to runaway power--this is an all-hands-on-deck moment for We The People. #JusticeCantWait jimhightower.substack.com/p/do-it-your...

Do It Yourself Democracy: Let’s Fight the Supreme Courtjimhightower.substack.com It’s July 4th week! Sure, do a few 12-ounce elbow bends and set off some sparklers in celebration of our people’s democratic values. But wait – why are we celebrating the Spirit of ‘76, but meekly acc...

Yeah, I wish we had better choices, too. Hear me out. jimhightower.substack.com/p/a-few-quic...

A few quick thoughts about Biden’s performance at the debatejimhightower.substack.com “OMG, it’s all over! We’re doomed! Biden lost the debate!” But wait, the election is not a debate contest. It’s a choice between two visions of what America is and what it can become. We’re not just e...

I feel like they've heard the one about the golden calf before, and yet... jimhightower.substack.com/p/should-con...

Should Congress Honor Donald Trump with a Medal, a Statue… or What?jimhightower.substack.com Here’s a member of Congress with too much time on his hands… and way too little of anything on his mind. Greg Steube of Florida, is a run-of-the-mill, extremist Republican specializing in such partisa...

"Tinkle-down" economics are back, and pissier than ever. jimhightower.substack.com/p/the-gops-n... @4taxfairness.bsky.social

The GOP’s New Plan to Enrich the Super-rich… Againjimhightower.substack.com Excellent news, people: Republican officials are mounting an all-out political push for a massive cut in our taxes next year! Well… by “our taxes,” they don’t mean yours. Rather, here they come with a...

Attacks on reproductive freedom! Attacks on queer & trans folk! Attacks on books! It’s enough to make you want to scream into the void. Thankfully, there’s an alternative: Let us introduce you to @educateusaction.bsky.social jimhightower.substack.com/p/friday-sig...

Friday Signpost: Sex Ed Is a Great Prophylactic Against Fascismjimhightower.substack.com Attacks on reproductive freedom! Attacks on queer & trans folk! Attacks on books! It’s enough to make you want to scream into the void. Thankfully, there’s an alternative to screaming into the void th...

"Price Pack Architecture:" another way for Corporate America to say, "We're screwing you. Again." jimhightower.substack.com/p/hear-corpo...

Hear Corporate America’s New Euphemisms for Gouging Youjimhightower.substack.com We should pay attention to corporate America’s fluctuating wordplay, for their frequent contortions of language disguise ploys to dupe, confuse, and rip off us hoi polloi – i.e., their customers. For ...

“My wife is fond of flying flags." Worst. Excuse. Ever. jimhightower.substack.com/p/theres-the...

There’s the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly… and Then Sam Alitojimhightower.substack.com Sam Alito is so ugly that he can’t even see his ugliness. I don’t mean looks, but the deep inner ugliness of character that keeps oozing from this so-called “supreme” judge. Start with the unabashed l...

Remember Donald Trump, the “swamp drainer”? Eight years later, here comes the Donald again – but the swamp is bigger and suckier than ever. And instead of bold talk about draining it, Trump is auctioning off the swamp. jimhightower.substack.com/p/return-of-...

Return of the Swamp Drainer: Making a Mockery of Democracyjimhightower.substack.com Remember Donald Trump, the “swamp drainer”? In 2016, candidate Trump promised to end the grubby money corruption of American politics. “The special interests, lobbyists, donors,” he rightly and righte...

One group of oppressed Americans has become especially outspoken this election year, contending that top government officials are ignoring their community’s needs & stifling their economic advancement. I speak, of course, about the tragic plight of our nation’s downtrodden multi-billionaire class.

Going from Democracy… to Plutocracy… and Now to Kleptocracyjimhightower.substack.com One group of oppressed Americans has become especially outspoken this election year, contending that top government officials (Democrats in particular) are ignoring their community’s basic needs and s...

The Potentate of Tallahassee is licking his little dictator wounds... by enacting even MORE ridiculous and harmful culture war policies. 🙄 jimhightower.substack.com/p/how-silly-...

How Silly Can Right-Wing Culture Warriors Get?jimhightower.substack.com If you’re wondering whatever happened to Ron DeSantis, he’s now re-ensconced in Florida… goofier than ever. Last year, backed by a covey of billionaires, Governor Ron was all set to be our next presid...

A Republican senator once tried excusing the egomaniacal right-wing nastiness of his colleague, Ted Cruz declaring, “sometimes Ted is his own worst enemy.” I said to myself: “Not while I’m alive he’s not.” jimhightower.substack.com/p/cruising-a...

Cruising Along with Ted Cruzjimhightower.substack.com A Republican senator once tried excusing the egomaniacal right-wing nastiness of his colleague, Ted Cruz declaring, “sometimes Ted is his own worst enemy.” I said to myself: “Not while I’m alive he’s ...

Even though half of America’s jobs are working class, barely one percent of our nation’s 7,300 state legislative seats are held by the working-class people who actually make America work. jimhightower.substack.com/p/what-if-ou...

Listen, no disrespect to snakes, but right-wing extremist Texas lawyer Jonathan Mitchell is actually creepier and all-together more diabolical that your average serpent could think of being. And it's not just women in Texas he's after: @abortionfront.bsky.social

An Anti-Abortion Creep: Worse than a Snake in the Grassjimhightower.substack.com Let me be clear that I mean no disrespect to reptiles when I note that Jonathan Mitchell is a snake. An extremist right-wing Texas lawyer, Mitchell is actually creepier and all-together more diabolica...

Ascension Healthcare claims to be “rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer.” Does that include the pitiful wages and working conditions for its nurses, while the CEO makes $13 million a year? jimhightower.substack.com/p/god-bless-...

God Bless Nurses. And Please Hurry!jimhightower.substack.com Every religion prioritizes care for the needy. Christianity’s Benedictine Rule, for example, puts care of the sick atop the moral order, “above and before every other duty.” Really – even above the ho...

"Bribe" is such an ugly word, thinks the Supreme Court. Let's call it a ... "gratuity" instead. No, really. @campaignlegal.bsky.social

That Stench of Corruption You Smell is Coming from the Supreme Courtjimhightower.substack.com We Texans are long-accustomed to enduring stormy outbursts of corruption among our top state legislators. The spectacle of lawmakers taking corporate bribes to provide legislative favors, tax breaks, ...

Four years of DeJoy’s corporate gimmicks to “improve” our postal service by shriveling it have proven disastrous – and the harm is spreading. Enough! jimhightower.substack.com/p/gutting-ou... @apwu.bsky.social

Gutting Our Public Post Offices: Oh What Joy!jimhightower.substack.com Hoo boy… DeJoy! Woe is us (the American people) for having our jewel of a national Postal Service saddled with a corporate-minded Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy. Formerly CEO of a private shipping co...

Americans are on the move against plutocratic and autocratic rule. They need a party to move with them. jimhightower.substack.com/p/hey-democr...

Hey Democrats: Find the Party’s Future in Its Populist Pastjimhightower.substack.com A farmer friend of mine once bemoaned the fact that the Democrat we’d both supported for president, Bill Clinton, was hugging up Wall Street and stiffing family farmers. “I don’t mind losing when we l...

Happy May Day! jimhightower.substack.com/p/celebratin... @ufw.bsky.social

Celebrating workers and labor on May Dayjimhightower.substack.com While we here in the US celebrate Labor Day in September, the rest of the world is celebrating its workers today, May 1st. From the Wikipedia summary, here’s a good overview: Traditionally, 1 May is t...

#WWWD? (What would Woody do?) jimhightower.substack.com/p/what-shoul... @woodyguthriecenter.bsky.social

What Should Politics Do? Ask Woody Guthriejimhightower.substack.com Woody Guthrie’s prescription for inequality in America was straightforward: “Rich folks got your money with politics. You can get it back with politics.” For Guthrie, “politics” meant more than voting...

Mayor Eric Adams has had some pretty bad ideas for New York City. This one is a doozie. jimhightower.substack.com/p/the-big-ap...

The Big Apple’s Mayor Takes a Big Bite Out of Democracyjimhightower.substack.com And now: A special report from the Department of Really Bad Ideas. And this one is a doozie. It comes from Hizzoner Eric Adams, the present mayor of New York City. Like mayors everywhere, Adams is rou...

Texas Republicans have declared war on... *spins wheel*... H-E-B! Yep, the most beloved grocery store in the country (!) is under attack. 🤦 jimhightower.substack.com/p/wheres-geo...

Where’s George Orwell Today? Texas!jimhightower.substack.com If you think the GOP’s Congress of Clowns represents the fringiest, freakiest, pack of politicos that MAGA-world can hurl at us – you haven’t been to Texas. It’s widely known, of course, that Ted Cruz...

The same prevaricating snake oil salesmen who cause most of the suffocating CO2 pollution that’s rapidly cooking our planet are now trying to get taxpayers to put up trillions of dollars for CO2 pollution vaccums. Riiiiiiiiight.

Can’t Oil Barons Ever Be Honest? (Hint: No)jimhightower.substack.com Former New Mexico Gov. Bruce King once opposed a bill because, he said, he feared it would “open a whole box of Pandoras.” An odd rhetorical twist, but it would be helpful if today’s ego-bloated, high...

The Post Office remains one of the most egalitarian and affordable nationwide services there is, and is essential for keeping our widely dispersed, wildly diverse people connected to each other. So, naturally, corporate profiteers and laissez-faire ideologues want to kill it. @apwu.bsky.social

Why Are We Letting Greedheads and Ideologues Kill Our Post Office?jimhightower.substack.com Before there was a USA – before our Constitution was adopted, and even before our 1776 Declaration of Independence – one of America’s best democratic institutions was already delivering for the people...

Pretty much everyone is clear: asbestos = bad for humans. How many firefighters and other people have to die, though, for the US to stop feet-dragging its elimination? jimhightower.substack.com/p/how-many-d...

How Many Dead Firefighters Does It Take to Ban Asbestos?jimhightower.substack.com If your home or business is suddenly being engulfed in flames, you count on a quick response from the fire department. But who rushes to aid firefighters when so many of the burning buildings they ent...

"Institute for Policy Studies documented this by analyzing data of 35 profitable giants. Over a 4-year period, these 35 lavished pay of $9.5 billion on their honchos. ... Where’d the money come from? Tax dodging. Combined, they paid $0 in federal taxes & even extracted nearly $2 billion in refunds."

Why Big Corporations Get Special Tax Breaks and You Don’tjimhightower.substack.com Free Market ideologues fabricate some of the most preposterous yarns trying to justify their assertion of corporate greed over public need. Consider their far-fetched of Laissez-fairyland tale that by...

The whininess of the oil industry knows no bounds. Neither, it seems, do their farcical lobbying PR campaigns. jimhightower.substack.com/p/how-oily-i...

How Oily Is Big Oil’s Latest PR Campaign?jimhightower.substack.com If you’re concerned about fossil fuels and climate change, consider an energy source that, according to its backers, will make everyday living “comfortable and healthier.” What is this miraculous subs...

"This is what happens to people and democracy when local journalism is stripped away or hollowed out – no one is on regular watch, allowing charlatans, profiteers, and propagandists to dupe unsuspecting residents." jimhightower.substack.com/p/why-are-we...

Why Are We Letting Financial Hucksters Dictate Our Local News?jimhightower.substack.com Too many American newspapers have shut down or shriveled to irrelevance, but, luckily, we still have such bastions of local journalism as the Chicago Chronicle and New York News Daily. But wait… those...

Yep, Senator Katie Britt's response to the State of the Union was cringeworthy in all the ways, but did you know that she was also LYING about the rape victim from Mexico? jimhightower.substack.com/p/sen-katie-...

Sen. Katie Britt Plays a Cruel Political Game to Exploit a Mexican Rape Victimjimhightower.substack.com Poor Katie Britt, the Republican senator from Alabama. She was set up by her party’s operatives to do the GOP’s televised response to Joe Biden’s State-of-the-Union speech. Sadly, her moment in the na...

So much more than just “Common Sense:” an OG woke, abolitionist, suffragist, universal-basic-incomist and more!

Tom Paine: What a Guy!jimhightower.substack.com In my view, the greatest of America’s “Founding Fathers” was not Washington or Jefferson – nor, technically, he wasn’t even an American. Rather, he was a British immigrant and itinerate agitator for r...