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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 29/09/2026

Corporations can spend unlimited cash electing their straw men, and the Supreme Court says you don't get to know who's buying whom. The Transparent Election Initiative thinks The People can overrule that. I agree. jimhightower.substack.com/p/montana-pr...

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 25/09/2026

I got together with TavisSmiley to debunk Ken Paxton's popularity, among many, many other topics! jimhightower.substack.com/p/friday-sig...

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 24/09/2026

Trump's EPA says communities don't need to be notified about a data center moving in, and there's no public comment needed on air pollution. You'd learn about it from the bulldozers. jimhightower.substack.com/p/the-people... #DataCenters #EPA

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 22/09/2026

Trump says Democrats want to blow up Mount Rushmore. Tim Scott says they want to rip our hearts out. The GOP is reviving McCarthyism. Full commentary: jimhightower.substack.com/p/gop-leader...

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 18/09/2026

Forty (!) years ago this week, our friends at @farmaid.org organized the first United Farmer & Rancher Congress, bringing together nearly 2000 delegates from across the country to solve the farm crisis, since the government wasn't interested in supporting the workaday people that feed this country.

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 17/09/2026

They studied the harm, then sealed the study. Corporate data centers are hiding safety studies behind NDAs while cutting deals with local officials nationwide. Louisiana got a "no harm" verdict they weren't allowed to read. jimhightower.substack.com/p/corporate-... #BigTech #DataCenters

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 16/09/2026

Tune in today or listen on the podcast!

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 15/09/2026

Abbott courted AI billionaires with taxpayer subsidies and no local oversight. Now rural Texas hates him for it, and when he ordered data centers to report water use, 70% ignored him outright. Full story: jimhightower.substack.com/p/gregs-foll... @momsagabbott.bsky.social

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 10/09/2026

Trump told towns fighting AI data centers they "want to end up backwards and poor," and says they should "let data reign." Reign, like kings, with Musk and Bezos on the throne. People of every political stripe are fighting back. jimhightower.substack.com/p/the-presid...

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 08/09/2026

Musk and Thiel have decided they're better than you. To these plutocrats, government exists to protect their pile from the Common Good. We've beaten this arrogance before and we can again. Full commentary: jimhightower.substack.com/p/billionair... #Oligarchy

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 03/09/2026

Gates & Murdoch are playing cowboy on 300,000-acre ranches they can't run. Biggest landowners now hold 42M acres, up from 27M in 15 years, and your taxes subsidize it while families get locked out. jimhightower.substack.com/p/billionair...

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 01/09/2026

A Silicon Valley billionaire is quietly writing the laws that make homelessness a crime. Joe Lonsdale's think tank ships bills to statehouses: sleep outside, face a $5,000 fine or jail. 16 states and Trump have signed on. @homelesslaw.bsky.social jimhightower.substack.com/p/whos-behin...

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 31/08/2026

DALLAS! TUESDAY 9/1! Rarely do I get to share billing with a goat, but Sweetpea is special: she's part of @claytontuckertx.com's campaign, and we're raising money together for him at this event in Dallas. secure.actblue.com/donate/rodeo...

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Tuesday, Sept. Ist
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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 27/08/2026

I don't hate poor people. Do you? So why are our poverty policies so hateful? The powerful rig the rules, then blame the folks they robbed. Read the whole thing: jimhightower.substack.com/p/i-dont-hat... Take action with @repairers.bsky.social!

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 25/08/2026

Good news: empty schools are becoming affordable homes for priced-out teachers. San Diego, Austin & South Miami are turning vacant classrooms into family apartments and cutting rents by half. @stateinnovation.org Full commentary: jimhightower.substack.com/p/not-all-pr... #AffordableHousing

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 20/08/2026

The Treasury Secretary says the rich-poor gap is "over." His proof? A billionaire got sick of hearing about it, so he decreed it dead. You'll know it's over when your paycheck covers your bills. Full commentary: jimhightower.substack.com/p/why-is-tru...

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 18/08/2026

Musk and Bezos want to pave your farmland to build robots that replace you. Thousands of billionaire-backed data centers, quietly approved, draining our water and power grid. They call it progress. I call it feudalism. jimhightower.substack.com/p/big-tech-i... #BigTech #DataCenters

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 13/08/2026

Austin spent decades branding itself "weird" — then priced out the artists who made it that way. Neon artist Todd Sanders, 30 years in business, just got squeezed 80 miles out of town by developer-friendly tax hikes. jimhightower.substack.com/p/moneyed-po...

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 11/08/2026

Missouri GOP tried to use the initiative process to kill the initiative process. Voters weren't fooled: 80% rejected the scheme. 15 more states are pushing similar bans. This is the playbook now. @fairnessproject.bsky.social @piperformissouri.bsky.social jimhightower.substack.com/p/voters-reb...

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 06/08/2026

CEO pulling $23M/year needed corporate money to cover a $492 home generator repair. $600M in exec perks uncovered last year — free tickets, booze "for research," you name it. Full commentary: jimhightower.substack.com/p/corporate-... #CEOPay #EatTheRich

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 04/08/2026

"Who the Hell elected you to dictate our future?" The AI gold rush is old greed in new packaging. This is populist rebellion, not envy. jimhightower.substack.com/p/the-data-c... @mediajustice.bsky.social @kairosfellows.bsky.social

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 01/08/2026

They called me a “big government socialist” for trying to help farmers sell their own food. My answer: the “free” in “free enterprise” isn’t an adjective, it’s a verb. Full story: jimhightower.substack.com/p/friday-sig...

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 30/07/2026

Elon Musk says he'll save humanity by colonizing Mars. If he means it, he should go first. He runs three companies, grabs subsidies, cheats workers, then sues anyone in his way. Full commentary: jimhightower.substack.com/p/why-trust-...

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 28/07/2026

An obscure trillion-dollar tech boss called you foolish for questioning his AI takeover. He admits it's about profits, not people. Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg: same tune. Full commentary: jimhightower.substack.com/p/ai-billion... #AI #Billionaires

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 23/07/2026

The FCC just approved a plan for 50,000 orbiting space mirrors to light up the night sky, no public input required. Brendan Carr's own words: "harms are unlikely to occur." Would you want night turned into day over your house? @aas.org jimhightower.substack.com/p/ignorance-...

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 21/07/2026

John Deere billed a Montana rancher $4,000 for a $600 repair — because he wasn't "authorized" to fix his own tractor. Farmers organized, sued, and won this month. @repairorg.bsky.social jimhightower.substack.com/p/corporate-... #RightToRepair #JohnDeere

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 17/07/2026

What gives me hope? Hope! If I got my news from the nightly broadcasts and big web media, I'd be depressed too. But travel anywhere in this country and you'll find people who are tenacious, thoughtful, creative, & fun. That's what a movement actually is. jimhightower.substack.com/p/friday-sig...

What gives me hope? Hope itself.
If I got my news from the nightly broadcasts and big web media, I'd be depressed too. But travel anywhere in this country and you'll find people who are tenacious, thoughtful, creative, and fun.
That's what a movement actually is. Not a word, not an organization, not an ideology. Just ordinary people trying to figure things out. And you can't stop that.

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 16/07/2026

Billionaires stop paying Social Security tax after their first $185K. Everything above that is free money to them. 95% of us pay on every dollar we earn all year. Fair? Read the full piece: jimhightower.substack.com/p/lets-incre... @socialsecurityworks.org #SocialSecurity #TaxTheRich

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 14/07/2026

Musk owns 40% of SpaceX stock but controls 80% of shareholder votes. He rigged it so he's unfireable — unless he fires himself. Read the full commentary: jimhightower.substack.com/p/beware-of-... #ElonMusk #Plutocracy

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 10/07/2026

Chuck Schumer wrote a strongly worded letter. That'll show 'em. Most politicians run to HOLD office. I ran to USE it. There's a difference, and it's the whole ballgame. What do you want from the people you elect: speeches, or action? Full video: jimhightower.substack.com/p/friday-sig...

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 09/07/2026

Corporations have legal rights to life, liberty, happiness. Trees don't. Quebec just passed a Declaration of the Rights of Trees, part of a growing Rights of Nature movement. If paper corporations get rights, why not forests? jimhightower.substack.com/p/shouldnt-n... #ClimateJustice

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 07/07/2026

Musk's AI data center: 57 unpermitted gas turbines, toxic pollution, Black neighborhoods. Families sued. Trump's DOJ jumped in to protect Musk instead. That's the system working exactly as designed. jimhightower.substack.com/p/of-course-... #ElonMusk #CleanAirAct

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 02/07/2026

The National Restaurant Association charges workers $15 for mandatory "safety training," then uses that money to lobby to keep the tipped wage at $2.13/hour. Frozen since 1991. Sound like a scam? It is. jimhightower.substack.com/p/how-inequa...

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 30/06/2026

Six unelected judges, 38% approval, and all of them insisting they're not partisan. Gorsuch says integrity's "in his bones." Barrett denies being a "partisan hack." Roberts claims judges aren't politicians — the same Roberts who helped install Bush in 2000. The People are supreme, not the court.

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 27/06/2026

Spoke at the @texasdemocrats.bsky.social convention last night. My message: the six Bs (bosses, bankers, billionaires, big shots, bastards, bullshitters) have been running roughshod over us. We're not fire hydrants, and we're gonna show them that come November.

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 27/06/2026

Ran into at old friend at the @texasdemocrats.bsky.social convention tonight. Forever in solidarity with Dolores Huerta. ✊

Dolores Huerta and Jim Hightower embrace as they say hello for the first time in many years.

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 26/06/2026

Pete Seeger went to the old Chautauquas for the music and the girls. He stuck around for the speeches. That's the whole trick: invite people to something fun, then you can talk to them. jimhightower.substack.com/p/friday-sig... #JimHightower #PeteSeeger #Populism

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 25/06/2026

Americans use 10X more poison per acre on lawns than farmers use on crops. Your "well-manicured" yard might be an ecological disaster. jimhightower.substack.com/p/is-your-lu... @rewildorg.bsky.social

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 19/06/2026

When the pesticide lobby came after me, I fought back. My lead witness? @willienelsonmusic.bsky.social. My second? Barbara Jordan. But the story of the organizing behind it is what made this moment a success. jimhightower.substack.com/p/my-lead-of...

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 07/06/2026

Data centers get right to the heart of what I’ve always said about politics: it’s not left vs right, it’s top vs. bottom. And @claytontuckertx.com is leading the charge here in Texas. #ai #aidatacenters #datacenter #texas #agriculture

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 05/06/2026

I sat down for a couple beers with @coryhaala.bsky.social, author of WHEN DEMOCRATS WON THE HEARTLAND. Cory has brilliantly documented how, as the Dems moved towards corporate cash in the '80s, maverick politicians throughout the Midwest & Plains states practiced good ol’ fashioned populism—and won.

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 23/05/2026

Grab a drink — Tuesday is Happy Hour with a historian. @coryhaala.bsky.social spent a decade on When Democrats Won the Heartland & his conclusion is simple: Democrats won the heartland by going harder at corporations. I was there. He's right. 5/26 at 6pm CT. Paid subscribers get to ask questions!

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 13/05/2026

Throwback: DeMarco and I living her inspiration of putting the party back in politics in the 1980s.

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 28/04/2026

Moderate Democrats don't exist. 70% want to tax the rich and crack down on corporations. Radical to consultants. Normal to everyone else. Find your local party meeting and show up. jimhightower.substack.com/p/forget-bei... #JimHightower #Democrats

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 25/04/2026

1985: I told UAW auto workers the farm crisis cost them their jobs too. Farmers couldn't buy equipment. Factories laid off workers. One depression, many faces. Forty years later, still accurate. jimhightower.substack.com/p/friday-sig... #JimHightower #WorkingClass

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 21/04/2026

Stephen Miller wants a 30-foot steel wall on thousand-foot cliffs in Big Bend. The people who live there — ranchers, sheriffs, Native Americans, environmentalists — formed a coalition and are fighting back. jimhightower.substack.com/p/the-fall-o...

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 03/04/2026

I called this in 1988: Trump bought a $37 million yacht with his tax cuts. He could have housed a thousand homeless people with that money instead. 38 years later — is anything different? Full video: jimhightower.substack.com/p/friday-sig... #TaxTheRich #Inequality #TrickleDown

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 14/03/2026

A farmer flying Hightower from one campaign stop to another once landed on a county road to grab a six-pack. His advice about the high wire? "Never look at the high wire. You just land." From our subscribers-only Happy Hour: jimhightower.substack.com #JimHightower #TexasPolitics #Populism

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 06/03/2026

Molly Ivins on the Scholz Garten restroom graffiti — and what someone wrote about UT Regent Frank Erwin. From a C-SPAN storytelling evening Hightower hosted over beers. Full video: jhttps://jimhightower.substack.com/p/blast-from-the-past-hightower-molly #JimHightower #MollyIvins #TexasPolitics

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Jim Hightower @jimhightower.com · 17/02/2026

One of the luckiest breaks in my life is that I got to work with and learn from #JesseJackson. The Reverend didn't just talk — he rallied a multiracial populist movement and actually led. #RestInPeace

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