Jim Hightower

Jim Hightower is a national radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the books "Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow" (2008) and "There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road But Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos: A Work of Political Subversion" (1998). 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.

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Why Should We the People Respect a Court That Subverts the Will of the People?

Here comes a six-person GOP majority of supreme justices determined to entrench corporate plutocracy, right-wing theocracy, and Republican sovereignty over all of us.

Jim Hightower · May 19, 2022

The GOP Attack on Women Is Funded by Corporate America

If a woman can be barred from controlling her own uterus, then everything else she thinks she controls is in doubt.

Jim Hightower · May 11, 2022

Blame Profit-Hungry Corporations Milking Consumers for Inflation

It turns out that inflation is a boon for monopolies, for it gives them cover to flash their pricing power.

Jim Hightower · May 4, 2022

Joe Biden: Stop Telling People You're on Their Side and Start Showing Them You Are

Breaking the stranglehold that monopolistic corporations have on our economy and our people is not a job for the politically meek.

Jim Hightower · Apr 20, 2022

The GOP Has Gone Bull-Goose Bonkers, But Where Are the Democrats?

The opposite of courage is not cowardice—it's conformity. And right there's the problem with the Big Money establishment that now controls the Democratic Party.

Jim Hightower · Apr 13, 2022

Truck Drivers Are Grossly Underpaid and Work Under Immoral Corporate Bosses

Truckers are underpaid, overworked, endangered and even dehumanized by bosses who install surveillance cameras, sensors, and other technology to record and report every twitch a driver makes.

Jim Hightower · Mar 30, 2022