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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New GOP Agenda Proves These People Are Just Plain Nuts

When not attacking the Muppets, the party's leading figures have spent the year laying out plans to tax the poor and eliminate Social Security.

Jim Hightower · Oct 1, 2022

Down With the Corporate Bean-Counters Who Spy on Their Workers

When overpaid corporate boneheads substitute slogans and computer metrics for real solutions, they're admitting that they are the problem.

Jim Hightower · Sep 14, 2022

A Hot Topic for Labor Day: Extreme Heat Kills Workers

The richest country in the history of the world continues to subject millions of its people to senseless suffering and death, not even talking about this embarrassment, much less stopping it.

Jim Hightower · Aug 31, 2022

The Very Strong People Can Defeat the Corporate Jerks

It gets little national media attention, but regular grassroots communities and coalitions are mounting—and winning—such gutsy fights against corporate exploiters all across America

Jim Hightower · Aug 17, 2022