Jim Hightower
@jimhightower.com
America's #1 populist! NYT bestselling author, former twice-elected Ag Commissioner of Texas, radio commentator and populist agitator for over 50 (!) years. Find out more at jimhightower.substack.com!
Texas has a lot of voters who quit showing up because nobody on the ballot was fighting for them. Will this year be different? jimhightower.substack.com/p/friday-sig... #Texas #Populism #TexasPolitics #Midterms #JimHightower
Friday Signpost: Texas Democrats Are Making History
All eyes are on Texas right now in these midterm elections, to say the least.
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Here's a little light reading for Susan Collins, who also enjoys a political relationship with Harlan Crow. #resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue #ModerateMyth
Jim Hightower@jimhightower.com · yesterdayA Supreme Court justice took millions in luxury perks from billionaire Harlan Crow and saw no problem. Clarence Thomas has also voted again and again to narrow the laws that define bribery. Should the Court have an enforceable ethics code? jimhightower.substack.com/p/do-you-sus...
A Supreme Court justice took millions in luxury perks from billionaire Harlan Crow and saw no problem. Clarence Thomas has also voted again and again to narrow the laws that define bribery. Should the Court have an enforceable ethics code? jimhightower.substack.com/p/do-you-sus...
Google is making movies to convince you AI is your friend. A multitrillion-dollar company says it's just telling the story "authentically." I was born at night, but not last night. Full commentary: jimhightower.substack.com/p/the-academ... @humanartistry.bsky.social #BigTech #AI
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Friday Signpost: Here Are Seven Unexpected People Running for Office. Are You Next?
These people are just like you and Doing Something!
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Big Pork launched a lobbying campaign called Save Our Bacon. The bacon they want saved is their profit margin, and they want Congress to override state animal welfare laws. Full commentary: jimhightower.substack.com/p/two-legged... @ciwfusa.bsky.social #SaveOurBacon #AnimalWelfare
GOP "small business" plan: redefine small by 1,000 percent so billion-dollar giants qualify for grants and contracts meant for Main Street. Full commentary: jimhightower.substack.com/p/you-betcha... @velazquez.house.gov #SmallBusiness #Monopolies
A 24 year old farm worker was killed by heat in Mississippi. No worker should be killed on the job, but we still have no enforceable federal heat protection rules. 1/
"What’s wrong with us? Our nation’s moral compass, I mean." @jimhightower.com aginginamerica.news/2026/10/02/w...
Revamping Medicaid: Dignity for Low-Income Seniors is Crucial
Explore the moral failures of Medicaid's meager support for low-income seniors, highlighting the urgent need for reform in elder care.
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In 1987, Congress said sick seniors on Medicaid can only spend $30/mo on personal needs. It has not raised it in the decades since. We can give billionaires tax subsidies galore, but seniors have to scrimp pennies for a rare treat? @justiceinaging.org jimhightower.substack.com/p/why-cant-i...
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...
I got together with TavisSmiley to debunk Ken Paxton's popularity, among many, many other topics! jimhightower.substack.com/p/friday-sig...
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
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...
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.
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
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
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...
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
Big Tech is promising your town jobs, tax revenue, and a shiny future. What they're not mentioning: your water bill, your electric bill, and what happens after the construction crews leave. Part 2 of our plain-English AI series is up. What's really going on with the data center boom?
Friday Signpost: Data Centers, Explained: What They Are and What They're Costing Your Community (Part 2)
Data centers aren’t new—they’ve been around for decades. The current building frenzy is something else entirely, though. Here’s what’s what.
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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...
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...
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...
Every week there's a new headline about AI changing everything. But what actually IS it? Not the hype, not the panic -- the real explanation, in plain English. Spoiler: it's a lot less magic than they're selling you. jimhightower.substack.com/p/friday-sig...
Friday Signpost: They're Calling AI a “Revolution.” Here's What's Actually Going On. (Part 1)
The first in a two-part series explaining, in plain English, what artificial intelligence is and why it’s everywhere right now.
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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!
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
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...
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
