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The Lowdown Holiday Gift Guide
Being a progressive in a world saturated in hyper-consumption culture can make the holidays feel that extra bit of challenging that no one needs!
Dec 12
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Jim Hightower
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Deanna Zandt
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Laura Ehrlich
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Instead of Monopolistic, Profiteering Corporations, Let’s Try Free Enterprise
Having grown up in a small-business family, I’m a big proponent of free enterprise.
Dec 11
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Jim Hightower
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2:09
Health Care by Kafka, Groucho, and Trump
What a mess.
Dec 9
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Jim Hightower
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2:10
Friday Signpost: Hightower visits with The Progressive South
A few weeks ago, Hightower had the opportunity to sit down with Jesse Fox Mayshark over at The Progressive South podcast, and boy, did they cover a lot…
Dec 5
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Jim Hightower
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Deanna Zandt
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2:37
Big Oil’s Slick Attempt to Greenwash Its Massive Plastic Pollution
Let’s all sing the holiday classic: “All I want for Christmas… Is Something Not Made of Plastic.”
Dec 4
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Jim Hightower
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2:09
AI Bots Aren’t Taking Our Jobs – Corporate Profiteers Are
Look out – the corporate cat is out of the bag!
Dec 2
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Jim Hightower
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2:10
November 2025
Creating Our Own Thanksgiving Blessing
These days, with so much economic greed and political meanness in the news, it’s hard to lift your head up and notice the common goodness and community…
Nov 27
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Jim Hightower
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2:09
Trump and Walmart Make a Hash of Thanksgiving Dinner
Oh, thank goodness for Donald Trump!
Nov 25
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Jim Hightower
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2:10
The Path to Winning in 2026… and Beyond
As one who ekes out a modest living running my mouth on radio and Substack, I hesitate to critique others who do the same – even though I might disagree…
Nov 20
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Jim Hightower
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2:09
Trump’s “Project 2025” Sings Woody Guthrie’s “Mean Talking Blues”
Years ago, Woody Guthrie wrote “Mean Talking Blues,” a stinging satire of malicious right-wing officials who take perverse pleasure in demonizing…
Nov 18
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Jim Hightower
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27
2:10
Let’s Bust the Food Monopolists Profiteering on Thanksgiving
Oh, happy day!
Nov 13
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Jim Hightower
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2:09
How to Run a People’s Campaign and Win
An 1887 critic of Britain’s government rightly proclaimed that “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” For today’s American…
Nov 11
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Jim Hightower
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