Sitemap - 2023 - Jim Hightower's Lowdown
✨Who are we supporting this New Year's Eve?
The Rattiest Right-Wing Congress Critter
Want Environmental Progress? Follow The Kids.
Daddy's Philosophy and Your Gift Suggestions
Big Oil’s Slick Attempt to Greenwash Its Massive Plastic Pollution
Blast from the past: The Christmas Tree Cure
Mike Says That God Says He’s Our New Moses
Friday Signpost: Your Music for the Movement Playlist, 1970s Edition
Interview with Hightower: Democrats need to ‘stop talking bullshit and do something’
Why Air Travel Is So Expensive and Unpleasant
Friday Signpost: Let's Get Wild!
Woody Guthrie’s Anthem Mocking Right-Wing Republicanism
Did Expelling George Santos Make House Republicans Smell Better?
Corporate Giants Say You Don’t Mind Their Price Gouging. Do You?
Quick update: Music playlists will now be on YouTube, too
Friday Signpost: Your Music for the Movement Playlist, 1960s Edition
Here’s a Wild Idea That’s Taking Root!
A Hightower Lowdown Update: Diane Wilson vs. Formosa Plastics
Voters Reject the Illiberal Bigotry of Moms 4 Liberty
When and Where Was the First Thanksgiving Feast?
It's time for dinner democracy!
Why “Supreme Court Ethics” is an Oxymoron
Friday Signpost: Thanksgiving Recipes from Our Houses to Yours
Astonishing: A Trailer Park Story with a Happy Ending!
The Humanities Humanize Our Society. So “Kill ‘Em,” say Right-Wingers
Friday Signpost: Do You Hear What I Hear?
How Things Work: Congress’s Revolving Door
Readers Respond: Populist Museums and Monuments Across America
The Billionaires Behind School Privatization
On the Road with Hightower: Oklahoma!
Instead of Utility Greed – How About Some Energy Sanity?
How the right wing captured the Supreme Court
A Supreme Court of Ethical Weasels
Chap Ambrose Vs. Elon Musk: I’m Betting on Chap
Blast from the past: Bill Moyers & Jim Hightower
The Secretive Presidential Primary That Excludes You
Friday Signpost: Fire-Breathing Lesbians Edition
Trucking Industry Wails About Its Labor Shortage. Here’s a Solution.
Meet Leonard Leo: The capo behind the Supreme Court coup
Did You Vote for Six Judicial Elites to Rule Over You?
Friday Signpost: Can you repair what you own?
The Contemptible Thievery of Gentrification
Blast from the past: A Political Dog Tale
Let’s Send Hearing Aids to All Right-Wing Officials
Look Who’s Behind the Know-Nothing “No Labels” Party
Hightower Responds: Why Farmers Vote Republican
Bribery, Bad. Campaign Donations, Good?
Friday Signpost: People Literally Delivering Power to the People
Let’s Get Real: Billionaires Are Nuts!
Blast from the past: Hightower Confronts the 1980s Farm Crisis
A Thundering Herd of Bankers Robbing Oklahoma City Taxpayers
Friday open thread: Farm Aid live stream
Why Is Ted Cruz Weaker Than Near Beer?
How Things Work: Big Pharma Price Gouging
How Biased Is the Corporate Media? Ask Auto Workers
Blast from the past: Hightower and the organic farming revolution of the 1970s
How the Right-Wing is Trying to Turn Public Education Into Corporate Obedience Schools
The new McCarthyism and what to do about it
Labor Day Is Over, but Labor’s Day Is Just Starting
Yes, We Can Stop Drug Price Gouging! Here’s How!
Why Are Far-Right-Wing Extremists Worshiping John C. Calhoun?
The Day the Planet Started to Win
Speaking Bluntly: Right-Wing’s Racist Rhetoric Is Murdering People of Color
Vapid GOP “Debate” Reveals Why Big Money Politics Sucks
Special Preview: People and the Planet Win Big Victory Over Big Oil!
How Things Work: Turning Good Legislation Bad
Consumer Alert: Your Phone Company Wants Into Your Bank Account!
Why Democrats Should Help Republicans Publicize “Project 2025”
Why the GOP Is Becoming a Clique of Rabid Political Veterinarians
Breaking News: New Life for Local Newspapers
It’s HOT… and Joe Biden Has a Website for That!
Friday Open Thread: Quackery Quotas with Jen Sorensen
Texas, What the Hell? A Murderous Governor
Hightower’s Heroes in History: Smedley Darlington Butler
Would Someone Please Wake Up Sen. Tom Cotton?
Friday Signpost: Why the Hollywood Fight Is All of Our Fights
A “New” Political Party That’s the Same Old Business-As-Usual
Behind the scenes: How Hightower works
How the System Works: Joe Manchin’s Pipe Dream
Local activism, book recommendations, animal rights and more: Friday open thread responses
Why You Can’t Believe a Word Anti-Abortion Politicos Say
What I’m Cooking Now: Real Corn Dogs!
What If George Washington or Sam Adams Ran for President?
FRIDAY SIGNPOST: Grassroots Groups We Love: GROWW
The Supreme Court: A Nest of Clueless Overprivileged Elites
Extending the Jesse Jackson Legacy
Texas: What the Hell? Stay Hydrated, They Say. Unless You’re a Construction Worker
Friday Open Thread: What are you reading, listening to, or otherwise paying attention to?
Grassroots Action Is Shoving States Into Action on Child Care
Political Perverts: Pro-Lifers Who’re Anti-Child Care
Hightower and the Business of Organics in Texas
Which Willie Nelson 4th of July Picnic Was Dedicated to Farm Aid?
The Most Influential Musician You Never Heard Of
Profiles in Pusillanimousity: The US Senate’s Silicon Valley Hillbilly
The Secret History of “Wokeness”
Do You Suspect the System Is Rigged? Here’s Proof
The Motown Supremes, Chicken Supreme… But the "Supreme" Court?
True “Wokeism” Is a Core American Value – Stand Up for It!
🥞 SHORT STACK: Who the Hell is Mike Reed?
The Unreported News About Your “Newspaper”
How It’s Done: Setting Low the Ethical Bar in Politics
Biden, the GOP and You: Who Won the Debt-Ceiling Fight?
🥞SHORT STACK: Some good reading: Wendell Berry
What Pan Would You Take To A Public Protest?
A Labor Strike in Hollywood? Why Should You Care?
Two Joe Bros Versus the People of Appalachia
Texas: What the Hell? Thou Shalt Honor Thy First Amendment
Pigs Win a Big One Over Corporate Hoggishness
Checking the Price You Pay for Corporate Food
What? Progress in Mississippi? Seriously?
How Perverse is the GOP’s Book Banning Crusade?
LIVE: Happy Hour with Hightower and... you!
Chicken Little Attacks America’s Teachers
The Old Hat That Rules Britannia
A Republican Death Star is Targeting Your Liberty
Let’s Admit It: The Supreme Court is Corrupt. Let’s Fix It.
Here’s Something Good About Texas!
Steve Rattner Explains Your Life’s Purpose For You
Chat & Chew! Beyond Book Banning: the Movement to Control America
How Many Words Does It Take to Say “Class War”?
What If Democrats Decided to Campaign as Real Democrats?
Why Isn’t the Death of Local News National News?
GOP “Preemption” Is a Euphemism for Creeping Autocracy
Big News! Republicans Do Have An Idea: Bring Back Child Labor!
One Idea for Actually Stopping Child Labor Abuse
Shhhh! Anti-WOKE Right-Wingers Want to Put You to Sleep
The fictitious “death” of the Texas Observer
Hey Kids, Let’s Go to DeSantis World!
Why Can’t Ill Seniors Get Even a Scrap of Dignity from Congress?
Take a Whiff of Elon Musk’s Ecological Paradise
Is Sen. Josh Hawley Stupid… Or Does He Just Hope You Are?
How Despicable Are Big Pharmacies Insulin Price Gougers?
Ask Hightower: Guard donkeys with the Texas Department of Agriculture?
Texas: What the Hell? Get Ready for Roving Bands of Book-Banners Coming to Your Town
History Morsel: The Day Masturbation Saved the First Amendment in Texas
Why the GOP Should Undergo Remedial Diversity Training
Are the Women in Your State Legislature Properly Attired?
Tracking Norfolk Southern’s Derailment
How to Guarantee a Train Wreck
Sick? Injured? Dying? Call Wall Street!
Why Are We Letting For-Profit Health Care Kill Us?
Ask Hightower: Who were the Killer Bees in 1970s Texas?
Would Wall Street Kill Your Granny for A Little More Profit?
Love to You from Valentine, Texas
Tidbits from State of the Union history
Who Taught George Santos to Be Such a Self-Serving Fraud?
Welcome to the US House of Crazies
Santos Is Pathetic. McCarthy Is Disgusting. Both Should Go Away.
Singing The Hard-Hit Wall Street Worker Blues
Here’s A Wild Idea That’s Taking Root
THE LOWDOWN: Dear Democratic Party: Can’t anybody here play this game?
Is Your Lush, Green Lawn Killing Mother Nature?
Great piece from Judson Jeffries on Dr. King
Let’s Admit It: The Supreme Court is Corrupt and Clueless
What’s “Supreme” About Our Extremist Supreme Court?