Hightower on C-SPAN: Support for Bernie Sanders
Hightower was on Washington Journal this morning to talk about why he’s supporting Bernie, and answer questions from callers. (Our favorite is the woman from South Carolina who asked if Hightower is a...
View ArticleHightower introduces Bernie Sanders after the Wisconsin primary win
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View ArticleDid you catch Hightower on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon?
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View ArticleHightower and Howard Dean discuss the primaries with Lawrence O’Donnell
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Welcome to the new JimHightower.com!
That’s me in between a couple of pretty cool dudes. Hey folks! It’s Deanna, the resident nerd, here with some exciting news: we’ve got ourselves a couple of brand-new websites. So many updates to share...
View ArticleHightower’s statement after meeting with Bernie Sanders and the surrogates
About 20 of us spent 4 hours or so talking with Bernie Sanders about BernieNext, not looking back, but at how far this grassroots populist movement has come in only 15 months. Everyone there is very...
View ArticleHightower’s statement on Brexit: This isn’t populism!
Yet again, the political and media establishment (excuse the redundancy) misconstrue “populism” as an ignorant and bigoted political fringe. The working-class people of Great Britain have every right...
View ArticleOn police violence and #BlackLivesMatter
When people hear me talk about populism, some folks think I’m talking about the racist, xenophobic, angry things that get branded as populism. True populism is about bringing people up, not tearing...
View ArticleTakeaways from the election
Buckle-up friends, it’s going to be a hairy ride. Start with Day One for President Trump (gotta get used to saying that). He will need to be up-and-at-’em no later than 12:01 am, for during his...
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Blast from the past: Agribusiness Accountability Project, 1973
Back in 1973, Organic Gardening wrote about a new report from the National Academy of Sciences which denounced the lack of quality research in state- and federally-funded programs. And look who makes...
View ArticleOn the passing of Susan DeMarco: A tribute
Susan DeMarco, 1943 – 2018 Some are born with good luck, but Lady Luck didn’t bless me until I was 30 years old. She arrived in the form of a petite bundle of feistiness, inherent smarts, political...
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Guacamole, shakshuka, mussels and… garbage dogs? Recipes from Hightower and...
After Hightower’s longtime partner, DeMarco, took her leave of us from this crazy planet, our staff and the board of the Lowdown decided to have a little dinner together in her honor– she didn’t want...
View ArticleCENSORED MATERIAL: Free the free press from Wall Street plunderers
Editors’ note: The following is the column that was rejected by the Creators Syndicate, who feared reprisal from the corporations mentioned in the article. Read more about the controversy at the Austin...
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Trump Flees Afghanistan, but US still there
Trump Flees Afghanistan, but US still there It’s over. Donald the Dealmaker says that he has ended America’s long nightmare in Afghanistan, finally terminating 18-plus years of grinding war (the...
View ArticleHow weird is the Democratic Party establishment?
Just when you thought this political year couldn’t get any weirder, along comes the entire Democratic Party establishment rushing en masse to the cliff’s edge, hurling themselves head-first into the...
View ArticleS. David Freeman: A populist powerhouse for people’s energy (1926-2020)
America lost one of its best public interest agitators last week, and I can’t let him go without a tip of the hat. David Freeman was not a household name, but he certainly was a household hero – a...
View ArticleStanding for George Floyd
One word in particular, one sound, one horror that I can’t get out of my head is this: George Floyd crying out “momma,” as his life was cruelly and senselessly crushed in yet another brutal,...
View ArticleMy post-election message: What progressives won this year
A jittery week at the polls, huh? One measure of our political anxiety is that liquor sales spiked this week. Also, it’s probably not a coincidence that a new breakthrough in drug legalization was made...
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