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Jim Hightower

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Sep 17, 2026
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Aug 19, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Jim Hightower

    Greg's Folly: Texas Gov. Abbott Gets Hoisted On His Own High-Tech Petard (opens the original)

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    Greg Abbott, the right-wing hack who is governor of Texas, probably doesn't know what a "petard" is, but he's now been hoisted by a big one. "Hoist on a petard" is a Shakespearean phrase for a bomb maker being blown sky-high by his own creation. Abbott's bombastic saga began last year, when he noticed that high-tech billionaires were waving political cash at lawmakers who'd help them build massive AI data centers across America. Sniffing a quid pro quo bonanza, Abbott shoved his way to the front

  2. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Jim Hightower

    We Have Seen -- And Defeated -- The Plutocratic Enemies Of Equal Rights Before (opens the original)

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    Growing up, I received a wealth of working-class values from my parents, including this nugget about egalitarianism: "Nobody is better than you," they said, "and you're no better than anybody else." That's the ethical underpinning for "We're all in this together" — it's what Thomas Jefferson enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and it's what Lincoln consecrated in his Gettysburg address; it's in our own pledge of allegiance to "liberty and justice for all;" it's what the Statue of Libe

  3. Article · Aug 19, 2026 · Jim Hightower

    As Big Tech Imposes A New Feudalism On America, Let's Fight Back (opens the original)

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    "If you find that you've dug yourself into a hole, the very first thing to do is quit digging." That old country saying has a newly urgent relevance to us today, for Big Tech, Big Finance and Big Government are colluding to dig us into the unfathomable hole of artificial intelligence. All across the country, entire communities are in an uproar as they learn that thousands of massive, billionaire-financed data centers are quietly being approved by their government officials, usurping farmland, lo

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