Podcasts by Jim Hightowers Lowdown

Why Air Travel Is So Expensive and Unpleasant from 2023-12-12T17:01:09

In a song about outlaws, Woody Guthrie noted that, “Some’ll rob with a 6-gun/Some with a fountain pen.” Indeed, the big money thievery in our society today is being perpetrated by...

Friday Signpost: Let's Get Wild! from 2023-12-08T17:56:58

Our recent post about rewilding lawns and gardens garnered a ton of conversation about the value of letting nature take over. Many of you asked for information on how to get started with rewilding,...

Woody Guthrie’s Anthem Mocking Right-Wing Republicanism from 2023-12-07T17:01:11

What it is about today’s vituperative, foam-at-the-mouth Republican party? No longer disguising their desire to repress women, workers, immigrants, the poor, and all others who differ with (o...

Did Expelling George Santos Make House Republicans Smell Better? from 2023-12-06T17:27:43

Years ago, House Speaker Sam Rayburn declared: “Every now and then, a politician ought to do something just because it’s right.” Which brings us to the carny sideshow of Rep. Geor...

Corporate Giants Say You Don’t Mind Their Price Gouging. Do You? from 2023-12-05T17:00:26

According to an old saying, “You can’t squeeze blood from a turnip.” True. But that raises this question: Who would even try squeezing blood from a turnip? Well, metaphorically sp...

Quick update: Music playlists will now be on YouTube, too from 2023-12-03T16:18:41

We heard you!

Friday Signpost: Your Music for the Movement Playlist, 1960s Edition from 2023-12-01T17:49:52

When we asked you for your favorite political and protest music last month, y’all didn’t hold back! We loved your suggestions and have been slowly sorting through all of them (and singi...

Here’s a Wild Idea That’s Taking Root! from 2023-11-30T17:40:38

Growing up, I absorbed a lot of values from my Ol’ Texas Daddy – a strong commitment to the Common Good, a healthy work ethic, and a lively sense of humor. But one thing about him IR...

A Hightower Lowdown Update: Diane Wilson vs. Formosa Plastics from 2023-11-29T18:16:34

Look up “tenacious” in the dictionary, and you will surely find a picture of Texan Diane Wilson. A total bad-ass agitator, Diane has spent decades fighting the good fight–and winn...

Voters Reject the Illiberal Bigotry of Moms 4 Liberty from 2023-11-28T17:01:18

In one of their satirical songs, the Austin Lounge Lizards lampooned the ridiculous bigotry of some Christian factions, singing: “Jesus loves me. But he can’t stand you.” That cou...

A deal from 2023-11-24T18:01:06

What to give friends and family for the holidays? Give ‘em hell! (Or at least give them Hightower at a helluva price.)

Truck Drivers Hijacked by Immoral Corporate Bosses from 2022-03-31T04:01:45

Keep On Trucking’ was an iconic underground cartoon created in 1968 by comic master Robert Crumb. Featuring various big-footed men strutting jauntily through life, the caricature became widely popu...

What’s Up with This Crazy Trucker Protest? from 2022-03-30T00:58:28

The recent traffic-clogging protests by truck drivers in the US and Canada is about drivers being angry over COVID-19 vaccine mandates – right? Uh… no. That’s the line being put out by right-wing ...

Wimpy leaders ignore strong people from 2022-03-24T04:01:34

Right-wing Republicans and corporate Democrats have become a pathetic bunch of "No-can-do Nancys." Faced with an economy reeling from the plutocratic policies that these same lawmakers pushed down...

Who’s making our medicine? from 2022-03-22T04:01:18

Let’s talk pills. To treat everything from allergies to heart problems, half of Americans take a prescription medicine every day, and nearly all of us reach for the pill bottle on occasion. It's p...

A Rube Goldberg Inflationary Spiral from 2022-03-10T05:01:43

Last July, several GOP senators combined their 5-watt intellects to charge that inflation was rising because of the “insane tax and spending spree of President Biden and the Democrats.” Never min...

Whip Inflation Now! from 2022-03-08T05:01:44

Republican politicos are all over Joe Biden for failing to stop inflation. Perhaps you wonder, though, what these squawkers would do if they were in charge? No need to wonder – just look back to 1...

A wealth tax for American progress from 2022-02-24T05:01:05

The rich are different from you and me. For one thing, they’re rich. Among the super-rich, though, there tends to be a peculiar sense that their net worth is a testament to their true worthiness. ...

Who was Smedley Darlington Butler, and why is he important? from 2022-02-22T05:01:44

Many Americans can't believe that political coups are part of our country's history – but consider from the Wall Street Putsch of 1933. Never heard of it? It was a corporate conspiracy to oust Fra...

Should We Trust Corporations to Save Our Democracy? Ha! Just kidding. from 2022-02-17T05:01:49

Corporate CEOs are mostly sedentary, well-heeled money people who would hardly be considered athletic. Yet, every now and then a few of these soft elites bust out as championship players of an old ...

Corporate Sponsors Win Olympic Gold in “Downhill Ethical Backflip” from 2022-02-15T05:01:58

In this year’s Beijing Olympics, the top team performance has been Corporate America’s breathtaking “Double-twist Ethical Backflip.” This group of corporate giants loudly tout their code of ethics...

How social distancing can bring us together from 2022-02-10T05:01:22

Suddenly, "social distancing" is our new national etiquette, abruptly supplanting handshakes, hugs, gatherings, and other forms of ingrained communal behavior by us humans. Awkward. Disconcerting. ...

The deadly economic disease behind COVID-19 from 2022-02-08T05:01:33

In this horrible time of economic collapse, it is truly touching to see so many corporate chieftains reaching out in solidarity with the hard-hit working class. We know they're doing this because ...

Should Democrats be the party of small change? from 2022-02-03T05:01:29

We might expect that corporate billionaires and Koch-funded Republican right-wingers would be howl-at-the-moon opponents of a wealth tax, Medicare-for-All, and other big, progressive ideas to help ...

How to get Congress to reform our broken healthcare system from 2022-02-01T05:01:13

For $3.5 Trillion a year, shouldn't we Americans have a world-class healthcare system? Yet, while we spend the most of any advanced nation in the world to get care (more than $10,000 a year per per...

What’s the charitable thing to do about inequality? from 2022-01-27T05:01:57

Our society has coined expressions like "philanthropist" to encourage and hail people's charitable spirit.

Look on the flip side of that shiny coin of generosity, however, and you'll find ...

The chicken sh*t lobby for corporate health care from 2022-01-25T05:01:21

As Lyndon Johnson used to say about special interests trying to get his support to pass some blatantly self-serving legislation: "They can't make chicken salad out of chicken sh*t."

Yet, c...

Alert: Kartoonus Americanus Is Going Extinct! from 2022-01-20T05:01:10

Right before our eyes, an invaluable American species is fast disappearing from view. Kar-toon-us A-mer-i-kan-as.

These are the newspaper cartoonists who’ve long delighted readers and infu...

Save the Whales! Save Polar Bears! Save Political Cartoonists! from 2022-01-18T05:01:40

I never dreamed of growing up to be a political activist/ commentator, but here I am, and it’s worked out pretty well for me. I’ve been lucky enough to have a voice in public matters and eke out a ...

Jeff Bezos Reveals His Desiccated Soul from 2022-01-13T05:02:58

The morning after December’s horrific nighttime tornado smashed a huge Amazon warehouse in Illinois, killing six workers, corporate CEO Jeff Bezos issued a personal video message.

Was he d...

How Corporate Greed is Causing Tornado Deaths from 2022-01-11T05:01:40

Corporate America has proudly elevated good moral values to a special place. That place is the trash can.

Indeed, free market gurus assert that the only ethical obligation a corporation ha...

What if antibiotics no longer work? from 2022-01-06T05:01:11

Can antibiotic medicines, long hailed as miracle drugs, be too much of a good thing? Yes.

Two factors are at work here. First, bacteria (one of the earliest forms of life on Earth) are mir...

A curse, a blessing, and a good food movement from 2022-01-04T17:58:30

In 1972, I was part of a nationwide campaign that came close to getting the US Senate to reject Earl Butz, Richard Nixon’s choice for secretary of agriculture.

A coalition of grassroots fa...

Daddy’s Philosophy from 2021-12-23T05:01:54

This holiday season got me to thinking about America's spirit of giving, and I don't mean this overdone business of Christmas, Hanukkah and other holiday gifts. I mean our true spirit of giving – g...

Merry Christmas, right-wingers, The Red Pope, and Jesus from 2021-12-21T05:01:10

Here's a twist on Christmas that would make Jesus weep.

First, a right-wing faction in the US has been wringing its hands over a hokey cultural "crisis" cooked up by the faction itself, na...

The Problem With Plastic… Is Plastic from 2021-12-16T05:01:33

In a world that’s clogged and choking with a massive overdose of plastic trash, you’ll be heartened to learn that governments and industries are teaming up to respond forcefully to this planetary c...

The Plasticization of Planet Earth from 2021-12-14T20:28:21

What does your toothbrush, a fish dinner, and your running shoes have in common?

Plastic. We now live on Planet Plastic, billions of tons of waste from everyday products made of these chem...

The Scam of Marketing Sports Stadiums as Corporate Billboards from 2021-12-09T05:01:56

Advertising has been characterized as rattling a stick in a bucket – a noisy cry for public attention.

One example of this crass hucksterism is the rush by top executives of multibillion-d...

“Team Greed” plays bigtime sports! from 2021-12-07T05:01

‘Tis the season, right? Traditionally, this time of year celebrates spirituality and festivities – including Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanzaa.

In modern day America, however, the Winter So...

Making Work Work for Workers from 2021-12-02T05:01:21

As a writer, I get stuck every so often straining for the right words to tell my story. Over the years, though, I’ve learned when to quit tying myself into mental knots over sentence construction, ...

What’s the “Quits Rate?” And Why Is It Skyrocketing? from 2021-11-30T05:01:50

Corporate bosses across America have been sputtering in outrage at you working stiffs this summer, spewing expletives about the fact that while the US economy has been coming back... you haven’t! Listen

Which food future will you choose? from 2021-11-25T05:01:26

America certainly has an abundance of food (even though many Americans do not), yet we face a momentous choice of whether to pursue a food future rooted in the ethic of sustainable agriCULTURE - or...

When and where was the first Thanksgiving Feast? from 2021-11-23T16:32:16

Let's talk Turkey!

No, not the Butterball sitting in the Oval Office. I'm talking about the real thing, the big bird, 46 million of which we Americans will devour on this Thanksgiving Day....

Once Again Congress Exposes Its Butt-Ugly Morality from 2021-11-18T21:27:12

Sometimes, when watching Congress in action, I can’t decide whether to laugh, cry, or check myself into an insane asylum.

Not all lawmakers are political hacks, quacks, and corporate toadi...

Why Did the Democrat Lose Virginia’s Gubernatorial Race? from 2021-11-16T21:13:52

Here they come again – That gaggle of Washington politicos and pundits who keep assailing Joe Biden’s package of FDRish proposals that, at long last, would begin lifting up America’s infrastructure...

Should Apple Profit By Blocking Our Consumer Rights? from 2021-11-11T05:01:46

At least since the invention of the wheel, people have fixed, tinkered with, and improved every device they’ve possessed. It’s been a human right.

But after several thousand years, suddenl...

Repair Your Own Products? Corporations Say No! from 2021-11-09T15:39:13

America’s economic and political inequality has led workaday Americans to exclaim: “The system is broken. Let’s fix it!”

But there’s another version of this protest that I’m hearing more f...

The Republican Supremes Are Defrocking Themselves from 2021-11-04T11:49:06

What is so supreme about the Supreme Court?

I mean besides being housed in an imposing marble building, being the final stop on America’s judicial train, and having its nine members look p...

The Sad Whine of Supreme Court Right Wingers from 2021-11-02T11:45:51

Ralph Waldo Emerson told about a guest who came to dinner and spent the entire evening prattling about his own integrity: “The louder he talked of his honor,” Emerson wrote: “the faster we counted ...

Working From Home – While Your Boss Watches You on Video from 2021-10-28T04:01:11

If you’re a corporate employee, you know that something unpleasant is afoot when top executives are suddenly issuing statements about how committed they are to their employees, making sure that all...

Beware of “Spot,” the $75,000 Wonder Dog from 2021-10-26T04:01:26

Tick-tick-tick... each sweep of Big-Tech’s clock enhances corporate power – but its hands also sweep away more of our civil rights.

At first, each new surge of artificial intelligence and ...

Why Would We Let Wall Street “Care For” Our Pets? from 2021-10-21T17:44:10

Question: What does a packet of M&M’s and your local veterinarian have in common? Answer: Both are owned by Mars Inc., the global candy monopolist.

Since the 1980s, we’ve seen massive ...

The Corporatization of Pet Care: Animal Cruelty? from 2021-10-19T18:00:16

For many people, the animals they adopt and love become more like family members than pets. We have deep relationships, with cats, dogs, parrots, goats, horses, and other fellow critters – who at l...

Can the Rest of the Nation Follow Alabama? from 2021-10-14T04:01:55

Here are two terms you don’t expect to see together: “The state of Alabama” and “progressive leader.” (Ok, I’m a Texan, so I have no standing to point at the rank regressiveness of any other state ...

America needs a quality child care system from 2021-10-12T04:01:37

Nearly every nation with an advanced economy (and some not so advanced) treats child care as a fundamental public good essential to nurturing children, families, and the whole society. But not our ...

Why Corporations Pay Millions for Executive Mediocrity from 2021-10-07T04:01:34

Most people believe the American economy is being rigged by and for bankers, CEOs, and other superrich elites, because… well, because it is!

With their hired armies of lawmakers, lobbyists...

The Grand Larceny of Bank(er) Robbery from 2021-10-05T04:01:13

Exciting news from Wall Street: Our wealth markets are booming!

Everything from the Dow Jones Average to gold prices are rocketing to new records, showering us with wealth from above. Oh… ...

Let’s Create a Bank System That Serves People, Instead of Bankers from 2021-09-30T04:01:52

Corporate ideologues never cease blathering that government programs should be run like a business.
Really – what businesses would they choose? Pharmaceutical profiteers? Big Oil? Wall Street m...

Your Dog Knows Better Than To Let The GOP “Fix” Our Postal System from 2021-09-28T04:01:47

When Donald Trump declared he would fix the US Postal Service, he was using the word “fix” the same way veterinarians do when you bring in your dog.

Trump wasted an inordinate amount of hi...

Can Corporate Profit and Morality Be Compatible? from 2021-09-23T04:01:35

Is “corporate ethics” an oxymoron? Do you have to be a jerk to be a successful CEO? Is exploitation the only path to profit?

The good news is that many companies, big and small, in the foo...

How About an Award for Sleaziest Corporate Profiteering? from 2021-09-21T04:01:38

We’ve got the Academy Awards, the Emmy’s, and GRAMMYs… but what should we call the award for the most extraordinary performance by a corporate profiteer? How about the “Sleazy,” with winners gettin...

Hey Washington: Follow The People from 2021-09-16T04:01:31

“Those in the know,” say that We the People should forget any progressive fantasy that – at long last – Washington might finally produce the kind of bold FDR-style agenda that America needs. They s...

Forget Trickle-Down BS – Let’s Push Percolate-up Economics from 2021-09-14T04:01:49

The past year proves that a lot of conventional economic wisdom is neither true nor wise. For example:

“We don’t have the money.” The power elites tell us it would be nice to do the big-ti...

Where’s the “Dignity of Work” When Work Kills Workers? from 2021-09-09T04:01:50

Corporate acolytes and right-wing moralists constantly preach to laboring stiffs about the uplifting dignity of work.

Of course, that’s “dignity” as defined and controlled by corporate eli...

Work, Sweat, Die: The Price of Really Hot Jobs from 2021-09-07T04:01:31

Here’s a hot topic for Labor Day: Heat.

It’s been a hell of a hot summer, exploding the top off thermometers with triple-digit readings across the country. As we’re learning, week after we...

To fix the Labor Shortage, Start With the Wage Shortage from 2021-08-12T04:01:52

At a recent congressional hearing on America’s so-called “labor shortage,” megabanker Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, offered this insight: “People actually have a lot of money, and they don’t parti...

Should “Workforce” mean forcing workers to take crappy jobs? from 2021-08-10T04:01:37

A recent headline blared: “Labor shortages end when wages rise.”

Gosh, Captain Obvious, what an amazing discovery! Someone notify the Nobel Prize committee, for surely this revolutionary r...

There’s Rich, Ugly Rich, and Jeff Bezos from 2021-08-05T04:01:39

I cheered recently when the richest man on Earth had himself rocketed into space. But then he came back down.

There’s nothing irredeemably wrong about being rich – indeed, one good role mo...

How Pathetic is Jeff “Space Boy” Bezos? from 2021-08-03T04:01:18

When I was just a tyke, cowboy actors were marketed as role models for little backyard cowpokes like me, and we could send off to get a certificate making us “Pals of the Saddle” or some such with ...

A Phoenix is Rising from 2021-07-29T04:01:40

Our local newspapers are being merged, purged, shrunk, shut down, and looted by Wall Street profiteers – yet there’s good news. In the towns those media vultures are torching, a phoenix is rising!<...

The Oracle Speaks from 2021-07-27T17:26:32

Mega-investor Warren Buffett once held a big portfolio of daily and weekly newspapers, and he specialized in squeezing out competitors so each held a local monopoly. Then he’d chop staff and news c...

How the corporate plutocracy works from 2021-07-22T14:30:22

An old political truism notes that, “Where there’s a will, there are 1,000 won’ts.”

And what a hurricane of won’ts swirled out of Washington’s power centers in March to pummel Joe Biden! C...

Is America big enough to Go Big again? from 2021-07-20T04:01:58

It’s time for America to go back to the future – a future of true greatness created by a people united to build a strong nation for the Common Good.

From the start of our United States, Am...

Is Your Governor Part Of The GOP’s Border Stunt? from 2021-07-08T14:33:35

The Odd Virus Attacking Republican Governors from 2021-07-06T04:01:29

Can GOP Autocracy Outlaw American Democracy? from 2021-07-01T15:21:44

Ralph Waldo Emerson told of a dinner guest who went on and on about the virtue of honesty, offering his own life as a model of perfect rectitude. “The louder he talked of his honor,” said Emerson, ...

Are You a “Low-Quality” Voter? from 2021-06-29T02:50:46

Hey, you, get away from those polling places! We don’t want your kind here! Scram!
That’s a stupid, shameful, and ultimately self-defeating political message, yet it’s being pushed as the offic...

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and You. Which One Pays Taxes? from 2021-06-17T04:01:38

Here’s a thought-provoking bumper sticker: “The system is fixed. We must break it.”
This thought came into vivid focus recently when a news report by ProPublica revealed that a nest of preening...

Will Jeff Bezos Return to Earth a Better Human? from 2021-06-17T01:35:04

While Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. proclaimed, “I have a dream,” it was full of lofty ethical stuff like “justice for all” and… well, it was so 1963.
But in today’s Facebook-Instagram-Google wor...

BONUS: Join me at the Hightower Lowdown Happy Hour at the Chat & Chew Cafe from 2021-06-14T19:24:25

Hidey-ho, folks! Thanks for tuning in to and sharing my weekly commentaries. Also, I hope you’ll join me for a live webshow I host every other Tuesday. It’s the Hightower Lowdown Happy Hour at the ...

Banker Greed That Would Even Shock Woody Guthrie from 2021-05-27T04:01:11

Woody Guthrie had a lot to say about the greed of bankers who made crop loans at usurious interest rates to hardscrabble farmers, then foreclosed on them when they couldn’t pay off the loans, leavi...

What’s Under Sid Miller’s Thousand-Dollar Hat? from 2021-05-25T04:01:47

The agriculture commissioner of Texas, Sid Miller, is the one top official in our state willing to take a bold stand against racial discrimination. Miller proudly went to court in April, challengin...

The Plutocrats Cry, People Cheer from 2021-05-20T04:01:13

“Outrageous,” screeched the US Chamber of Commerce. “It doesn’t feel fair,” whimpered a top corporate executive.
The wailing by those who run corporate America is not for the plight of the work...

What Floats Jeff Bezos’ Boat from 2021-05-18T14:29:03

Not only are the rich different from you and me – they’re getting more different than ever.
I’m not referring to mere millionaires, but to the billionaire bunch. In the past year, while ordinar...

Are CEOs Really “Worth” Millions of Dollars? from 2021-05-06T16:01:38

These days, the haughty rich in our country have developed such an arrogant sense of self-entitlement that they’ve gone from being merely irritating to infuriating.
Unsurprisingly, their plutoc...

Rich Whites Trying to Suppress Native Americans. Again from 2021-05-04T21:38:09

It’s tough being rich. For one thing, you have to be on constant alert to keep commoners from encroaching on your turf and upsetting your sense of proper social order.
Consider the angst of the...

Should Water Be A Wet Dream for Wall Street Speculators from 2021-04-29T04:01:03

Oh great – here comes a new stealth attack on the fragile, life-sustaining natural resources of Planet Earth. This assault is by Wall Street alchemists who’re out to redefine one of our most basic ...

Why Do We Celebrate Earth Day? from 2021-04-27T18:43:55

Why all this hoopla about Earth Day, grump the barons of Big Oil and other corporate plunderers of our natural resources?
But the global demand to “Save The Earth” is not hoopla – it’s an imper...

To Bust Monopoly Powers, Start With Dinner from 2021-04-22T04:01:39

What if we took monopoly out of our daily diets?
Busting the power of abusive and arrogant food monopolists would be of such immediate benefit to the bottom lines of farmers, consumers, and wor...

Monopoly Is What’s For Dinner from 2021-04-20T04:01:29

No longer just a parlor game, monopoly is what’s for dinner. Practically every commodity and every step in producing our families’ most essential consumer purchase is in the tight grip of four or f...

Now, Robots are Coming for White-Collar Jobs from 2021-03-25T05:01:01

In CorporateSpeak, there are no “job cuts.” Instead, firings are blandly referred to as “employment adjustments.”
Now, though, corporate wordsmiths will need a whole new thesaurus of euphemisms...

Is Your Job in the Robot Kill Path? from 2021-03-23T05:01:29

Hunters have come up with euphemisms to make what they do sound… well, less unpleasant. For example, animals aren’t killed, they’re “harvested.”
Corporate America is now adopting this verbal pl...

A Question of Nature from 2021-03-18T05:01:51

When corporate executives are absurdly hypocritical, yet so obtuse that they don’t even realize it, is it still hypocrisy… or are they just dimwitted?
Consider the histrionics emanating from co...

Give Nature a Right to Self-Defense from 2021-03-16T05:01:29

There’s a white oak tree in Athens, Georgia, that is not owned by anyone. It’s an autonomous entity – known as the “Tree that Owns Itself.”
Around the 1820s, the owner of the property wrote a f...

The GOP’s Shameful War on Voters from 2021-03-11T06:01:49

After looking into one of their main issues, I have to agree with Republicans: Our elections are being rigged.
Anyone who takes an honest look can see that the electoral process is being stolen...

What Makes Ted Cruz So Despicable? from 2021-03-09T06:01:27

In February, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz ran off to a luxury resort in sunny Cancún, Mexico, during the deep freeze that devastated millions of his constituents. But I wasn’t mad that Ted fled; what upset ...

What the Texas Deep Freeze Revealed from 2021-03-02T19:12:58

I don’t know if Nero really fiddled while Rome burned, but it certainly is true that Texas Senator Ted Cruz fiddled around while his state froze.
While Ted fled Texas for the warmth of the Ritz...

A wealth of riches, a poverty of morals from 2021-02-18T06:01:29

Let’s say you’re a millionaire. That’s a lot of money, right? Now let’s say you’re a billionaire. That’s a lot more money! But how much more?
Think of all those dollars as seconds on a clock. A...

How Do You Spell “BOSS” from 2021-02-11T06:01:50

What is it about billionaires and multimillionaires that make them both self-entitled and clueless about the impacts of their greed?
Even when they occasionally make a stab at doing something r...

Why Billionaires Are Detested from 2021-02-09T19:20:59

The renowned Western Swing bandleader Bob Wills would joyously call out in mid-song, “Take it away, Leon,” bringing on a crowd-pleasing instrumental solo by steel guitar maestro, Leon McAuliffe. Listen

Can Biden, a lifelong insider, learn to dance with outsiders? from 2021-02-04T06:01:17

The Democratic Party establishment is now issuing a go-slow warning to the new president they backed.
They instruct that, while Biden should undo the most repressive and regressive edicts of th...

Hey Democrats – be democrats! from 2021-02-02T06:01:12

The Democratic Party establishment has a message for us progressives: Go away!
That club of don’t-rock-the-corporate-boat congressional leaders and their hired political operatives keep trying ...

The corporate mob behind Trump from 2021-01-21T06:01:20

You can’t poke into any issue in Congress without stumbling over sacks full of corporate campaign donations – and the recent eruption of pro-Trump mob violence inside the US Capitol exposed boodles...

Who’s really behind the desecration of our Capitol? from 2021-01-19T16:41:55

The ransacking and terrorizing of Congress by violent Trumpeteers is an outrage, right? Even Republican congressional leaders have rushed to assail the mob invasion, calling it a desecration of Ame...