DO THE DEMOCRATS CARE?!: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Rep. Ro Khanna August 10, 2022Urgent alert to top Dem party poohbahs: Too many would-be Democratic voters are disillusioned by your tone-deaf, wishy-washy incrementalism! On...
The F-WORD: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Monika Bauerlein and Baratunde Thurston June 24, 2022Fascism – it’s a term we don’t use lightly. But when the overwhelming power of corporations over Congress and the...
SUPREME COUP: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Imani Gandy of Rewire News Group May 26, 2022For two decades, the GOP’s network of corporate and right-wing operatives has painstakingly fabricated the Supreme Court as its own...
SUPREME INJUSTICE: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Lisa Graves April 30, 2022For two decades, the GOP’s network of corporate and right-wing operatives has painstakingly fabricated the Supreme Court as its own...
FAMILY REUNION: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Beto O’Rourke, Nse Ufot, Sharon Lavigne, Diane Wilson, Maurice Mitchell, Nathan Proctor March 15, 2022Since organizing isn’t a one-and-done deal, the Chat & Chew crew wanted to re-connect with a few of the incredible...
BULLS**T MONOPOLIES: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Steve Charter & John Boyd, Jr. February 15, 2022Everyone’s feeling the strain of inflation, but what’s the real story underneath those jacked-up prices? Spoiler alert: corporate greed! It...
MOTHER NATURE LAWYERS UP: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Alexis Bunten & Samantha Skenandore January 18, 2022The Lorax speaks for the trees in Dr. Seuss books, but who speaks for them in real life? A revolutionary...
LAUGHING MATTERS: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Zahra Noorbakhsh and Steve Skrovan December 14, 2021Does the state of politics make you want to cry? Wait! There’s another way – and here at the Chat...
DINNER DEMOCRACY: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Tom Philpott & Raj Patel November 16, 2021As we head towards Thanksgiving, our minds are all on one of our favorite topics: FOOD! What power do people...
CHILD CARE NOW! Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Bryce Covert October 19, 2021For decades, the American child care “system,” if one can call it that, has been in shambles thanks to its...
THE ELEPHANT IN THE WOMB: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Loretta J. Ross September 21, 2021The outrage over the Texas abortion ban crosses all lines of race, class, and gender, and the Supremes have, so...
LOOK WHO’S ORGANIZING NOW: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Larry Cohen, Sara Steffens & More September 7, 2021American workers are fed up with low wages, terrible working conditions, minimal benefits and so much more in their jobs....
Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe: The Right to Repair Movement July 13, 2021You bought it, you own it–and that means if it broke, you can fix it, right? Not so fast! Turns...
Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe: Rick Levy (TX AFL-CIO) and USW Beaumont Workers June 29, 2021While ExxonMobil holds out for huge changes to seniority, safety, and layoffs, the massively profitable corporation has locked out 650...
Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe: Beto O’Rourke & Paula Littles June 15, 2021You’ve no doubt heard about the egregious legislation coming out of the Lone Star State that’s threatening the very foundation...
Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe: AWPU’s Mark Dimondstein & Lori Cash June 2, 2021Can we hear it for the public Post Office?! Except for a few corporate privatizers, almost everyone appreciates the minor...
Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe: Lisa Graves May 18, 2021A movement is afoot in America: don’t like how the people vote? Well, let’s make it harder for them to...
Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe: Julian Brave NoiseCat May 4, 2021A nationwide progressive push is ON, and activists like Julian Brave NoiseCat are leading with work that weaves together the...
Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe: Maurice Mitchell April 20, 2021The Working Families Party is NOT your typical political party. A mash-up of movement energy, cultural connection, and political strategy,...
WHAT’S “UNITY” GONNA TAKE: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Heather McGhee April 6, 2021There’s much talk about “unity” in progressive circles these days: We know our futures depend on each-others’ success, but how...
Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe: Eric Hall & Lauren Kaori Gurley March 23, 2021Corporate behemoth Amazon notoriously crushes efforts to unionize its workers, but right now in Bessemer, Alabama, workers at Amazon’s facility...
Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe: Jane Kleeb March 9, 2021When you think of bold, progressive action on climate and the fight against corptocracy, do you think of . ....
TEXAS SNOWPOCALYPSE: Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe with Beto O’Rourke February 23, 2021Texas melted down in the miserable storm of February 2021. What happened? What needs to be done? How can others...
Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe: Marcia Ball February 9, 2021Marcia Ball is not only a great Texas-born, Louisiana-raised pianist, songwriter, and vocalist, but she’s also a passionate activist and...
Happy Hour with Hightower at the Lowdown Chat & Chew Cafe: Nse Ufot, New Georgia Project January 26, 2021Everyone’s looking at Georgia’s victories as a modern Biblical miracle, as if electing two Democratic senators and flipping the state...
