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JIM HIGHTOWER, America's most popular populist, is a best-selling author, radio commentator, public speaker, and all-around political sparkplug whose credo is "You can fight the gods and still have fun." Twice elected to statewide office in Texas, he has long battled the Power that Be on behalf of the Powers that Ought to Be: working families, consumers, the environment, small businesses, and just plain folks. His latest book, due out in March '08, is called Swim Against the Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow. You can read more about Jim and keep up with his latest commentaries over at JimHightower.com.
PHILLIP FRAZER co-founded The Hightower Lowdown in February 2000, and co-edits the newsletter with Hightower. He writes about politics, the environment, and life in general, and has edited and published numerous political magazines and newsletters. He grew up in Australia, where there's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead kangaroos.
LAURA EHRLICH, who runs Hightower and Lowdown's research empire, brings with her a double-degree in Rhetoric and Public Policy from the University of Texas. She's located in the Austin office and has the three cutest dogs in the world.
MATT WUERKER (l'artiste, s'il vous plait) is a freelance cartoonist whose work pops up in publications that run the gamut from The Christian Science Monitor to Z Magazine. While he thinks of himself as an Oregonian he's embarked on the political satirist's equivalent of the Hajj and is currently camped out in Washington, DC.
SAHU BARRON is a graphic designer and author who heads up the Lowdown Office in the Rest of the World. She's been the designer of the Lowdown since 2001.
GWENDA BLAIR copy edits and proofreads like a demon, when she's not writing books. Her latest is Donald Trump, Master Apprentice, published 2005 by Simon & Schuster.
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