What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us.

S. Harris of Oklahoma in 1976 he returned to Texas to become the editor of the magazine The Texas Observer. Senate bid of Doris "Granny D" Haddock a friend and fellow activist who was running as a Democrat against incumbent Republican Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire.

James Allen "Jim" Hightower (born January 11 1943) is an American syndicated columnist liberal political activist and author who served from 1983 to 1991 as the elected commissioner of the Texas Department of Agriculture.