There's enormous progressive activism and, more often than not, success at the grassroots level - everything from living wage campaigns to efforts to finance our elections are having terrific success.

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.