Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses.

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.