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By working people. For working people. Welcome to The Rick Smith Show.Working Americans are tired of listening to think tank approved corporate news and commentary. They want a direct, honest approach to the issues that matter, so this is what The Rick Smith Show provides. No puppets. No focus groups. No talking points.Want more #RickShow? Go to https://www.thericksmithshow.comThe Rick Smith Show streams live every weeknight from 9p-11p EST on YouTube & Twitch TV, and the show runs every nig ...
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March 28, 2024 Right-wing political elites are simply laughing at the justice system here in America … and they are paying no consequences for it. In just the last week, Trump had his bond in the NY fraud case reduced, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had federal fraud charges dropped, and CPAC goon Matt Schlapp settled his harassment case without…
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March 27, 2024 For as long as there have been corporations, those corporations have wanted full control of their industries so they can make the maximum profit with a minimum of responsibility to the public. And every time we give corporations this kind of power, they put profit over safety, and people end up getting hurt, or killed. Boeing is the …
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March 25, 2024 During the Reagan administration, we started a massive selloff of American manufacturing, choosing to buy cheap goods from China rather than make things here to be used here. It was a massive windfall for the wealth class, but since this time, the working class has lost trillions in wealth, and it all went to the top 1%. Now the Bide…
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March 25, 2024 Saying things that aren’t entirely true has long been an American tradition during election season, but this time around, there appear to be no guardrails of any kind between the truth and the boldest of lies. Depending on which network they’re on, Republicans are either openly laying out their plans to gut Social Security & Medicare…
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March 22, 2024 Corporations will do anything – and we mean anything – to keep profits away from workers and funnel them to the rich. Layoffs, stock buybacks, offshore tax havens – that’s where most of the money you earn goes, and the way to get it back is to join a union. We discuss this and more with Raymond Jensen of the United Auto Workers on to…
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March 21, 2024 Many of us use Tik Tok. Some of us are fully addicted to it. But whether it’s an addiction or an occasional distraction, this much is true: every bit of data we create as we watch is being mined by foreign adversaries who will use whatever info they get to hurt us. And the real owner of Tik Tok is the Chinese Communist Party. We disc…
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March 20, 2024 Every time we privatize a public need to create a profit motive, people get hurt. Nowhere is this more evident than in our push to privatize Medicare. Our guest today is Jenn Coffey, a former State Representative and EMT who bought into the privatized Medicare Advantage program, and then had the audacity to get sick and need care. Si…
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March 19, 2024 American workers are more productive now than they have been at any point in human history, yet this increase in productivity is not leading to better lives for American families. The massive increase in profits is being entirely gobbled up by the wealth class. Bernie Sanders has just proposed a bill to address part of this injustice…
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March 18, 2024 While the right-wing media machine has always fed its audience a ridiculous amount of lies and conspiracy theories, they seem to have created more “believers” for these lies ever since Trump came down that escalator in 2015. Now we can’t leave the house without running into half a dozen tinfoil hat-wearing flat-earthers who believe v…
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March 15, 2024 It never ceases to amaze us just how cruel working-class Americans can be to one another, and we discuss this, and what we believe is causing it, at length in today’s episode. We also highlight the dysfunction in today’s GOP, in which Donald Trump has taken over the RNC and turned it into his personal slush fund, and how this ongoing…
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March 14, 2024 Both Biden & Trump have now crossed the delegate thresholds to win the nominations of their parties, setting up what will be the longest and likely the ugliest general election campaign in American history. The two candidates couldn’t be farther apart on policy issues, and we will discuss some of those differences with our friend and…
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March 13, 2024 Now that there are only two candidates left in the presidential race, it’s time to talk about their differences. Not this poll or that poll, or who has more trouble speaking in public – but what each man will do should he become (or remain) the leader of the free world. We discuss these differences, and trump’s recent threats to cut …
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March 12, 2024 People are still talking about Alabama Senator Katie Britt’s dark and unsettling response to Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech, and we have a few things to say about it as well. Also, we take some time to break down trump’s massive and growing debts, and what most believe he will do to get out of paying them. As hostile foreign p…
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March 11, 2024 In one of the most critical and high-pressure moments of the Biden presidency, Joe delivered a fiery speech, taking on his rivals and the corporate media’s constant attacks on the ability of a man of his age to run the country. And while the post-speech reviews will take on their expected partisan slants, the idea that “Joe is too ol…
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March 7, 2024 Put simply, when we engage with the world through free trade, some of our partners just don’t play fair. Some countries artificially manipulate everything from wages to safety to child labor, or they simply dump junk products into the market at low prices to chase competition away. In emerging markets, like clean energy, electric vehi…
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March 7, 2024 We start our show with a discussion of the latest right-wing puppet to quit Congress, and the potential of a third-party spoiler entering the 2024 race. Then we pivot to a discussion of American Airlines and the AA employees and flight attendants who are demanding fair wages, hours, and conditions that are over a decade overdue. Our g…
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March 6, 2024 The Heritage Foundation, perhaps the most powerful and harmful of the right-wing think tanks, has released its latest “Index of Economic Freedom” – a report that magically calls us free or oppressed based entirely on whether or not there’s a Republican in the White House. Join us for a discussion on phony scholarship and how the right…
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March 5, 2024 Legacy media is running story after story about a new CBS poll that has Trump leading Biden nationally, telling us why we should all panic about it. We take a different approach, pointing a finger at media itself and the unwillingness of Democrats and left-leaning interests to engage at all in the ongoing information war that is so cl…
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March 4, 2024 We start the show talking about the “Truckers for Trump” and their threats to “shut down New York City.” As expected, the movement was just a PR stunt, and has amounted to no real action of any kind … but loads of right-wing TV coverage. Then we host a discussion about the infamous topic of “Right to Work” which has once again been de…
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March 1, 2024 Greedflation is a problem everywhere, but most families feel it the most when they’re trying to feed themselves and their loved ones. In this episode, we start with a discussion about the fast-food chain Wendy’s and its new “surge pricing” program, and then we discuss the proposed Kroger/Albertson’s merger, and why it could be a disas…
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February 29, 2024 Today we’re talking about Starbucks, more specifically about Starbucks Workers United and how they managed to get the suits to come to the table and agree to work out a framework for their very first contract. This is potentially a massive shift in worker power in America, and we have a few things to say about it. We will also dis…
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February 28, 2024 In this episode, we discuss a bonkers new ruling out of Alabama that bans fertility procedures like IVF, essentially keeping women who want children from accessing the scientific means to get pregnant. And to make things worse, it is very likely that other red states are likely to follow in Alabama’s footsteps, creeping closer and…
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February 27, 2024 As right-wing funded AstroTurf groups are popping up all over the country, we take a look back at America’s long history of using media and fake political front groups to destroy any and all forms of working-class organizing, whether in the workplace or the in the halls of Congress. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: …
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February 26, 2024 It just doesn’t get much weirder than the annual CPAC conference, where the right wing of the country gathers to exchange conspiracy theories and plot out the end of democracy in America. We break down some of the nuttier moments from the conference and react to this and other stories from around the country. Our guest is Journali…
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February 23, 2024 As working people across America are beginning to gain power and respect in the workplace, the response from the wealth class and the politicians they own has been to turn to children as cheap and disposable labor. As a number of GOP dominated states roll back child labor protections, we take a look at the problem and get to the b…
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February 22, 2024 We’re Americans, and that means we just love cheap stuff. But our addiction to cheap consumer trash didn’t happen by accident. For generations, American corporations have combed the globe for cheap, exploitable labor they can use to cut cost, cut prices, and of course, cut good-paying American jobs. On today’s show, we discuss thi…
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February 20, 2024 As the AI tidal wave continues, we are beginning to see how intrusive it is, or soon will be. Many workplaces now have AI monitoring system watching workers on the job and controlling their actions. And this is just the beginning. To discuss this new threat, we are joined by Lisa Gilbert, Executive Vice President at Public Citizen…
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February 19, 2024 For years, the right has been pushing a narrative that would have us believe that Joe Biden and his son are hardened criminals who are out to get us – all of us. However, last week the right’s primary source for this nonsense found himself in handcuffs, charged with lying to the FBI. That’s right – it was all a big lie. More on th…
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February 16, 2024 The Memphis Sanitation Strike – a pivotal moment in the civil rights and labor rights movements – began in February of 1968. Several weeks later, while visiting Memphis in support of this strike, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. And while history is very good at teaching us about deaths and dates, it often leaves out t…
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February 14, 2024 The title may sound a bit dramatic, but we assure you that the threat is both real and immediate. Now that Trump has packed the courts with corporatist judges, the rich are bringing out the big guns and going after our most fundamental rights in the workplace. In new lawsuits filed by SpaceX and Trader Joe’s, the hard right is see…
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February 13, 2024 As the country is trying to make sense of why Donald Trump would encourage Putin to attack out NATO allies, we are also being told by the right-wing hate machine that the “deep state” has rigged the Superbowl for its favorite pop star. And our mainstream media, always looking for a horse race, spent the week talking about a DOJ re…
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February 12, 2024 The Biden economy is creating good, family sustaining jobs at a pace we haven’t seen in a very long time. But the Biden Boom also brings a number of questions, like “Who is going to do these jobs?” and “How do we create all the skilled labor we’re going to need?” Today we speak to the tradesmen and union leaders who can answer tho…
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February 9, 2024 In an extraordinary day in Congress, the GOP managed to kill its own immigration bill, and they also failed to impeach Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for absolutely no reason because they somehow forgot how to count votes. It’s a colossal waste of time and tax dollars, and all of it is designed for one purpose and one purpose alone –…
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February 8, 2024 These days, it’s not enough that we buy overpriced things, and in many cases, that we need overpriced things simply to survive. According to the Wall Street Journal, we need to be thankful for the price gouging; we need to thank our betters for their benevolence, that they allow us to overpay. Tune in to hear more about the ways co…
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February 7, 2024 While the right-wing rage machine is feeding anger to the masses, the puppet masters behind the curtain are lying, cheating, and flat-out stealing all of your hard-earned money, and their favorite way to steal is to not pay the taxes the rest of us pay. We are joined by Will Rice of American for Tax Fairness, who just released a ne…
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February 6, 2024 One year after corporate power destroyed a small Ohio town, too little has been done to fix what is broken, and nothing has been done to keep it from happening again. People are still sick, the problems are still there, and the company responsible is spending its money on lobbying and public relations so they can declare a victory …
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February 5, 2024 It’s Identity Theft Prevention Week, and a recent study just said that 73% of us have been victims in one way or another. To discuss these issues, and what we can do about them, we are joined by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel. There are ways we can protect ourselves, and there are certainly ways that our government can help.…
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February 2, 2024 In the follow up to Teamsters President Sean O’Brien’s trip to Mar-a-Lago, in which he took the now famous thumbs-up hostage photo, Donald Trump has now traveled to Teamsters HQ in DC to bully them into an endorsement that he will never deserve. Also, we sit down with Newsguild President Jon Schleuss to discuss a number of strikes …
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February 1, 2024 Today we begin the show with a discussion of one of the crazier ideas to come out of the right-wing echo chamber in quite some time – the “Taylor Swift is secretly working for the Democrats” conspiracy. Join us as we laugh at the snowflakiest thing that ever snowflaked, and then we’ll move on to some serious policy talk with Scott …
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January 31, 2024 The silly season is here again, and it appears that, from now until November, we are going to be fed a steady diet of horse race journalism, as story after story will be spun into an election story, whether the story in question is one or not. We speak with journalist and State politics expert Carolyn Fiddler about the mind-numbing…
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January 30, 2024 Over the course of the last several decades, the wealth class has spent billions to separate us from our institutions – to turn “our” government into “the” government, so it can be demonized and used to divide us. And it worked. To bridge this divide, we’re going to have to start talking to each other again … and these days, that h…
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January 29, 2024 While the right has always been in opposition to public education, or really any kind of education for the working class, the attacks have gained a lot of momentum (and a lot of money) in recent years. In this episode, we discuss these trends, and the forces behind them, with one of America’s leading voices in education, Randi Wein…
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January 25, 2024 UAW President Shawn Fain made the choice clear when he announced his union’s endorsement of President Biden. Both candidates have a labor record to run on, but Trump’s record is terrible, and Joe supports working families. Don’t miss our breakdown of the day’s events, including analysis of Trump’s weak finish in New Hampshire with …
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January 24, 2024 The results are in, and Donald Trump has won the New Hampshire Republican Primary. But what does this mean? Is it over? Is Trump the inevitable nominee, or is there still a chance for some other Republican to defeat him? And if he is going to be the nominee, can he actually win in November? We discuss this and more with today’s gue…
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January 24, 2024 Education has become a subject of many divisions in recent years, and most if not all of those divisions are being fueled and stoked by right wing interests that want to turn our schools into corporate profit centers. Our guest today is Mary Cathryn Ricker, Executive Director of the Albert Shanker institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisa…
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January 23, 2024 Join us for a discussion about our differences, how they are used to separate us from our neighbors, and who profits from those divisions. We also discuss recent events in the GOP primary, including Ron DeSantis dropping out of the race and then jumping back on the Trump Train. Don’t miss our daily TV show on Free Speech TV: www.fr…
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January 19, 2024 In a massive case that no one is talking about, the Supreme Court is signaling that it might just put itself in charge of … just about everything. The case is challenging the decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council (1984) and if the Court does what it appears it will do, everyone in America will be affected by it. …
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January 18, 2024 We begin the show talking about child labor and a new and shocking case involving the death of a child in a meat packing facility, and the rollback of child labor laws is red states. Then we welcome Scott Paul of the Alliance for American Manufacturing to discuss the wave of manufacturing construction and the building of a new infr…
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January 18, 2024 As the super-rich gather in Davos to count their billions and expand monopoly power all over the globe, we sit down with Senator Chris Murphy to discuss economic policy and how it can be used to restore some kind of balance and security for hard-working American families. Senator Murphy has been leading the charge in the fight agai…
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January 16, 2024 Trump begins his campaign push at the Iowa caucuses, winning by a big margin and salting the political earth with lies and conspiracies that would be comical if they weren’t so dangerous. From claims that Trump won Iowa twice (even though he lost there in 2016) to wing-nuts claiming that Trump opponents are controlling the weather,…
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