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SubscribersOn the Rick Smith Show, Rick, alongside Raw Story’s Sarah Burris and investigative reporter Greg Palast, breaks down the appearance of Larry Summers’ name in the Jeffrey Epstein emails, emphasizing th...
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On the Rick Smith Show, Rick questions whether Chuck Schumer’s leadership is serving working people, with author Paul Loeb weighing in on Schumer’s approach and urgency in today’s political climate. A...
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The Rick Smith Show features an in-depth conversation with Bucknell Economics Professor Matias Vernengo about the economy, including the viability of a 50-year mortgage and the resurgence of company t...
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On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with American Prospect Executive Editor David Dayen about his frustrations with Democratic leaders caving on the government shutdown, highlighting mi...
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On The Rick Smith Show, Rick speaks with Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, about the Chucking Chuck Schumer after snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Later, AFGE Distric...
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On The Rick Smith Show, Rick is joined by Pat LaMarche, who discusses her latest report exposing how corporate investors are rapidly buying up single family homes in Philadelphia, affecting affordabil...
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On The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Joe Walsh, former Tea Party congressman, about Walsh’s journey to the Democratic Party and whether Democrats are ready to welcome him into their tent. The episo...
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On The Rick Smith Show, Rick discusses the harmful impact of SNAP cuts with Ismael Cid-Martinez, Economist at the Economic Policy Institute, showing how millions of families, children, seniors, and pe...
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On this episode of the Rick Smith Show Rick discusses the recent Democracy Matters study with Mike Lux of American Family Voices, exploring how Democrats lost touch with the working class and the impo...
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On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick welcomes Raw Story reporter Sarah Burris to break down the weekend’s top stories, including Trump’s controversial Great Gatsby Ball at MAGA-Lago. The lavis...
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On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick welcomes author Chuck Collins to discuss his new book Burned by Billionaires, exposing how extreme wealth concentrations destabilize democracy and working ...
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It's Tax Day, America! Time for all of us to step up and kick in so the billionaires don't have to. Time to buy them yachts with our tax dollars, and time to finance their celebrity space tour...
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Trump is doing what he said he would do, and the result is exactly what we thought it would be - chaos. As the world reacts to Trump's attack on the world economy, we sit down with some of the wor...
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Trump hasn't even been in office for 90 days yet, and he has already launched an all-out assault on working families. And our Supreme Court, which is supposed to be non-partisan, isn't. The co...
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Trump's tariffs have thrown US and world markets into total chaos, and so far, Trump has been on the golf course for 21 out of the 75 days he's been in office. It goes without saying that he i...
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The economy is falling apart, and Trump is golfing. The rest of us are not quite so relaxed.. Our guests today are U.S. Congressman Chris Deluzio, and former OSHA Deputy. Asst. Secretary Jordan Barab....
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After weeks of screaming at Democratic member of Congress to "do something" it looks like someone finally did. Senator Cory Booker just completed a 25+ hour filibuster speech, breaking the rec...
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As the DOGE team takes a wrecking ball to our government in search of "waste, fraud, & abuse" they are finding out again and again that our government operate quite a bit more efficiently ...
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The Trump administration response to the Signal leak has been many things, but none of them are surprising. Once again, on every right-wing channel available, we are hearing the words "witch hunt....
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In yet another embarrassment to the people of the United States, Trump has decided to seek corporate sponsorship for the White House Easter Egg Roll. While this is just one disgraceful act, it is just...
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The Trump administration and the DOGE teenagers are doing everything they can to wreck the US economy, calling it "an adjustment period." What he means is, he expects us to adjust to no longer...
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Of all the things we have lost in the last several years, the loss of reliable information may be the thing that affects us the most. Right wing media is so dominant today that legacy media of all kin...
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Americans aren't very happy with Democrats today, and frankly, they have good reason. After Democratic Senators helped Trump pass a CR to avoid a government shutdown, their constituents are callin...
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Well, it looks like Chuck Schumer has gone and done something no one thought possible - he's stealing headlines from Trump. And all it took was complete subservience to the GOP thieves stealing ou...
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Trump and his kind are taking a wrecking ball to the US economy. The market is dropping by huge numbers each day, and the response from this administration is to fire lifelong public servants by the t...
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During the campaign, Trump and every GOP member running for office swore up and down that the GOP had no plans to cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. They lied, and it is nothing new. They li...
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As workers all over the country wait to be fired from their jobs, Trump has decided that it would be a great idea to remove collective bargaining rights from 50,000 union TSA workers, many of whom pro...
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To tariff or not to tariff - that is the question. Trump, upon learning just how destructive his tariffs will be, is now "pausing" them as markets crash and prices skyrocket. It's typical ...
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Trump's speech to Congress was a firehose of lies ... so of course it polled well. And Democrats chose a silly and disjointed response to it that left most of non-fascist America scratching our he...
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As predicted, Trump used his SOTU speech to try to pin his wheelbarrow of stupid mistakes on Joe Biden as the US economy starts to nosedive. It's almost impossible to believe that an economy so he...
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With the stock market tanking and the Russians running the White House, President Trump is set to address Congress in what will certainly be the most bonkers State of the Union speech ... maybe ever....
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Anyone who saw that Oval Office hatchet job last week knows that we don't want to talk about it ... but we absolutely have to talk about it. To help us do so, we invited Trygve Olsen from The Linc...
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After saying they wouldn't Social Security, they're now cutting Social Security. After saying they would never cut Medicare, they're cutting Medicare. And after they said they would never ...
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In the history of American politics, there has never been a politician more immune to his own lies than Donald Trump. It's almost as if his minions feed on the lies, even when, perhaps especially ...
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While Elon Musk and his team of teenage virgins is busy destroying our government, they're telling some pretty massive lies about their "progress." Many times now, they have lied, and lied...
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During the campaign, Democrats warned the American people over and over again that Trump had not plane to make their lives better, or bring down prices, and that if he was elected, he would slash nece...
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After Elon Musk took the stage at CPAC swinging a chainsaw around and slurring his words badly, everyone simply gave him a pass. While the guy digging into every one of our national secrets likes to p...
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When Teamsters President Sean O'Brien spoke at the RNC ahead of the 2024 election & praised Trump, he was hoping to be in a position to shape the administration's position on labor. And wh...
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Trump and his goons are dismantling our government as quickly as they can, and Democrats can't seem to find a way to stop them. There may not be a way to stop them. And the economy is starting to ...
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President Musk, who no one voted for, is now tearing through your IRS file, accessing every little detail of your financial life and weaponizing the parts that can hurt you. And an American population...
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On today's show, we welcome two of our favorite journalists - Will Bunch, National Opinion Columnist at The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Labor Reporter Michael Sainato of The Guardian. They're g...
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While the corrupt Trump Administration is busy doing corrupt things for corrupt ends, it's beginning to look like Democrats may just start fighting back. California Congressman Ro Khanna joins us ...
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Well ... there just no good way to say this. America is falling apart, our government is being dismantled, and your personal information is probably in the hands of a 19 year-old Musk disciple with no...
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Trump and his allies feed into our worst impulses, attacking vulnerable people and playing on our indifference towards those we consider "not us." It's an old trick, and it never doesn'...
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During the campaign, Trump and the Republicans ran on promises of lower prices for Americans. Now, only a few weeks into his term, Trump has raised the price of just about everything. For example, Waf...
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Now that Trump has begun his destruction of our system of government, it's time to talk about what this will mean for working families. First we speak to Phil Glover of AFGE, the union for federal...
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Ever since Trump took office, we have witnessed an all out assault on the very idea of government, and it's happening for a very specific reason. Government is the tool, often the only tool we hav...
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On Tuesday of last week, Trump sent out a letter ordering a freeze on all federal aid spending, slashing everything from Medicare to school lunches. Then, two days later, he rescinded the letter. This...
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Just days ago, Donald Trump signed an Executive Order that basically cut off all federal funding for most of our safety net programs, instantly creating funding issues all over America. This is chaos ...
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After denying that Project 2025 was the Republican plan during the campaign, now that Trump has been elected, he is enacting policy after policy that comes straight from the Project 2025 playbook. Thi...
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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 night in prime time on Free Speech TV.Be sure to add the FSTV channel on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, on the FSTV iOS app, or find us in the regular channel lineup on DirecTV or Dish.Radio listeners – You can find us in most major markets, including New York City on WBAI 99.5 FM, Los Angeles on KPFK 90.7 FM, Chicago on WCPT AM 820, Columbus on 98.3/92.7 FM, Minneapolis on AM950, and many others. Check your local listings.Call-in at 1-866-416-RICK (7425) to join the show.Questions or comments? Email Rick@thericksmithshow.com
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