On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick is joined by Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, to lay out The People’s State of the Union, a working-class counter to Trump’s SOTU spin. Alex explains how activists are demanding dignity, expanded Social Security, and real democracy instead of billionaire talking points. Later, Rick talks with Sarah Burris, Senior Editor at Alternet, about Trump’s bizarre move to send a military hospital ship to Greenland, the online mockery that followed, and how his so-called Save America Act doubles down on cruelty and corruption.

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On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with Guardian labor journalist Michael Sainato about the surge in union membership, Trump’s escalating attacks on organized labor, and why more working-class union members are running for public office to fight back. Michael connects grassroots organizing to a broader pro-worker political wave. Later, Rick is joined by James Grant, an LPN and nursing home worker, who details the organizing campaign pressuring PA Senator Dave McCormack to reject a wealthy nursing home owner’s ambassadorship to Hungary after a massive payoff to Trump’s PAC. Visit NoOnLanda.org for more information.

 

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On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick dives into government accountability with Nick Schwellenbach, Senior Investigator at POGO. They unpack the GAO's probe into DHS's mistreatment of whistleblowers from both Trump terms, spotlighting retaliation and flawed protections.

Later, Sarah Christopherson, Senior Advisor for Government Affairs at Patriotic Millionaires, exposes the Epstein files' revelations on extreme wealth's impunity. "Epstein Files Expose How the Ultra-Rich Live Above the Law," she argues, embodying "Extreme Wealth, Extreme Power = Zero Accountability." Billionaires dodge justice through connections and loopholes.

Tune in for fiery advocacy on oversight and inequality.

 

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On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick digs into life under Donald Trump’s economy for working-class Americans. Economist Sara Estep from the Center for American Progress joins to explain why so many workers are still struggling to find stable jobs, rising wages, and real opportunity even as headline numbers suggest everything is “booming.” Then David Cooper, director of the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN), breaks down Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” and its branding of “no tax on overtime or tips,” asking whether it actually helps workers or just hands another windfall to billionaires and corporations.

 

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On this episode of The Rick Smith Show, Rick talks with investigative journalist Greg Palast, who remembers the life and legacy of Reverend Jesse Jackson sharing stories from their 50-year friendship and Jackson’s enduring fight for justice and equality. Later, longtime union organizer and writer Rand Wilson joins the show to discuss why organized labor must unite in the battle to unionize Amazon. From honoring a civil rights giant to confronting one of today’s biggest corporate challenges, Rick connects the past and present struggles for worker power and economic fairness.

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On the latest Rick Smith Show, host Rick dives into explosive headlines with Alternet Senior Editor Sarah Burris, unpacking the latest Epstein files, Pam Bondi's controversies, Kristi Noem's scandals, and more.

Then, BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director Jason Walsh joins to slam EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin's move to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding, a scientific cornerstone affirming greenhouse gases threaten public health. Critics warn this deregulatory bomb, cheered by Trump, guts vehicle emissions standards, boosts pollution, and invites lawsuits while prioritizing industry over climate action.

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On this episone of The Rick Smith Show, Rick is joined by LIUNA General President Brent Booker to discuss how Donald Trump’s decision to withhold funding for the Gateway Tunnel project is putting skilled workers out of jobs and how Trump’s Biden ego driven attacks on infrastructure and clean energy projects are costing Americans their livelihoods. Rick also talks with Alec Walker-Serrano from Pennsylvania Stands Up about their push to tax billionaires to protect public programs and their “All Eyes on Yass” campaign targeting billionaire political mega-donor Jeff Yass.

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On The Rick Smith Show, On The Rick Smith Show, Rick dives into pressing worker issues with sharp analysis. Bucknell Economics Professor Matias Vernengo breaks down Bad Bunny's unifying Super Bowl halftime message of solidarity, ties it to flagging job numbers, and exposes the fraying economy's toll on working families amid stagnant wages and billionaire gains.​​

Ted Genoways, Mother Jones contributor and Food and Environment Reporting Network writer, details Haitian meatpacking workers in Colorado facing deportation threats yet boldly voting to strike for justice and dignity.​

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On The Rick Smith Show, Rick exposes Trump’s Pentagon rot with POGO Senior Investigator René Kladzyk. Newly released Epstein files name Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg 20 times and his firm Cerberus Capital 360 times, raising money laundering alarms, SEC probes, and ethics nightmares at the trillion dollar DOD.

Later, Pennsylvania Municipal League’s Abe Amorós hails Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime as a unifying love bomb for Latinos honoring farmworkers and jabbing Trump’s Maria betrayal while slamming secret ICE warehouses in Lancaster and Berks County as “intimidation monuments,” with undertrained agents and militarized cops targeting brown Americans. Civil rights redux.  

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