On this episode of the Rick Smith Show Rick opens with Dan Herman, senior director for national security, accountability, and reform at the Center for American Progress, to unpack CAP’s new report, “The Trump Administration’s ICE and CBP Have Become a Threat to Americans.” They walk through how DHS has been weaponized in Minneapolis and why Democrats are demanding oversight, investigations, and structural reforms. Later, Media Matters senior writer John Knefel joins to dissect right-wing media’s whiplash 180 on Trump and Kristi Noem after federal agents murdered Alex Pretti, exposing spin, backpedaling, and MAGA media’s fracture lines.

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On this episode of the Rick Smith Show Rick dives deep into Minneapolis' labor uprising against ICE terror and street violence. First up, acclaimed labor journalist Steven Greenhouse unpacks the federal crackdown's toll on workers, from raids disrupting work sites to the latest police killing fueling outrage. He details how Minnesota unions are channeling George Floyd-era militancy into a no-work, no-shop general strike.

Later, LIUNA General President Brent Booker joins Rick to spotlight on-the-ground organizing, as construction workers and allies stand united against tyrannical governance. They cover mutual aid networks shielding immigrants and calls for nationwide solidarity to reclaim working-class power.

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On this episode of the Rick Smith Show Rick talks with labor attorney David Borer, breaking down the chilling ICE crackdowns in Minneapolis, the workers caught in the middle, and what legal and constitutional tools unions and communities still have to fight back. Later, Rick is joined by Chelsie Glaubitz Gabiou, President of the Minnesota Regional Labor Federation, to lay out how organized labor is responding on the ground defending immigrants, mobilizing members, and demanding real accountability.

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