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Surviving Trump. Saving America
Navigating the chaos of today’s politics can be overwhelming —this show helps make sense of it all. In about 30 minutes each week, host Bella Goode breaks down the players, policies, and threats facing democracy — in plain language and straight talk. Your crash course in today’s politics
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Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaFinal Stretch: Where the 2026 Midterms Stand
Send us Fan Mail Democrats lead in the House and in the national mood. The Senate could come down to one state, and turnout will decide it. Overview On the…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaThe Closing Argument: A Hypothetical Campaign Speech for the Midterms
Send us Fan Mail Overview No candidate has given this speech yet. I wrote the one I want to hear from Democrats running this fall. The speaker is invented…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaDirty Election Tricks: The Plan to Control the Midterms
Send us Fan Mail The federal, state, and local efforts to tilt the 2026 midterms, and the fight to stop them Overview Democrats lead in all nine Senate races…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaThe Battle for the Senate: Nine Races, and the Candidates Who Could Make the Difference
Send us Fan Mail We have been fooled before. In 2016, the forecasters gave Hillary Clinton strong odds, and she lost. In 2020, Susan Collins trailed in nearly…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaFour Seats to Take the Senate: Trump, the Money, and the Nine Races That Decide It
Send us Fan Mail FOUR SEATS TO TAKE THE SENATE Trump, the Money, and the Nine Races That Decide It Trump won Iowa by thirteen points in 2024. Today, more…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaTHE BATTLE FOR THE HOUSE: Where Do Democrats Find 3 Net Seats?
Send us Fan Mail Twenty-one House seats are rated genuine toss-ups this cycle. Sixteen are held by Republicans, five by Democrats. Democrats need a net gain of…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaTHREE SEATS TO RESTORE DEMOCRACY: The Maps, the Money, and the Scandals Deciding the House
Send us Fan Mail Surviving Trump Republicans hold the House by just two seats — the margin they started this Congress with in January 2025. That's the baseline…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaNot Just Any Midterm: The Stakes, Why They're Desperate and Why We Have a Chance
Send us Fan Mail They control the House, the Senate, the courts, and the White House. Every rising price, every unresolved war, every unreleased file is…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaNot Just Any Midterm: The Stakes , Why They're Desperate and Why We Have a Chance
Send us Fan Mail Surviving Trump It’s not long until the most consequential midterms of our lifetime. Season 3 of Surviving Trump: Saving America starts…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaNULLIFY: How to Overturn an Election Without Breaking a Single Law
Send us Fan Mail Summary The thing about a “rigged election” is that you don’t have to prove it. You don’t need fake ballots or hacked machines. You just need…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaSabotage-How an Election Gets Corrupted From the Inside
Send us Fan Mail Spencer Pratt went to bed on election night looking like a winner. His odds on Kalshi and Polymarket were surging. Cable news loved it. X…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaHow to prevent a midterm election: Cancellation, Suppression, and the Loyalty Machine
Send us Fan Mail Summary On July 26, 2024, Donald Trump stood before a room full of conservative Christian voters in West Palm Beach, Florida, and told them…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaTHE SURVEILLANCE STATE How Palantir and Silicon Valley Are Building the Infrastructure of Authoritarian Control
Send us Fan Mail Surviving Trump • Episode 34 • Series 4: Corporate Power and Control It was 5:30 in the morning on October 30, 2025, still dark, when ICE…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaMUSK UNTETHERED How Elon Musk Accumulated More Unchecked Power Than Anyone in American History — And What He Intends to Do With It
Send us Fan Mail Surviving Trump • Episode 33 • Series 4: Corporate Power and Control On October 27, 2022, Elon Musk walked into Twitter’s San Francisco…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaA Privileged Few: The Six Family Dynasties Funding Project 2025 — and the Government They’re Buying
Send us Fan Mail In 2009, Peter Thiel published an essay in which he wrote: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” He was not alone…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaCNN on the Block: The Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery Merger and What It Means for Democracy
Send us Fan Mail Surviving Trump • Episode 31 • Series 4 Hatice Cengiz was supposed to be getting married. On October 2, 2018, she waited outside the Saudi…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaHow the Ellisons Acquired CBS: The Deal that Gave Trump Control of the Message and the Ellisons a Media Empire
Send us Fan Mail On March 13, 2026, Pete Hegseth stood at a Pentagon press briefing and blurted out a secret. He said he couldn't wait for David Ellison to…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaThe Threat to the First Amendment -- What Government Control of the Press Does to Journalism and Democracy
Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Before dawn on January 14, 2026, FBI agents arrived at the Alexandria, Virginia home of Washington Post reporter Hannah…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaControlling the Press: Attacks on Media and How Project 2025 Is Dismantling America’s Communications
Send us Fan Mail Mary Walsh spent decades at CBS News. She started her career under Walter Cronkite. She survived ownership changes, ratings wars, the collapse…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaWHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING How the Administration Dismantled the Inspectors General — the Watchdogs Built to Hold Government Accountable
Send us Fan Mail On January 24, 2025, the Trump administration fired seventeen federal inspectors general by email. Two sentences. No cause given. No thirty…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaFiring the Experts: How Schedule F and Project 2025 Are Replacing Government Career Staff with Political Loyalists
Send us Fan Mail Ryan Schwank spent years training ICE officers. He taught them the use of force. He taught them constitutional law. He taught them the…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaWho Justice Pursues — And Who It Protects: When the Justice Department Serves the King Instead of the People
Send us Fan Mail He survived a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. He came home with a Purple Heart and post-traumatic stress disorder. On June 11, 2025, he joined a…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaReverse Discrimination How Civil Rights Now Protects White Americans and Men — and Makes Fighting Racism Illegal
Send us Fan Mail The Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department was created in 1957 to undo Jim Crow and protect Black voting rights. It was the…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaDismantling DEI: The War on Civil Rights Waged by Government and Institutions
Send us Fan Mail J.D. Vance stood before the March for Life crowd and announced that the U.S. would now cut foreign aid to any organization doing work tied to…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaCleansed Electorate: How Trump and Project 2025 are engineering a White Nationalist electorate for 2026
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we follow the four doors that decide who gets to vote in 2026. who is physically here, who is allowed to belong on paper…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaHousing Apartheid-How Project 2025 turns displacement and segregation into a national strategy for concentrating political power in white hands
Send us Fan Mail In September 2011, Rosetta Watson called the police in Maplewood, Missouri four times. Her boyfriend had broken down her door, punched her…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaOnly Afrikaners Are Allowed In: The refugee program is suspended. One group gets through. That group is white.
Send us Fan Mail Since January 20, 2025, the U.S. immigration system has been rewired — not by new laws, but by executive power alone. The refugee ceiling has…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaDACA at Risk How Project 2025, Court Battles, and a Two‑Year Clock Threaten a Generation of Dreamers
Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary: She grew up here. She’s raising U.S.-citizen children. And the country she has spent her entire life in still considers her…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaNaturalized Citizens on the Target List: Who Gets to Feel Permanent?
Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary: You did everything this country asked. You waited years, took the test, swore the oath, and became a citizen. Now a letter…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaBirthright Citizenship Under Attack: Who “Really” Counts as American
Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary: On his first day back in office, Donald Trump signed an executive order instructing federal agencies to stop recognizing some…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaThe Consequences of Expanded ICE Operations: Inside Minneapolis, the Detention System, and the Resistance It Sparked
Send us Fan Mail In Episode 15, we examined how the ICE machine was built — through executive action, internal directives, expanded authority, and rapid…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaHow ICE Was Supercharged: Ideology, Executive Authority, and the Growth of Immigration Raids
Send us Fan Mail In Episode 15 of Surviving Trump, we examine how ICE was strengthened, accelerated, and reoriented during Trump’s second term. This episode is…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaVoting Under Threat: How Trump Uses ICE, Armed Presence, and Fear to Intimidate Voters
Send us Fan Mail In Episode 14, Bella Goode examines how fear and federal power are being used to shape who feels safe enough to vote. This episode moves…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaThe Endgame: One Man in Charge of Our Elections
Send us Fan Mail In Episode 13, Bella Goode examines a dangerous shift in how elections are being talked about—and increasingly, how they are being structured…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaWeakening the Voting Rights Act: Removing the Last Safeguard
Send us Fan Mail For decades, the Voting Rights Act was the country’s strongest safeguard against racial discrimination in elections. It didn’t just promise…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaThe Federal Government and Election Interference: demands, pressure and direct involvement
Send us Fan Mail In Episode 11 of Surviving Trump, Bella Goode examines how election interference is moving beyond state laws and into the federal government…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaElection Integrity: How Voting Rules Are Being Changed Before the 2026 Midterms
Send us Fan Mail In Episodes 6 through 9, Surviving Trump examined how political power can be shaped long before Election Day — through gerrymandering and…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaSeries 1 Trailer | Rigging the Rules
Send us Fan Mail This is the official trailer for Season 2, Series 1: Rigging the Rules. In this series, I examine how elections can be reshaped long before…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaSeries 1: Rigging the Election Rules
Send us Fan Mail Surviving Trump | Season 2 In Series 1 of Surviving Trump Season 2, Bella Goode investigates how white nationalists protect political power…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaCensus Manipulation: Part 1
Send us Fan Mail How Population Data Shapes Political Power — Long Before Anyone Votes Every ten years, the U.S. census quietly determines how political power…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaCensus Manipulation: Part 2
Send us Fan Mail How population data is being reshaped to lock in political power before anyone votes Episode 9 examines the decisions already underway that…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaGerrymandering: Part 1
Send us Fan Mail Season 2 began by laying out the larger picture: how the policies laid out in Project 2025 are tied to white supremacy and are shaping…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaGerrymandering: Part 2
Send us Fan Mail Episode 6 explained how gerrymandering works. In Episode 7, Bella Goode examines who is driving this strategy, how it connects to Project…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaWhite Supremacy’s Ties to Project 2025 and Modern Tactics: When ideology becomes policy
Send us Fan Mail In Episode 5 of Season 2 of Surviving Trump, host Bella Goode connects the long history of white supremacy to its modern political expression…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaWhite Supremacy Is Nothing New: How an old hierarchy keeps finding new language, from slave codes to Project 2025
Send us Fan Mail In Episode 4 of Season 2 of Surviving Trump, host Bella Goode traces a straight line through American history to show that white supremacy did…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaDemographic Reality: The Numbers Behind the Fear
Send us Fan Mail In Episode 3 of Season 2 of Surviving Trump, host Bella Goode examines the demographic data underneath the fear driving Trump’s second-term…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaThe Psychology of Fear: Status Threat, Symbolic Threat, and How MAGA Became an Identity Movement
Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary In Episode 2 of Season 2 of Surviving Trump, host Bella Goode examines the psychology driving Trump’s second-term agenda and…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaSeason 2 Trailer- The Hypothesis
Send us Fan Mail Season Two of Surviving Trump examines the coordinated effort behind Trump's second term and the role of Project 2025 in reshaping American…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaFear of Change → Fear of Losing Power: The hypothesis behind Trump’s second term—and how this season connects the dots
Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Season 2 of Surviving Trump begins with a clear question: Is the chaos of Donald Trump’s second term accidental, or is it…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaThe Moral Project: White Supremacy and the Direction We Are Being Pulled
Send us Fan Mail In this bonus episode launching Season Two of Surviving Trump, host Bella Goode names the ideology beneath the policies, chaos, and power…
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Closing Out Season 1: A year of truth-telling, and a preview of what Season 2 will uncover.
Send us Fan Mail In this bonus episode of Surviving Trump, Bella Goode closes out Season 1 — a year of straight talk about what’s happening inside our…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaEpisode 56: NOAA & FEMA — America’s Safety Net Under Siege
Send us Fan Mail Trump’s assault on FEMA and NOAA is leaving America weaker in the face of disaster. In this episode, Bella Goode reveals how mass layoffs…
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Episode 55: Taxpayer Waste Under Trump: Billions Lost to Vanity, Grift, and Mismanagement
Send us Fan Mail Eight months into Trump’s second term, the price tag of taxpayer waste is already staggering. From a $200M White House ballroom to $21.7B lost…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaEpisode 54: Resistance — From Local Action to National Pushback
Send us Fan Mail ICE’s expansion has fueled unprecedented resistance across the country. In this episode, Bella Goode traces how communities, courts, and…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaEpisode 53: The War of Words - How Rhetoric Shapes Immigration Policy
Send us Fan Mail Immigration policy isn’t just written in laws or enforced at borders—it’s fought in the language that defines who belongs and who doesn’t. In…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaEpisode 52: Architects of Catastrophe: Noem, Miller & Patel
Send us Fan Mail Behind every raid and detention center are decision makers who built the system to look this way. In this episode, Bella Goode exposes the…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaEpisode 51: The Rise of ICE’s Masked State and What it Means for Democracy
Send us Fan Mail For immigrant families, the sight of masked agents at the door no longer feels like policing—it feels like war. In this episode, we’ll reveal…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaEpisode 50: Inside the Bureaucracy: The ICE Machine of Mass Enforcement
Send us Fan Mail ICE isn’t just growing, it’s exploding into one of the largest enforcement machines in U.S. history. This episode exposes how billion-dollar…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaEpisode 49: When ICE Comes to Town: Trauma, Fear, and Resistance
Send us Fan Mail When ICE shows up, the damage ripples far beyond the person taken. From a quiet Colorado town to a Harlem ball field to the fire lines of…
Surviving Trump. Saving AmericaEpisode 48: America’s Choice: Normalize Violence or Defend Democracy
Send us Fan Mail America is splitting in two directions—one where violence is excused and even celebrated, and one where democracy still depends on ballots…