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
Episodes
106 episodes
The Battle for the Senate: Nine Races, and the Candidates Who Could Make the Difference
We have been fooled before. In 2016, the forecasters gave Hillary Clinton strong odds, and she lost. In 2020, Susan Collins trailed in nearly every public poll in Maine, and she won by almost nine points. Now Democrats lead the polling average ...
Four Seats to Take the Senate: Trump, the Money, and the Nine Races That Decide It
FOUR SEATS TO TAKE THE SENATETrump, the Money, and the Nine Races That Decide ItTrump won Iowa by thirteen points in 2024. Today, more Iowans who voted in that election disapprove of him than approve — and the Iowa S...
THE BATTLE FOR THE HOUSE: Where Do Democrats Find 3 Net Seats?
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 three. This episode sorts every one of those races — plus four more that became contests for reasons ...
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THREE SEATS TO RESTORE DEMOCRACY: The Maps, the Money, and the Scandals Deciding the House
Surviving Trump Republicans hold the House by just two seats — the margin they started this Congress with in January 2025. That's the baseline behind the entire fight: a net gain of three seats flips control. This episode ...
Not Just Any Midterm: The Stakes, Why They're Desperate and Why We Have a Chance
They control the House, the Senate, the courts, and the White House. Every rising price, every unresolved war, every unreleased file is Trump’s alone to answer for. And for the first time in years, he has no one else to blame....
Not Just Any Midterm: The Stakes , Why They're Desperate and Why We Have a Chance
Surviving Trump It’s not long until the most consequential midterms of our lifetime. Season 3 of Surviving Trump: Saving America starts September 10th — nine episodes, tracking the 2026 midterms week by week, from the thre...
NULLIFY: How to Overturn an Election Without Breaking a Single Law
SummaryThe 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 enough people who believe that if their side lost, something went wrong — and enoug...
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Sabotage-How an Election Gets Corrupted From the Inside
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 loved it. And then the ballots kept being counted.As late mail ballots arrived and Nithya Ram...
How to prevent a midterm election: Cancellation, Suppression, and the Loyalty Machine
SummaryOn July 26, 2024, Donald Trump stood before a room full of conservative Christian voters in West Palm Beach, Florida, and told them: “Christians, get out and vote. Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more ...
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THE SURVEILLANCE STATE How Palantir and Silicon Valley Are Building the Infrastructure of Authoritarian Control
Surviving Trump • Episode 34 • Series 4: Corporate Power and ControlIt was 5:30 in the morning on October 30, 2025, still dark, when ICE agents began watching an apartment complex in Woodburn, Oregon. An AI targeting app ...
MUSK UNTETHERED How Elon Musk Accumulated More Unchecked Power Than Anyone in American History — And What He Intends to Do With It
Surviving Trump • Episode 33 • Series 4: Corporate Power and ControlOn October 27, 2022, Elon Musk walked into Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters carrying a bathroom sink. He posted a video. The caption read: “Entering ...
A Privileged Few: The Six Family Dynasties Funding Project 2025 — and the Government They’re Buying
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 in thinking it. He was just one of the few willing to say it publicly.This episode is about what...
CNN on the Block: The Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery Merger and What It Means for Democracy
Surviving Trump • Episode 31 • Series 4 Hatice Cengiz was supposed to be getting married.On October 2, 2018, she waited outside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul while her fiancé Jamal Khashoggi went insi...
How the Ellisons Acquired CBS: The Deal that Gave Trump Control of the Message and the Ellisons a Media Empire
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 take over CNN. In one unscripted moment, the Secretary of Defense revealed what this administration has b...
The Threat to the First Amendment -- What Government Control of the Press Does to Journalism and Democracy
Episode SummaryBefore dawn on January 14, 2026, FBI agents arrived at the Alexandria, Virginia home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson. They seized two laptops, her phone, an audio recorder, and an external hard drive con...
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Controlling the Press: Attacks on Media and How Project 2025 Is Dismantling America’s Communications
Mary Walsh spent decades at CBS News. She started her career under Walter Cronkite. She survived ownership changes, ratings wars, the collapse of the network news business model, the rise of cable, the rise of streaming.Then in early 202...
WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING How the Administration Dismantled the Inspectors General — the Watchdogs Built to Hold Government Accountable
On January 24, 2025, the Trump administration fired seventeen federal inspectors general by email. Two sentences. No cause given. No thirty days' notice to Congress, as the law requires. This episode documents how the administration has systema...
Firing the Experts: How Schedule F and Project 2025 Are Replacing Government Career Staff with Political Loyalists
Ryan Schwank spent years training ICE officers. He taught them the use of force. He taught them constitutional law. He taught them the difference between a lawful order and an unlawful one.In January 2026, he filed an anonymous whistlebl...
Who Justice Pursues — And Who It Protects: When the Justice Department Serves the King Instead of the People
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 protest outside a federal immigration facility in Spokane, Washington. More than a month later, FBI a...
Reverse Discrimination How Civil Rights Now Protects White Americans and Men — and Makes Fighting Racism Illegal
The Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department was created in 1957 to undo Jim Crow and protect Black voting rights. It was the institution you called when local power refused to recognize Black people as full citizens.On December 9...
Dismantling DEI: The War on Civil Rights Waged by Government and Institutions
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 diversity, equity, or inclusion. A funding rule with a forty-billion-dollar reach.That’s the pa...
Cleansed Electorate: How Trump and Project 2025 are engineering a White Nationalist electorate for 2026
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, where people are permitted to live, and whose ballot survives the gauntlet of new rules designed to...
Housing Apartheid-How Project 2025 turns displacement and segregation into a national strategy for concentrating political power in white hands
In September 2011, Rosetta Watson called the police in Maplewood, Missouri four times. Her boyfriend had broken down her door, punched her, choked her. He was convicted and sentenced to 200 days in prison. By the time he was sentenced, Watson h...
Only Afrikaners Are Allowed In: The refugee program is suspended. One group gets through. That group is white.
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 been cut by 94 percent. More than 700,000 people will lose Temporary Protected Status by year’s end. A...
DACA at Risk How Project 2025, Court Battles, and a Two‑Year Clock Threaten a Generation of Dreamers
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 provisional — a guest who can be asked to leave.Thi...
