Closing Out Season 1: A year of truth-telling, and a preview of what Season 2 will uncover.

In this bonus episode of Surviving Trump, Bella Goode closes out Season 1 — a year of straight talk about what’s happening inside our government, who’s driving the agenda, and how those decisions affect everyday Americans. Over 56 episodes, this season broke down Trump’s second-term plans with a singular  mission: expose the unqualified people running his administration and the egregious actions and policies shaping the future.

Season 1 covered:

• the Pillars of Democracy (5 episodes)
• Donald Trump (6 episodes)
• Elon Musk (6 episodes)
• Tariffs (3 episodes)
• National Security (3 episodes)
• Trumps first 100 days (4 episodes)
• Project 2025 (6 episodes)
• Crypto and Corruption (5 episodes)
• NOAA and FEMA (6 episodes)
• Political Violence (3 episodes)
• ICE (6 episodes)
• Taxpayer Waste (1 episode)

By the end of the year, the pattern was unmistakable: every action-all the chaos- fit into a larger strategy.

Season 2 will explore this strategy —digging deep into Project 2025 and its ties to White supremacy.

 It uncovers the fear motivating the administration and its base: the recognition among many White conservatives that demographic change is about to threaten their political dominance.

And, we will  show how this ideology becomes federal power — through redistricting, census manipulation, voter suppression, civil-rights rollbacks, loyalty purges, enforcement tactics, and propaganda built on grievance.

Every episode follows the same goal: show how demographic fear becomes policy, from the White House down to local election offices- the very policies aimed at preserving a White America. 

This is information every American needs to understand.

Season 2 premieres January 8th.

Until then, Bella takes a break for rest, reflection, and time with family and friends.

Thank you for listening, reading, and supporting this work.

See you January 8th.

Transcript

Bella Goode: 0:03

Hi, I'm Bella Goode and welcome to Surviving Trump. Today's episode is a little different. It's a bonus episode to close out season one and to let you know what's coming next. 56 episodes, dozens of investigations, and a community of readers and listeners who stayed with me through a year when many people just wanted to look away. The news has been overwhelming. This past season, season one, we covered the pillars of our democracy. We covered Donald Trump's second term agenda, project 2025, national security, corruption, taxpayer waste, Elon Musk's, political influence, tariffs, the budget bill, crypto, political violence, and what's happening inside fema, noah, and ice. My goal all year was simple. Connect the dots, explain what's actually happening, and give you the information you need without the hype. But now we're turning to season two. We're going to look at a common thread, and that thread is the fear that shaping Trump's second term agenda. What fear you ask? Well, it's the fear amongst white conservatives that demographic change will ultimately mean a loss of political power. Season two opens with a five episode foundation series called Fear of Change. Fear of Losing Power. These first episodes lay out the theory behind this moment. We start with a hypothesis that much of what we're seeing from policy to propaganda serves one goal, which is preserving white political dominance, AKA white supremacy. We define the core ideas, trace how modern white supremacy operates and show how the appearance of chaos often masks a coordinated plan, rooted in demographic fear. From there, we walk through the numbers that keep coming up in this story, who's getting older, who's having kids, and how the country is changing. We look at why some people see those changes as a threat to their political power. That fear is what's driving policies meant to slow the shift that is more deportations, tighter limits on who can come here, and even efforts to take away birthright citizenship from certain kids. We also take a step back and show where this thinking is coming from. It goes all the way back to slavery, segregation, and later the law and order politics that we're really keeping white control in place. Finally, in episode six of this foundation series, we connect that old mindset to what's happening right now. Project 2025 is the plan that's pulling it all together using government rules, data, and media to keep that power structure in place. The Foundation Series lays out two big questions that drive all the episodes in season two. Who gets counted as an American? And the second question is, does every American have a fair chance to vote? Those two answers are where the real fight for power is happening After setting the stage, season two, transitions into the main storyline, the psychology strategy, political plan behind white supremacy in the current day. Over the next 25 episodes or so, we'll walk through how Project 2025 translates demographic fear into federal power. We begin with the systems and policies that determine who gets counted. As an American, we look at redistricting manipulation, mass deportations, the push to end birthright citizenship, efforts to erase undocumented immigrants from the census, and the suppression of race and ethnicity, data. Then we shift to enforcement, how the state becomes the instrument of hierarchy through weakened voting rights, protections, voter purges, intimidation of election workers, dismantling civil rights agencies, and rewriting the rules to elevate reverse discrimination claims. From there, we examine how fear becomes a management tool inside the government itself. We break down refugee bans, limits on asylum attacks on early and same day voting, criminal charges aimed at election officials and loyalty purges throughout the civil service. Once we've traced that machinery, we move into how Project 2025 seeks to shape the social order through cuts to minority business and education opportunities, mass incarceration tactics, housing and language policies that create new forms of segregation and propaganda campaigns built around white grievance. The season closes with a series of episodes that pull the entire blueprint into view. We look at the dismantling of oversight attempts to sabotage election certification, and the normalization of grievance based governance. The final episode ties all the pieces together and prepares us for season three, where we will track these systems in real time as we head towards the 2026 midterms. The overall goal of season two is to be aware of what's happening. Stop the white supremacy movement before more damage to our country is done. My season two premier is on January 8th. Until then, I'm taking a quiet break over the holidays. Time to reset, reflect, and step back from the chaos. I hope you too, get some of that space time with people you love. Time to breathe and time to reconnect with what matters most. Thank you truly for every listen, every read, every share, and every encouraging note that you've sent me this year, your why. This work continues. I will See you on January 8th, season two starts. Then. This is Bella Goode and you've been listening to Surviving Trump.