Surviving Trump. Saving America
by Bella Goode
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Final Stretch: Where the 2026 Midterms Stand
Final Stretch: Where the 2026 Midterms Stand
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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
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- Final Stretch: Where the 2026 Midterms Stand · 48 min · Season 3 Episode 8Send 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 first day of early…
- The Closing Argument: A Hypothetical Campaign Speech for the Midterms · 24 min · Season 3 Episode 7Send 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. Every number and every…
- Dirty Election Tricks: The Plan to Control the Midterms · 38 min · Season 3 Episode 6Send 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 that will decide the…
- The Battle for the Senate: Nine Races, and the Candidates Who Could Make the Difference · 46 min · Season 3 Episode 5Send 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 every public poll…
- Four Seats to Take the Senate: Trump, the Money, and the Nine Races That Decide It · 42 min · Season 3 Episode 4Send 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 Iowans who voted in that…
- THE BATTLE FOR THE HOUSE: Where Do Democrats Find 3 Net Seats? · 1 h 3 min · Season 3 Episode 3Send 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 three. This…
- THREE SEATS TO RESTORE DEMOCRACY: The Maps, the Money, and the Scandals Deciding the House · 36 min · Season 3 Episode 2Send 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 behind the entire…
- Not Just Any Midterm: The Stakes, Why They're Desperate and Why We Have a Chance · 30 min · Season 3 Episode 1Send 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 Trump’s alone to answer…
- Not Just Any Midterm: The Stakes , Why They're Desperate and Why We Have a Chance · 1 min · Season 3 Episode 1Send 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 September 10th — nine…
- NULLIFY: How to Overturn an Election Without Breaking a Single Law · 33 min · Season 2 Episode 37Send 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 enough people who…
- Sabotage-How an Election Gets Corrupted From the Inside · 52 min · Season 2 Episode 36Send 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 loved it. And then the…
- How to prevent a midterm election: Cancellation, Suppression, and the Loyalty Machine · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 35Send 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: “Christians, get out…
- THE SURVEILLANCE STATE How Palantir and Silicon Valley Are Building the Infrastructure of Authoritarian Control · 42 min · Season 2 Episode 34Send 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 agents began watching…
- MUSK UNTETHERED How Elon Musk Accumulated More Unchecked Power Than Anyone in American History — And What He Intends to Do With It · 33 min · Season 2 Episode 33Send 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 headquarters carrying a…
- A Privileged Few: The Six Family Dynasties Funding Project 2025 — and the Government They’re Buying · 39 min · Season 2 Episode 32Send 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 in thinking it. He…
- CNN on the Block: The Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery Merger and What It Means for Democracy · 31 min · Season 2 Episode 31Send 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 consulate in Istanbul…
- How the Ellisons Acquired CBS: The Deal that Gave Trump Control of the Message and the Ellisons a Media Empire · 31 min · Season 2 Episode 30Send 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 take over CNN. In one…
- The Threat to the First Amendment -- What Government Control of the Press Does to Journalism and Democracy · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 29Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary Before dawn on January 14, 2026, FBI agents arrived at the Alexandria, Virginia home of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson. They seized two…
- Controlling the Press: Attacks on Media and How Project 2025 Is Dismantling America’s Communications · 23 min · Season 2 Episode 28Send 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 of the network…
- WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING How the Administration Dismantled the Inspectors General — the Watchdogs Built to Hold Government Accountable · 27 min · Season 2 Episode 27Send us Fan Mail On January 24, 2025, the Trump administration fired seventeen federal inspectors general by email. Two sentences. No cause given. No thirty days' notice to…
