Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
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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Episodes (108)
The Consequences of Expanded ICE Operations: Inside Minneapolis, the Detention S...
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
How ICE Was Supercharged: Ideology, Executive Authority, and the Growth of Immig...
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Voting Under Threat: How Trump Uses ICE, Armed Presence, and Fear to Intimidate...
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
The Endgame: One Man in Charge of Our Elections
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Weakening the Voting Rights Act: Removing the Last Safeguard
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
The Federal Government and Election Interference: demands, pressure and direct i...
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Election Integrity: How Voting Rules Are Being Changed Before the 2026 Midterms
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Series 1 Trailer | Rigging the Rules
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Series 1: Rigging the Election Rules
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Census Manipulation: Part 2
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Census Manipulation: Part 1
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Gerrymandering: Part 1
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Gerrymandering: Part 2
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
White Supremacy’s Ties to Project 2025 and Modern Tactics: When ideology become...
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
White Supremacy Is Nothing New: How an old hierarchy keeps finding new language,...
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Demographic Reality: The Numbers Behind the Fear
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
The Psychology of Fear: Status Threat, Symbolic Threat, and How MAGA Became an I...
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Season 2 Trailer- The Hypothesis
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
The Moral Project: White Supremacy and the Direction We Are Being Pulled
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Fear of Change → Fear of Losing Power: The hypothesis behind Trump’s second term...
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Closing Out Season 1: A year of truth-telling, and a preview of what Season 2 wi...
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Episode 56: NOAA & FEMA — America’s Safety Net Under Siege
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Episode 55: Taxpayer Waste Under Trump: Billions Lost to Vanity, Grift, and Mism...
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Episode 54: Resistance — From Local Action to National Pushback
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Episode 53: The War of Words - How Rhetoric Shapes Immigration Policy
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Episode 52: Architects of Catastrophe: Noem, Miller & Patel
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Episode 51: The Rise of ICE’s Masked State and What it Means for Democracy
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Episode 50: Inside the Bureaucracy: The ICE Machine of Mass Enforcement
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Episode 49: When ICE Comes to Town: Trauma, Fear, and Resistance
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term
Episode 48: America’s Choice: Normalize Violence or Defend Democracy
Surviving Trump: Your Essential Guide to His Second Term