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
84 episodes
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...
Naturalized Citizens on the Target List: Who Gets to Feel Permanent?
Episode Summary: You did everything this country asked. You waited years, took the test, swore the oath, and became a citizen. Now a letter arrives saying a federal database has flagged you as a "po...
Birthright Citizenship Under Attack: Who “Really” Counts as American
Episode Summary: On his first day back in office, Donald Trump signed an executive order instructing federal agencies to stop recognizing some U.S.-born babies as citizens. That fight is now at the Su...
The Consequences of Expanded ICE Operations: Inside Minneapolis, the Detention System, and the Resistance It Sparked
In Episode 15, we examined how the ICE machine was built — through executive action, internal directives, expanded authority, and rapid hiring.Episode 16 examines what happened once it began operating.Using Minneapol...
How ICE Was Supercharged: Ideology, Executive Authority, and the Growth of Immigration Raids
In Episode 15 of Surviving Trump, we examine how ICE was strengthened, accelerated, and reoriented during Trump’s second term.This episode is not about one raid. It’s about how enforcement expanded — through political rhetoric,...
Voting Under Threat: How Trump Uses ICE, Armed Presence, and Fear to Intimidate Voters
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 beyond rule changes and paperwork to focus on something more direct: raids, armed presence, mass vot...
The Endgame: One Man in Charge of Our Elections
In Episode 13, Bella Goode examines a dangerous shift in how elections are being talked about—and increasingly, how they are being structured.Donald Trump is no longer just disputing election outcomes after the fact. He is openly ...
Weakening the Voting Rights Act: Removing the Last Safeguard
For decades, the Voting Rights Act was the country’s strongest safeguard against racial discrimination in elections. It didn’t just promise the right to vote—it enforced it.In Episode 12, Bella Goode explains how that safeguard ha...
The Federal Government and Election Interference: demands, pressure and direct involvement
In Episode 11 of Surviving Trump, Bella Goode examines how election interference is moving beyond state laws and into the federal government itself.This episode looks at how voter data demands, law-enforcement pressure, and direct...
Election Integrity: How Voting Rules Are Being Changed Before the 2026 Midterms
In Episodes 6 through 9, Surviving Trump examined how political power can be shaped long before Election Day — through gerrymandering and census manipulation.In Episode 10, Bella Goode turns to the next layer: the rules of voti...
Series 1 Trailer | Rigging the Rules
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 anyone casts a ballot — through gerrymandering, census manipulation, election “integrity” laws, an...
Series 1: Rigging the Election Rules
Surviving Trump | Season 2In Series 1 of Surviving Trump Season 2, Bella Goode investigates how white nationalists protect political power long before Election Day. This series examines gerrymandering, census manipu...
Census Manipulation: Part 2
How population data is being reshaped to lock in political power before anyone votesEpisode 9 examines the decisions already underway that will shape the 2030 census — changes to leadership, questions, staffing, and funding that d...
Census Manipulation: Part 1
How Population Data Shapes Political Power — Long Before Anyone VotesEvery ten years, the U.S. census quietly determines how political power and public resources are distributed across the country. In Episode 8, Bella Goode explai...
Gerrymandering: Part 1
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 government decisions.In Episode 6, the podcast moves from that overview to mechanics. This episode exp...
Gerrymandering: Part 2
Episode 6 explained how gerrymandering works. In Episode 7, Bella Goode examines who is driving this strategy, how it connects to Project 2025, and what responses are underway.This episode shifts from mechanics to accountabilit...
White Supremacy’s Ties to Project 2025 and Modern Tactics: When ideology becomes policy
In Episode 5 of Season 2 of Surviving Trump, host Bella Goode connects the long history of white supremacy to its modern political expression: Project 2025. This episode closes the foundation series by showing how ideas that once lived in rheto...
White Supremacy Is Nothing New: How an old hierarchy keeps finding new language, from slave codes to Project 2025
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 not reappear under Donald Trump—it adapted.From the first slave codes in colonial Virginia to ...
Demographic Reality: The Numbers Behind the Fear
In Episode 3 of Season 2 of Surviving Trump, host Bella Goode examines the demographic data underneath the fear driving Trump’s second-term agenda and Project 2025. The question is straightforward: is the panic about demographic cha...
The Psychology of Fear: Status Threat, Symbolic Threat, and How MAGA Became an Identity Movement
Episode SummaryIn Episode 2 of Season 2 of Surviving Trump, host Bella Goode examines the psychology driving Trump’s second-term agenda and Project 2025. This episode explains why fear — not economic hardship — is the for...
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Season 2 Trailer- The Hypothesis
Season Two of Surviving Trump examines the coordinated effort behind Trump's second term and the role of Project 2025 in reshaping American democracy and political power.
The Moral Project: White Supremacy and the Direction We Are Being Pulled
In this bonus episode launching Season Two of Surviving Trump, host Bella Goode names the ideology beneath the policies, chaos, and power consolidation of Trump’s second term.Season Two begins with a central hypothesis: fear of demograph...
Fear of Change → Fear of Losing Power: The hypothesis behind Trump’s second term—and how this season connects the dots
Episode SummarySeason 2 of Surviving Trump begins with a clear question: Is the chaos of Donald Trump’s second term accidental, or is it intentional?In this episode, host Bella Goode explains why the daily flood of executiv...
