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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
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The federal, state, and local efforts to tilt the 2026 midterms, and the fight to stop them
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Democrats lead in all nine Senate races that will decide the chamber, and they need just three seats to win the House. When the races are this close, small changes in who votes can …
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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 in all nine races that will decide the…
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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 election disapprove of him than approve — and the Iowa Senate race is close to even. That pattern repeats across the map…
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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 the official ratings haven't caug…
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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 breaks down where that fight is actually happening: th…
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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.
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Episode 1 lays out the stakes f…
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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 threats already in motion to exactly where your time and money …
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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 believe that if their side lost, something went wrong — and enough officials, lawyers, and judges willing to act on that b…
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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 Raman pulled ahead, Trump-aligned influencers — on pa…
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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 and vote. Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, it’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine. You won’t hav…
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