HeyJaredBetsy Ludlow
Surviving Trump is a podcast and newsletter built for the next four years: bold, unfiltered, and laser-focused on what authoritarianism looks like from the inside.
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THE BATTLE FOR THE HOUSE (opens the original)
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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 caught up to — into a clear picture of where that path actually runs.Listen Here: What’s in This EpisodeEpisode 3 moves from the House math to the candidates who will decide it, applying four consistent factors — cash on hand,
How to Stop the Midterms From Being Rigged Before Election Day (opens the original)
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Every Thursday, this space breaks down one thing you can actually do to save democracy — not everything, not all at once, just one clear, specific action that moves the needle. It grew out of Surviving Trump, where each episode in Season 2 traces how a piece of authoritarian strategy actually works; this series turns analysis into action. Resisting doesn’t require doing everything — it requires picking one place to start and following through.The best defense is early, local, organized, and spec
THREE SEATS TO RESTORE DEMOCRACY (opens the original)
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Surviving Trump • Season 3, Episode 2: The HouseRepublicans 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: the maps redrawn to protect it, the scandals threatening to lose it anyway, and the money both parties are pouring in to decide it.
NOT JUST ANY MIDTERM (opens the original)
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Surviving Trump • Season 3 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.This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="e
NULLIFY (opens the original)
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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 belief.This episode follows four ways that belief gets turned into power: pressuring officials not to certify results, weaponizing override mechanisms built for genuine emergencies, manufacturing the feeling of fraud through aud
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