MOMocrats

he Biden campaign held a fundraiser this week that brought in more money than the RNC earned in the entire month of February. The Democratic Party is busy opening up field offices around the country. The Republicans are busy paying Donald Trump's legal bills. Why is the mainstream media so negative about the re-election campaign?  MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills...

Today, Mike Pence proved that he has some backbone after all, by becoming the first former Vice President to withhold an endorsement of the President he served. MOMOcrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about the final transformation of the RNC into Donald Trump's personal piggy bank, the contrast with the organization being built by the Democrats, and the very high s...

In a week that began with a Donald Trump win from the Supreme Court and proceeded to a Super Tuesday blowout, the MOMocrats really needed to hear a great State of the Union. And President Joe Biden delivered. MOMocrats Aliza Worthington and Donna Schwartz Mills discussed the highlights of the President's speech, and the official GOP response from Alabama Senator Katie Britt. Part of the Demca...

The SCOTUS decision to grant cert this week was a reminder that NO ONE is coming to save us from the threat of a second Trump term, say MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills. The MOMocrats also talk about the closing arguments in the effort to have Fani Willis disqualified from prosecuting the Georgia RICO case, Republican hypocrisy on IVF, and President Biden's master...

High ranking members of the Republican Party are either patsys... or Russian assets -- and no one seems to care. And the Republican War on Women continued this week with a stunning court decision in Alabama, equating embryos used in IVF treatment with living children. And don't get the MOMocrats started on George Will's Washington Post column today. Actually - Karoli, Aliza Worthington,...

We finally got a ruling from the DC Court of Appeals on the question of whether the former president has immunity from crimes he may have committed while in office - and, as MOMocrat Karoli says, "it was worth the wait." Aliza Worthington and Donna Schwartz Mills join her to talk about the decision, and what we can expect to happen next on the journey to Trump's trial in Judge Chutk...

The President and First Lady were on hand today at Dover Air Force Base to pay respect to the three US service people who were killed in Jordan on Sunday in an Iranian-proxy drone attack. A few hours later, the United States began multi-tiered retaliation against 80+ targets in Iraq and Syria. "If you harm an American, we will respond," the President said. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthin...

Minutes before recording this week's podcast, the verdict came down in E. Jean Carroll's defamation suit against Donald Trump - to the tune of $83.3 million. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about the verdict. Other topics this week are the performative exercise of the New Hampshire primary (including President Biden's write-in victory and Nikki Hal...

This week's best political moment was courtesy of Hunter Biden (with a little help from the House Oversight Committee Democrats). MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills also talk about Donald Trump's courtroom tantrum and his attorneys' assertion that presidents have "absolute immunity," as well as what a waste of time it is to cover the GOP caucuses...

The first MOMocrats podcast of 2024 coincided with President Biden's barn buster of a speech commemorating January 6 and kicking off his election campaign. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills discussed the President's fiery words and the fight ahead. They also talked about the Supreme Court's decision to hear the appeal of the Colorado 14th Amendment decisi...

Christmas came early in the form of a Colorado state Supreme Court decision keeping Donald Trump off the state's 2024 ballot for violating the 14th Amendment. This decision has been stayed until January 4 pending an expected appeal to the US Supreme Court. In the meantime, SCOTUS dealt Trump a win by denying Jack Smith's request hopscotch over the DC Court of Appeals on his claim of pres...

Justice was delivered today to Miss Ruby Freeman and her daughter, Shane Moss, in the form of a $148 million judgement in their defamation case against Rudy Giuliani. And MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills point out that it couldn't happen to a more deserving guy: In this week's wide-ranging discussion about US politics, it was noted that all roads lead to Rudy - from the "bu...

Last week, we bid good-bye to George Santos (but not before he launched a second career as a shill on Cameo). This week, we learned that we would also be saying farewell to former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who is leaving the House at the end of the month. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about the Republicans' shrinking congressional margins and increasing outr...

We lost several historic figures over the last week: Rosalynn Carter, Sandra Day O'Connor, Henry Kissinger and member of Congress George Santos. The MOMocrats also talk about Trump's court setbacks, the DeSantis-Newsom "debate"... and the anguish of following Israel's war with Hamas. Part of the Demcast family of podcasts. Follow us on BlueSky @socalmom.bsky.social @karoli...

In a world that’s fraught with turmoil, with a fractious Congressional Republican Party, MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills are thankful: That Donald Trump is not in the White House right now and that Biden and Harris are. That the government will not be shut down for the holidays. That George Santos likely will. They discuss this and more in this week’s program, part of...

The week began with a spate of dark news for Democrats, beginning with rabid headlines touting yet another poll indicating the Donald Trump has a real chance of getting back into the White House in 2025. Then came Tuesday's elections, when (once again!) Democratic issues and candidates performed better than pundits predicted. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk...

We finally have a new Speaker of the House and he's kind of a nightmarish combination of insurrectionist and religious zealot. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about what just happened in the House and what it portends for the next year. They also talk about the escalation of Israel's response to Hamas and why the booming US economy gets no respect from...

The leadership crisis in Congress continues, as Jim Jordan's ill-fated Speaker candidacy mercifully comes to an end - just as MOMocrat Karoli predicted last week. She and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss the ongoing drama in the House of Representatives. They also talk about this week's developments in the Israel-Hamas war and President Biden's leadership, as well as "The Former Gu...

The House of Representatives is still without a Speaker, after last week's historic ouster of Kevin McCarthy. And it's unclear if the Republican caucus will ever find enough votes to elect a replacement. As of the podcast recording, the new GOP candidate is Rep. Jim Jordan of OH. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills predict he will NEVER be elected Speaker. Aside...

American democracy is hanging by a thread, and one branch of government is paralyzed right now - until they figure out who the next Republican speaker will be. MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss the shutdown that was averted at the last minute and the continuing leadership crisis in the House of Representatives. Part of the Demcast family of podcasts. Follow us on BlueSky @socalmom....

Some in Congress are calling the current funding crisis the “Seinfeld Shutdown” because the House Republicans are forcing it to happen over nothing. Kind of like this week’s bogus impeachment hearing. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about Kevin McCarthy’s crazy kids in the House, as well as the former president’s very bad week in court - and the passing of Califo...

Fulton County DA Fani Willis doesn’t suffer fools gladly, as she demonstrated in a scathing letter this week to Jim Jordan, who is trying to get intel on her 2020 election RICO case. “Willis is a badass,” agree MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills in this week’s podcast. Others on the badass female list include Vice President Kamala Harris, who made a show at ASEAN this we...

This Labor Day weekend caps the end of a remarkable summer for the nation's labor movement: In an economy that's favorable to workers, there have been over 230 strikes this year - and UPS and airline pilots scored big gains for their members. New economic figures today show that while the economy has slowed to pre-pandemic levels (187,000 new jobs added last month), salaries are exceedin...

In Fulton County, the nineteen defendants in Fani Willis' RICO case found out this week that there are indeed consequences for trying to steal an election. And that includes the twice-impeached, four-times indicted former president who showed up for his close-up Thursday night. MOMocrats Aliza Worthington and Donna Schwartz Mills talked about the long-awaited mug shot and the strategies of th...

Inflation is down, GDP is up, and apparently it pays to staff an Administration with competent, experienced people. That's the consensus of MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills, who were happy to talk about something good for change. They also talked about Donald Trump's new superseding charge in his summer of indictments, the possibility of another government sh...