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"BORING," tweeted Donald Trump during the first House impeachment hearing on Wednesday. The DC press seemed to concur, complaining that while illuminating (and offering its share of bombshells), that it didn't have any "pizzazz."So the President took matters into his own hands while Ambassador Marie Yovanovich was testifying, with a threatening tweet disparaging her servic...

The MOMocrats were riveted throughout yesterday's 5-hour+ long public hearing on Donald Trump's attempts to extort an ally in exchange for manufactured dirt on an election opponent. Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss the first impeachment hearing, testimony of diplomats William Taylor and George Kent, the takeaways from the hearing, and why #WalterCronkite was tr...

Tuesday's off-off year elections brought good news to Democrats: Democrat Andy Beshear won the governorship of deep-red Kentucky, and Virginia Democrats won control of all levers of state government (for the first time in a generation). Republicans claim they're not worried, but they aren't known these days for being truthful. These election results could be a preview of 2020, but t...

We've entered a new phase of the impeachment inquiry... The GOP's ratf**ers get a scalp... and the MOMocrats welcome Texas congressional candidate Elisa Cardnell in this week's podcast looking at the day's political news from the progressive point of view.  Hosted by MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills - MOMocrats MOMochat is part of the DemCast family...

The impeachment inquiry this week included bombshell testimony from William Taylor, the current acting ambassador to Ukraine, whose 15-page opening statement - released to the public - included outrageous details of Trump's extortion scheme to manufacture dirt on Vice President Biden. The mobster-in-chief tried to change the subject. He tried to gaslight us into believing his surrender to Tur...

The nation lost a great advocate of democracy yesterday, with the passing of Rep. Elijah Cummings, who was chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, currently part of the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills believe that Cummings was the epitome of all that is good about our country, and they will talk about his legacy....

In his "great and unmatched wisdom," Donald Trump has thrown our most steadfast allies against ISIS under the bus by withdrawing our troops from nothern Syria, giving Turkey and Russia a green light to do what they want in the region. Airstrikes have begun, and national security experts warn of an ethnic cleansing of the Kurds, who were promised protection from the United States. It will...

Donald Trump this week has given new meaning to the old philosophy exercise, "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" Only in this instance, it's "If a president extorts or invites foreign interference in plain sight, is it still collusion?"MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about this week's...

"What EVER will we talk about this week?" the MOMocrats joked among themselves. Because the political news of the last few days boils down to one thing: the whistleblower report that was released yesterday and the transcript of the Trump/Ukraine call that confirms the report's accuracy. After months of progressive frustration, support for impeachment snowballed among House Democrats...

The president has been making threats to fight Iran on behalf of the Saudis - but (as usual with this administration) that's not the most egregious thing being reported this week. A mysterious whistleblower report from the intelligence community has been the subject of hearings and speculation - because the acting DNI is ignoring the law and refusing to share it with the congressional intelli...

The third Democratic debate of the 2020 election took place last night at Texas Southern University, and for the first time, all the top tier candidates were together on the same stage. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss the highlights and low points - and what to expect next. Also this week: Trump fired national security adviser John Bolton via Tweet (or maybe h...

This week, all eyes have been on a very large and very slow-moving hurricane that decimated the Bahamas before landing on the coast of the Carolinas. And our president has been devoting all his time to justifying a tweet that mistakenly put the path of the hurricane over Alabama - even going so far as doctoring an official Weather Service map with a Sharpie to "prove" that he had not mad...

We keep running out of words to describe the evils of this administration. This week, immigrant children with medical visas that allow them to receive treatment in the US for serious illness received letters to let them know their participation in the program was being REVOKED. In other words, the government is now deporting seriously ill children and their families. That news was followed by an a...

Representative Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib planned a fact-finding visit to Israel - which is something members of the US Congress do all the time. But Donald Trump has been working overtime to make the first female Muslim members of Congress a symbol of left-wing extremism. So he issued a tweet, instructing Benjamin Netanyahu to refuse entry - and ominously, the leader of another sovereign state...

What a difference a week makes. The last time the MOMocrats checked in, all of the pundits were declaring the Mueller hearings a big fat bust: there weren't any real fireworks, Mueller didn't say anything new, and - SHAMEFULLY! - the "optics weren't good."But a funny thing has happened since then: one by one, more and more House Democrats have declared their support for an...

Robert Mueller was the subject of two marathon hearings today before the House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee. Within the limitations of Mueller's terms of sticking to what was in the report, plus the rules imposed on him by the DOJ (and the pundits' criticism of his "optics") -- there were still plenty of instances where Mueller confirmed possible cri...

The second season of Donald Trump's reality election series got off to a slow start, as his "Keep America Great" slogan just hasn't had the same resonance as 2016's MAGA. But his rabid rally crowd's new chant appears to be a hit. After all, "Lock Her Up" has gotten so old. "Send Her Back" is a lot more relevant, even when used on natural born Ameri...

The first presidential debate between the 2020 Democratic candidates has come and gone, and Donald Trump found it boring (possibly because he was barely mentioned on both nights and it was full of policy talk. Of course, MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills have a lot to say about it. Other topics on this week's podcast from the progressive point of view include the t...

The three years since Donald Trump descended that escalator have been a trying time for the United States, and MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills have ranted on this podcast ever since about myriad crimes and injustices committed by the administration and its GOP collaborators. Ranting and tweeting and writing blog posts are not enough. There are times when one needs to...

If there is one thing Trump is expert in, it's leading the media - and changing their attention from whatever he doesn't want them to focus on. After a couple of days where it was reported that polling shows the president losing in 2020 to just about EVERY major Democratic candidate (including in TEXAS), Trump changed the subject again, by indicating that he doesn't believe that acc...

The MOMocrats' weekly podcast looking at the day's political news from the progressive point of view. Check back here an hour from airtime for a list of the topics. Chances are, there will be some discussion of what's happening in Congress and a reaction to the latest  from lawmakers and candidates. An Engender Media Group production. Follow us on BlueSky @socalmom.bsky.social @karo...

Robert Mueller spoke yesterday, to announce that he was formally leaving the Justice Department, where he has served the last two years as special counsel investigating Russia's attack on our 2016 election. Mueller did not say much that was not in the report, including the fact of the systematic attack... and his assertion that he made no determination on the question of obstruction of justic...

Nobody thought life under a Trump administration would be easy, and 2.5 years in, we're feeling the full brunt of the struggle. With two new conservative justices on the Supreme Court, red states around the country are competing with one another to see which one can enact the one draconian abortion law that can result in the end of Roe v Wade, and today, Missouri joined Georgia and Alabama wi...

The MOMocrats' weekly podcast looking at the day's political news from the progressive point of view. Check back here an hour from airtime for a list of the topics. Chances are, there will be some discussion of what's happening in Congress and a reaction to the latest  from lawmakers and candidates. An Engender Media Group production.  Follow us on BlueSky @socalmom.bsky.social @kar...

After reading the redacted Mueller report, Democratic activists rightfully say that it documents impeachable offenses - and the base is pushing for the House to start the impeachment process. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills have long memories and point out that the hearings that are being scheduled now ARE part of the impeachment process - even if Nancy Pelosi doesn&a...