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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...

Bill Barr decided to release his redacted version of the Mueller report on Thursday, as many Americans were busy with holiday preparations. We've had five days to digest the 448-page document and the avalanche of commentary on it, and one thing is certain: there is a difference between "exonerated" and the nuanced reasoning of Robert Mueller. The report documents a stunning number o...

We're not gonna lie: It's been a depressing week for the Democrats. The president's men have circled the wagons to protect him, even as Trump rages on that the nation's laws keep him from being just as cruel and draconian as he wants. Between a purge at Homeland Security, stonewalling by William Barr, and Steve Mnuchin's outright refusal to comply with a legal demand for T...

Was anyone surprised this week when the New York Times and other news media reported that members of the Mueller team are frustrated with that "not a summary" Attorney General William Barr released just 48 hours after receiving the 400-page report? MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills weren't either. They discuss the end of the administration's outrageo...

It's been a week since Robert Mueller turned in his report - and only five days since AG Barr submitted a puzzling four-page memo that told us little but the fact that Mueller could not establish evidence of criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign in Russia. This was enough for the White House to embark on a victory lap declaring full exoneration - despite the memo's declaration t...

The judge in Paul Manafort's Virginia trial for financial crimes sentenced him last night to 47 months in prison - substantially less time than the sentencing guidelines that could have held him behind bars for up to 24 years. Judge Ellis also proclaimed that Manafort (who spent years defrauding the government and representing foreign dictators) led an "otherwise blameless life." MO...

The dizzying pace of the Trump news cycle hit a crescendo this week, culminating in the explosive public House Oversight Committee hearing with Michael Cohen and the stunning sight of the president walking away from his Kim Jong Un summit without making a deal. MOMocrats Aliza Worthington and Donna Schwartz Mills will discuss the revelations that came out this week, plus the rock star status of th...

The president held forth in the Rose Garden today to announce that he signed the bipartisan bill that funds the government for the rest of the fiscal year... and that he was declaring a "national emergency" that would enable him to raid funds already allocated to national defense for his stupid wall. While affected parties put together the inevitable lawsuits, MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Wor...

Just before the start of the podcast, the president announced the end of the shutdown - which the MOMocrats applaud (Just too bad so many people suffered for 35 days to get Trump NOTHING). On top of that the news of Roger Stone's arrest this morning has given Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills something to crow about, as the Mueller probe takes down another criminal in Trump&...

MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills are like most of the electorate: They're tired of a shutdown and "crisis on the border" that are entirely the making of Donald Trump, with help from cronies like Mitch McConnell (who could END the shutdown by allowing a vote on the bill to fund the government) and Lindsey Graham (who is now openly urging Trump to go full...