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Ronny Jackson is out before his confirmation hearings could begin at Veterans Affairs. Scott Pruitt is finally being questioned for impropriety at EPA. Mike Pompeo is the new Secretary of State, and Michael Cohen is pleading the Fifth. Yes, it's just another day in Trumpland - and MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills try to make sense of it all in this week's pod...

Last week's many dramas continued in a New York court on Monday, with the explosive news that Michael Cohen was seeking attorney-client privilege to seized documents and tapes involving a total of THREE clients in the last year: the president, former RNC finance chair Elliott Broidy... and Sean Hannity. Which unleashed a plethora of new questions about the ethics of Hannity opining about the...

As we write this, we're keeping an eye on developing news, because by the time we air, President Trump and his new National Security Adviser John Bolton may have ordered a missile strike (something the president has already threatened to Russia in a tweet). And even though Bolton has characterized Syria as just "a sideshow" in the Middle East, this situation is rife with danger. The...

The news this week has been dominated by the revelation that the Trump campaign's social media efforts may have been fueled by illegally obtained Facebook data on tens of millions of Americans - but so much more has been happening. Yesterday, a serial bomber that had been terrorizing Austin detonated himself to death, and the White House said what he did had nothing to do with terrorism. In t...

Call it the Trump effect: an unprecedented number of women are running for office this year, amid what Democratic leaders hope will be a big, blue wave of an election. The MOMocrats talk to Stacy Mason of WomenCount.org on ways to support progressive female candidates all over the country in this week's podcast looking at the day's political news from the progressive point of view. Hosts...

Sarah Huckabee Sanders says lots of laughable things in her daily press briefings, but yesterday took the cake, as she proclaimed that "This is an intense place, as is every White House, and it’s not abnormal that you would have people come and go." This was after being questioned about the unprecedented rate of personnel turnover for an administration that's only been in power for...

It's been another week where news has hit at a dizzying pace - but the MOMocrats are still focused on the gun debate movement being led by the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Two weeks after the tragedy that left 17 people dead, these remarkable kids have accomplished more on this issue than anyone has managed in recent decades, with corporate partners of the NRA leaving in...

In this special Presidents Day edition of MOMochat, MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills agree with journalist Joy-Ann Reid's assertion that this is "the second consecutive such holiday without an American president." Trump's weekend tweetstorm covering the indictments issued by Mueller on Friday, where he lashed out at the usual suspects and maddeningl...

A new day dawns in Washington: After nearly a decade of gridlock, the Senate has put forth a bipartisan budget deal - and it increases spending on both the military and domestic needs by $300 billion over the next two years. We are guessing that it's harder for Republicans to scream about the deficit when they just ballooned it themselves with their tax bill, although this morning on NPR, the...

The closer the Mueller investigation gets to the president, the more dangerous he becomes - and the special prosecutor is currently breathing down the neck of his inner circle. That's why we spent the last several days watching the drama play out between Devin Nunes, the White House, and the Trump Justice Department and FBI. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills discus...

MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss today's Women's Marches which - once again - have drawn hundreds of thousands of women all over the world, including 500,000 in Los Angeles (which brought these three women together for the first time ever). Trump had the audacity to tweet credit for today's marches, which is true - just not in the way he spins. A...

The President's two-week golf vacation is over and he returned to the White House seemingly refreshed with a barrage of tweets designed to freak out both Americans and our allies (and possibly distract us all from the revelations that keep coming up out of the inquiries into the Trump campaign and Russia). And then the Guardian published an excerpt from the upcoming book, Fire and Fury, with...

MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills look back at a tumultous year in politics from the progressive point of view in the year-end edition of the weekly MOMochat podcast. The focus will be on the success of the grassroots Resistance, beginning with the Women's Marches, the Republicans' failure to repeal Obamacare despite holding all the power in government, and on...

After nearly a year in office, Donald Trump is finally able to sign a bill into law: A major overhaul of the tax code that was rushed to a simple majority vote with little time for anyone to review. The new law favors the 1% at the expense of everyone else and benefits the President himself, which should make for some interesting attack ads in 2018. Also: Kids from low-income families are still wi...

Tuesday night's stunning victory by Doug Jones in Alabama on the first night of Chanukah struck MOMocrat Donna Schwartz Mills as something of a holiday miracle - especially after pronouncing to her co-hosts that she was certain that Roy Moore was going to win. Today, Donna eats her words as she and partners Aliza Worthington and Karoli discuss the aftermath of the special election and other p...

The MOMocrats took the week off to celebrate Thanksgiving with family, and in that week a lot seemed to happen: More sexual harrassment allegations against powerful men in government and media, a possible Michael Flynn deal, an FCC intention to end net neutrality, an ever more powerful missile test by North Korea - and a hurricane of terrible Trump tweets. So it would be understandable if Karoli,...

As the MOMocrats went on the air last week, news broke of Roy Moore's past predilection for dating (and assaulting) underage girls when he was a 30-something district attorney in Alabama. That story has dominated this week's political news to the point that few of us have given much thought to the awful GOP tax bill or whatever it is Trump did on his Asian trip. And today, Al Franken is...

The nation still faces the same problems it had one week ago, beginning with the party in power and includes the rift among those on the left who are fighting to win the country back. But the resounding citizen participation of this week's off-year elections (especially in Virginia) give renewed hope to MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills - who promise that there wil...

The MOMocrats return from a two-week lay-off with the situation eerily the same: The news cycle is crazy fast. This week began with the indictment of Paul Manafort and two others from the Trump campaign, and each day, there are shocking new revelations. Congress is still trying to pass a tax cut for the rich and sell it as a benefit for the middle class. The President is quick to condemn a terrori...

Trump promised to get rid of Obamacare on Day One - and soon discovered what the rest of us who pay attention already knew: Healthcare is complicated. And it isn't easy to erase a law that has helped millions of Americans obtain health insurance for the first time, even when you've gerrymandered the rules so you can do it with a simple majority. So he's taken to destroying the law b...

Donald Trump's inaugural address tried to make the case that American cities are rife with "carnage" in the streets, which he dogwhistled was due to immigrants and people of color. The statistics of mass shootings in the US prove otherwise, and Las Vegas is just the latest and most horrifying example. Once again, the message of GOP talking points is "now is not the time" t...

Help is finally on its way to Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands - a staggering nine days after Hurricane Maria became the SECOND Category 4 storm to hit the US territories in the space of a couple of weeks. There's a lot of speculation as to why it has taken the Trump Administration so long to respond to this disaster, and MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills have...

The Senate Republicans have one last chance to repeal Obamacare before September 30, and by golly -- this time, they are determined to do it. If the saga of taking away healthcare from Americans reminds you of a zombie movie, you are not alone -- and if this one passes, we are ALL gonna be the Walking Dead, say MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills, who talk about actions y...

Could Trump actually do something right by making DACA law? Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi think so - even if it will still be a huge hurdle to get a bill approved in Congress. In the meantime, MOMocrats Aliza Worthington, Karoli, and Donna Schwartz Mills are enjoying the angst yesterday's announcement has caused among the #MAGA crowd. They discuss this and other political developments of the...

A second superstorm in a fortnight - fed by a rise in ocean waters and temperatures - is barrelling towards the United States. And climate change deniers are accusing the media and "meterorologic industrial complex" of creating these weather disasters, which sane people understand may become our new reality. All of this amid this week's dizzying political announcements on DACA, the...