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The election of Donald J. Trump and his rapid-fire issuance of careless, unvetted executive orders has awakened a sleeping giant on the left. On his first weekend in office, Trump was greeted by the spectacle of the Women's March. And once he signed his uncontitutional order restricting travel from seven predominantly Muslim nations (including legal permanent residents of the United States),...

We all knew that President Trump was going to be a disaster. But MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills had no idea of the velocity of bad policy, executive orders, gag orders, and crazy tweets we'd be buffeted by in the space of just six days. While President Trump obsesses and fumes over his unpopular poll numbers, losing the popular vote, and low inauguration attendance, the country is...

This week, we say good-bye to President Obama and try to prepare for the new Administration of Donald Trump, who despite recent revelations of ongoing intelligence investigations into ties with Russia, WILL be sworn in as our 45th President - along with the basket of deplorables he's designated for his cabinet. MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills agree with civil rights hero, Representa...

We're not quite sure what a dervish looks like, but this week we've been schooled in what it's like to be so overwhelmed by news events and political maneuvers that it's impossible to keep up with it all - and that is what Donald Trump and the Republicans had in mind when they packed half a dozen confirmation hearings, Obamacare repeal motions, AND Trump's first press conf...

The Electoral College has voted and the last teeny tiny hope of a Trump-less White House is over. MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills lament the end of a roller coaster year in politics and look ahead to survival through the coming kakistocracy in the last MOMochat podcast of 2016, looking at the day's political news from the progressive point of view. Check back here an hour from airti...

Each of Donald Trump's cabinet nominees seems uniquely positioned to destroy the very governmental agency they will be administering. Rick Perry, the latest nominee, famously forgot that the department even existed. In the meantime, while most observers note that the revelation that Russia hacked the election in order to give it to Trump, the President-Elect continues to pooh pooh the report...

Donald Trump was named Person of the Year by TIME Magazine - which is appropriate, considering what he just accomplished by winning more pledged votes in the Electoral College. But Trump himself is upset that the magazine correctly describes the country as "divided." He would like them to perpetuate the propaganda that he won in a landslide, a point MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mi...

While MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills were enjoying the Thanksgiving holiday with their families, the folks in Trump Tower were busy interviewing candidates for cabinet positions. And the people announced so far have done the impossible: Made Mitt Romney look our best hope for a sanity at the Department of State (we will all forget his gaffes in Britain in 2012). So far, we have an Attor...

The people have spoken - and while Hillary Clinton appears to have won the popular vote, she didn't garner the votes she needed in the Electoral College. MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills will review the historic election results (i.e., spend the hour sobbing into their coffee while learning to say the words "President Trump"). They will also talk about the handful of victor...

Last week at this time, MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills were beginning to breathe a little easier. Donald Trump seemed to be preparing for a landslide loss and his surrogates were planting seeds to find jobs elsewhere. That was before FBI Director James Comey decided to insert the Bureau into the election with a bombshell message to Congress that actually said very little about emails fo...

The MOMocrats' are as ready for this election to be over as you are - especially since the polls seem to indicate that we are going to dodge the disaster that would be a Trump presidency and may even make gains in Congress. But Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills know better than to count your ballots before they're cast. This roller coaster of an election cycle can still hold a surprising l...

The long Presidential election cycle is wearying enough - but the toxic Trump campaign is triggering hatred and fear on all sides. In the meantime, Hillary Clinton has received endorsements from so many red state newspapers that the Democrats may actually have a chance of effecting real change in her administation. MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss the creepy debate and latest Trum...

With the world's attention on the most consequential Presidential election in memory, it is easy to forget that there are down ticket races for legislators - and laws. Voters in 165 states will be asked to weigh in on a total of 165 ballot measures. California is sending out a voter guide that's over 200 pages long, explaining a dizzying 17 different propositions on the ballot there. MOM...

The MOMocrats' weekly podcast looking at the day's political news from the progressive point of view. This week, MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss the first official Presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, which was promoted as a nail-biter - and turned out to be a rout. The MOMocrats recap Trump's problems with the split-screen format and Clint...

Newsweek's Kurt Eichenwald had Twitter a-twitter yesterday with the promise of a bombshell story to be published today: and he was right. Eichenwald's article pulls the curtain on Donald Trump's multi-pronged business deals throughout the world, which would represent huge conflicts of interest should he be elected President. MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss the News...

If last night's Commander in Chief Forum was a warm-up for the debates, we're in for an interesting time. Hopefully, Hillary Clinton will be allowed enough time to answer her questions with the complexity they deserve. And Donald Trump will likely be a rubble of word salad. MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about the Presidential race and other 2016 election news - plus a di...

Donald Trump tried to look presidential yesterday with his impromptu visit to Mexico - where he was not particularly wanted. The MOMocrats are not sure what unpopular Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto was trying to accomplish with the invitation, but it did allow Trump to once again dominate the news cycle on a day that he was finally making a policy speech on immigration. Karoli and Donna Schw...

Kellyanne Conway continues her Donald Trump makeover, but will it stick? (And if it does, will anyone forget? Not to mention the fact that Trump and the white supremacist alt-right are still wedded to one another). Over on the Democrats' side, the Clintons answer criticism about the appearance of impropriety surrounding their Foundation. And Bernie Sanders begins a next chapter tonight with t...

News broke today of another major reshuffling of Donald Trump's campaign team: Professional political consultant Paul Manafort has been demoted amid new questions about his ties to Russia and Ukraine. In his place is Breitbart CEO Steve Bannon, who will likely revert back to the primary strategy of "letting Trump be Trump." We are expecting Trump to double down on all the things tha...

For the third DNC in a row, our MOMocrats bloggers will be on the scene iin Philadelphia at #DNCinPHL #DNC2016 to tell us what they're seeing and hearing. We'll be talking to Anoosh Jorjorian, Christina Gleason, Michael Flanagan, and Jennifer Miller-Smith, with possibly a guest appearance from our usual host, Donna Schwartz Mills from post-#Brexit UK!Join us as we hear from them in a liv...

MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills recap the horrific events of the last week, the ongoing horror of people of color dying at the hands of white cops during minor violations - and the terror in Dallas after a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest was shot up by a disturbed "good guy with a gun" aiming for police officers. President Obama's speech at the memorial on Tuesday was...

Original Airdate: 6/22/2016. The MOMocrats' weekly podcast looking at the day's political news from the progressive point of view. The MOMocrats' guest this week is Stacy Mason, Executive Director of WomenCount, a crowdfunding platform where citizens may easily support the campaigns of women running for office throughout the country about ways women can positively affect the outcome...

The unexpected death of Antonin Scalia changed everything on the Supreme Court this year: and even though his seat has yet to be filled, there were some 4-4 ties and decisions that progressives can cheer about. That trend can be expected to continue if our next President is a Democrat. This could be the end of 50 years of court domination by Republican appointees. The MOMocrats welcome legal schol...

The MOMocrats' weekly podcast looking at the day's political news from the progressive point of view. The MOMocrats' guest this week is Stacy Mason, Executive Director of WomenCount, a crowdfunding platform where citizens may easily support the campaigns of women running for office throughout the country about ways women can positively affect the outcome of elections by donating to...

It didn't take long after the worst massacre in recent history for Donald Trump to begin tweeting hateful messages about Muslim immigrants. MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about the tragedy in Orlando and the political fallout, including the President's response and the stalled fight in Congress to pass a bill that would prevent individuals on the terror watch list from ob...