MOMocrats

MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills are all in on supporting Kamala Harris for President. But first: They have more than a few words to say about the events that led to President Biden's surprise announcement on Sunday. And some of them are profane. MOMocrats MOMochat is part of the Demcast family of podcasts. Follow us on BlueSky @socalmom.bsky.social @karoli.bsky.s...

This was the week our election craziness went into overdrive: A Trump rally became the site of an assassination attempt (that tragically killed a spectator). The Republicans held their National Convention in Milwaukee, with all the spectacle and weirdness that goes along with that. And the pundit class continued what appears to be a coordinated campaign to push President Joe Biden out of his nomin...

The MOMocrats welcome Katrina Christiansen, to talk about her campaign for US Senate in North Dakota.  This was a welcome distraction from the continuing chaos stemming from President Biden’s disastrous debate performance. The President’s NATO press conference showed the audience some of the depth of his foreign policy expertise. But it was not enough to appease the media, political insiders, and...

The Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity - grouped with some of the other decisions rendered this session - are a christofascist's dreams. It's like the SCOTUS is the villain in an old silent movie, the woman tied to the railroad tracks is the Statue of Liberty, and there's a train barreling down the tracks, called Project 2025. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington,...

Last week, the MOMocrats were taking bets on whether the convicted felon former President would even show up to the June debate. This week, Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills are wishing it had all been a bad dream. President Biden's performance at the debate in front of 40 million viewers was not good. But - as Karoli points out - if you read the transcript, the substance of...

Next week's presidential debate between President Biden and convicted felon Donald Trump will be interesting - if it happens. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills are not holding their breath. The MOMocrats also talked about campaign fundraising numbers, Biden's moves on immigration, Louisiana's Ten Commandments stunt, and the pretzel logic Chief Justice Rob...

While the twice impeached, convicted former president doubled down on vows of retribution, the Wall Street Journal weighed in - ridiculously - on the current president's age. In the meantime, President Biden was in Normandy, reminding the world of the sacrifices the Allies made fighting Nazis on D-Day. The world is under threat again from authoritarians, including the United States. To win th...

Donald Trump's trial for falsifying business records in order to hide campaign finance regulations came to an end yesterday in the most spectacular fashion imaginable. The jury returned guilty verdicts on ALL 34 felony charges. MOMocrats Aliza Worthington and Donna Schwartz Mills talked about the trial, the reaction, and the 2024 election. They also discussed President Biden's announceme...

We knew that we had one Supreme Court justice was married to an activist who was in the thick of those who tried to overturn the 2020 election. Last week, we learned that a second conservative justice is at the very least, an insurrection sympathizer. Both justices refuse to recuse themselves from Trump-related cases, and no one - not the Chief Justice, or the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Com...

This week kicked off with yet another screaming New York Times headline alleging that Joe Biden and the Democrats are headed for a 2024 election debacle... except that when you look at the poll's data and see the results for likely voters, the outlook isn't so bad at all. In fact, Democrats continue to outdo predictions in actual elections. So why all the negative framing? And why does e...

As usual, the Trump circus dominated this week's news - especially the two days of Stormy Daniels testimony in the NY election interference trial. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss that and some of the political news that went a little under the radar this week - including the revelation that third-party candidate RFK Jr once claimed to have suffered memory...

Scenes from college campuses this week had a lot of pundits talking about 1968 - and the coincidence of the Democratic National Convention occurring in Chicago this year has not been lost on anyone. However: students protesting a humanitarian crisis in Gaza is not the same as students protesting being conscripted to fight in Vietnam - and MOMocrat Karoli assures Donna Schwartz Mills that the 2024...

The pace of political news has been dizzying ever since Trump came down that escalator - and this week, it was downright overwhelming as the former president sat in a New York courthouse for his criminal election interference trial... while the Supreme Court simultaneously heard arguments on presidential immunity. In the meantime, the Biden administration quietly and competently continued accompli...

The 118th Congress has been incredibly useless, getting little done besides booting out their first Speaker and vying for attention on Fox News. On last week's podcast, MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills were incredulous that they were about to spend valuable time debating bills around household appliances (i.e.,"the Liberty in Laundry Act," "the Refr...

Last week, the Florida Supreme Court gave Democrats there a 2024 election boost by allowing a six-week abortion ban. This week, Arizona said “hold my beer.” MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss Arizona’s journey back to 1864 and some of the week’s other notable political events. MOMocrats MOMochat is part of the Demcast family of podcasts. Follow us on BlueSky @soc...

Today, the Washington Post political team sent out a newsletter with a old "Dems in Disarray" headline - a description they haven't used much the last couple of years (because nothing on the Democratic side of the aisle can compare to the absolute dysfunction of the GOP-led House). In this newsletter, the WaPo was referring to the war in the Middle East, and they are not wrong. It&a...

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...