MOMocrats

President Biden's pro-democracy, anti-fascist speech last night was a Big Effing Deal. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about the latest appearance of Dark Brandon, the drip-drip of damaging information from the search of Mar-a-Lago, the latest Democratic special election win, and more. MOMocrats MOMochat is part of the DemCast family of podcasts. Follow us o...

Most years, August is a slow month for political news. But this year, it turned out to be a very bad time to take a vacation! MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills return to talk about the "raid" on The Former Guy's Florida resort home, the Democrats' renewed midterm momentum, and the genius of Dark Brandon's college loan policy.  Part of the DemCas...

The narrative for the 2022 midterms took a big twist on Tuesday night in Kansas, when a record number of voters turned out to reject a state constitutional amendment that would have allowed the legislature to outlaw abortions in the state. Added to the execution of Al Qaeda's leader, the progress of the Senate reconciliation bill, new DOJ subpoenas to members of Trump's inner circle, and...

Last week, few were predicting that the Democrats would be heading into August with  momentum. But new polls this week give them a real shot at expanding their majorities in both the House and Senate. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about some of those  the momentous political stories that broke this week: Merrick Garland's admission that Donald Trump is a s...

MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills welcome congressional candidate Jamie Cheney of New York's New 19th District to the podcast for a wide-ranging discussion of topics including abortion, healthcare, and responsible gun ownership. The MOMocrats also talk about the "season finale" of the first set of January 6 hearings. MOMocrats MOMochat is part of the DemC...

This was the week the story of a pregnant 10-year-old rape victim illustrated the horrors that the radical members of the Supreme Court has wrought, as right-wing media and GOP officials first attempted to erase the child and then tried to attack the compassionate doctor who treated her. MOMocrats Aliza Worthington and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss our terrible new reality. They also talk about the...

MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills are feeling weary after Highland Park, the Supreme Court decisions that gut long-standing rights, and the media spin that makes progressive successes seem like failures. It doesn't help that Omicron BA.5 is fueling another Covid surge or that Democrats seem to be sleepwalking to November.  Follow us on BlueSky @socalmom.bsky.social...

A Disastrous Year at the Supreme Court The Supreme Court session that just ended has been a disaster for the country - and with the decision in West Virginia v EPA, a possible disaster for the world. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss some of the most egregious rulings made by the emboldened, radical six justices on the Court this year. And dangers coming up. The...

When Jamie Raskin hinted that the January 6 hearings would “blow the roof off the House,” the conventional wisdom was that he was exaggerating. After all, how much more was there to learn about the violent insurrection that blemished our long history of peaceful transfers of power? But it turns out that - as usual - Rep. Raskin was right. And the two televised hearings the Select Committee held th...

The long-awaited televised January 6th hearings have arrived and all the critics who complained that they wouldn’t amount to much were wrong. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills were among the 20 million viewers of the prime time hearing on June 9 who learned something new about the insurrection. Part of the DemCast family of podcasts. Follow us on BlueSky @socalmom.bsky....

There have been more than 200 mass shootings in America so far this year. That averages more than one per day. As we begin the annual Wear Orange weekend, MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss the living hell of seeing these events multiply while government seems helpless to make it stop.  They also discuss the Department of Justice indictment of former Trump adviso...

If democracy were a frog in a pot of water, we're at the boiling point. CPAC is being held right now in Budapest and Victor Orban loves Tucker Carlson. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills are no longer able to separate the end of Roe v Wade from mass shootings, the quest to overturn the 2020 election, voter suppression, the baby formula shortage, and bonkers decision...

The MOMocrats gear up for Saturday's Bans Off Our Bodies protests of the radical conservatives on the Supreme Court who aim to erase 100 years of civil rights (it's not just about abortion and contraception - and definitely not about saving babies). Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills also play a game of Topic Roulette, touching upon the baby formula shortage, January 6 s...

This Mother's Day, the Supreme Court of the United States gifted the women of America with the loss of autonomy over their own bodies. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about the SCOTUS leak, abortion politics, and what Democrats must do next. Part of the DemCast family of podcasts. Follow us on BlueSky @socalmom.bsky.social @karoli.bsky.social @AlizaWrites.bs...

This week's MOMocrats MOMochat kicks off with a discussion more akin to "Car Talk" than politics - but that's mainly because Elon Musk made them do it. And it did not take MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills to return to the politics of Musk's bid to take Twitter private - as well as media bias, this weekend's White House Correspondence Dinne...

f you ever feel as if it's tough to focus on what's going on in the world right now, you're not alone. The short attention span of our media is by design. This week, MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills spend some time reviewing some of the lessons they learned last week, when Democrats were cheered by a Michigan state Senator who pushed back against GOP lie...

With Good Friday, Passover, and Ramadan occurring all at once - it is no wonder it feels like Biblical times. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about why everything right now feels so dangerous... and messaging for the midterm elections. Follow us on BlueSky @socalmom.bsky.social @karoli.bsky.social @AlizaWrites.bsky.social

MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills commiserate over a very bad, horrible week for democracy in the United States - with the exception of the historic confirmation of new Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Follow us on BlueSky @socalmom.bsky.social @karoli.bsky.social @AlizaWrites.bsky.social

The Supreme Court was in the news this week - both for Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearings, and new January 6 revelations about SCOTUS spouse Ginni Thomas. Justice Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from cases where his wife was a lobbyist or organizer - but he does not. That begs the question: should Congress impeach? Follow us on BlueSky @socalmom.bsky.social @karoli.bsky.socia...

It may feel petty to frame the horrors of the war in Ukraine to midterm elections in the United States - but Republicans are trying to use it as a cudgel against the Biden administration. And as MOMocrat Karoli points out: Ukraine, January 6, trucker convoys, and whispers against Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson are "all connected." Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwart...

The MOMocrats are in awe of the Ukrainians' courage defending their nation from Russia's invasion - and terrified of what comes next. They also discuss this week's State of the Union address, the February job numbers, and the ongoing investigations into January 6. MOMocrats MOMochat is part of the DemCast family of podcasts. Follow us on BlueSky @socalmom.bsky.social @karoli.bsky.so...

It's Hillary Hysteria over at Fox News - which means that former President Donald Trump is in legal hot water. Again. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about the former guy's very bad week, beginning with being disavowed by his longtime accountants, and ending with his loss in the New York courts -- as well as new revelations about top secret classified d...

This week, we learned exactly why Donald Trump was so obsessed with low-flush toilets. But let's keep on talking about Hillary Clinton's emails. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about new revelations on how Trump handled presidential records (and the boxes and boxes retrieved from Mar-a-Lago), the RNC's idea of "legitimate political discourse,&...

The economy grew 5.7% last year, which is the fastest growth since 1983 - but you wouldn't know it if you looked at the latest polls. MOMocrats Aliza Worthington and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about the Biden Boom and the disconnect of popular opinion. They also talk about Justice Stephen Breyer's big announcement, the latest moves of the January 6 subcommittee, and more of the week'...

MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about President Biden's new energy as we approach the 2022 midterms. Also: that New Yorker piece on Supreme Court wife Ginni Thomas, and Donald Trump's awful, very bad week. MOMocrats MOMochat is part of the Demcast family of podcasts. Follow us on BlueSky @socalmom.bsky.social @karoli.bsky.social @AlizaWrites.bsky.social