MOMocrats

MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills aren't going to lie: It's been a bad week. The quest to re-enact Voting Rights continues to be stalled in the Senate (thanks to 50 GOP Senators who don't want you to vote and two intransigent Democrats who -- we don't know what their deal is).Inflation continues to rise and Americans are in a sour mood. Few media out...

MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about this week's extraordinary observances of the first anniversary of January 6 - and what lays ahead in this pivotal election year. MOMocrats MOMochat is a member of the DemCast family of podcasts. Follow us on BlueSky @socalmom.bsky.social @karoli.bsky.social @AlizaWrites.bsky.social

The year comes to a disappointing end as the usual suspects (Senators Manchin and Sinema) stall the agenda 81 million  Americans voted for. The MOMocrats talk about the disappointment of BBB and voting rights... and the administration's many successes. Part of the DemCast family of podcasts. Follow us on BlueSky @socalmom.bsky.social @karoli.bsky.social @AlizaWrites.bsky.social

Trump lost the 2020 election. One year later, the economy is exceeding expectations. But no one seems to know it. In the meantime, there are dire signs that the increasingly radicalized Republican party are going to complete the authoritarian takeover some of them have been planning for years. The MOMocrats discuss the situation and what small-d democrats can do about it. Part of the DemCast famil...

The Supreme Court heard Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health, the case against the Mississippi law that could spell the end of legal abortions in that state - and the prognosis is not good, thanks to the six right-wing justices who no longer feel the need to hide their desire to overturn Roe v Wade. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills wonder where we go from here? They als...

President Biden was elected to fix the economy and is succeeding: More jobs have been created in the last 10 months than during the entire administration of his predecessor. Workers have had more leverage than at any time in the last 40 years. Child poverty has been halved under Biden's watch. The Dow hit 36,000 last week. And the good economic news will continue once the President signs the...

A little over a year ago, the former guy was defeated at the polls and spontaneous celebrations erupted all over the nation. It's not easy to remember that feeling while the GOP continues the insurrection that took place on January 6. However, news that one of the architects of the insurrection was indicted for contempt of Congress does help. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Sch...

Between the drama of a final bill to Build Back Better and the off-year state election in Virginia, Democrats have been in nail-biting mode. And it seems that's just the way the news media likes it. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss the current state of our politics from a Democratic point of view. MOMocrats MOMochat is a member of the #DemCast family of po...

It used to be common knowledge that all US trends start in California. But what if that's over - and the new standard bearer is Texas? MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about the crossroads the country appears to be at - and what it means for our future. MOMocrats MOMochat is part of the DemCast family of podcasts. Follow us on BlueSky @socalmom.bsky.social @k...

It was always dubious for the former president to invoke "executive privilege" to prevent a Congressional inquiry into an insurrection that may very well have been planned in the White House. That doesn't mean he wasn't going to try. In other news, the United States isn't going to default on its debts - yet - because Mitch McConnell broke his own filibuster this week. MOMo...

California MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills join Aliza Worthington to talk about the waste of time and money that was the state election launched by Republicans to recall Governor Gavin Newsom, and the blow-out result. They will also touch upon revelations from the latest Bob Woordward book covering the final few months of the Trump presidency. MOMocrats MOMochat is part of the Demcast fa...

August is never a good month in politics, - and the last few weeks were no exception. In the last few days, President Biden addressed some of the nonsense coming from the right: The DOJ is suing Texas for their unconstitutional abortion law and the administration is laying down the law on measures to fight COVID. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills expect to see more acti...

Three months ago, vaccinated Americans were excited about the prospect of resuming a "normal" summer after seemingly keeping Covid at bay. What a difference a few weeks - and the Delta variant - made. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills look back at dashed summer hopes and the prospect for Fall, as school reopens across the country and Americans find themselves...

The withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and quick collapse of the Afghan government has forced ordinary Americans to come to grips with our longest war. "The buck stops with me," says President Biden. MOMocrats Aliza Worthington and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss the horrifying images and media narrative - as well as the President's assertion that chaos would have ensued no matte...

The GOP war on voting rights is a five-alarm fire. Why aren't Democrats (other than the Texas legislators) fighting harder? MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about the struggle to preserve the basic right to vote just as new census figures trigger another round of partisan gerrymandered redistricting. They also discuss the alarming COVID trends around the coun...

The last five years have been exhausting. And while the MOMocrats breathed a sigh of relief upon the inauguration of the calm, competent Biden-Harris administration, the Trump-led Republican party is still fomenting an insurrection - and too many Democrats don't seem to notice that the threat to our very democracy is a three-alarm fire. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz...

At the start of July, the country was hopeful that we'd seen the worst of the Covid pandemic. And then Delta said, "Hold my beer." This week, the CDC revealed awful statistics about both the transmissibility and severity of the Delta variant that is now dominant in the US - including the news that fully vaccinated people can spread the virus just as efficiently as those without vacc...

Kevin McCarthy REALLY doesn't want anyone delving into the truth behind the insurrection on the Capitol that occurred on January 6. Too bad for him that he is outmatched and outclassed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who blocked his attempt to turn the Committee investigating the riot into a three-ring circus by rejecting two of McCarthy's ranking clowns. A lot has been said this week abo...

This week, the MOMocrats will try to resist the urge to say "we told you so" in the face of new revelations about the Trump administration - but that won't be easy. Not when the Guardian claims to have documentation of a 2016 Kremlin assessment (and Putin approval) that the then longshot GOP candidate should be supported because he was an unstable narcissist who, if elected, would w...

The Supreme Court finished its session prior to the July 4 holiday with the decision the MOMocrats were dreading: the 6-3 conservative majority essentially gutted what was left of the Voting Rights Act. This comes during an avalanche of new voting restrictions in GOP-led states that would not only discourage the kind of turnout that won Democrats the 2020 election, but could make it easier for red...

A bipartisan group of moderate GOP and Democratic Senators (including Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema) announced a breakthrough deal on traditional infrastructure - roads, bridges, and the like - with the assertion that it could pass that 60-vote Senate filibuster threshhold that is frustrating all other efforts to get legislation done. This deal does not include the rest of the modern infrastructu...

The Biden administration capped off a very successful week by making Juneteenth a federal holiday: He managed to attend the G7 conference in the UK without shoving any of the other world leaders in attendance or embarrassing Americans back home. He announced that the United States would help combat COVID19 globally by contributing 500 million Pfizer vaccines to the world's poorest nations. He...

What do you think upset "the former guy" more today - news that his ban on Facebook will last at least until January 2023... or the fact that the Trump Organization controller will be testifying before the New York special grand jury? By all accounts, the orange one is deeply delusional and might believe it's all moot when he comes back into power in August. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza...

As much of the nation takes to the road to celebrate Memorial Day without quarantines, the MOMocrats are reminded once again that elections have consequences. The Biden administration's successful vaccine implementation program and economic rescue plan have powered a resurging economy, and he promises to unveil more in the next few days. But today's GOP Senate filibuster of the bill to c...

The GOP has given up on persuading voters to support them for their policies and ideas -- because they've overwhelmingly unpopular. So they have doubled down on rigging the system via voter suppression and gerrymandering. This does not bode well for the 2022 midterms, when Democrats must defy conventional wisdom and increase their congressional majorities, as well as their showing in statehou...