MOMocrats
MOMocrats.com was launched in September 2007 as a national collaborative blog for progressive mom bloggers to write about politics from a mom's perspective. The MOMocrats MOMochat podcast has been produced weekly since 2010 and is hosted by Donna Schwartz Mills along with Karoli and Aliza Worthington from CrooksAndLiars.com. The podcast is part of the Demcast family of podcasts.
Episodes
439 episodes
Saturday Night War Porn
Saturday night was interrupted by the Trump regime announcing that the United States had answered Israel's pleas by sending American pilots to drop 14 "bunker buster" bombs on Iranian targets. If you're getting flashbacks of Iraq in 2003, you'r...
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Season 13
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Episode 22
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1:01:51
SCOTUS Delivers Another Turd of a Decision
Amid the military occupation of the nation's second largest city (and threats to take over others), the jubilation of the largest US protests since the civil rights era, a flop of a parade in DC, ICE goons wreaking havoc throughout the country,...
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Season 13
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Episode 21
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57:50
LA Don't Play
In violation of Federal law and without justification, Trump has ordered Federal troops into Los Angeles... to quell a conflict that was started by HIS OWN Department of Homeland Security.And it gets worse by the minute. At Kristi Noem's...
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Season 13
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Episode 20
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30:33
We're All Gonna Die
Every week since the start of Trump 2.0 has been dreadful - but MOMocrats Aliza Worthington and Donna Schwartz Mills found this one to be truly bonkers. In fact, there were SO many issues that begged discussion that this week's podcast could ea...
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Season 13
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Episode 19
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57:37
TACO Thursday
"Trump has a new nickname," laughed Karoli during this week's podcast. "And it’s disgraceful to tacos, but it’s TACO, which is “Trump Always Chickens Out.” So it’s TACO - all caps - do not do lower case. Because that’s good stuff. Good tacos."<...
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Season 13
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Episode 18
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1:01:16
Trumped Up: A MOMocrats Interview with Spike Dolomite
Spike Dolomite is an artist, an advocate, and a fierce and funny writer. We’ve known her since the Obama years, when she was a contributor to the MOMocrats 1.0 group blog. And when she told us she had...
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Season 13
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Episode 17
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35:37
The Summer of Stupid Begins in the Stupidest Way Possible
Karoli nailed it this week when she proclaimed the coming season as the Summer of Stupid. The antics coming out of the White House on Wednesday proved it, with the presid...
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Season 13
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Episode 16
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59:21
Republicans Want to Take Away Your Healthcare to Fund Tax Breaks for Billionaires
This week, MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills wanted to vent over that $400-million flying palace which the Qatari royal family is offering as a personal "gift" to Dear Leader. And vent they did. The blata...
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Season 13
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Episode 15
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55:16
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once - For the Next 195 Weeks
The good news is that the Ed Martin nomination for DC US Attorney appears to be dead. The bad news is that Donny Two Dolls is only a tad over 100 days into his four-year term and has already done irreparable damage to the nation's economy and w...
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Season 13
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Episode 14
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1:02:10
The Last 30 Days
Everyone and his brother has been opining on Trump’s first 100 days and the general consensus is… they have not been good. (DUH!)And yes, MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills also weighed in on this week’s podca...
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Season 13
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Episode 13
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53:25
Signalgate 2.0
"We should never stop talking about Signalgate," says Karoli of the MOMocrats. And we likely never will, because the insecure chat between Trump administration national security (!) officials that inadvertently included a journalist was not a o...
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Season 13
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Episode 12
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1:00:55
Free Kilmar Abrego Garcia
There is no issue more important than the regime's "administrative error" resulting in an innocent man's forced rendition to a foreign gulag - except the mass expulsion of all 250 immigrants without due process. And Trump's wish to do the same ...
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Season 13
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Episode 11
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1:02:32
Feels Like a Turning Point
Donald Trump declared April 2 his “liberation day,” when he chose to announce how extensive across-the-board tariffs would be to the world.But it’s Democrats and other anti-MAGA people who are felt liberated on Wednesday, thanks to this ...
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Season 13
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Episode 10
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1:02:42
Mixed Signal
Political news moves at the speed of light these days - so the fact that Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg’s account of that Signal chat is still dominating the discussion is an indication of exactly how damaging it is. And the fact ...
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Season 13
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Episode 9
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1:00:50
Schumer Must Do Better. Or Go.
Yes, last week's vote on the Continuing Resolution feels like it was a decade ago - but we will be living with the fallout from it for the next six months. At least. And the anger over how the vote went down is fueling the grassroots at Democra...
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Season 13
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Episode 8
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59:59
Shutdown Drama
As MOMocrats Aliza Worthington and Donna Schwartz Mills recorded this week's MOMochat podcast, Chuck Schumer announced that the Republicans did not have the votes to pass the continuing resolution that would keep the government funded. It appea...
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Season 13
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Episode 7
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55:02
We Need Lots More Good Trouble
The winner of this week's "Not a State of the Union" address was Representative Al Green, who reminded us all of what it means to get into Good Trouble. [Note that since this episode was recorded, the House voted to censure Rep. Green for a les...
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Season 13
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Episode 7
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1:04:37
Five Things We Did This Week
The MOMocrats have been very busy doing lots of busy things this week - most of which involved cursing PINO (President in Name Only) and his boss, Elon Musk. And the entire authoritarian transformation that the Republicans are inflicting on the...
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Season 13
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Episode 6
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1:02:25
Invasion of the "DOGE Bags"
The MOMocrats are very excited that America now has a Gulf, and are looking forward to the acquisition of Red, White, and Blueland. We also note that the new Chairman of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts can teach us all a thing or two...
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Season 13
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Episode 5
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1:01:34
What a Difference a Week Makes
Remember how frustrated the MOMocrats were last week at weak response Democratic legislators were mounting against the Musk-Trump blitzkrieg of chaos and lawlessness? Karoli, Aliza, and Donna were not alone. The nation was paying at...
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Season 13
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Episode 4
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58:09
Drowning in the Bathtub
The Right has been squawking about reducing the size of the Federal government for decades ("I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.") For the last 11 days, President...
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Season 13
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Episode 3
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1:06:49
The Return of the Firehose
Behold our new era of chaos and revenge! MOMocrats Aliza and Donna welcome Red Painter from CrooksAndLiars.com to chat about the first few days. And while the blizzard of new executive orders and terrible appointments and policies are worthy of...
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Season 13
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Episode 2
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41:23
Neither Fire nor Senate Hearings...
The fires in Los Angeles delayed the MOMocrats' first chat session of the year, but they're back this week with something to say about the firehose of MAGA nominees being vetted in the Senate. Other topics Aliza Worthington and Donna Schwartz M...
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Season 13
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Episode 1
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1:01:48
President Musk's MAGA Shutdown
MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills try to get into the holiday spirit on their final podcast of the year, but - as Karoli puts it: President Musk said we can’t have a continuing resolution to keep the government open ...
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Season 12
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Episode 42
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56:31
Where Are Our Leaders?
“Where is Kamala? She lost the election and she fades back into Vice President land?” The MOMocrats are disappointed that at a time when we need our leaders to LEAD us through what will be a very dark time, we’re not seeing many who are answeri...
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Season 12
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Episode 41
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58:43