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
426 episodes
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
No More Norms
Chuck Schumer thinks the American people want the Dems to be bipartisan."No we effing don’t," say MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills. Remember when Mitch McConnell vowed to make Barack Obama a one-term presiden...
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Season 12
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Episode 40
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1:00:02
Not the Time for Comity
The MOMocrats are frustrated by Democratic Senators and Congresspeople who are signaling openness to 47's cabinet picks: STOP. "This is not a time for comity," say Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills. What the 49.5% of the elect...
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Season 12
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Episode 39
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1:00:08
Not Making Nice
As the clown car cabinet takes shape, MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza, and Donna talk about the uncalled House races, the Senate, and moving forward. Part of the Demcast family of podcasts.
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Season 12
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Episode 38
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1:00:20
Post Mortem
The election is over and it's not the outcome we wanted. The MOMocrats talk about the campaign, Kamala's inspirational and defiant concession speech, and what's next.
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Season 12
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Episode 37
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57:20
A Tale of Two Candidates
In the 2024 campaign's closing days, both candidates held rallies that were meant to remind Americans of past political events: Kamala Harris drew more than 75,000 people to the Ellipse, where she worked to erase the memory of January 6 with a ...
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Season 12
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Episode 36
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58:49
Don’t Boo - VOTE!
Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and their surrogates have had their pedal to the metal this week, as they criss-cross the country making the case to vote them in as the next President and Vice President of the United States. In the meantime, Donald Tr...
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Season 12
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Episode 35
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56:46
Democratic Enthusiasm is Through the Roof
We're in the election's home stretch, and the early vote is breaking records. The Harris campaign is blitzing through the media, Democratic enthusiasm is through the roof, and Donald Trump appears to be sundowning before our eyes. MOMocrats Kar...
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Season 12
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Episode 34
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57:33
The Kamala Harris Media Blitz
November 5 is less than four weeks away, and the Harris-Walz campaign has shifted into high gear, blitzing the media with appearances on 60 Minutes, Jimmy Kimmel, the View, Howard Stern, Univision and podcast Call Her Daddy. MOMocrats Karoli, A...
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Season 12
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Episode 33
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59:51
Back-to-School Shooting Season
Today's episode was recorded prior to the news that Liz is not the only Cheney voting for Kamala Harris - or that the former Congresswoman will be campaigning in Texas for Colin Allred. But North Dakota Senate candidate Katrina Christensen (htt...
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Season 12
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Episode 32
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1:06:51
Hope Makes a Comeback
This week in Chicago, the Democrats held a convention to remember. And We're Not Going Back - which is one of the best campaign slogans we've ever heard. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills bask a little bit more in th...
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Season 12
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Episode 31
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56:26
Harris and Walz: Good Vibrations
The Kamala Harris-Tim Walz campaign has been described as a "vibe." And the MOMocrats agree: "We are vibing HARD." Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss the campaign, how the media is covering it, and Trump low-energy resp...
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Season 12
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Episode 30
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1:02:47
We Are Not Going Back
The new Kamala Harris campaign continued its flawless launch through the swing states this week, beginning with the announcement of running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk ab...
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Season 12
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Episode 29
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57:57
The Kamala Juggernaut
Kamala Harris is now the presumptive Democratic nominee. Joe Biden's successful prisoner swap deal proves he's our greatest living President. And Donald Trump and JD Vance are just weird. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz ...
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Season 12
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Episode 28
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57:30