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Twitter lit up this week with dual hashtags, #WhyIStayed and #WhyILeft, after the release of that Ray Rice video began a national conversation on domestic violence. MOMocrats Cynematic, Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills weigh in on the discussion. Also: the NY primary, ISIS, the "new" Meet the Press, and more political talk from the progressive point of view by the MOMocrats. Produced by Engender Media Group.

For the first 15 minutes, political discussion and current events from the progressive point of view by the MOMocrats.

Today on our show we feature MOMocrats emerita Sarah Granger, our resident noted author, blogger, speaker and entrepreneur. From her bio: "...Her publishing credits include The San Francisco Chronicle online at SFGate.com, Forbes, Security Focus, Spectrum magazine, The Huffington Post, BlogHer, NBC Bay Area, and Harvard Business Review. Sarah has covered all kinds of events – from White House press conferences to New York Fashion Week, and she has interviewed noted women leaders including Carly Fiorina, Valerie Jarrett, and Maria Shriver. She is known for directing the launch of what Wired News called the 'first true weblog to be put up by a politician' in 2003. As a serial entrepreneur, Sarah has spent more than 25 years launching, building and growing IT, Internet and social ventures, starting with a bulletin board system she published online at age fourteen." The Digital Mystique is her first solo book and "shows us how digital media is shaping our lives in real time. Whether it’s how we raise our children, communicate in love and partnerships, support causes, or establish friendships and trust, Granger pinpoints the best ways to seize digital opportunities to make our lives richer and fuller."

To read more about the author or to buy a book, go to http://sarahgranger.com/books

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Claire Conner returns to MOMochat in this repeat from earlier this summer to talk about the alarming inroads the radical right has made into the Republican party, Congress and statehouses around the country. Claire is the author of Wrapped in the Flag, a memoir of growing up in a family of John Birch Society leaders. 

"The John Birch Society does influence many right wingers," says Claire. 

Claire says that a helpful Birch Society research assistant provided her with background materials for her book. "She told me that the Society has had the largest growth in its history since Barack Obama's campaign."

MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills host the political discussion from the progressive point of view. Produced by Engender Media Group.

Read more: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/momocrats/2014/08/06/extremism-gone-mainstream#ixzz3AxF3w7Jf

There have been a rash of images that have gone viral in the wake of Ferguson, but the one that struck home to the MOMocrats depicted Florida student Frances Francois holding up a sign reading: "I Can't Believe I STILL Have to Protest This S**T!!"  Fifty years after Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law, we can't believe it, either. Michael Brown's killing by a Ferguson cop is not an isolated case -- unarmed people of color are killed by police in communities all over the country, the militarization of local forces is an ongoing and disturbing trend. MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about the ongoing protests.

In the second half, Donna interviews California Assembly candidate Elizabeth Echols, the first of the MOMocrats series highlighting the campaigns of 2014 progressive women candidates.

Political discussion from the progressive point of view by the MOMocrats. Produced by Engender Media Group.

California's ballot proposition process was meant to give the people more of a say in legislation, but the process has become entirely corrupted by money and special interests. Proposition language makes the proposals sound like good ideas, but like the legendary Trojan Horse, buried within the legalese are often provisions that have entirely different consequences. And lately, when a bad idea proposition is enacted in one state, thanks to organizations like ALEC, they tend to pop up on ballots all over the country.

Proposition 46 is billed as a patient safety act, by requiring physicians to undergo drug and alcohol testing. But there's more to it than that.

Donna Schwartz Mills and Karoli are joined by Cathy Frey, CEO of the Central Valley Health Network consisting of 13 community helath center corporations serving high-need communities throughout California's Central Valley, and Democratic political consultant Teri Holomon.

Political discussion from the progressive point of view by the MOMocrats. Produced by Engender Media Group.

Claire Conner returns to MOMochat to talk about the alarming inroads the radical right has made into the Republican party, Congress and statehouses around the country. Claire is the author of Wrapped in the Flag, a memoir of growing up in a family of John Birch Society leaders. 

"The John Birch Society does influence many right wingers," says Claire. 

Claire says that a helpful Birch Society research assistant provided her with background materials for her book. "She told me that the Society has had the largest growth in its history since Barack Obama's campaign."

MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills host the political discussion from the progressive point of view. Produced by Engender Media Group.

The war in Gaza is a tragedy. Are American right-wingers somehow involved? There is some evidence it's true, as MOMocrat Karoli reports at Crooks and Liars.com. She and Donna Schwartz Mills examine what could be a pattern of collusion with conservative supporters of Israel, including a fabricated transcript of a purported discussion between President Obama and Netanyahu that is, as Karoli puts it, "right out of Karl Rove's strategy guide." Political discussion from the progressive point of view by the MOMocrats. Produced by Engender Media Group.

Yesterday's ruling on Obamacare subsidies by a three-judge panel on the DC Court of Appeals was just a hiccup. That ruling was followed by a contradictory one, from the 4th Circuit Court that upholds subsidizing Federal exchange premiums. All of this judicial wrangling is illustrative of what happens when the Right can't get their way through legislative means -- but it also shows just how politicized our courts have become. MOMocrats Cynematic, Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss politics from the progressive point of view. Produced by Engender Media Group.

The news cycle has been dominated by the story the humanitarian crisis of immigrant children caught at our border, and public reaction has been something of a Rohrshach test: Do we rally to turn them away as the Mayor of Murrietta, CA did a couple of weeks ago? Or do we first offer shelter and aid to young people who are essentially refugees of gang violence? Also: The secret past of IRS official Lois Lerner and the initiative to break California into six separate states. MOMocrats Cynematic, Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss from the progressive point of view. Produced by Engender Media Group.

RH Reality Check's legal expert Jessica Pieklo joins the MOMocrats to parse the Hobby Lobby decision and the rest of this year's session of the Supreme Court. Cynematic, Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills host this weekly political discussion from the progressive point of view. Produced by Engender Media Group.