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With just 10 days to November 3, MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills focus on just two topics this week: The shameful throttling of the Starshield satellite system in Ukraine, and the midterm election.

That encompasses a lot of territory: Vivek Ramaswamy's vile ad featuring the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent for Ohio governor, Dr. Amy Acton... 

The DOJ's bonkers lawsuit seeking to nullify election results in Alaska if they don't go Trump's way...

And the administration's all-hands-on-deck assault on California's voters.

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Poor Katie Z lasted less than a half-Scaramucci.

It would have been tempting for the MOMocrats to spend the hour talking about her and the exit of former Greek Ambassador and grifter Kimberly Guilfoyle - but as usual, there were more pressing topics to discuss...

...such as the ridiculous DOJ lawsuit against the state of California over its refusal to disenfranchise voters two weeks before the election...

...or the removal of 400 mature trees from a DC golf course - despite a court order that was meant to prevent the government from making any changes without giving notice

...and the targeting of Ilhan Omar, in an insane drive to strip her of her citizenship.

And - as always - so much more...

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If you thought the electorate was in a sour mood over inflation in 2024, there is no amount of honey that can fix the bile of voters faced with $4.00 gas and a 70% increase in the cost of diesel. (You don’t even want to know what it costs here in California!)

Trump knows he’s in trouble, which means we’re in a very dangerous place.

MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills also talk about 

• The Cornell 7 rape case
• Kimberly Guilfoyle’s Amex bill
• The decision to live stream the Fort Hood killer’s execution
• What’s up with those “Trump accounts?”
• AI - I mean, “SI”
• Movies to see right now before the right wing buys ALL the media

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This was another week where we had to face

• A plummeting economy
• Trump’s ongoing war of choice in Iran
• Pentagon Pete’s hollowing out of military experts
• The United States aligning itself more closely with Russia
• ICE’s stealth siege of communities throughout the country
• the Supreme Court’s complicity in Trump’s relentless attack on our voting rights
• Revelations about a horrific gang rape and cover-up at an elite university
• Trump’s illegal propaganda “PSAs,” paid for with CBP funds appropriated for border security
• The failure to stop the Paramount-Warner Brothers merger (which bringing CNN under the wing of another MAGA billionaire) 
• Tech oligarchs agreeing to police themselves amid new revelations of rogue AI agents hacking US government websites...

Among other things. Thank goodness November 3 is less than four weeks away. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss the trends - as well as the viral moments from that Jack Smith hearing in the Senate this week.

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Ten years of living with Trump's blatant corruption, dictator hero worship, lawlessness, election threats, and trampling on our rights is exhausting.

But the rise of the oligarchy that Republican policies have enabled is killing our democracy. MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills are enraged at the way California Attorney General Rob Bonta caved in this week's settlement of the lawsuit against the Paramount-Warner Brothers merger. And they believe that Democrats will need to put some of their energy into breaking up some mega media corporations, beginning with this one.

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MOMocrats Aliza Worthington and Donna Schwartz Mills have been thinking of Star Trek, which anticipated a future of voice-activated computers, bloodless non-invasive surgeries, and diverse, inter-galactic cooperation.

What we've actually got is an AI industry that is suddenly calling for some kind of global governmental safety guidelines... and a buffoonish leader who thinks the solution to their problems is "a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades."

That same President is wrecking our economy and national security, initiating both military and trade wars, destroying decades-old alliances, and throwing tantrums over his inability to put his name on the Kennedy Center.

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Trump 2.0 was already everything everywhere at once. But now the hits are coming faster. We’ve got election rigging on multiple fronts, right out in the open. We’ve got a Middle East quagmire that is depleting our defenses (despite the military’s trillion dollar budget). We’ve got the Interior Department robbing our beautiful National Parks in order to fund the President’s fugly construction projects around D.C.

We have ICE thugs still rounding up people who are NOT criminals, separating families, and locking them up in concentration camps - before they deport them to dangerous countries the deportees may have never heard of.

MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss. 

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Natalie Harp (a/k/a Trump's "Human Printer") has been EVERYWHERE this week, thanks to a mass MAGA freakout over a Jon Ossoff campaign speech last weekend. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills dish about Natalie and the national security problems she represents (especially during the year she worked in the White House without vetting). 

Also on the agenda this week: Chief Justice Roberts enabling the White House ballroom construction to continue, the latest midterm primaries, Talarico vs. Paxton in Texas, and what Democrats have to do immediately if they do capture the House and Senate, 

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Trump’s losing streak includes all the attempts to prove election fraud in 2020, take over the elections in 2026, his tariffs, bogus cases against protesters and people who touched the water of the reflecting pool, put his name on the Kennedy Center, and his war of choice in Iran. And the fact that he keeps on fighting the same fight over and over again has made reading the news feel like Groundhog Day.

But this week's revelations about how he was smuggled off of Air Force One onto another plane - via a catering truck - has also done the one thing that is sure to cause ketchup stains all over the the gilded crap on the White House walls: because it makes him look very, very weak.

MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss.

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The Trump era news cycles are jam packed with outrages, and this was a particularly packed week.

There were so many stories related to Trump’s greed and corruption that you could almost see a pattern, with less obvious crimes lurking beneath each broad assault.  Like an onion. Or Russian nesting dolls. 

MOMocrats Aliza Worthington and Donna Schwartz Mills also talked about the Blanche nomination and Tuesday's primaries - with a focus on Michigan.

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