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In an ideal world, MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills might spend an hour talking about important things like the war in Iran, climate change and the massive fires in Canada and Europe, Open AI’s rogue agent that escaped its experimental sandbox and hacked several other companies, the new reading curriculum adopted by the state of Texas.

But the world we live in right now is dominated by Donald Trump and his merry band of fascists, and so week after week, the MOMocrats' discussion centers on the staggering lawlessness, corruption, and chaos emanating from Washington. 

This week's topics included the Todd Blanche vote that didn’t happen yesterday, why its necessary to simultaneously ignore polls and work enthusiastically on building turnout for the midterms, President Obama’s ad for Iowa Senate candidate Josh Turek, and why the Democratic Party needs better communicators.

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It’s surprising how little has changed since the last time MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talked politics together (other than the passing of Lindsey Graham).

We are still mired in Donald Trump’s war of choice in Iran, which appears to be escalating again, as the Pentagon burns through its trillion dollar budget. And Todd Blanche still doesn't have the votes he needs to officially become Attorney General.

Other topics covered this week include:

• The Saudi nuclear deal
• The literal enshittification of the CDC regarding their ability to trace food-borne illnesses
• Paramount-WB merger
• California billionaire’s tax
• Laura Loomer in Ukraine
• Nixon-maxxing
• Andy Kim's proposal to provide medical coverage for every child in the country until age 26.

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Once again, Donald Trump' embarrassed the United States on the world stage at the NATO summit, by speaking incoherently, mistaking Volodymyr Zelensky for "President Putin," and making up entire nations.

But this week, MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills had the most to say about the Senate race in Maine, after Politico published the final red flag that broke the candidacy of Democratic nominee Graham Platner.

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This week, MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills talked about 

• Trump’s bonkers decision to hold the bipartisan bill hostage in order to get his voter-restriction SAVE Act passed
• The fact that the SAVE Act will never be passed
• “Algaegate“
• The US Postal Service’s willingness to help Trump restrict voting (a Federal judge has weighed in on that today)
• Tuesday’s primaries
• ABC’s campaign to enlist its viewers to help fight the FCC
• Bill Pulte as acting DNI and revelations about Tulsi Gabbard

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Trump's ill-advised, badly executed Iran War is ending just as disastrously as it began. He's determined to block a Blue Wave election by cheating in every way imaginable. The grifting and corruption of his regime and its billionaire supporters is on an astronomical scale. 

And along came Michelle and Barack Obama to remind us all of what this nation once was - and can become again. MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about this week's dire political news, but also the joy and love and determination displayed at the opening celebration of the Obama Center.

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On Tuesday, we learned just how much the Administration tried to keep that information under wraps, especially as it related to Donald Trump. (The URL above is a gift link, in case any of you still have not been able to read the whole thing).

MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills also discuss that monstrosity on the White House south lawn, midterm elections and trumped-up allegations of cheating in California, the new nominee for DNI and Hunter Biden’s masterclass in dealing with online trolls.

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 MOMocrats Aliza and Karoli went at it alone this week while Donna cavorted in Paris on her birthday.  

From the ballroom to the newly announced $1.776 Billion-with-a-B slush fund, it seems like this administration just tosses so many balls in the air it's impossible to catch them. 

But keep your eyes on the prize and stay alert, because we are actually winning some of these battles and November will be the Great Showdown. 

Aliza and Karoli called out leadership and called on leadership. Let's show people what it means to be American in these midterms.

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Donald Trump brought along a whole slew of oligarchs (and his grifting family) for his meeting with Xi Jinping in China this week. He says he made “fantastic trade deals.” (For whom, we wonder.) But the Strait of Hormuz is still closed with no end in sight to Trump’s Iran debacle - and inflation continues to spike. 

The Chinese understand that we are a global superpower in decline. Tim Snyder coined an excellent description of what electing Trump a second time has turned out to be: Superpower Suicide. And our demise continues, every single day.

People are understandably angry about the actions of a regime that are making us all worse off. Democrats have a lot of tools they can use to slow it down, make it end, and begin to reverse the decline. But MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills point out that it calls for bold leadership - from both the grassroots and the people we elect. 

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On Monday, the United States launched “Project Freedom” in the Strait of Hormuz. On Tuesday, it was all over. 

We’re not any closer to ending Donald Trump’s foolhardy war against Iran. But the S&P 500 is up 11% since the bombs started dropping, and that’s really what it’s all about, right?

This week MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills also discuss the new price tag for the war, the new price tag for Trump’s ballroom, the Callais decision, redistricting, and the sheer racism underpinning it all and this week's 2026 election results.

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The regime got a huge boost this week from the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in Callais v Landry, which put the final nail in the coffin of the Voting Rights Act. 

MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills also discuss the Democrats’ win over DHS funding, King Charles' visit, Pete Hegseth’s testimony to Congress, the White House Correspondence Dinner, Trump’s obsession with putting his name and face on everything - and the May 1 economic action (No Work, No School, No Shopping).

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