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Hungary's election on Sunday was a political earthquake felt around the world.

“Everybody should really pay attention to this because it’s huge,” Karoli says in this week’s podcast. “But also it is a lesson in how one disgruntled guy who used to be a member of the party that Orban was in, decided to start his own party and go all over the country and to all the farmhouses and all the rural areas and everything else and just get people lit up. He got them protesting in the streets. I mean, it wasn’t just him, but he organized, right? And he got them to the people that were in the streets and the people that were voting in the rural areas. And he literally everywhere, basically, Orban lost, right? Like it was an undisputable loss.” 

Some of the other topics covered by MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills this week:

• The blockade of the blockade (of the blockade?) in the Strait of Hormuz
• Eric Swalwell and the California Governor’s Race
• The Department of Justice’s decision to try to erase the seditious conspiracy convictions of some January 6 organizers
• That weird White House DoorDash stunt

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MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills all needed to talk out their feelings of fear, disgust, and absolute rage over Donald Trump’s and Pete Hegseth’s war crimes (and yes, a credible threat to commit genocide - as the ones Trump issued this week - is a violation of both US and international law).

There are things we can do. And - aside from the threat of Armageddon - there are bright spots among the clouds. The MOMocrats talked about those, too.

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The occasion of Pam Bondi's firing gave MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills the fodder for a discussion that was a little more light-hearted than usual - even though they are bracing themselves for a replacement at DOJ who will be even worse (because after 10 years of this nightmare, they know that is how the Trump administration rolls).

Also on this week's agenda: Trump's Wednesday night address to the nation, the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship case, the blatantly unconstitutional executive order that would allow DHS to pick and choose who gets to vote, and the Artemis II launch.

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Trump’s poll numbers are plummeting further as his war of choice in Iran supercharges oil prices into the stratosphere.

The global economy will soon be suffering from higher food prices, scarcer pharmaceuticals, and more expensive manufactured products like semi-conductors.

And yet, there are some who are winning in this scenario: 

• The mysterious traders who seem to know exactly when a Trump announcement is going to make the markets rise
• Mohammed bin Salman, who is apparently whispering in Trump’s ear to stay the course
• Bibi Netanyahu, who surely believes the war will boost his standing with Israeli voters (which may backfire on him)
• And Iran, which now finds itself able to sell its own oil on the world market because Trump lifted sanctions in an attempt to tamp down those oil prices. While we are bombing them. 
• Oh, and Russia too.

You really can’t make this stuff up.

MOMocrats Aliza Worthington and Donna Schwartz Mills also talked about the SAVE Act, ICE in the airports, how the Senate Democrats are holding fast against funding Homeland Security, and the latest news from the House about the Epstein files.

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MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about Trump's war in Iran, and his absolute unfitness for office (the war will be over when he feels it in his bones???). They talked about the MAGA split over the war, and counterterrorism chief Joe Kent’s resignation. 

There was a lot of activity in the Senate on Wednesday, and so the trio had quite a bit to say about Rand Paul’s face-off with DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin. During a hearing on Worldwide Threats, Tulsi Gabbard said it’s not her job to analyze the intelligence for the president (she is the Director of National Intelligence and that is exactly what her job is supposed to be!)

And of course, they discuss  the SAVE Act, which is the Trumpists’ “Great White Hope” for suppressing enough of the vote to stave off a big blue tsunami in November. 

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Note that the MOMocrats dropped this week's first F-bomb in the intro to this week's podcast. That's just how frustrated Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills are feeling with Donald Trump's burgeoning Middle East quagmire - which he started without a purpose, a goal, or any kind of exit plan.

As for the Democrats in Congress: they are mostly holding fast on refusing any new funds for the Department of Homeland Security. This fight has been at a standstill for weeks, and the MOMocrats agree that this is exactly the kind of leverage the minority party should be using.

But will they also be willing to hold up funding for this war, too? What about the nomination of Markwayne Mullin to succeed Kristi Noem at DHS? Or the SAVE Act, a voter suppression scheme that Trump wants enacted so he can steal some more elections? Right now, it does. not appear that it can get even all the Republicans on board to pass it - but the mere fact of its existence is upsetting. 

There was good news this week on the electoral front as Democratic candidates continue to perform well. And some under-the-radar developments over the Epstein files. 

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So now the United States is at war with Iran, for reasons (which keep on changing). A war that seems to have been slapped together at the last minute, because there appears to have been no coordination with DHS (which is still focused on waging war here on our own people) or the State Department (which got gutted by DOGE last year). A war that is spilling out into the entire region, raising Trump’s precious gas prices, and shocking the Dow back below 50,000 (NOW will Pam Bondi acknowledge those Epstein victims?)

Oh, and those expert FBI counterterrorism teams with years of expertise on dealing with blowback from our Middle East adventurism? They’ve either been reassigned to work with ICE - or fired by Kash Patel for being good at their jobs. 

If we are indeed frogs being slowly boiled, surely we’ve reached the moment where we’re good and cooked?

We also managed to touch upon Kristi Noem’s performance before Congress this week, and Tuesday’s primaries (especially the big one in Texas). 

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It feels to the MOMocrats as if the news cycle itself has been weaponized against us. Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills were prepared this week to talk about DHS/ICE funding, more Epstein bombshells, Pam Bondi's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, tariffs, voting rights, and the economy. 

Any ONE of those topics would deserve an hour of discussion. This week's podcast touched on most of them.

The MOMocrats want to point out that they misidentified someone: The Boris Nikolic who died in his 30's was a fashion designer and is NOT in the Epstein files. The Boris Nikolic who was an associate of Bill Gates is very much alive. We regret the error.

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The Trump administration is like an arsonist in a 100-mph Santa Ana wind, starting fires and spreading them in every direction. This makes focusing on any one disaster for more than a day very difficult - which is, of course, the point. 

This week, MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills try to get a handle on CE and CPB, and would they be coming for Haitians in Springfield, and DHS funding, and the SAVE Act, and threats to the 2026 election, and Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, and the Epstein Files (which turns out to be the only story that has the staying power to hold everyone’s attention for more than a few days). 

They also had some nice words for Bad Bunny's triumph at the Grammys and his upcoming Super Bowl half-time show (does anyone think he'll lose a significant amount of viewers to that thing TPUSA is holding with Kid Rock?)

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The last time Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills chatted, they criticized the seven House Democrats who helped pass the budget bill (when we should have held out for concessions that would claw back ICE funding). 

That was one week ago. It feels like a month.

The MOMocrats spent the hour talking about ICE’s execution of Alex Pretti, the heroism of Minneapolis, and how it is shaping the Senate’s budget negotiations. Not to mention the “eeeew” moment when someone brought up the gruesome twosome of Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski. 

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