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We all knew that President Trump was going to be a disaster. But MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills had no idea of the velocity of bad policy, executive orders, gag orders, and crazy tweets we'd be buffeted by in the space of just six days. While President Trump obsesses and fumes over his unpopular poll numbers, losing the popular vote, and low inauguration attendance, the country is showing the strain. Agencies that work with climate science have been placed under gag orders, red states hit by storms last week are still waiting for FEMA response (Trump hasn't appointed anyone to the agency yet) - and on Wednesday, the ENTIRE senior management team at State resigned. And that's just a drop in the bucket. But at least, we all had a very nice march on Saturday. An Engender Media Group production.

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This week, we say good-bye to President Obama and try to prepare for the new Administration of Donald Trump, who despite recent revelations of ongoing intelligence investigations into ties with Russia, WILL be sworn in as our 45th President - along with the basket of deplorables he's designated for his cabinet. MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills agree with civil rights hero, Representative John Lewis, that Donald Trump is NOT a legitimate President. They'll talk about the chaos surrounding this transition, as well as Saturday's Women's March in Washington, DC and 300 cities around the world. Put on your hat - it's going to be a wild ride. This week's MOMocrats MOMochat political podcast from a progressive point of view is produced by Engender Media Group.

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We're not quite sure what a dervish looks like, but this week we've been schooled in what it's like to be so overwhelmed by news events and political maneuvers that it's impossible to keep up with it all - and that is what Donald Trump and the Republicans had in mind when they packed half a dozen confirmation hearings, Obamacare repeal motions, AND Trump's first press conference in months over just a couple of days. What they had not counted on was the explosive publication by Buzzfeed of an unverified dossier reporting Russian intel on Trump's business dealings and sexual proclivities. Whether true or not, it's the rare instance where the Trumpets could not distract the public from the revelations.MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills also talk about the bittersweet Presidential farewell speech by Barack Obama in this week's podcast looking at political news from the progressive point of view. Produced by Engender Media Group.

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The Electoral College has voted and the last teeny tiny hope of a Trump-less White House is over. MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills lament the end of a roller coaster year in politics and look ahead to survival through the coming kakistocracy in the last MOMochat podcast of 2016, looking at the day's political news from the progressive point of view. Check back here an hour from airtime for a list of the topics. An Engender Media Group production.

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Each of Donald Trump's cabinet nominees seems uniquely positioned to destroy the very governmental agency they will be administering. Rick Perry, the latest nominee, famously forgot that the department even existed. In the meantime, while most observers note that the revelation that Russia hacked the election in order to give it to Trump, the President-Elect continues to pooh pooh the report -- while continuing to skip his daily Presidential Briefings. The one glimmer of hope: the growing list of electors who have asked for the intel before they vote next week... and rumors that the number of Republican "faithless electors" who are interested in voting for an alternate candidate is as high as 20. Trump's team must be worried about that - they have threatened anyone who changes their vote with political consequences.MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss with guest Melissa Ryan of Ctrl Alt-Right Delete Newsletter. Ryan is a veteran of both politics and technology since the early days of the Netroots and has worked with campaigns from local to Presidential. 

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Donald Trump was named Person of the Year by TIME Magazine - which is appropriate, considering what he just accomplished by winning more pledged votes in the Electoral College. But Trump himself is upset that the magazine correctly describes the country as "divided." He would like them to perpetuate the propaganda that he won in a landslide, a point MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills refute with the fact of the popular vote. The MOMocrats also talk about the open Supreme Court seat and Merick Garland nomination and what Democrats can do with guest Aliza Worthington, of Worthington Post and The Broad Side. An Engender Media Group production.

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While MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills were enjoying the Thanksgiving holiday with their families, the folks in Trump Tower were busy interviewing candidates for cabinet positions. And the people announced so far have done the impossible: Made Mitt Romney look our best hope for a sanity at the Department of State (we will all forget his gaffes in Britain in 2012). So far, we have an Attorney General nominee who doesn't believe in civil rights... a leader of Health and Human Services who is not only the author of all those repeal Obamacare bills - he wants to gut Medicare, too...and a pick for transportation secretary whose family owns a shipping business - and she just happens to be married to Mitch McConnell (and McConnell says he won't recuse himself at her Senate hearing. If the President-Elect doesn't care about conflicts of interest, why should Mitch?) And before you can say "bottom of the barrel" - Trump also met yesterday with Dan Quayle. It's enough to make you forget about all the crazy tweets about recounts and flag burnings... but Karoli and Donna will try to remember. An Engender Media Group Production.

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The people have spoken - and while Hillary Clinton appears to have won the popular vote, she didn't garner the votes she needed in the Electoral College. MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills will review the historic election results (i.e., spend the hour sobbing into their coffee while learning to say the words "President Trump"). They will also talk about the handful of victories that came in last night for Team Blue. But mostly, they'll be crying into their coffee and planning their escape to Canada or how California can secede from the Union. An Engender Media Group production. 

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Last week at this time, MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills were beginning to breathe a little easier. Donald Trump seemed to be preparing for a landslide loss and his surrogates were planting seeds to find jobs elsewhere. That was before FBI Director James Comey decided to insert the Bureau into the election with a bombshell message to Congress that actually said very little about emails found on a laptop seized in an unrelated case and the media went into a frenzy quicker than you can say "Anthony Weiner," and Trump sprang back to life with brand new lies about Hillary Clinton's emails being "worse than Watergate." New polls show a tightened race, and today's FiveThirtyEight blog warns that Donald Trump has a real shot at winning this thing. An Engender Media Group production.

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The MOMocrats' are as ready for this election to be over as you are - especially since the polls seem to indicate that we are going to dodge the disaster that would be a Trump presidency and may even make gains in Congress. But Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills know better than to count your ballots before they're cast. This roller coaster of an election cycle can still hold a surprising lurch - and there is the issue of what happens next. They discuss all their political hopes and fears in this week's podcast looking at the day's political news from the progressive point of view. An Engender Media Group production. 

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