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If we were living through normal times, the month of August would have been relatively quiet. Instead, we got ICE raids and economic jolts, amid National Guard deployments to American cities and mid-cycle gerrymandering. Not to mention the Epstein saga.

And now that Congress is back in session, the chaos is about to go into high gear.

Right now, everyone's eyes are on the saga of the Epstein files (for very good reasons). But Congress has a looming deadline of September 30 to fund the government, and that sparked a lively discussion on Democratic strategy between MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills. 

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The MOMocrats ask: Has there ever been a summer that's gone by so quickly? (And now that it's ending, does that mean that the pace of crazy is just going to accelerate FASTER?)

Among the topics covered by Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills this week are: the latest mass school shooting in Minnesota (which literally occurred while the victims were attending mass), the current chaos at the CDC, the upcoming budget battle, , as well as Labor Day demonstration opportunities. They also offer congratulations to new Iowa State Senator Catelin Drey and newly engaged Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.

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The regime has sent the military into the nation's capital, proving that this summer's occupation of Los Angeles was only a dress rehearsal for the regime's plans to invade other American cities (in Blue states). But even more disheartening has been the acceleration of Project 2025's efforts to erase our history and change our culture: a new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics who doesn't seem to understand statistics... an overhaul of all the exhibits at the Smithsonian, to ensure that they reflect the President's "interpretation of history"... and a 4th of July cage match on the White House lawn. 

Thank goodness for the Texas Democrats whose visible fight against the regime's quest to rig the next election has spread to the Blue states... and California Governor Gavin Newsom's epic trolling of Dear Leader - who MOMocrat Aliza Worthington points out is very, very weak (for myriad reasons besides what's likely in the Epstein files). Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills join in. 

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This week, Trump ordered a new census based on 2024 numbers - and excluding non-citizens.

“Why is it that newspapers cannot say it’s unconstitutional?,: grouses MOMocrat Karoli. And when she pointed out on social media that this latest EO was unconstitutional, someone came back at her with “Who’s going to stop him?”

Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills talk about why this kind of fatalistic thinking needs to stop - and in the course of that discussion, they cover how Democrats are fighting the Texas gerrymander,  GOP stonewalling on Epstein, tariffs, ill-advised additions to the White House, and the rest of the spaghetti getting thrown to the wall so we might not notice how unpopular this regime is.

Just don't ever ask us "Who's gonna stop him?"

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Will Trump pardon convicted child abuser and known perjurer Ghislaine Maxwell in return for her “exonerating” him? Where’s the missing footage from that “raw” recording Bondi released? And will the Wall Street Journal continue to release bombshells from the Epstein files, which Trump claims would be devastating to Democrats? ( but if that was true, he would have released them without hesitation).

MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills welcomed back Aliza Worthington this week to talk about the latest Epstein developments, as well as the newest judge on the Court of Appeals, the outrageous new Texas gerrymander (and how blue states like New York and Illinois will respond), the Big Ugly Bill's backdoor ploy to privatize Social Security, and Kamala's announcement she will not run for California governor. 

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TThe regime is flailing in its attempts to keep Donald Trump's real history with Jeffrey Epstein - and MOMocrats are all in. 

Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills also talked about that Hunter Biden interview, that brutal South Park episode (on the heels of the Skydance-Paramount merger), and how the Supreme Court continues to allow Trump to usurp the powers of the other two branches.

But the talk kept coming back to Epstein, what the DOJ might be cooking up with his convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, and how recessing the House for the next six weeks isn't likely to make it stop. 

Can the crack this has put in the GOP's MAGA/QAnon base benefit Democratic prospects in 2026? At the moment - with their approval ratings in the toilet - that looks likely.

"My message to Democrats is, if you get back in power, if you have the trifecta, you damned well better expand the Court," says Karoli.

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We're not gonna lie: The last six months have been grim, and the regime’s rapid theft and consolidation of power from the other branches of government continues apace. We did not like waking up to the news that the Senate passed the rescission package (giving Trump legal authority to defund $8 billion in previously appropriated funds for foreign aid - and public broadcasting).

So yes: MOMocrats Karoli and Donna Schwartz Mills are eager to sit back and enjoy watching Trump lose control of the narrative over Jeffrey Epstein. And for once, we agree with MAGA: release the client list, and if there’s a case to prosecute some sexual predators, let ‘er rip - no matter who. 

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One week after the floods that killed over 100 people in Texas, the tragedy in ongoing. People are wondering how much DOGE’s cuts to the National Weather Service and NOAA factored into it. Journalist Marisa Kabas has reported that as of Monday, only 86 FEMA employees were on the ground in Texas (they usually deploy hundreds of people to disaster zones like this). 

In the meantime, $450 million from FEMA’s budget has been allocated to that concentration camp in the swamps of Florida. And Trump’s big, ugly budget bill allocates billions to expand ICE and build more “detention centers” throughout the country. 

ICE continues to terrorize immigrant communities, kidnapping law-abiding parents, gardeners, day laborers, and others who just happen to have brown skin (including US citizens). 

MOMocrats Aliza Worthington and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss in this week’s podcast.

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Saturday night was interrupted by the Trump regime announcing that the United States had answered Israel's pleas by sending American pilots to drop 14 "bunker buster" bombs on Iranian targets. If you're getting flashbacks of Iraq in 2003, you're not alone. After all, this is yet another unconstitutional, undeclared war based on - as independent journalist Judd Legum puts it - "manipulated events." 

And the legacy media is lapping it up. Karoli calls it "war porn," and that's pretty much all we're getting from cable news - while troops are still stationed in Los Angeles, DHS is sending armies of masked secret police around the country to abduct and imprison hard-working, tax-paying residents for the crime of being brown, we're still under threat of losing Medicaid, SNAP, and any semblance of a strong economy... and Trump is setting up one of his most craven cronies to be in line for a nomination to the Supreme Court.

It's a lot. MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills discuss.

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Amid the military occupation of the nation's second largest city (and threats to take over others), the jubilation of the largest US protests since the civil rights era, a flop of a parade in DC, ICE goons wreaking havoc throughout the country, bogus arrests of Democratic lawmakers, the political assassination of a respected lawmaker in Minnesota, and the threat of causing World War III...

...it's easy to forget that this is the time of year when the "conservatives" on the Supreme Court decide to make American lives even worse. And that's exactly what they did yesterday with their ruling in United States vs. Skrmetti, upholding Tennessee's law that denies gender-affirming care for minors (hey, this is NOT just gonna harm trans kids, although that seems to be the point.) MOMocrats Karoli, Aliza Worthington, and Donna Schwartz Mills have a few things to say about that and much of the other turmoil this week.

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