Extremely American

Jun 26 2024 123
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In Season 2 of Extremely American: Onward Christian Soldiers host Heath Druzin and James Dawson take an inside look at Christian nationalism. The movement aims to end American democracy as we know it and install theocracy, taking rights away from the vast majority of Americans in the process. The season follows the movement through the story of an influential far-right church, its attempt to take over a small town and a dark underbelly of abuse.

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Onward Christian Soldiers: Is It A Kirker?

Jun 26 2024 34 mins  
Christ Church is taking a novel approach to increasing their influence in Moscow. So far, they don't have the numbers to win elections, but they do have one resource: money. So the church and its members are buying up large swaths of the town. That's putting a lot of locals on edge.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Onward Christian Soldiers: Make It A Christian Town

Jun 26 2024 36 mins  
In the season 2 premiere of Extremely American, we meet Pastor Doug Wilson who leads Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho. His vision for the small college town? He wants to claim it for Jesus. And that's just the start. He and his allies want to make the whole country an explicitly Christian nation.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Season 2: Onward Christian Soldiers

Jun 20 2024 1 mins  
The Christian nationalist movement wants to make America a theocracy — a government under Biblical rule. Christ Church, embedded in a small, rural Idaho college town, is quickly gaining influence and political interest — but how did we get here? In the second season of Extremely American, host Heath Druzin spent a year inside the movement to understand their stark vision for Am

Bonus: Beyond Jan. 6: How Militias Are Trying To Remake America

Mar 09 2022 59 mins  
This was originally a Twitter Spaces hosted by NPR and Boise State Public Radio. It's a wide-ranging discussion about where the movements are headed, their outlook with Donald Trump out of office, how online recruitment is changing the face of these groups, and the sometimes unintended effects of anti-extremism strategies.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com

Bonus: The Kenosha Kid

Mar 02 2022 14 mins  
The Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial captured militias' attention like no other criminal case in recent memory. For them, Rittenhouse embodied the way they see themselves: protectors, keeping their communities from anarchy at the end of a rifle. His acquittal was seen as vindication for them and a green light to continue self-styled armed security.Learn more about sponsor message choi

Taking Militias to Court

Feb 23 2022 21 mins  
Former federal prosecutor Mary McCord is trying to put militias out of business and she's got their attention. She's working on a national strategy to get prosecutors and law enforcement to enforce anti-militia laws she says are on the books in every state. And it's already starting to work.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

The Resistance

Feb 16 2022 25 mins  
Jennifer Ellis has received threats in her fight to get the Idaho GOP out of the grips of an increasingly far-right ideology. But she's no liberal – she's a conservative rancher who knows her way around firearms and has been a player in GOP politics for years. Now she's trying to pull her party back from its increasing coziness with militias, anti-vaxxers and other far-right grou

The 51st State

Feb 09 2022 28 mins  
Way up in the Northern Rockies there's a sort of mythical 51st state. It's called the American Redoubt and it's a kind of theocratic limited government utopia, one with lots of guns. They recruit people to move there, live off the grid and run for office. And it's working – Redoubters are reshaping their communities and as far as they're concerned, those who disagree can leave.Le

The Insurrection Wing

Feb 02 2022 23 mins  
.R. Majewski was in Washington D.C. the day of the Capitol insurrection, hoping to see the presidential election of Joe Biden overturned. Now he wants your vote, at least if you live in parts of Ohio. And the partisan redrawing of election maps also means people who would have been fringe candidates in the past now have a chance to gain power at the polls.Learn more about sponsor m

The Anti-Government Government

Jan 26 2022 26 mins  
When Idaho's governor leaves the state, the lieutenant governor goes rogue and swears in the militia. This was just the latest move for the far-right, militia-adjacent politician. Janice McGeachin is leading a kind of anti-government government and now she and her allies are making a play to take over.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy