Extremely American
by NPR
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Feed Swap: Introducing A Whole Other Country, from Marfa Public Radio
Feed Swap: Introducing A Whole Other Country, from Marfa Public Radio
About this podcast
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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Episodes
The newest 20 of 27 episodes
- Feed Swap: Introducing A Whole Other Country, from Marfa Public Radio · 25 minAs the country heads toward the 2026 midterm elections, we're getting ready for Season 3 of Extremely American, coming early 2027. In the meantime, we're sharing an episode from…
- The American Storytelling collection explores the human stories behind the political headlines · 3 minPolitics is the human story behind the headlines: our hopes, disagreements, choices and visions for what comes next. This fall, the American Storytelling Collection brings…
- Onward Christian Soldiers: What Trump's Victory Means For Christian Nationalism · 1 h 24 min · Season 2 Episode 11Extremely American host Heath Druzin returns to Moscow, Idaho to give a talk about Christian nationalism and how American theocrats are now closer than ever to getting positions…
- BONUS Onward Christian Soldiers: The Christian Case Against Christian Nationalism · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 10A panel discussion with Christian leaders from across the political spectrum who are concerned about the rise of Christian nationalism. They talk about why they see the movement…
- BONUS Onward Christian Soldiers: When Dinosaurs Walked With People · 27 min · Season 2 Episode 9Heath and Jimmy travel to the Creation Museum, a kind of theme park dedicated to the idea that the Bible's creation story is literally true and that the earth is 6,000 years old…
- Onward Christian Soldiers: Joyful, Jolly Warriors · 31 min · Season 2 Episode 8Heath and Jimmy travel to Kentucky to attend a kind of Christian nationalist festival in the shadow of a six-story replica of Noah's Ark. The gathering brings together leading…
- Onward Christian Soldiers: Planting Christendom · 30 min · Season 2 Episode 7Christian nationalists are trying to take over the country one church and one school at a time. They have a blueprint for how to gain influence community by community and they…
- Onward Christian Soldiers: Wolves Among The Flock · 36 min · Season 2 Episode 6Critics of Christ Church and Christian nationalism say the emphasis on women submitting to men fuels an underbelly of abuse. Emilie Paige Dye is an abuse survivor and she details…
- Onward Christian Soldiers: Disobedience · 25 min · Season 2 Episode 5Helen Shores Peters starts to break with the patriarchy, but the patriarchy isn't done with her. And her change of heart leads her into a fight for her kids. To manage podcast…
- Onward Christian Soldiers: Obedience · 34 min · Season 2 Episode 4Helen Shores Peters was a true believer in patriarchal Christianity. She learned to be submissive to men in a fundamentalist school, got married at 20 and lived the life of an…
- Onward Christian Soldiers: The Charismatic Preacher And The Intoleristas · 28 min · Season 2 Episode 3Doug Wilson has gone from small town preacher to a leader in America's Christian nationalist movement. Along the way he's been equally good at attracting congregants and…
- Onward Christian Soldiers: Is It A Kirker? · 35 min · Season 2 Episode 2Christ 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…
- Onward Christian Soldiers: Make It A Christian Town · 37 min · Season 2 Episode 1In 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…
- Season 2: Onward Christian Soldiers · 2 min · Season 2The 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…
- Bonus: Beyond Jan. 6: How Militias Are Trying To Remake America · 59 min · Season 1 Episode 12This 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…
- Bonus: The Kenosha Kid · 15 min · Season 1 Episode 11The Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial captured militias' attention like no other criminal case in recent memory. For them, Rittenhouse embodied the way they see themselves…
- Taking Militias to Court · 22 min · Season 1 Episode 10Former 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…
- The Resistance · 25 min · Season 1 Episode 9Jennifer 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…
- The 51st State · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 8Way 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…
- The Insurrection Wing · 23 min · Season 1 Episode 7.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…
