Episodes 26
Avg. Duration 29m
Activity Declining
Apple Rating 4.8 (442)
Since Dec 2021
Latest Episode Feb 2026

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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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S2E12 Introducing the American Storytelling collection

Feb 10, 2026 1m

What does it mean to be an American? There’s no one way. At NPR, we think of the American identity as a story - one that's always being rewritten by the people who live it. The American Storytelling…

S2E11 Onward Christian Soldiers: What Trump's Victory Means For Christian Nationalism

Jan 29, 2025 1h 24m

Extremely 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 of power at the…

S2E10 BONUS Onward Christian Soldiers: The Christian Case Against Christian Nationalism

Aug 21, 2024 38m

A 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 as antithetical to…

S2E9 BONUS Onward Christian Soldiers: When Dinosaurs Walked With People

Aug 14, 2024 27m

Heath 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. So-called young…

S2E8 Onward Christian Soldiers: Joyful, Jolly Warriors

Aug 07, 2024 30m

Heath 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 Christian nationalist…

S2E7 Onward Christian Soldiers: Planting Christendom

Jul 31, 2024 29m

Christian 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 are playing the long…

S2E6 Onward Christian Soldiers: Wolves Among The Flock

Jul 24, 2024 36m

Critics 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 what happened to her…

S2E5 Onward Christian Soldiers: Disobedience

Jul 17, 2024 25m

Helen 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 ad preferences, review…

S2E4 Onward Christian Soldiers: Obedience

Jul 10, 2024 34m

Helen 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 obedient wife for…

S2E3 Onward Christian Soldiers: The Charismatic Preacher And The Intoleristas

Jul 03, 2024 28m

Doug 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 controversy. He's never been…

S2E2 Onward Christian Soldiers: Is It A Kirker?

Jun 26, 2024 34m

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…

S2E1 Onward Christian Soldiers: Make It A Christian Town

Jun 26, 2024 36m

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…

S2 Season 2: Onward Christian Soldiers

Jun 20, 2024 1m Trailer

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…

S1E12 Bonus: Beyond Jan. 6: How Militias Are Trying To Remake America

Mar 09, 2022 59m

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,…

S1E11 Bonus: The Kenosha Kid

Mar 02, 2022 14m

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…

S1E10 Taking Militias to Court

Feb 23, 2022 21m

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…

S1E9 The Resistance

Feb 16, 2022 25m

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…

S1E8 The 51st State

Feb 09, 2022 28m

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…

S1E7 The Insurrection Wing

Feb 02, 2022 23m

.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…

S1E6 The Anti-Government Government

Jan 26, 2022 26m

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…

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