Extremely American

As 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 our friends at A Whole Other Country, a podcast from Marfa Public Radio. Like Extremely American, A Whole Other Country explores what happens when fringe political movements collide with the real world.

In this six-part series, reporter Zoe Kurland drives the bumpy roads of the Davis Mountains Resort to talk to neighbors, historians, eyewitnesses, and hostages about the real story of the Republic of Texas – and what happens when the myths of the frontier crash violently into reality. Here's the first episode.

Politics is the human story behind the headlines: our hopes, disagreements, choices and visions for what comes next. This fall, the American Storytelling Collection brings together six podcasts from the NPR Network that take a closer look at the people, power, conflicts and turning points behind American politics from every angle. Find the collection by searching 'American Storytelling' in Apple Podcasts or the NPR app.

In this episode: a first trailer for Season 3 and a look at what your support makes possible

To support the upcoming season, please donate at extremelyamerican.org.

The next season of Extremely American is ambitious, urgent, and already underway.

Host Heath Druzin is reporting across the country on a neo-Nazi group that terrorized the West in the 1980s — and the modern white supremacist networks its members helped grow.

To make this season happen, we’re asking listeners to become partners in the reporting – we're counting on your support to get this season over the finish line.

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 highest echelons of government.

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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 the teachings of Jesus Christ and the undertones of bigotry they see in Christian nationalism.

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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 earth creationism is a fundamental idea in Christian nationalism and one that could threaten the very foundations of scientific research if it ever becomes government policy.

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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 thinkers from around the country to compare notes on how to turn America into a theocracy.

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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 game.

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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 at a fundamentalist school and why she thinks her case was swept under the rug.

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