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🗓️ 12 January 2025
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0:00.0 | I'm Aisha Roscoe and you're listening to The Sunday Story from Up First, where we go beyond the news to bring you one big story. |
0:09.3 | So if you've been following the news over the last year, you've likely heard about the rise of the Christian nationalism movement. |
0:17.5 | Today on the Sunday story, we take a closer look at one group of Christian nationalists and hear their vision for the country in their own words. |
0:27.3 | I'm here with journalist Heath Drusen. |
0:30.0 | He's the hosting creator of the extremely American podcast series from Boise State Public Radio and the NPR Network. |
0:38.5 | The podcast series provides an inside look at how a national movement traces back to a church |
0:46.3 | in Idaho. |
0:48.9 | Keith, welcome to the podcast. |
0:51.3 | Thanks. |
0:52.5 | So I know that you've immersed yourself in reporting on Christian |
0:57.3 | nationalism in America. Talk to me about what this very, very broad category means to you. |
1:05.5 | Right. So Christian nationalism is a pretty broad movement. It can mean a lot of different things, |
1:12.9 | but there are some unifying ideologies in the movement. One big example is something called |
1:20.2 | dominionism. Now that's sort of a jargony term, but really what it means is that Christianity |
1:27.4 | should rule all aspects of life and that |
1:31.6 | Christ's teachings should be the foundation for all of society. And, you know, I've been covering |
1:38.3 | extremism since 2018, just looking at how extremism interacts with politics. |
1:45.6 | And a lot of my early coverage was about militias. |
1:49.9 | I covered the COVID lockdown pushback, which was really strong in Idaho especially, |
1:55.5 | and even elected officials pushing conspiracy theories. |
1:59.6 | And eventually, my reporting turned to Christian nationalism. |
2:03.2 | When I started in 2018, I think people saw it as a really fringe movement. |
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