Heath Druzin
Reporter, Guns & AmericaHeath Druzin is the host and creator of the Extremely American podcast series. In the first season, Heath takes listeners inside the world of the ascendant Patriot Movement where he talks with the militia members and far-right activists who are simultaneously preparing to fight the government and become part of it.
The second season of Extreme American is an inside look at Christian nationalism, a movement that aims to end American democracy as we know it and install theocracy, taking rights away from the vast majority of Americans in the process.
Heath is also the host of Howl, a podcast about the reintroduction of wolves in Yellowstone.
Prior to launching his podcasts, Heath was Boise State Public Radio’s Guns & America fellow from 2018-2020, during which he focused on extremist movements, suicide prevention and gun culture.
Previously he covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and veterans issues for Stars and Stripes newspaper and government and crime for The Idaho Statesman. His work has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and the BBC.
When he’s not reporting, you’ll probably find Heath in the mountains splitboarding, hiking, biking, flyfishing or soaking in a hot spring.
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Heath gives a talk on how Christian nationalists see the incoming Trump administration as a great opportunity. -
A panel discussion with Christian leaders from across the political spectrum who oppose Christian nationalism. -
Creationism is a fundamental idea in Christian nationalism and it could threaten science as we know it.
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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.
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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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Helen Shores Peters is finished with headship. But she finds out that headship isn’t quite finished with her.
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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 years. But eventually things started going terribly wrong.
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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 shy about weighing in on divisive issues, but his take on slavery nearly got him chased out of town.
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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.
