Christian nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule.

If they gain more power, it could mean fewer rights for you.

I'm Heath Drusen and on the new season of Extremely

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Hey everybody, it's Mariel.

If you listen to Life Kit regularly, you have a sense of who I am as a person and my temperament.

I think you can count on one hand how many people I've yelled at in my entire life.

One of those lucky few was my downstairs neighbor

when I lived in Philadelphia.

And look, I'm not going to go into the dispute

and explain to you all the ways I was right and he was wrong, because I know that I was and I don't need the confirmation

but I share this to say man disputes with our neighbors they bring out these

raw emotions, right?

And our most scared and angry selves.

I think it's because this is where we live.

We want our homes to be a safe and comfortable place

and something our neighbor is doing might stand in the way of that.

Sasha Philip says conflicts between neighbors are super common.

They're ubiquitous. They're everywhere. I mean it comes up all the time every day.

Sasha is a mediator and arbitrator who helps people solve their conflicts.

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