Hi, I'm Jasmine, one of the hosts of the Suburban Women Problem. For the next few weeks,

we're sharing season two of our limited series, The Cost of Extremism. Extremists across the

country are attacking our freedoms, and kids and families are paying the price. This five-episode

series will take a deep dive into crisis pregnancy centers, book bans, and the crunchy mom to alt-right

pipeline and more. Rachel, Amanda, and I will be back after our spring break, but in the meantime,

we hope you enjoyed this investigation into the true cost of extremism.

Extremists across the country are attacking our freedoms, and kids and families are paying the price.

A big project was to dispel the idea that there's any one type of person who gets involved in

white nationalism. That extremism just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger. It's rooted in

just everything that we're dealing with that is tearing the country apart is packaged into this

aesthetically pleasing video of a woman making sourdough. Women are such an integral role

in the movement. We make it look enticing.

Oh, there are girls in the far right.

Men go in thinking they're going to find wives.

Women join thinking that it's safe.

We are the propaganda.

Episode 5, The Crunchy Mom to Altright Pipeline Throughout history, men have been the face of alt-right extremist movements.

We think about the sea of white men with red, anger-fleshed cheeks,

and starch-pressed shirt collars walking through the streets of Charlottesville

with teaky torches. We imagine the hordes of men flooding the Capitol with American flags

draped over their shoulders. Most of us don't picture modestly dressed women baking sourdough

bread and preaching the importance of divine motherhood and the white

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