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

American I'll take you inside the movement. Listen to Extremely American

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Hi Shortwaivers, Regina Barbara here.

The city in the United States that has the most people is New York.

You know the Big Apple. The place is full of skyscrapers and if you went up one and looked down you'd see all these people like down below, tiny, tiny little people scurrying around from place to place, looking like ants.

Real ants vastly outnumber human New Yorkers.

Scientists have actually done some calculations proving this by looking at the number of ants per square foot.

But most of the time, the ants go unnoticed.

That's why, as I've recently learned, beneath the feet of

millions of people, one particular ant has managed to take over Manhattan. And I

know this because of our intrepid ant correspondent,

N. N. P. R. is Nell.

I do feel like I talk to you guys about ants fairly often.

I love it.

Yeah, this ant has been sort of covertly conquering Manhattan since it first showed up there in 2011.

And you know, back then, researchers knew it had to be a brand new arrival because they'd been doing surveys of the city's ants like a few years

before and like they hadn't seen it.

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