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All right, here we go.
Okay, I'm just going to check my levels here, the dorky radio thing.
So just going to ask you to tell me what you like about Moscow.
Moscow.
What do I like?
I really do like the community as far as the downtown atmosphere.
It used to be a lot better.
It's a little bit different now.
I meet Sarah Bader in downtown Moscow, Idaho.
Sarah went to high school here and has lived here most of her adult life.
And she knows about Doug Wilson's plans for her town.
This evangelical idea of conquering a town, conquering a nation, which he's really enacting.
Sarah thinks he's having success.
She says, as church members have bought a chunk of downtown, she thinks other Moscowites haven't done enough.