Extremist politics divided this conservative California community. What will it take to turn the tide?
by Dani Anguiano in Redding from US news | The Guardian on (#6RABT)
Shasta county battles rising homelessness and high suicide rates, but its political agenda is focused on remaking the voting system - can the damage be undone?
This is the second of three stories on the run-up to the 2024 US presidential election in Shasta county, a region of 180,000 people in northern California that has emerged as a center of the election denial movement and hotbed for far-right politics. Read the first one here.
Tim Garman is worried about Shasta county. His community has been in the midst of a dizzying lurch to the far right, gaining national attention for its rowdy and radical politics and full-throated embrace of election conspiracy theories.
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