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California is voting on redistricting. An election skeptic runs the process in one county

Clint Curtis is overseeing a 4 November ballot that could add five Democratic seats and reshape US politics

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In California’s deep-red north, voters startled by pace of cuts – but they’re still backing Trump

President remains popular in conservative Shasta county despite plans to cut health, recreation and veteran services

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How a Florida-based election skeptic came to run elections in California

Clint Curtis, who once claimed to build vote-flipping software, will now lead elections in a conservative county

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Under a New Law, California Schools Hope Insurance Changes Lead to More Student Therapy

In areas like California’s rural Shasta County, school campuses may be the most effective places to care for children’s mental health needs, and such care will now be covered by insurance.

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US family reaches settlement after child’s goat was seized and slaughtered

Family receives $300,000 after technicalities of a California county fair led to the death of their daughter’s goat, Cedar

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The California community caught between a powerful megachurch and far-right extremists

Shasta residents voted out an anti-establishment leader in favor of a business owner who attends the enormously popular yet controversial Bethel church

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Extremist politics divided this conservative California community. What will it take to turn the tide?

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?

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How an ultra-right majority in California’s far north picked a novice to run its elections

Shasta county has made its name as a hotbed of the election-denial movement – and the snubbing of a well-respected election clerk has caused alarm

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Rural California county keeps ultra-conservative official who pushed to upend voting system

Shasta county’s Kevin Crye fought off a recall effort, but another far-right official who pushed election conspiracies lost the race for his seat

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California county on edge over bid to recall far-right, election-denying official

Shasta county residents voted on 5 March on whether to recall Kevin Crye, the president of the board of supervisors

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Shasta: two children killed in hillside collapse following California storms

Sheriff’s office said victims, pronounced dead at the scene, were caught in debris and fell down the northern California hillside

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‘An extreme agenda’: could a recall end far-right control of a California county?

Shasta county removed a moderate supervisor. Two years later, a member of the ultra conservative majority faces a recall of his own

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The California county where far-right officials tried to upend voting

Fears of election night unrest arose amid dispute with ultra-conservatives who insisted county use hand-count system for ‘election integrity’

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First Thing: Antony Blinken arrives in Turkey for Gaza talks

US secretary of state to talk to foreign minister Hakan Fidan in latest stop of diplomatic tour as US nuclear-powered submarine heads through Suez canal

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Days before election, far-right officials in California county insist on hand tally

Despite a warning from the state, board supervisors threaten to sue if Shasta county registrar uses voting machines

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California county abuzz after far-right figure appointed for mosquito control

Store owner in Shasta county who has elevated conspiracy theories about mosquitoes and vaccines gets seat on local board

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A California journalist documents the far-right takeover of her town: ‘We’re a test case’

Doni Chamberlain’s been a journalist in Shasta county for nearly 30 years. Now she’s targeted by the extremists who are looking to reshape the region

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Commentary: Where’s the humanity? County fair chose to slaughter a girl’s goat to teach her lesson

The Shasta District Fair last year ended disastrously for a 9-year old girl and her goat. And it didn’t end so well for the Shasta County, California, fair officials who sent law enforcement hunting with a search warrant for the animal after the girl decided she didn’t want it killed.…

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Far-right county throws out voting machines – with nothing to replace them

Shasta county’s decision to move to a hand-count system has drawn support from the election denial movement

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9-year-old California girl wanted to save her goat from slaughter. Then came the search warrant

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The 15-page search warrant and affidavit was very specific about the target Shasta County sheriff’s officials were after.

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California county offers top job to secessionist leader

The Shasta County Board of Supervisors has offered the job of running the day-to-day-operations of its government to a top figure in the New California movement pushing to split California into two states.

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Commentary: QAnon has gone local, with strange repercussions in California’s Shasta County and beyond

The Shasta County, California, Board of Supervisors has “upended the county’s election process,” the Los Angeles Times reported last week, “canceling its contract with Dominion Voting Systems.” The county could opt to hand-count ballots instead, which would likely delay results and promote more suspicion of elections. One supervisor said he…

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Mike Lindell backs rightwing California county as it ditches voting machines

Shasta county officials have ended their contract with Dominion Voting Systems, leaving them with no replacement

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‘A madness has taken hold’ ahead of US midterms: local election officials fear for safety

In two rural California counties, voters are showing increasing hostility and aggression toward election workers

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A California girl wanted to keep her baby goat alive. Her county fair killed it anyway

Last April, Jessica Long’s family bought a 4-month-old goat and took it to their Shasta County, California, home, where Long’s young daughter named it Cedar, feeding and caring for it and bonding with it as she “would have bonded with a puppy.”

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