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Dani Anguiano in Chico

Rural California is seeing its craziest election in years. Can a progressive win it?

Audrey Denney at a campaign event.
Audrey Denney at a campaign event. Photograph: Trevor Claverie/Courtesy of Audrey Denney

Inside an old Craftsman on the northern end of California’s Sacramento valley, Audrey Denney is spending the day on the phone – calling constituent after constituent to discuss rising healthcare costs, wildfire insurance premiums and cuts to benefits – and to solicit donations.

It’s the mundane way in which an epic, and uphill, battle for control of the US Congress is being fought.

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