UPDATE, 4:55 p.m.: We’re live!

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The Shasta County League of Women Voters — love the League! — will host the first big Congressional candidates forum of the cycle at the beautiful Cascade Theater in downtown Redding this afternoon, starting at 5 p.m., and we are told that KRCR-TV will live-stream the thing on its YouTube page.

Tune in! It should be fun. Redding was only soldered on to the progressive-heavy Second Congressional District last year, as part of Gavin Newsom’s big gerrymander (and/or counter-gerrymander) initiative, and no doubt some Reddingites still resent the fact. There will be some culture clash, for sure.

Incumbent Jared Huffman, who has represented the North Coast since 2012, will be in attendance, as will candidates Gregory Burgess (no party), Tim Geist (R), Robin Littau (R), Paul Saulsbury (R), Angelita Valles (R) and Rose Yee (D). Nicolette Hahn Niman, who made a splash when she entered the race a couple of weeks ago, will be absent, alas.

See you in the YouTube comments! We’ll come back to this post and embed the live stream when it begins, if we can.