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Electrical help please!

One of the light fixtures in our kitchen is dead, and beyond very basic troubleshooting, I'm useless at this stuff.

I've checked the switch and the junction box with the multimeter - I'm getting power at the switch, but nothing at the junction box, with the switch on. In the pics below, I'm getting power at the black and red wires (lower red of the two - it's the right-hand switch that powers the dead box). But at the fixture I'm getting nothing on the white and red wires. Nothing has changed since it last worked (except the light fixture), so it's not a question of hooking something up wrong. I mean, I could've hooked the fixture up wrong, but the wiring from the switch to the box hasn't changed, so I should still be getting power at the wires in the box, right? Our old light fixture died, so I replaced it with another, figuring something in the fixture went. I found some frayed wiring in it from the ceramic bulb holder not being fixed in properly and turning around and around every time someone changed a bulb - I fixed that, and it still didn't work, so I went with the other fixture. But then when that was a no-go, I got out the multimeter and discovered the box wasn't getting power.

So where do I go from here?



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