this isn't history. this is now. what's the way around it? what is the way out of this morass? over the august break nine u.s. senators got together to try to do something, something substantive and forward looking to try to kind of take the heat off this issue or at least to zap of it some of its ongoing destructive power. after republican senators in june blocked the big voting rights bill called the for the people act, these nine senators went back to the drawing room to try to find something else, some other approach that could potentially get around the republican opposition while also bolstering voting rights for real. right now these republican fantasies and fabalisms about elections are being treated as pretext enough to nuke voting rights and to nuke the professional nonpartisan administration of elections all