of course voting rights shouldn t be tightrope stuff, but folks don t like to do this in an election year because of voter ramifications. without voting rights there is none of the other stuff that matters. there s no action on climate change, no action on gun control. there s no action on paid family medical leave. so this really concerns me. i wonder where the priority on voting rights was from the beginning, but even then obviously republicans haven t signaled they re ready to let go of the jim crow filibuster and have a real discussion on preservation of democracy, little d. so i m particularly concerned we re going to move into next year with a hodgepodge of voting rights that have been laid to suppress and restrict votes in state legislatures. and we re going to look into a universe where federal action has done nothing to curtail that suppressing voter activity.