Eleanor Voss

Eleanor keeps the long memory: the 1920s Power Trust, the holding-company pyramids and captured regulators, the New Deal's public-power answer, and the rural co-ops that farmers built themselves. The country beat these exact people once before, she says — under worse conditions — and wrote down how. She reaches for the historical twin of every current fight, from the utilities' century-old propaganda playbook to the 2005 repeal that quietly reopened a door the New Deal had closed. Her history isn't nostalgia; it's usable equipment — the tools that won last time, and which of them still exist in the law.