Welcome to Deconstructed.

This is Ryan Graham.

On Saturday evening, the Nevada Democratic Party leadership was thrown out of office

by a coalition that had come together organizing for Bernie Sanders in the state's caucuses

in 2016 and 2020.

What happened next was both shocking and, if you're cynical enough, expected.

To back up, a group of five candidates calling themselves the progressive slate, running

in coalition with the local Democratic Socialists of America, swept four of the five races

Saturday against the establishment slate, which dubbed itself progressive unity.

After a fight over who was eligible to vote and whose vote hadn't been counted, the one

race they lost flipped, meaning the DSA backed slate had won all five party leadership positions.

The party establishment, which is still led by former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,

a Titan in Nevada politics, quickly ditched the rhetoric about unity.

Former reporter John Rolston reported that nearly half a million dollars was drained from

the party's coffers and transferred to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Every employee quit.

All the consulting contracts were severed.

Not long after winning her chair race, Judith Whitmer got a blunt email from the soon-to-be

former Nevada State Party Executive Director, a lot of mounts.

The email begins, Judith.

Congratulations on being elected as the new Nevada Dems chair.

I am writing to inform you that I have received resignations from all Nevada Dems staff,

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