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The phony “socialist” takeover of the Nevada State Democratic Party On March 6, Judith Whitmer, formerly the chair of the Clark County Democratic Party and a member of the Las Vegas chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), beat Tick Segerblom to become the new chair of the Nevada State Democratic Party. Segerblom is a former state representative and long-time Democratic Party operative. He is also a member of the DSA. Judith Whitmer (Source: judithwhitmer.com) After then chair...

Progressive Takeover of Nevada Democratic Party Leads to Mass Exodus of Staff Joined by members of Make the Road Action and his supporters, Sen. Bernie Sanders participates in a “March to the Polls” on February 15, 2020, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Alex Wong / Getty Images Shortly after a slate of insurgent progressives endorsed by the Las Vegas Democratic Socialists of America pulled off a clean sweep in Nevada State Democratic Party elections over the weekend, the party’s executive director ...

During the presidential race, the conflict between the Sanders element and the Reid machine had been kept below a boil partly as a result of the personal relationships at play. Sanders’s 2020 brain trust was significantly made up of former aides to Reid who remain on good terms with the former majority leader, including campaign manager Faiz Shakir; deputy Ari Rabin-Havt, who has since returned to Sanders’s Senate office; and national policy director Josh Orton. But when the Sanders campaig...

Turn out the lights, the Party's over?

By Craig Bannister | March 9, 2021 | 11:39am EST Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) (Getty Images/Andrew Burton) The entire staff of the Nevada Democratic Party resigned after a slate of Democratic Socialists took complete control of the organization’s leadership. The resignations were announced in a letter reacting to the results of elections held over the past weekend, The Intercept reports: “NOT LONG AFTER Judith Whitmer won her election on Sa...