What’s really going on at the Democratic convention? Several Inland delegates in Philadelphia are writing diaries about their experiences. Diaries have been edited for space and clarity.

Mary “Aleece” DePuey, 49, Jurupa Valley; Bernie Sanders delegate:

We arrived to the center via special buses in the pouring rain only to find seats being saved by paid seat-fillers and DNC Hillary volunteers who were asked to get here and save whole rows of seats to shut the Bernie people out.

They thought all the Bernie people would be at the free concert for conventioneers, and they couldn’t have been more wrong about us once again. We are having to fight for seats to a convention we all were elected to attend.

The media is in our section again and California leads the rest of the country in our protests with other delegations to us for leadership.

People from other delegations were asking to join our efforts. New York, Illinois, Iowa, Florida, the strong delegations from Oregon and Washington state, and Democrats Abroad all approached us and will be working with us tonight as we plan to bring awareness to the platform and to try to keep the promises Mrs. Clinton has made with the platform and on the campaign trail.

As I’m writing this, a Georgia delegate has brought over “NO TPP” t-shirts she bought with her own money to pass out as California is getting camera time and massive social media coverage. California has the most progressive state in the nation with its legislative efforts in environmental, social, racial, and economic justice, so it’s important that we take this time to share issues that others may not yet be aware of.

These efforts include the TPP, overturning Citizens United, fracking, and voter suppression. As we listen to more speeches about how Mrs. Clinton will make us safer and be such a fighter for our nation, I am struck by the willful ignorance and cognitive dissonance of her supporters and how they do not care about the Wikileaks scandal, the collusion against any candidate that wasn’t Hillary, and the unwillingness to care about anything that the party isn’t telling them to care about.

It is no wonder there are so many Democrats looking for a new home or are completely disillusioned with the whole process. I don’t see how Mrs. Clinton can pull this election off unless Donald Trump completely implodes, and he’s been successful at managing to keep his followers engaged, no matter how awful he is — much like Hillary.