On Thursday morning, Abreu went to pick up his daily floor credentials, and was denied. Too much of a disturbance, he was told.

"I'd understand if I was holding up signs that said 'Obama's from Kenya' or 'Crooked Hillary belongs in jail,' " Abreu said. "But I did the least disruptive thing I could. I only held up my sign when others stood up and cheered. I don't know why they stripped my credentials, because all I did was express civil disobedience against the TPP."

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Supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont spent Thursday trading rumors, hurrying to Wells Fargo Center, and prepping for one last show of strength as Hillary Clinton accepts the Democratic nomination. Clinton's team, hoping for a bounce out of Philadelphia, was watching nervously for anything that could come off as a sign of disunity or chaos -- a walkout being the worst option.

"Looking at the audience the last couple nights, she might want to concentrate on her base a little," Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer snarked at a news conference today.

Some of Sanders's supporters were hoping for a resolution, one last show of good faith from Clinton's team. If someone from the DNC apologized for the expulsions, that could smooth over tension. If Clinton herself praised Sanders, as President Obama did on Wednesday night, some -- not all -- of the bad feelings could fade.

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But on Twitter and Facebook there were reports of up to 700 Sanders delegates being kept outside, of Clinton delegates filling seats so that Sanders delegates would be locked out, and of the DNC being so desperate to cover up for walkouts that it was hiring actors to fill seats.

Almost all of the rumors were false. There was no mass stripping of credentials; delegates, like Abreu, had to pick up new passes each day, as a security measure, and it was at that point when volunteers for Sanders fell off the roles. A Craigslist ad asking for "700 actors" to fill seats did not come from anyone related to the convention and bore little relationship to the reality of the convention, where the sporting arena was packed cheek-to-jowl, with fire marshals cutting off access to some areas as they filled in.

In fact, that rumor contradicted the much truer story of seats being filled in before Sanders delegates got chances to pack them. The final day of the convention lacked some of the drama of the first days but filled the gap with paranoia about crucial space in the arena being filled by the wrong team.

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Shortly after 4 p.m., a few dozen Sanders delegates rallied inside the arena-adjacent media tent that had become an ad hoc protest hub. They splayed neon yellow sheets of copy paper on the ground, writing #NoVoice #NoUnity on one side and slogans of their choice on the other. They wore shirts in the same gaudy neon with the slogan "Enough Is Enough," credited to Sanders himself, written across them.

"I've had Hillary supporters call me names," said Edward Alexander, a Sanders delegate from Alaska, one of the Vermont senator's strongest states. The back of his sign read "Our Vote Is Sacred," something he'd grown worried about in the wake of DNC email revelations.

"I've had people shout at me because I wasn't smiling or waving signs," he said. "Somebody explain the taking-away of 'No TPP' signs -- why do that when both candidates are against the TPP?"

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Sanders has said nothing about the protests, except that it is not up to him to corral every one of the people he brought into the party. But "enough is enough," one of his catchphrases, actually refers to what he sees as an oligarchy's tightening grip around the country, not any fight among Democrats.

At the small protest in the media tent, Jeffrey Eide, a Sanders delegate from North Dakota, told protesters to stand their ground and to be polite. They did not have to relinquish their signs if anyone asked them to, but it was not in their interest to create a scene.

What worried Abreu was that the DNC would find ways to minimize even minor scenes. "I'm under the impression that the California delegation has had its lights turned off," he said, and that there are "white noise machines in front of their sections."

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Clinton delegates from California disputed some of that, but they were led to believe that microphones near their delegation had been quieted to avoid picking up boos and chants. (All such noise has been hard to hear on audio feeds since Wednesday afternoon, when the role of state delegations in picking the nominees ended.) They also winced at the memory of Monday morning's delegation breakfast, where Sanders delegates chanted "Count the votes!" at California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, blaming him for a (typically) slow count after the primary.