The WikiLeaks release of Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta’s emails has escalated the now months-long hyperventilation about the Russian hackers hiding under your bed. But try as Democratic Party elites might to distract from what’s actually in the leaks with cries of “Putin did it!”, people are paying notice to the revelations.

The emails offer a rare glimpse of the machinations of a modern political campaign. Here’s some of what we learned.

The Clinton campaign plotted to use gender and race against Bernie.
One of the themes of this year’s Democratic primaries was the weaponization of identity politics as a cudgel with which to beat Bernie Sanders’s message about inequality. The Podesta emails suggest this was a conscious strategy. One email from ex-Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau (not that Jon Favreau) urges the Clinton camp to continue perpetuating the idea of Sanders as a “single issue voter,” saying: “This idea that class is the only divide and economic issues are all that matter is a very white male centric view of the world (a Bernie Bro view, if you will).”