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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 4h

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 5h

And they don't want bailouts. They want market access. They want a fair farm bill. I am running because the people who feed our country deserve champions in Congress.

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 5h

Liquidate the middle class, transfer wealth and assets up. Colorado ranchers and farmers are a middle class bastion for the entire country. What they do is exceptional. Food ain't optional.

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 5h

Our billionaire Treasury Secretary has a billionaire buddy who gambled hard on a foreign country. Now we are spending $40 billion to bail out Argentina at the expense of US farmers. That's because it was never America first. It was billionaires first...and final.

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The Get More Smarter Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 4d

We fixed all the audio of our amazing interview with @trishacalvarese.bsky.social who is running against Lauren Boebert in Colorado's most Republican congressional district.

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 4d

YES! In last year’s race for #CO04, Lauren Boebert refused to debate me on TV. In the spirit of engagement her friend Charlie Kirk championed, let’s fix that in 2026. Lincoln–Douglas style. Comment or share if you would watch!

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 5d

You're getting paid through this shutdown and using your time to bully unpaid public servants into breaking the law? Oh honey. Leave the folks keeping DOT running alone. They’ll tell you what you should already know: the Hatch Act prohibits using official authority for partisan politics.

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 5d

The people who do the hard thankless work of feeding America shouldn't have to beg politicians like Lauren Boebert to do their jobs. www.facebook.com/share/p/17Cj...

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 10d

And here’s the truth: there’s no roadmap out of this. The elder generations don’t have the answers.
It’s going to take new vision, new leadership, and a new sense of responsibility to clean up the mess and rebuild something better. That’s why I’m running.

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 10d

We were told recovery was coming, but for most of us, it never did.

Now the AI bubble is doing what the housing bubble did: enriching a few, destabilizing the rest, and erasing rungs from the ladder of opportunity.

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 10d

The old rules don’t apply. Locked out of the housing market, now they’re being boxed out of the job market, replaced by algorithms before they even get their start.

I remember how that feels. I’m a millennial who graduated into the wreckage of the housing crash.

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 10d

Gen Z is disaffected because they inherited so many crises from older generations who built systems that no longer work.
The promise of the American Dream is broken.

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 10d

It's illegal to fire fed employees during a shutdown. This is extortion. And delighting in taking away people's livelihoods from a self-described Christian Nationalist seems pretty Un-Christian to me. Solidarity with AFGE.

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 13d

This week Colorado honors St. Frances Xavier Cabrini who built hospitals for the poor and sick. She embodied the Catholic social teaching to care for the least among us. I share that faith and am grateful for her example. With rural hospitals at risk of closing, this race is about faith in action.

Stained glass image of St. Francis Xavier Cabrini

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 17d

I’m Trisha Calvarese. I cared for my parents when they both had terminal cancer at the same time. I get care. And I will not let this careless person rip the safety net from my rural neighbors.

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 17d

But thanks to Boebert, now EVERYONE on Colorado's Eastern plains is at risk of losing access to EVERY available type of care.

That's because she voted to strip people of coverage in a way that puts rural hospitals at risk of downsizing and shuttering. Hugo already lost a nursing home.

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 17d

Lauren Boebert has no credibility on care. She sold out working families for billionaires & voted against cancer treatment for vets.

Per fed law, the only care undocumented ppl can get is emergency.

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 17d

I helped pass those investments in the first place and am running to fire Lauren Boebert because rising generations deserve access to the good education and jobs that can build a habitable future.

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 17d

Lauren Boebert doesn't want Colorado to be a world leader in cutting-edge climate tech and renewable energy production. She doesn't care that this administration is stripping the state of *HALF A BILLION* in investments.

coloradosun.com/2025/10/03/c...

Trump administration slashes $550 million in Colorado clean energy grants. Democrats call it revenge.

Mostly blue states, like Colorado, are losing $7.5 billion in federal clean energy grants. Democrats say it is an act of political revenge.

coloradosun.com

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 24d

We urgently need tech-fluent voices in Congress to lead on these emerging issues. Thanks to everyone who made the summit possible.

And please tell kids, tomorrow needs you. < 3

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 24d

Gavin’s Law makes it a crime in South Carolina to extort a minor. I will work with any Republican to similarly protect minors with Federal laws and to hold Big Tech accountable for a business model that profits from child exploitation.

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 24d

SC Legislator Brandon Guffey shared the heartbreaking story of his son Gavin, a happy teenager who took his own life, within hours of being targeted for sexual exploitation on IG by a scammer in Nigeria.

This can be uncomfortable to talk about. But silence and shame enable this crisis.

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 24d

Grateful to my Republican friend who invited me to the Inaugural Digital Safety Summit, supported by Sens. Bennet and Hickenlooper.

There’s a 20% chance your teen has experienced sextortion. At least 1 in 5 teens are lured into sending explicit images online then threatened and blackmailed.

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 24d

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Trisha Calvarese @trishacalvarese.bsky.social · 24d

But I know you're smarter than that. Proud to have helped pass the projects Boebert tried to kill but is now promoting. Help me fire her. Follow. Share. Pitch in now.

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