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Steph Vigil for Colorado @stephvigil.bsky.social · 8d

It's the last day of a reporting period & there's a big fight ahead. Billionaires spent over $2m in dark money to oppose me in 2024, and they’ll do it again bc there’s nothing they hate more than a working class leader.

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Steph Vigil for Colorado @stephvigil.bsky.social · Sep 7

Colorado Republicans do this a lot too. We call it "Lodge you 'no,' but take the dough."

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Sep 7

LOL #RibbonCuttingSeason 🎀 makes the NYT.

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Steph Vigil for Colorado @stephvigil.bsky.social · Sep 3

Appreciate that!

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Steph Vigil for Colorado @stephvigil.bsky.social · Sep 3

All contact info at stephanievigil.com 👍

Vigil for HD-16

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Steph Vigil for Colorado @stephvigil.bsky.social · Sep 3

No matter how much Trump waves his tiny, splotchy little fist at Colorado, we like how we vote, we were always the best choice for basing Space Command, & Republicans have no one to blame by themselves for making this petty tyrant president.

Today's announcement was inevitable. GOP owns it.

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Steph Vigil for Colorado @stephvigil.bsky.social · Sep 3

I am! Is there something specific you're thinking about? There's a lot of state level policy that touches on water security and environmental/public health, though of course not everything is within state control.

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Steph Vigil for Colorado @stephvigil.bsky.social · Aug 28

Thank you EPC Progressive Veterans for having me around for your lunch this afternoon! We had some heavy topics to cover, from service cuts at the VA to how military personnel can defend themselves against unlawful orders.

Appreciate you all for your continued service to our community & our country

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Steph Vigil for Colorado @stephvigil.bsky.social · Aug 22

They can cry and scream all they like, but this special session is necessary to realign our state budget with the will of Colorado voters.
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Steph Vigil for Colorado @stephvigil.bsky.social · Aug 22

The temper tantrums that CO House Republicans are throwing today are almost a little funny.

Their dear leader got 43% of the vote in this state. The same voters have chosen a Dem trifecta with strong majorities in both chambers.
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Steph Vigil for Colorado @stephvigil.bsky.social · Aug 19

The legislature passed a balanced budget this year, same as any other year. It's the OBBB that blew a hole in it (this is a matter of our state's particular type of conformity to federal tax code, not a reduction in Federally sourced funding).

Buckle up: this is going to hurt for a lot of people.

Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · Aug 14

Frequently asked questions — and misunderstandings — about Colorado’s special session to close a nearly $1B budget hole coloradosun.com/2025/08/14/c... #copolitics #coleg

Frequently asked questions — and misunderstandings — about Colorado’s special session to close a nearly $1B budget hole

There’s a lot of confusion out there about why the hole exists, how the state budget works and what’s going to be done to address the gap

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Steph Vigil for Colorado @stephvigil.bsky.social · Aug 19

This is what Timothy Snyder meant by "do not obey in advance."

He actually can't force everyone to do everything that he wants, every time. Even if we don't "win" with every act of resistance or refusal, we have to keep pushing.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 18

need people to understand that accepting or conceding that he has the authority to do these things is tantamount to giving him the authority, and so your preemptive dooming is actively counterproductive

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Steph Vigil for Colorado @stephvigil.bsky.social · Aug 12

They haven't mentioned me by name yet, but rest assured: I've always been in right wing extremists' crosshairs. Dark money groups poured millions of $$ into HD-16 last year & they still only took it by 3 adjudicated votes.

Real life humans can donate at StephanieVigil.com to take it back next year!

Colorado Times Recorder @coloradotimesrecorder.com · Aug 5

Asked which #coleg seats the group plans to target, Rep. DeGraaf replied, "just the anti-Liberty, fetal-harvesting, child-mutilating, TABOR-hating, tax-loving gun-grabbers."
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Christian Right Representatives Launch Group to 'Flip Colorado Legislative Seats'

Three of the most conservative Republican legislators in Colorado, along with a few activists, have founded a new political action committee called "We the Parents." State Reps. Brandi Bradley (R-Roxb...

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Steph Vigil for Colorado @stephvigil.bsky.social · Aug 11

Crime in Washington D.C. is down.

Trump and his goons swooping in to take over the city IS the crime wave.

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Steph Vigil for Colorado @stephvigil.bsky.social · Jul 19

Watching MAGA suddenly realize that their leader blatantly lies about things that are embarrassingly easy to fact check is really something.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · Jul 9

The 14th Amendment was ratified today in 1868—guaranteeing equal protection under the law.

157 years later, Trump’s trying to erase it like it was a typo.

No birthright citizenship. No due process. Just Trump doing what he does best—breaking the law.

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Steph Vigil for Colorado @stephvigil.bsky.social · Jul 7

Mr Speaker, you actually are not helpless - you are handsomely paid, with tax dollars, to act. Not to pray. Shame on you.

This is why we're supposed to keep church and state separate.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 6

Mike Johnson on Texas floods: "In a moment like this, we feel just as helpless as everyone else does ... all we know to do at this moment is pray."

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Steph Vigil for Colorado @stephvigil.bsky.social · Jun 30

These folks are also - let's not forget - adherents of young Earth creationism as well. You don't get to reject the basis of modern biology and then pretend to embrace it for this one narrow purpose.

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Steph Vigil for Colorado @stephvigil.bsky.social · Jun 28

I know we're losing our ability to be shocked anymore, but - this made my stomach drop.

Let's call it what it is: calling people "rats" & removing them en masse is Nazi level stuff. This is what Nazis did. If you think Nazis were bad, you have to agree this is bad. It's not that complicated.

Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · Jun 27

“[These] inner-city rats, they live off the federal government. And that’s one reason we’re $37 trillion in debt. And it’s time we find these rats and we send them back home, that are living off the American taxpayers, that are working very hard every week to pay taxes.” www.al.com/politics/202...

Tuberville says ‘inner city rats’ live off the American taxpayers: Trump should send them ‘back home’

"These inner city rats, they live on the federal government," Tuberville said in the interview.

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Steph Vigil for Colorado @stephvigil.bsky.social · Jun 27

Omg I can't believe I have to say this, but you're not supposed to want dictators' respect

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Steph Vigil for Colorado @stephvigil.bsky.social · Jun 27

The US Constitution is crystal clear: if you're born here, you're a citizen.

Eroding this right paves the way to have millions of stateless individuals born on US soil - people born into a world in which they have no legal right to exist.

There is no rationale for this that isn't cruel & racist.

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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · Jun 27

Don’t ask state workers to comply with ICE subpoena, union leaders urge Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, whose policy is to do just that.

Don't ask state workers to comply with ICE subpoena, union urges Colorado governor | Colorado Newsline

Unions want Colorado Gov. Jared Polis to commit to not asking state employees to comply with an ICE subpoena.

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Steph Vigil for Colorado @stephvigil.bsky.social · Jun 19

Beautiful morning at the NAACP Juneteenth Prayer Breakfast! The observation of Juneteenth reminds us that freedom on paper is not the same as freedom in practice. We have to commit to the work for the long haul, especially when it's difficult & uncomfortable.

Always nice to see these great ladies!

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Steph Vigil for Colorado @stephvigil.bsky.social · Jun 18

Karman Line annexation defeated in a landslide!

I see this as a death knell for low-density sprawl. I'm sure some number of these votes are just anti-growth, and we'll continue to negotiate with those folks.

But it is a decisive rejection of endless expansion & that's very exciting!

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Steph Vigil for Colorado @stephvigil.bsky.social · Jun 9

Some of us took it seriously when he said he would turn US troops against civilians to serve his agenda. It's true that this is eerily familiar to those who have already been denied the American promise. But it remains the case that this is deeply un-American. Basic civil rights are not conditional

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · Jun 8

Hey just so we’re clear this is what an insurrection actually looks like

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