Colorado’s congressional delegates on both sides of the aisle have been deluged with calls and messages since Donald Trump’s election — at times triple the normal rate — from constituents worried about everything from health care to cabinet nominees and Russian hacking.

The wave comes among a national increase in civic engagement, from the sprawling Women’s March on Denver and other cities to crowded community meetings with politicos, that has left the state’s U.S. senators and representatives fielding a mountain of commentary.

While it’s not unusual to get an influx of constituents reaching out after a presidential election, staffers say the volume of calls, mail and social media messages to Colorado’s nine national-stage politicos are up. Way up.

One member of the delegation said the flood of civic engagement far eclipses what she saw when Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, was passed or during the rise of the Tea Party.

“It’s wildly more than when we did the ACA or the Tea Party,” U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, said Tuesday.

Since November, U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter has logged double the number of calls to his Lakewood office compared with the same period a year ago, with about half the messages related to Trump and his incoming administration. At his Washington headquarters, staffers for the Jefferson County Democrat fielded 423 calls between November and Monday, up from 228 calls during the same period last year, with about 60 percent related to Trump’s election.

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“It is unprecedented and it is sustained,” DeGette said. “We’ve had double the e-mails of normal since the election and it’s been pretty sustained. Ever since the new Congress came in and President Trump was sworn in, it spiked even more.”

“You can’t help but pay attention,” she added

So how do your representatives get the message? It depends.

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet has a team dedicated to constituent correspondence, while U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman’s staffers compile reports about different hot-button issues that the Aurora Republican uses when deciding how to vote.

Perlmutter’s staff funnels calls to whomever in his office is working on a specific topic. Constituent interactions are logged and filed for the congressman’s consideration.

U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, R-Greeley, says he casts his votes based on principles and appreciates hearing from his district.

“It’s important for Michael and our team to hear from constituents,” Bennet spokeswoman Laurie Cipriano said. “It helps our office stay on top of Coloradans’ concerns.”

The apparent increase in political action was on display Monday at Bennet’s office in downtown Denver, where about 40 people booed and protested and delivered mock rejection letters encouraging the senator to vote against Trump’s nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt.

Bennet’s state director Rosemary Rodriguez spoke to the group, saying she planned to compile a report of their concerns and relay them to Bennet.

“To me, this is the best part of the job — talking to people who love this state, who care about this country and whose values are to not go backwards and continue,” Rodriguez said. “I mean, we have so much to do. How can we go backwards?”

A similar protest occurred Tuesday outside the downtown Denver office of U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, a Republican.

Earlier this month, a group of citizens gathered to speak to Coffman at the main Aurora Public Library became upset when he left the meeting before all of them got a chance to bend his ear. The event came after an opinion piece, written by Coffman and Colorado’s other Republican representatives about why they would vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act, appeared in The Denver Post.

Coffman’s camp later apologized, saying an overwhelming number of people showed up.

“We have seen an increase in incoming calls to both our D.C. and (Colorado) offices,” Coffman’s spokesman Daniel Bucheli said. “They range in topic/issue and often times includes/involves casework.”

The district of U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, is generally active, he said, but the amount of citizen contact — calls, letters, faxes, social media posts, attendance at town hall events — is up. “Since the election, my office has seen an increased amount of community engagement.”

DeGette, a member of Congress for 20 years and the current chief deputy whip of the U.S. House of Representatives, says her constituents have been worried mainly about health care, speaking out in a chorus of Facebook interactions, calls and notes at a rate three times higher than she normally sees.

In the past week, her office has received more than 1,500 e-mails on Obamacare alone. Citizens have also called with worries about Russian interference in the U.S. elections, the rise in hate crimes, the president’s cabinet nominees and his tax returns.

“I’m very encouraged by this level of civic engagement,” DeGette said. “I don’t think people should be complacent about this and I think it will matter. Several of my colleagues, their switchboards have been overwhelmed with calls. They have shut down.”

Though it might be hard sometimes to keep up with the wave of citizen comments and complaints, members of the delegation say citizens should keep it coming.

“Our phones are consistently active,” said Liz Payne, a spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, “and volume generally increases when there is a major policy issue coming to a head or change in government.”

Tipton says every vote he takes is on behalf of his constituents, and thus their input informs his judgement.

A spokesman for U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado Springs, says the congressman is confident that he represents the majority of his constituents who support him “due to his rock-solid and consistent conservative beliefs and principles.”

“I’m grateful when my constituents contact me to express their thoughts and concerns because their feedback allows me to do my job best and develop legislative solutions that benefit Coloradans,” Gardner wrote in a statement to The Post. “I encourage my constituents to continue to contact me – whether it’s an e-mail, a phone call, or a social media post — to express their opinions and participate in the democratic process that makes our country so unique.”

Staff writer Hayley Sanchez contributed to this report.