Experienced Leader You Can Trust
Meet Trent Maier
Trent Maier is an engineer, entrepreneur, husband, and small business owner who has spent his career building businesses, creating jobs, and investing in the Inland Northwest.
After earning his degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University, Trent worked in the automation and energy industries before pursuing his passion for entrepreneurship. Alongside his family, he founded Trailbreaker Cider, helping grow it into one of the Northwest's leading cider manufacturers and a thriving local business serving families throughout the Spokane Valley.
As a business owner, Trent understands firsthand the challenges facing working families, employees, and job creators. From building and operating multiple businesses to leading the construction of Trailbreaker's 10,000-square-foot manufacturing facility, restaurant, and event center, he has experienced the impact of rising taxes, excessive regulations, government bureaucracy, and the increasing cost of doing business in Washington.
Trent has been an active leader in the regional business community, serving on the Board of Directors for both the Greater Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce and Greater Spokane Incorporated. Throughout his career, he has worked to strengthen the local economy, support small businesses, and create opportunities for workers and families to succeed.
Seeing the challenges facing Eastern Washington inspired Trent to step forward and run for State Representative. He believes government should focus on its core responsibilities: keeping communities safe, protecting taxpayers, defending individual freedoms, and creating an environment where families, workers, and businesses can thrive. He is committed to fighting for lower taxes, affordable energy, responsible government spending, public safety, and policies that promote economic growth rather than government dependence.
Trent believes common-sense leadership and real-world experience are desperately needed in Olympia. He is running to bring a practical, results-oriented perspective to state government and to ensure the voices of Eastern Washington families are heard.
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Past Board President, Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce
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Past Board Member, Greater Spokane Incorporated
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15+ Year Business Owner
On the Issues
Lower Taxes & Affordability
Cutting Red Tape for Small Businesses
Public Safety & Safe Communities
Families and small businesses across Washington are feeling the pressure of rising costs, higher taxes, and inflation. Trent believes government should live within its means just like hardworking families do. He will fight against unnecessary tax increases, oppose policies that make it harder to afford housing, groceries, fuel, and utilities, and work to keep more money in the pockets of the people who earn it.
Right now, state government continues to make life more expensive for working families and employers. Trent believes that has to change.
Trent has owned, operated, and managed several businesses throughout his career. He understands the real challenges employers and entrepreneurs face in Washington because he has experienced them firsthand.
Today, excessive regulations, rising costs, and government bureaucracy are making it increasingly difficult to operate and grow a business in our state. Trent believes government should support job creators, not stand in their way. He will fight to reduce unnecessary regulations, streamline permitting, and push back against government overreach that hurts small businesses, family farms, and local employers.
Washington should be a place where businesses can succeed, families can thrive, and opportunity can grow.
Safe communities are essential for strong families, thriving businesses, and a healthy economy. Unfortunately, Washington ranks last in the nation for law enforcement officers per capita, while rising crime, drug addiction, and public disorder continue to impact communities across the state.
Trent believes government's first responsibility is protecting its citizens. He supports recruiting and retaining more law enforcement officers, restoring accountability in the criminal justice system, combating the fentanyl crisis, and ensuring prosecutors and first responders have the tools they need to keep dangerous offenders off the streets.
As a business owner, Trent understands that businesses cannot grow and invest when crime, theft, and disorder are allowed to go unchecked. He will support common-sense public safety policies that protect neighborhoods, support law enforcement, defend victims' rights, and create an environment where families, workers, and employers can succeed.
Reliable & Affordable Energy
Workforce Development & Job Growth
Washington’s economy depends on reliable and affordable energy. Trent has worked in the energy sector and understands firsthand how critical dependable power is for families, manufacturers, agriculture, and small businesses.
He opposes policies that drive up utility costs, threaten grid reliability, or make Washington less competitive. Trent supports practical energy policies that protect jobs, maintain affordability, and ensure our state has the energy infrastructure needed to support economic growth for years to come.
Washington needs more opportunities for workers, tradespeople, and young people entering the workforce. Trent believes we should strengthen workforce development programs that connect students and workers with real careers in manufacturing, engineering, agriculture, skilled trades, and small business.
As a business owner, Trent understands the importance of building a strong workforce and creating an economy where businesses can grow, hire, and invest in their communities. He supports partnerships between schools, apprenticeships, community colleges, and local industries to prepare the next generation for good-paying careers.
