Support Matt Strickland for VA After my older brother was gunned down and
killed, I escaped street violence by enlisting in the Army when I was 17.
After my older brother was gunned down and killed, I escaped street violence
by enlisting in the Army when I was 17.




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You’ve probably never heard of me, and if it wasn’t for the Army, I probably
wouldn’t be alive today to even write you.

My name is Matt Strickland, and I’m running for Senate in Virginia.
Early voting has already started for my primary, and I could really use your
help in this last stretch
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After my older brother was gunned down and killed, I escaped street violence
by enlisting in the Army when I was 17.

I reported to my first duty station on September 10, 2001. The next day the
Towers fell, and I spent the next decade fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. I
went from dodging gangs to fighting terrorists . . . andit feels like I’ve
never stopped fighting.

Let me tell you why . . .

After working for Blackwater and working several deployments as a combat
medic, I came home and just wanted some peace with my family.

I bought a food truck and started doing what I loved. It was a hit, and me and
my wife, Maria, expanded to a restaurant that we named Gourmeltz.

Life was good for a stretch, then the pandemic hit, and the government
illegally ordered me to close my restaurant.

Now listen, I spent too much time fighting for our country to come home and be
told that I couldn’t provide for my family . . . that I had to shut the doors
to my business and lay off the staff I worked so hard to hire and train.

Maria and I prayed about it. We talked to our staff, and then I talked to my
kids.

We have three boys and a beautiful girl.

One of my boys is into comic books, and when I was in his room, I picked up
one of them and there was Captain America with this quote . . .



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“Doesn’t matter what the press says.
Doesn’t matter what the Politicians or the mobs say.
Doesn’t matter if the whole country decides that something is wrong is
something right.

This nation was founded on one principle above all else:
The requirement that we stand up for what we believe,
no matter the odds or consequences.
When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is
to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole
world –

‘No, YOU move.’”

And that’s what I did.

The day after an order to shut down was posted on my door, I went to work that
morning, opened up, and let the customers in.

The government revoked my permits, my liquor license and even raided the
restaurant with armed agents . . .and I stood my ground and NEVER closed.

I took the government to court and finally won after nearly losing everything.

And that experience opened my eyes to our government and politicians, and
that’s whyI’m running today and asking for your support
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Now, I’m running as a Republican but I’m not proud of a few of the spineless,
establishment hacks I’ll be serving with when I win.

These are the same folks that I contacted for help when I had a government
boot on my neck . . . andthey’re the same folks who ignored me UNTIL I won.

And yeah, after I finally won, they all showed up. One even offered to fly a
flag over the state Capitol in my honor. I told him, “No thanks.”

I’m running to CRUSH THE ESTABLISHMENT . . . Republican or Democrat, I don’t
care. If they do nothing when the freedoms of Americans are taken away, they’re
all the same to me.

I’m running for Senate in Virginia to give a voice and two fists to all of the
people just like us . . . who are powerless to the politicians and their
government.

We won’t be powerless anymore . . . but I’ll need you to back me for that to
happen
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You in?

My primary is coming up in just a few days, and none of the clowns in power
want me to win because they know I’ll be the guy who stands in their way, looks
them dead in the eye and tells them, “No, YOU move.”

Help me get to it.
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Respectfully,

Matt Strickland
Candidate
Virginia Senate

P.S. Now that you’ve read some of my story, you get why they’re all gunning
for me. I will never work for them, I work for us. They know it and they’re
throwing tons of money behind my competitor to stop me. But I got you.Pitch in
and let’s show them how it’s done.
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