John — earlier than ever before for a U.S. Senate challenger in Missouri, working people are uniting behind our movement to replace Josh Hawley.
In a moment, I’m going to tell you why the support of this election-winning coalition matters in this race. But first, let me share a little more about my background and why I’m running for this seat:
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I grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Jeff City, right in the middle of Missouri. Like most Missourians, my family lived paycheck-to-paycheck — so when my little sister was born with a heart condition, medical bills bankrupted us.
But we weren’t alone. When my parents had to take my sister to get surgeries at a hospital over 100 miles away, our neighbors and friends took my siblings and me into their homes. And when we couldn’t afford groceries, they brought more casserole and lasagna by the house than we could ever hope to eat.
The support from our community motivated me to work hard, stay focused on school, and run on the cross-country team. That all helped me get into college, which I could afford thanks to a Pell Grant and scholarships from people around town. I got to keep running there too.
After college and law school, I joined the Marines to honor and serve the community that had done so much for me. I was active duty for 13 years. Deployed to Iraq once, Afghanistan twice. Then the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, where I'd go on to help lead arms control negotiations with NATO and Russia.
In the Marines, I learned what service for your country really means: Doing the right thing — even when you’re far away from home — and never forgetting the community you signed up to serve. But for every tour of duty, I also learned just how little service meant to corrupt elites like Josh Hawley.
I led a police training team in Iraq, running missions outside the wire through Habbaniyah, Fallujah, and Ramadi. Near our camp, a burn pit bathed us in toxic fumes for months. And when we came back home, politicians like Hawley turned their backs on us.
Between deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, I was stationed at Camp Pendleton. While our politicians let Wall Street banks gamble away our economy, I fought to protect service members from predatory scams and illegal foreclosures.
I deployed twice to Afghanistan. Learned Pashto. Investigated corruption. I saw how lies from corrupt leaders in Washington cost us two decades, $2 trillion, and nearly 2,500 American lives.
Then at the Pentagon, I saw how Big Oil bought off our politicians so dictators, war criminals, and a handful of corporate executives got to decide how much Americans pay for energy — while authoritarian oligarchs in China start to dominate renewable energy.
But between tours, one of the hardest things was coming back home and seeing what was going on in my old neighborhood. The community I had signed up to serve was stripped for parts. The corner store boarded up. Our first family home even bulldozed down. Here’s all that’s left of it:
The whole time politicians like Hawley kept voting to send Marines like me overseas to fight pointless wars, they were letting their corporate mega-donors gut our communities back home. And now they don’t just attack our way of life, but also the democracy I swore to defend.
On January 6, 2021, Josh Hawley showed us he’s a fraud and a coward who will cut and run at the first sign of trouble.
I’m running for U.S. Senate because Missourians deserve a senator who’s willing to stand and fight for them. They deserve a warrior for working people — and I'm ready to serve.
Now we’ve united on-the-ground leaders, workers, and everyday people across Missouri into a record-breaking movement to take on Josh Hawley. This is the same coalition that defeated an anti-union “Right-to-Work” scam statewide by 67.5%-32.5% in 2018.
The national GOP and corporate elites are afraid of the movement we're building because this is our chance to defeat Josh Hawley — and they know we’re not going to waste it. So I have to ask:
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Together, we can take back our power from corrupt politicians like Josh Hawley and finally put real working people in charge of our country again.
Thanks for always having my back, John.
Let’s get to work,
Lucas Kunce
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