[1]Lucas Kunce for U.S. Senate

The last six months have been incredible,
John.

From launching this campaign on January 6th to calling out Josh Hawley on
cable news to breaking Missouri fundraising records, your support has
helped us put a national spotlight on this U.S. Senate race. And now, our
next major FEC deadline is less than 48 hours away.

In a moment, I’m going to ask you to [ [link removed] ]chip in $10 or
whatever you can toward our goal of raising 30,000 individual donations
before midnight tomorrow. But first, let me share a little more about how
we got here.

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[ [link removed] ]Lucas as a child, sitting with his family on the porch of his childhood
home.

I grew up in Central Missouri. And like so many other Americans, my family
lived paycheck-to-paycheck. So when my little sister was born with a heart
condition, the medical bills bankrupted us. Maxed-out credit cards and no
money left, times had never been tougher.

But we weren’t alone — our community took care of us. When my parents had
to take my sister to the hospital in St. Louis, our neighbors and friends
took my siblings and me into their homes and brought more meals by the
house than we could ever hope to eat. That’s the Missouri I grew up in.

[ [link removed] ]Photos of Lucas in uniform.

Their support helped send me to college, and after that I joined the
Marines to honor everything they had done for me and my family growing up.
Got deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Later the Pentagon. I was on the
Joint Staff negotiating arms control agreements with NATO and Russia.

When I came home between tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, one of the hardest
things was seeing what was happening back in my old neighborhood. It was a
community picked for parts — the local corner store boarded up, my first
family house bulldozed to the ground. Here’s all that’s left of it:

[ [link removed] ]The empty lot where Lucas' childhood home once stood.

While all of us were risking our lives building up towns like Habbaniyah,
Fallujah, and Herat, career politicians like Josh Hawley let our country
waste away. They spent trillions on bailouts, tax breaks, and subsidies
for the industries that stripped our communities for parts — like Wall
Street, Big Pharma, and Big Oil — and then told us they can’t figure out
how to invest even a fraction of that into building up our own country and
investing in our own people.

I saw what was happening — and I was ready to fight back.

So in my final year of active duty, I worked to upend the corporate
defense monopolies that leave our country less safe. I also joined an
organization that fights corporate monopolies — we took on defense
contractors, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Ag, Wall Street. The people buying
off our politicians and leaving the rest of us behind.

And now, I’m running for U.S. Senate to replace Josh Hawley and
fundamentally change who has power in our country — so everyday people
call the shots, not massive corporations or corrupt politicians. I want to
abolish corporate PACs, expose lobbyists writing our laws, criminalize war
profiteering, ban insider trading among members of Congress, and enact a
Marshall Plan for the Midwest — a massive investment and job creation
program that will rebuild our forgotten communities and get us off fossil
fuels once and for all.

I want to codify Roe v. Wade, secure voting rights, and ban anti-union
“Right-to-Work” scams forever. I want to put working people in charge of
our country. But I need your help to get it done.

Without a single cent of corporate PAC money, we’re building a
people-powered movement to defeat Josh Hawley and flip this Senate seat —
and I need you on our team. [ [link removed] ]Please add a donation of any amount toward
our end-of-quarter goal right now so we can continue building this
movement and finally give power back to working people.

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I’m not just running to make a point — this is a race we can win.

Josh Hawley is vulnerable. In 2018, he won his seat with only 51% of the
vote — but after he exposed himself to be a fraud and a coward on January
6th, his approval has dropped to 42%. In Missouri’s last Senate race
during a presidential election, the margin was only 2.7%.

Since then, Missourians have broken with Hawley and taken back their power
at the ballot box by voting to raise the minimum wage, expand Medicaid
through the Affordable Care Act, and legalize cannabis.

TIME Magazine called me the “clean-cut, populist Marine veteran who could
give Democrats a fighting chance." And if we’re able to get this message
in front of voters early in this race, we have a real shot at defeating
Josh Hawley in 2024 and flipping Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat.

But I need you on this team to get it done,
John. GOP insiders and even Hawley’s own
campaign have already started attacking me — and over the coming months,
they’re bound to get even more vicious. That’s why we need to start
preparing right now to fight back and deliver our positive message to
voters.

[ [link removed] ]Will you chip in anything you can right now so we can hit our
end-of-quarter goal and stay prepared for the fight ahead? I don’t take a
cent from corporate PACs, so I mean it when I say anything makes a big
difference to our campaign.

If you've stored your info with ActBlue Express, we'll process your
contribution instantly:

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Together, we can take back power from the corrupt politicians like Josh
Hawley and finally put real, everyday people in charge of our country.

Thanks for helping us get it done,

Lucas Kunce


 


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