We’ve accomplished so much over the last seven months, 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, we’re nearly halfway through our third fundraising quarter of the year.
In a moment, I’m going to ask you to add a donation of whatever you think is best toward our grassroots campaign before our deadline tomorrow. But first, please let me share a little more about how we got here.
I grew up in mid-Missouri and, like so many other working families, mine 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.
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:
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, and 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. So John, will you add a donation of any amount toward my campaign 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.
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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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