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Last night, our only Democratic primary opponent dropped out of the race for Attorney General. She posted a statement and a video claiming that my family members and I are foreign agents of Israel while endorsing a Twitter screed alleging that my mother and I are interfering in Missouri's elections.?

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My opponent also called on me to "resign from the Missouri Attorney General's race and from public life."

For the past week and a half, my family has been targeted by a group of antisemitic conspiracy theorists who spent many months manipulating a sitting Missouri state representative for their personal gain. At one point, these people openly discussed trying to access Missouri taxpayer money for one of their companies to map the DNA of foster children.

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I don't know how these con artists were able to do this to someone I knew for seven years. I am very worried for her, and I'm worried about what else these people have planned for Missouri. I know they're not done targeting my family; they continued their attacks against my mom, my wife, and me late into last night.

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Throughout my very public career, the only clients I have ever had are the People of Missouri. As an Assistant Attorney General, I had the honor of representing them all at once. As a civil rights and government transparency attorney, I just do it one at a time, and those cases are also about protecting the liberties that all of us should have as Americans and as Missourians.

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There is nothing these hate-filled people can do to stop me from representing you. I am not withdrawing from the race. I am not resigning from public life, whatever that means. I will never give up on Missouri.

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I am running to be your Attorney General for a lot of reasons, and you can read all about them. At the end of the day, it's because I love our state, I love working with people who want to make Missouri even better, and I know what a wonderful home we can build right here together.

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So let's go get this done.

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If you can, do a couple things today:

1) Donate to our campaign to support the crucial work our new regional organizers are doing all over our state, and

2) Send me an email reply with your ideas for events, get-togethers, whatever you can think of so we can build a campaign that will bring home a big win in November.

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Yours,

Elad