[1]Lucas Kunce for U.S. Senate

Hi John, it’s
Lucas Kunce.

Before I ask you to chip in toward my campaign’s first mid-month
fundraising goal of 2024, I wanted to take some time to share a little bit
more about the community I grew up in and why it inspired me to run for
Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat.

Will you please let me explain?

[ [link removed] ]Photos of Lucas with family and friends in his old neighborhood.

I grew up in a working-class neighborhood in mid-Missouri. It was one of
those places where the curbs crumbled into the streets and the sidewalks
were so tilted you couldn’t really walk on them — though they made a
pretty good bike ramp for all of us kids.

We all ran in and out of each other’s houses, everyone’s parents took care
of everyone. It was a magical place to live.

Like so many families, mine lived paycheck-to-paycheck — and when my
little sister was born with a heart condition, we went bankrupt from
medical bills.

We got by thanks to the generosity of our community — most people had no
more money than we did, but helped us anyway Our neighbors and friends
took the rest of us kids into their homes while my parents were with my
sister at the hospital over 100 miles away. And when we were all home
together, they brought more meals by the house than we could ever hope to
eat.

Their support helped me go to college, and after that I joined the Marines
to honor everything our community did for me and my family growing up.

But when I came home between tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, I found that
old magical place picked for parts — our local corner store was boarded
up, our family’s first home in the neighborhood was bulldozed to the
ground. Now it’s an empty lot:

[ [link removed] ]Photo of empty lot in Jefferson City where Lucas' childhood home once
stood.

While all of us were risking our lives to build up towns like Habbaniyah,
Fallujah, and Herat, career politicians and corporate elites like Josh
Hawley let our towns and neighborhoods at home waste away. And then, after
spending 20 years and $6.4 trillion on pointless forever wars and defense
contractors, they couldn’t figure out how to invest a fraction of that
amount back into our own country.

I’m running for U.S. Senate because it’s time everyday Missourians —
people who know how to take care of each other — called the shots in this
country. [ [link removed] ]And today, I’m asking for your support to make it happen.

[ [link removed] ]Photo of Lucas standing on the steps of the New Madrid County
courthouse with local leaders.

If you’re ready to take back power from the giant corporations and
corrupt, career politicians who’ve waged economic warfare on our country,
I need you on this team. [ [link removed] ]Can you add a $10 donation right
now toward our mid-month goal of raising $150,000 so we’ll have the
resources we need to get our message in front of voters and flip this U.S.
Senate seat? I don’t take any money from corporate PACs, so I mean it when
I say anything makes a big impact.

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Thanks for having my back in this fight,
John. Together, we’ll take back power for
working people and fundamentally change who calls the shots in our
country.

Let’s flip this seat,

Lucas Kunce


 


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