John — as we begin our final, official quarterly FEC deadline of the campaign, I wanted to take a moment to explain why I decided to run for U.S. Senate in the first place.

But before I do, I was hoping you could chip in to help us start this important month off on the right foot. We’ve set our highest goals of the entire campaign, and it is absolutely critical that we hit them.

If you understand how important this is and are ready to chip in, you can use this link to make that contribution: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ruben-em-sept24

For me, here’s what this decision came down to:

My unit was the hardest-hit Marine battalion of the entire Iraq war. But the fight didn’t end there.

Instead, my brothers and I found that we had a whole other fight ahead of us: The fight to get the care we were promised. The care we earned.

But I never lost hope. I took on the work myself. I figured out how I could get my guys recognition, their services, their disability payments. I went to Congress to change the system, to make sure it lived up to the promises we make to the people who serve and to their families.

I slept by a burn pit while I was in Iraq, and countless others did the same. Guys I deployed with, healthy, strong guys, came down with serious illnesses because of those burn pits.

After a long, tough fight, we passed the PACT Act in 2022 to provide benefits for veterans with those toxic exposures. And now, more than a million veterans from multiple generations are finally getting the help they need.

Trump had four years to get that bill done, and he didn’t. He dodged the draft himself and made some other guy take his place. He called fallen Marines from World War I buried in France “suckers” and “losers.” He’s insulted Medal of Honor recipients, and he disrespected Arlington National Cemetery last week.

He and Kari Lake want you to believe our military and our veterans have no greater champion. But they don’t care about us. Theirs is the same record that landed my guys back home needing to scrape and claw for PTSD treatment, for health care, for basic dignity.

They have no place leading this nation, and after all the progress we have made together over the last few years, I am going to do everything I can to defeat them.

But I can’t do it alone. In everything I’ve accomplished in life, I’ve always had a team behind me. You are a critical part of that team, John.

And today, I need your help.

Please, chip in $5 to my campaign. We’ve started September off far too slowly, and if we’re going to raise what we need to hit our goals for this official FEC deadline, we need to get back on track.

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Thank you. Semper Fi.

Ruben

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