Hi John, I’m Lucas Kunce — the 13-year Marine veteran, antitrust advocate, and born-and-raised Missourian running to replace Josh Hawley in the U.S. Senate.
You know Josh Hawley. He’s the guy who went viral for proudly announcing that he’s “advocating Christian nationalism.” Or maybe you might recognize him better from his actions on January 6th, 2021…
This email is long. But I wanted to take a moment today to reintroduce myself and tell you more about the historic opportunity we have to defeat Josh Hawley and take back power for real Missourians this year. Please let me explain:
I grew up in mid-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.
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, 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 the people-powered movement that’s going to defeat Josh Hawley and flip this Senate seat — and I need you on our team. Please add a donation of any amount right now so we can continue building this movement and finally give power back to everyday, working people.
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I’m not just running to make a point — this is a race we can win.
Since Hawley was elected, Missourians have broken with him 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. And this year, with an initiative to end Missouri’s extreme abortion ban going on the ballot, we expect even more voters to turn out and protect their freedoms this November.
So if we’re able to communicate to voters that our campaign is about taking back power for real Missourians, we have a real shot at defeating Josh Hawley.
But I need you on this team to get it done, John. National insiders and even Hawley’s own campaign are spending millions to air false attacks about me — and over the coming weeks, they’re bound to get even more vicious. That’s why we need the resources to fight back and deliver our positive message to voters.
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Together, we can take back power from 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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