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John — born-and-raised Missourian John Goodman here. 

In a moment, I’ll ask you to join me in supporting Lucas Kunce in the critical U.S. Senate race happening in my home state and Blue Amp Action. But first, I think we need to talk about family values.

I learned what family values meant while growing up in Missouri, the most beautiful state in the union.

I also learned what that didn’t mean.

Family values didn’t mean cruelty. It didn’t mean fake patriotism. It didn’t mean telling people how to live, or family profits. It didn’t mean making life harder for hardworking people. And it sure as hell didn’t mean robbing people of their rights or tax dollars. 

None of that is family values… that’s something else.

Growing up in working class neighborhoods in Missouri, Lucas and I both learned what it meant for a family to live paycheck to paycheck.

We also learned the real meaning of family values — but not from rich politicians and self-help authors like Josh Hawley.

We’re the Show Me State. People showed us.

People like the neighbors and church friends that helped Lucas’ family get by when his parents were bankrupted by medical bills. People like the Scout master, track coach, and public school teachers who mentored and supported Lucas growing up. People like the veterans at Lucas’ local Marine Corps league in mid-Missouri, who taught him that he could honor and protect everyone who took care of him by serving like they did.

Lucas and I both learned that family values are really about people taking care of each other and doing the right thing. Through good times, and tough times.

All that other noise from the politicians…

That’s something else.

In Missouri this November, there’s a real choice in the Senate race. Josh Hawley only won his last race with 51% of the vote — and that was before he helped overturn Roe, enacted a total abortion ban, voted against IVF and birth control, stalled healthcare for veterans, and cost taxpayers $250,000 by breaking transparency laws to help his own campaign.

Lucas Kunce is the Marine veteran who can beat him. It won’t be easy, but it will be worth it. 

So I’m asking: Will you join me in supporting Lucas Kunce in Missouri’s U.S. Senate race and Blue Amp Action by splitting a donation of any amount today? Lucas is committed to building his campaign the right way, without a dollar from corporate PACs or federal lobbyists, so anything you can give really will make a big impact.

Thanks for listening,

John Goodman

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About BlueAmp Action:

We cannot sugarcoat the current situation. Right-wing authoritarianism, defeated by a worldwide coalition during WWII, was only in hibernation. Over the past decade it has infected democratic societies--including ours. It is as simple as it is terrifying: What we do now will define the future of our country and world. 

We at Blue Amp Action are dedicated to liberal, open societies, where reason and science are applied to solve our problems; where civil rights--including voting rights!--are protected for all. We fight for these values every day. Speaking up on our platforms, raising the voices and the political prospects of liberal pols and pundits. 

And savvy grassroots activists like you know, just like we do, that we can’t stop watching the people we help elect: after the elections, we have to keep organizing support for the policies we like and pushing back against the ones we don’t.

When the public tunes out between elections and the only people our elected officials hear from are the paid lobbyists of wealthy corporations, our government stops being accountable to the needs of ordinary families.

Democracy never sleeps, and neither can we.

So we ask that you support our work, so we can continue to engage in this fight every moment of every day. So our kids grow up in democracy, not dystopia.

Thank you for your support for all we do! Please follow Cliff Schecter on Twitter @cliffschecter, or subscribe to The Takedown with Cliff Schecter on YouTube, to keep up to date with this battle for the heart and soul of our country.

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