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Hi John, it’s Lucas Kunce. 

This email is longer than usual, but I promise what you read here won’t be like anything else you see from any other campaign emailing you during this end-of-quarter season. So before I ask you to split a donation of any amount between my campaign and Blue Amp Action before our last major FEC deadline, will you please give me a moment to explain?

How a candidate funds their campaign does more than just influence how they pay for staff, ads, and organizing. It has a direct impact on both our message and who we actually serve in office. Any politician or pundit who tells you differently is lying — and I have the receipts.

Despite virtually every member of Congress having campaigned on making life-saving drugs more accessible, politicians who take millions of dollars from Big Pharma are still telling us we have to accept a world where people die because they have to ration their medicine.

Then we have out-of-touch elites like Josh Hawley, who have spent decades wasting our money on tax breaks and subsidies for Wall Street, Big Pharma, Big Tech, and just about everything else that’s gutting our country. 

They’re willing to lie, cheat, and steal from the American people to protect the corporate PACs and mega-donors who own them — and they’ll even raise their fist to look strong before they start running from dangers to our democracy.

We don’t need any more liars or frauds like Josh Hawley in Congress. That’s why I’m running for U.S. Senate. It’s why I’m not taking a single cent from corporate PACs. And it’s why I'm asking you to split a donation of whatever you can between our people-powered campaign and Blue Amp Action before our last major FEC fundraising deadline. Can I count on you to help us take this seat back for working people?

Our mission of taking power back for everyday people has earned our movement national media attention. And our commitment to running this campaign the right way, without a cent from corporate PACs, has given us the ability to run the boldest campaign in Missouri history — taking on corrupt political elites like Hawley without hesitation about some mega-donor being upset.

More than just banning insider trading among members of Congress and their families — I’m running to put them in jail if they steal from us.

More than just breaking up Big Pharma — I’m running to prosecute the insulin cartels who are killing people.

More than just fighting to codify protections for abortion access — I’m running to end the filibuster so we can actually get it done.

And more than just rejecting corporate PAC money — I’m running to abolish corporate PACs altogether.

This campaign is powered by the people because that’s exactly who I’ll work for in the U.S. Senate — I'll be accountable to real, everyday Americans, not some corporate executive or political machine. We’re throwing out their rulebook and building a grassroots movement to fundamentally change who has power in our country. And I want you to be part of it: 

So if you’re ready to help us defeat Josh Hawley and give Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat back to everyday people, please split a donation of whatever you can between my campaign and Blue Amp Action before our major FEC deadline.

Thanks for everything, John. 

— Lucas Kunce

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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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