[1]Lucas Kunce for U.S. Senate

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.

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 in just 16 short
days.

So before I ask you to [ [link removed] ]add a donation of any amount to my grassroots
campaign, please let me explain:

[ [link removed] ]A childhood photo of Lucas with his family sitting on the front steps
of their house.

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.

[ [link removed] ]Two photos of Lucas Kunce in his Marine uniform.

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:

[ [link removed] ]Photo of an unmaintained, vacant lot.

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
* 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
* Codify Roe v. Wade
* Secure voting rights
* Ban anti-union “Right-to-Work” scams forever

I want to put working people in charge of our country and I need your help
to get it done.

Without a single cent of corporate PAC money, we’ve built this
people-powered movement that’s going to defeat Josh Hawley and flip this
Senate seat — and I need you in this final stretch. [ [link removed] ]Please add a
donation of any amount right now so we can finally give power back to
everyday, working people on November 5th.

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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.

Now, recent polls show that we’ve cut Hawley’s lead to just a few points
over a matter of weeks — and if we’re able to keep communicating to voters
that our campaign is about taking back power for real Missourians, I know
that we have a real shot at defeating Josh Hawley on November 5th.

But I need your support to get it done,
John. National insiders and even Hawley’s
own campaign are spending millions to air false attacks about me — and in
the final 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.

[ [link removed] ]Will you chip in anything you can right now so we can fight back
against false attack ads and continue airing our own positive message to
folks across the state? I don’t take a cent from corporate PACs, so I mean
it when I say anything makes a big difference to our campaign.

If you've stored your info with ActBlue Express, we'll process your
contribution instantly:

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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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