JOHN,

Let me tell you something most consultants would never let a candidate say out loud: Washington didn't pick me.

It’s true. The establishment has its candidate in this race, and it isn't me. I don't have the big-money network or the DC PACs lining up at the door to aid my campaign. I've made my peace with that because I chose to refuse corporate PAC dollars, and I would rather owe this seat to the people of this district than to the people who fund the problem.

If you believe in a campaign accountable to the people, rather than corporations and big shots in D.C., please chip in to my campaign for VA-01 today.

I spent twenty-one years in uniform, flying F/A-18s off a carrier deck. I spent time at the Pentagon, at NATO, and working with the House Armed Services Committee, where I learned how this government actually works — and how it too often fails the people it's supposed to serve.

And I am here to tell you we can win this seat.

Rob Wittman is vulnerable, but flipping it takes a Democrat who can look a skeptical voter in the eye — a veteran, a business owner, a guy raised on food stamps — and earn a vote that was never guaranteed. I've done that my entire life.

I don’t believe a nominee handpicked and bankrolled by Washington can do that, and we can't afford to find that out in November.

On August 4, this district decides. And I’m asking you to help me win this primary and then flip this seat in November by chipping in $21 to my campaign.

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This campaign cannot be bought. That’s the kind of race I’m running, and it’s the kind of representative I’d be in Congress. I’m grateful to have you on our team.

Thank you,
Jason Knapp

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