Within hours of Lucas Kunce announcing his campaign for US Senate in Missouri, over $100,000 in donations poured in. Then came the headlines:

Huffington Post: Lucas Kunce, a crusader against corporate consolidation, launches Missouri Senate Bid After Roy Blunt Retirement

The Hill: Democratic Marine veteran jumps into Missouri Senate race after Blunt retirement

Washington Post: This Democrat thinks he can win Roy Blunt’s seat

As a Marine and a crusader against corporate monopolies, Lucas Kunce is the kind of Democrat that can win in Missouri -- and fight for Missouri families against Big Ag, Big Pharma, and other corporations controlling our farmland and economy.

We are proud to endorse his campaign. Can you help his Senate campaign get off to a strong start? Be one of Lucas Kunce's first donors here!

The last time Republican Sen. Roy Blunt won this Senate seat, he barely scraped by with 49.2% of the vote. This is winnable, but we need to start early!

Lucas has a super-compelling life story. If you haven't donated yet, you'll want to after reading more from Huff Post:

“I think Missourians are ready for someone who’s lived through the struggles they’ve lived through,” Kunce said, recounting how his neighbors helped watch him and his siblings while his parents were in the hospital with a younger sister who battled a heart condition.

“I didn’t just experience the struggles, I experienced the way we take care of each other.” Kunce attended Yale on a scholarship and returned home to attend law school at the University of Missouri before joining the Marines, where he completed one tour in Iraq and two in Afghanistan before finishing his career at the Pentagon, where he says he first saw how corporate consolidation drove up costs for taxpayers and forced the government to buy foreign-made goods. Kunce now works as the director of national security for the American Economic Liberties Project.

Kunce indicated he plans to make economic concentration and corporate power a major issue in his campaign.

“The oppressive corporate monopoly structure we’re living under right now, we need to break that,” he said, noting a slew of Missouri-based companies, including Anheuser-Busch and Monsanto, have become foreign-owned in recent years. “Pharmaceutical cartels, big agriculture, big tech, defense monopolies ― all of them make it hard for a regular person to compete in the economy.”

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