Meet Lucas Kunce, a new face in progressive politics
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Dear reader,
Missouri has been slipping away from Democrats for years. In 2006, there were five statewide elected Democrats; today there’s one, and she was demolished in the governor’s race two years ago.

Enter Lucas Kunce, an Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran running for the U.S. Senate on an economic populist platform, attacking Wall Street raiders, monopolies, and oligarchs that have stripped Missouri for parts. Prospect Writing Fellow Lee Harris spent three days crisscrossing Missouri with Kunce, from farm towns to the state capital of Jefferson City to an all-Black town in the Bootheel called Hayti Heights where the mayor has to hand-crank gas-powered motors to get the sewage system moving.

Amid this precarity, Kunce lays out his vision for bringing a Marshall Plan to the Midwest. Can it work? Can he rally skeptical voters to his side by naming common foes and common interests? You can decide for yourself.
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