John — I want to share a story with you about my mom, our community, and why I’m running for Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat. It’s a little long, so if you’re already on board with our movement to put working people in charge of our country, please add a donation of any amount now.
My mom was married at 19 and had four kids. My littlest sister born just two days before my eighth birthday. Our whole family was so excited for her arrival — but just after we were able to meet her in the hospital, she was flown on a helicopter to St. Louis for a heart condition.
We were already living paycheck-to-paycheck. Like so many other Missouri families, we were one emergency away from financial disaster. So, it was no surprise when medical bills bankrupted my family.
A few months later, while my dad was in St. Louis getting treatment for my sister, my mom came back home to take care of us older kids. Her prayer group had raised a couple hundred dollars for her to buy some necessities for my siblings and me at Walmart. To this day, she talks about how excited she was to see us and get all the things we needed.
She filled up her cart and before she knew it, her purse — with all the money her prayer group had given her — was stolen.
She reported it to a policeman at the store and came home without anything. She didn’t know what she was going to do or how she was going to make it — it was hard for her to even face us kids.
Later that evening, the policeman from the store came to check-in on her. He spent the rest of his day talking with the people at his church and within his precinct and raising money to make up for what had been stolen from my mom.
There were never institutions in place to make sure families like mine could make it — all we had was our community. Folks who didn’t have any more money or resources than we did, coming together to support one another. It’s how my family survived bankruptcy, it’s how I was able to go to college, and it’s why I’m running for this U.S. Senate seat.
The corrupt elites who say our communities aren’t broken are the same ones who have spent decades stripping them for parts. They’ve bought off our politicians and let massive corporations tear our state up. I witnessed it myself when I came home to my old neighborhood between deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan — the corner store where my mom floated a check boarded up, our first family home bulldozed to the ground.
The people in charge of our country right now have no idea what it’s like to live like a real, everyday Missourian. They just want to keep and grow their own power while deciding just how much the rest of us get to survive with. I’m running for U.S. Senate to break that system.
Real, everyday people — folks who know how to take care of each other — should be calling the shots in our country. They’re who deserve to have power. That’s what this country was founded on and that’s what I’m fighting to restore.
So if you’re ready to join our fight for Missouri’s open U.S. Senate seat, please add a donation to my grassroots campaign today. We don’t take any money from corporate PACs or corrupt mega-donors, so I mean it when I say that any amount you can afford to give makes a huge impact.
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Thanks for being on this team, John. Together, we can flip this seat and finally put real people back in charge of our country.
— Lucas
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