January 6th wasn’t the first time we saw Josh Hawley run a way from his duty

Please let me explain. [Lucas Kunce for U.S. Senate] {NAME}, After his actions on January 6th, Josh Hawley became the most unpopular Republican U.S. Senator up for re-election in 2024. But that’s hardly the first time we’ve seen Hawley run away from his duty. So before I ask you to [join our grassroots movement to replace him by adding a donation of any amount today,]( please let me explain: [Approval Ratings | U.S. Senate — Public Polling By Morning Consult of 2024 GOP Senate Incumbents — Ted Cruz (TX): 48%, March 2022 | 48%, July 2023 | 48%, October 2023 — Rick Scott (FL): 49%, March 2022 | 47%, July 2023 | 46%, October 2023 — Josh Hawley (MO): 46%, March 2022 | 44%, July 2023, 43%, October 2023]( [CHIP IN TO BEAT HAWLEY →]( With the freedom to control our own lives and bodies under attack, Josh Hawley has turned his Senate office into a family business dedicated to corrupting our courts and criminalizing abortion nationwide. [Excerpt from LifeSite: 'I would support any restriction on abortion... And I would vigorously defend such laws in court, all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary.' - Josh Hawley. Vanity Fair headline: Erin Morrow Hawley is leading the charge to ban abortion medication. She's also Josh Hawley's wife. Federal judge overseeing the lawsuit made a past donation to Josh Hawley's campaign. Fox News headline: Missouri Republicans propose legislation to allow women who receive abortions to be charged with murder.]( [CHIP IN TO BEAT HAWLEY →]( When veterans like me who were exposed to toxic burn pits were counting on Hawley to vote for the healthcare we’ve earned, he played politics. [Yahoo News headline: Blunt, Hawley vote to stall bill expanding health care for veterans exposed to burn pits. Fox News op-ed written by Lucas Kunce: I was exposed to toxic burn pits in Iraq; Republicans turned their backs on veterans like me.]( [CHIP IN TO BEAT HAWLEY →]( And when Missouri’s working families and everyday communities were getting gutted by outsourcing and corporate consolidation, Josh helped Wall Street and Corporate America cut overtime pay for hundreds of thousands of Missouri workers. Now, Missourians are taking notice. They don’t like what they’ve seen from Hawley. Even Donald Trump knows Josh is in trouble. [Newsweek headline: Trump warns... Hawley may be in trouble. Excerpt from Spectrum News article: A recent Morning Consult poll found Hawley was the least popular Republican senator up for reelection... Former Missouri secretary of state Jason Kander argued in a Kansas City Star op-ed this week: 'Hawley is vulnerable, and he knows it.']( [CHIP IN TO BEAT HAWLEY →]( Our state deserves a U.S. Senator who we can trust will stand up and fight for working people, not for himself. That’s why I’m running against Hawley this year — and it’s why our record-breaking, worker-led, and people-powered movement has already made this a margin-of-error race in multiple public polls. I want to be a warrior for working people in the U.S. Senate, but I need your help to make it happen, {NAME}: [will you chip in $10 or whatever you can toward my grassroots campaign today so we can defeat Josh Hawley in November and take this Senate seat back for everyday Missourians?]( If you've stored your info with ActBlue Express, we'll process your contribution instantly: [Contribute $10]( [Contribute $25]( [Contribute $30]( [Contribute $50]( [Contribute $100]( [Contribute $250]( [Give another amount]( I didn’t learn the meaning of sacrifice and commitment from working late nights in the boardrooms of a corporate law firm like Josh Hawley did. I joined the Marine Corps to honor and serve the community that took care of my family after we were bankrupted by my littlest sister’s medical bills. We’ve both taken an oath. But unlike Josh, I haven’t broken mine. Over the last year, we’ve built a record-breaking, worker-led, people-powered movement to defeat Josh Hawley and take this Senate seat back for Missouri’s working families. We’ve united organized labor behind our campaign. We’ve held events with hundreds of supporters at a time across rural, urban, and suburban Missouri. And we’ve raised more in the first year of a U.S. Senate race than any other challenger has in Missouri history, with donations coming from every single Missouri county — and without a cent from corporate PACs. [Headline from the Labor Tribune: Missouri Fire Fighters endorse Lucas Kunce. Excerpt: In the past, the Missouri State Council of Fire Fighters has endorsed [Republican] Senators... This cycle, they have endorsed Lucas Kunce for Senate [which] speaks to his unique ability to earn the votes of independents and split-ticket voters. TIME Magazine headline: Lucas Kunce, A clean-cut, populist Marine vet who could give Democrats a fighting chance in Missouri.]( Now we’re once again seeing Josh Hawley run scared. Multiple polls show this race already within the margin of error. And on top of that, a new poll from Morning Consult just weeks ago found Josh Hawley has the lowest approval rating of any GOP U.S. Senator running for re-election in 2024 — even worse than Ted Cruz in Texas and Rick Scott in Florida. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch headline: New poll touts Lucas Kunce's chance of upsetting Josh Hawley. Poll 1: Lucas Kunce 43%, Josh Hawley 44%, Margin of Error +/- 3% | Poll 2: Lucas Kunce 42%, Josh Hawley 46%, Margin of Error +/- 4.9%]( This is our only chance to hold Hawley accountable — and it could be your opportunity to make a real difference in this year’s election. [So please, will you join our movement to flip Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat by adding a donation of $10 or whatever you think is best toward my campaign today? I’m not taking a cent from corporate PACs in this race, so I mean it when I say anything you can give will make a big impact.]( If you've stored your info with ActBlue Express, we'll process your contribution instantly: [Contribute $10]( [Contribute $25]( [Contribute $30]( [Contribute $50]( [Contribute $100]( [Contribute $250]( [Give another amount]( Thank you so much, Lucas Kunce [Donate]( [Like on Facebook]( [Follow on Twitter]( [Follow on Instagram]( Paid for by Lucas Kunce for Missouri This email was sent to [{EMAIL}](#). Email is the most important way we keep in touch with people like you. But, if you'd like to receive fewer emails, [you can do so here](. If you need to remove yourself from our email list, [click here to unsubscribe](. Mail us: PO BOX 1240 Independence, MO 64050. 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