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I promise this isn’t another campaign email asking you for money. Hi {NAME} — My name is Lucas Tyree Kunce and I’m running to flip an open U.S. Senate seat. I promise this isn’t another campaign email asking you for money — it’s a little long, but will you give me just a few minutes of your time to introduce myself? [Photo of Lucas Kunce smiling at a Get Out the Vote event]( I’m a kid from the working-class neighborhoods of Jefferson City. We didn’t have much growing up. My parents struggled to pay the bills and when my little sister was born with a heart condition, we went bankrupt. Maxed-out credit cards, without a dollar to our name, we relied on my neighbors to help us make it. Black and white, young and old, we all took care of each other. That’s where I come from. [Old photo of Lucas as a kid with his family in Jefferson City]( Thanks to the kindness of people around town, I went to Yale, then law school at Mizzou. Then I chose to join the Marine Corps to honor what everyone did for me and my family growing up. Did Iraq once. Afghanistan twice. [Lucas running track at Yale and Lucas in uniform in the military.]( My final tour was at the Pentagon. I worked with the National Security Council, State Department, Department of Homeland Security, FBI, CIA, and other agencies to stop the spread of nuclear, chemical, and missile technology around the globe. I then oversaw U.S. military compliance with our international arms control obligations and negotiated arms control agreements at NATO and with Russia. And in my final year of active duty, I worked to upend the domination by corporate defense monopolies that leaves us less safe. [Lucas in military uniform.]( I spent every day doing what I could to make the world a safer place, with fewer weapons, less conflict, and more money to spend on improving lives rather than destroying them. Between tours, one of the hardest things was coming back home and seeing what was going on in my old neighborhood. Our community had been picked for parts. The corner store boarded up. Our first family house bulldozed down — here's all that's left of it: [Photo of empty lot in Jefferson City where Lucas' childhood home once stood.]( The whole time my buddies and I were risking our lives and our country was spending trillions of dollars trying to build up these other countries—towns like Habbaniyah, Fallujah, and Herat—we should have been spending our money, blood, and sweat on our forgotten towns and cities here at home. Now, I work for a non-profit fighting corporate monopoly power that has bulldozed over our communities. We fight Big Ag, pharmaceutical cartels, and the Wall Street profiteers who have been tearing us up — the monopoly corporations and politicians who do everything they can to keep us divided because together, we have power. Thanks in part to politicians like criminals like Eric Greitens and Mark McCloskey, who are our leading GOP opponents in this race, Missouri is on the front line of that fight — and that’s why I’m running for U.S. Senate. [Headlines about Eric Greitens and Mark McCloskey's crimes]( CNN ranks our state as one of the best chances we have to flip a Senate seat. And I’m not just running to make a point — we’re building a campaign to win. In the second quarter of this campaign, we outraised both Greitens and McCloskey thanks to thousands of everyday supporters chipping in what they could. And we’re traveling across the state to bring our message directly to voters. [Collage of photos of Lucas meeting people on campaign trail in Missouri]( I want everyday Missourians—working people who know how to take care of each other—to call the shots in our country, not the monopolies, multinational corporations, and career politicians who’ve sold off jobs and land and stripped our communities for parts. Together, we can stop printing money for Wall Street and start funding our schools. We can create a Marshall Plan for the Midwest to rebuild our forgotten towns and cities. We can fix our roads. We can make our communities safer and our homes and businesses more energy-efficient. We can address racial inequity by demanding an agenda that puts working people first, and that stops the Washington special interests from calling the shots. We need to take back this Senate seat for the people. That’s what we are fighting for and drives the campaign we are building together here. Let’s get moving, Lucas PS — It’s pronounced “koonce.” A message from Team Lucas Kunce Our momentum is undeniable. Topping $1,000,000 raised in four months (with $0 from corporate PACs) is a huge accomplishment for a political outsider like Lucas. But we’ve got to keep going. GOP megadonors are already pouring millions of dollars into this race, and we can’t let them slow down our momentum. [So if you’re ready to help us flip this U.S. Senate seat and save our democracy, chip in any amount — $7, $10, $15, or whatever you can today — to help us elect Lucas »]( [Add a donation »]( [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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