Since I launched my campaign to replace Josh Hawley in the Senate, thousands have joined our grassroots movement. But that's not all... @HawleyMO and his corporate DC allies have also gone on the attack.
So let me tell you a bit about me — and why Joshua is so afraid of me:
I grew up in a working-class neighborhood in Jeff City, right in the middle of Missouri. Like most Americans today, my family lived paycheck-to-paycheck — so when my little sister was born with a heart condition, the medical bills bankrupted us.
But we weren’t alone...
When my parents had to take my sister to get surgeries at a hospital over 100 miles away, our neighbors and friends took my siblings and me into their homes.
When we couldn’t afford groceries, they brought more casserole and lasagna by the house than we could ever hope to eat.
The support from our community motivated me to work hard, stay focused on school, and run on the cross-country team. That all helped me get into college, which I could afford thanks to a Pell grant and scholarships from people around town.
I got to keep running there too.
After college + law school, I joined the Marines to honor and serve the community that had done so much for me. Active duty for 13 years. Iraq once, Afghanistan twice. Then the Joint Staff at the Pentagon, where I'd go on to help lead arms control negotiations with NATO + Russia.
In the Marines, I learned what service for your country really means: Doing the right thing—even far from home—and never forgetting the community you signed up to serve.
But for every tour of duty, I also learned just how little service meant to corrupt elites like @HawleyMO.
I led a police training team in Iraq, running missions outside the wire through Habbaniyah, Fallujah and Ramadi. Near our camp, a burn pit bathed us in toxic fumes for months.
Between deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, I was stationed at Camp Pendleton. While our politicians let Wall Street banks gamble away our economy, I fought to protect service members from predatory scams and illegal foreclosures. thedailybeast.com/since-911-wall…
I deployed twice to Afghanistan. Learned Pashto. Investigated corruption. I saw how lies from corrupt leaders in Washington cost us two decades, $2 trillion, and nearly 2,500 American lives. And then politicians like @HawleyMO wanted even more war. news.yahoo.com/served-afghani…
Then at the Pentagon, I saw how Big Oil bought off our politicians so dictators, war criminals, and a handful of corporate executives got to decide how much Americans pay for energy—while authoritarian oligarchs in China start to dominate renewable energy. prospect.org/environment/na…
But between tours, one of the hardest things was coming back home and seeing what was going on in my old neighborhood. The community I had signed up to serve was stripped for parts. The corner store boarded up. Our first family home even bulldozed down.
Here's what's left of it:
The whole time politicians like Hawley kept voting to send Marines like me overseas to fight pointless wars, they were letting their corporate megadonors gut our towns and cities back home.
And now they don’t just attack our way of life, but also the democracy I swore to defend.
On January 6, 2021, Josh Hawley showed us he’s a fraud and a coward who will cut and run at the first sign of trouble.
Missourians deserve a U.S. Senator who’s willing to stand and fight for them. They deserve a warrior for working people.
And I'm ready to serve.
Hawley and his corporate DC allies are afraid of me and the movement we're building because they know we can win. So today, I'm asking you to help me make these cowards' fears come true.
When elephants fight the grass suffers. The proverb typically matters to military families when politicians start wars. But now it applies because our feckless politicians let corporations get so big that they trample us, too. The latest 👇military.com/daily-news/202…
One of three middleman companies called PBMs that control nearly all of our country’s prescriptions runs the TriCare military prescription program. And they are in a battle with the Kroger grocery/pharmacy. drugchannels.net/2021/04/the-to…
Kroger is protesting Express Script’s monopoly pricing by pulling out of Express Scripts deals, including the TriCare contract. When TriCare users like me go to our login page, this is what we see.
Stationed in Iraq, I lived near an open-air burn pit. Smoke filled the air all the time. And I had to run through it. To the Republicans who decided to screw veterans like me today...
Fuck you. Every last one of you.
These same Republican politicians voted time after time to keep us fighting their pointless overseas wars, wasting trillions of dollars while defense contractors got rich.
Now when it comes time to take care of those of us who served, we're suddenly broke. It's just criminal.
Bullshit like this is exactly why I'm running for Senate. I'm tired of corrupt politicians just ripping everything away from us—our healthcare, our rights, even our lives.
And Missouri can do better than Josh Halwey and Roy Blunt. So let's flip this seat: lucas4mo.com/actblue
Our latest TV ad hits hard. And here’s why: We cannot afford to let another Joe Manchin BUY their way into a Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, just to lose by double-digits in November.
Watch it, then let me tell you what’s happening in Missouri…
2 weeks ago, @BuschValentine's team was sharing a poll that gave her a double-digit lead after she skipped debates and dumped millions into TV ads. But then, we started running our ads—funded by our people-powered movement. And we cut that lead down to 3%.
And when I say “people-powered,” I mean it. FEC filings from last quarter showed our share of small-dollar donor support was among the highest in the entire country. Meanwhile, @BuschValentine ranked alongside @Sen_JoeManchin and @kyrstensinema.
"The contest among the top Democratic Party primary contenders for U.S. Senate is really no contest at all. Voters heading to the polls next Tuesday should enthusiastically support attorney and Marine veteran Lucas Kunce." stltoday.com/opinion/editor…
"The top two contenders on the Republican side are disgraced former Gov. Eric Greitens and Attorney General Eric Schmitt... Kunce can match them head-to-head and toe-to-toe in pretty much any subject." stltoday.com/opinion/editor…
"Unlike silver-spoon freshman @HawleyMO, who once staged a hayride to feign an interest in rural Missourians’ needs, Kunce can back up his Yale education with actual stories of his parents’ struggle through bankruptcy and family medical hardship." stltoday.com/opinion/editor…
It's simple: Our politicians have allowed 3 giant multinational corporations to set the price for insulin based on how many deaths and amputations the market will bear until people start rioting. nbcnews.com/health/health-…
Virtually every member of Congress campaigns on cutting the costs of insulin and other prescriptions drugs. But it hasn't mattered which party holds power — nothing EVER gets done about it. Wonder why?
My name is Lucas Kunce. I’m a 13-year Marine vet and the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in Missouri’s Senate race. Our record-breaking grassroots movement has the lead heading into the August 2nd primary — but we could still lose.
Let me explain why…
In our broken system, wealthy elites can dump millions into any race without restriction. And that’s happening in Missouri.
New FEC reports show our billionaire heiress opponent, Trudy @BuschValentine, has dumped in $4M to try and buy the nomination. Our primary is in 11 days.
And when I say BUY the nomination, I don’t mean some kind of abstract campaign metaphor—I mean BUY it.
This is a purposeful effort to avoid scrutiny by the voters and instead flood the state with TV ads. It's a pattern that started with refusing to debate.stltoday.com/opinion/mailba…