Lucas Kunce
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Lucas Kunce (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Missouri. He is on the ballot in the Democratic primary on August 6, 2024.[source]
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Lucas Kunce was born in Missouri. Kunce served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2007 to 2020.[1]
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2024
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2024
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Lucas Kunce is a Marine officer, advocate for the middle class, and Democrat running for U.S. Senate. Lucas Kunce grew up in Jefferson City, Missouri. His family struggled living paycheck to paycheck, and when his younger sister was born with a heart condition, the family went bankrupt. They relied on the help of neighbors—oftentimes no better off than his family—to make it through. Through Pell Grants, scholarships, and the kindness of people around town, he went to Yale University and law school at Mizzou, before later joining the Marine Corps.
In Kunce’s 13 years in the Marine Corps, he was deployed as a Team Leader to Iraq, leading Marines on escort missions, convoys, and police combat training programs, and twice to Afghanistan as a Judge Advocate and South Asia Foreign Affairs Officer with Special Operations Task Forces. Following his deployments, Kunce — a Major —served as an International Negotiations Officer in the Pentagon, representing the United States in arms control negotiations with Russia and our allies. Since leaving active duty last fall, Kunce has served as the Director of National Security Policy at the American Economic Liberties Project, a non-profit fighting corporate monopoly power. Kunce, a father of two, lives in Independence, Missouri.
- Lucas will fight to break up up massive corporations so that small innovative businesses can rise up in the marketplace. So that fair competition and innovation drive our economy. So that companies are incentivized to spend money on research and development to stay ahead of their competitors, rather than spending it lobbying. We also need to revive our antitrust laws, increase Congressional oversight, and repeal or revise laws like Section 230 that shield these companies so everyday people have the power to compete in our economy, demand fair treatment in the workplace, and hold corporations accountable for abuse.
- As Missouri’s next U.S. Senator, Lucas Kunce will fight to completely abolish corporate PACs, ban the family members of U.S. Senators and Representatives from working as lobbyists, and require members of Congress to disclose when legislation has been written by a lobbyist or special interest group. He’ll vote to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act to protect voters from discrimination and undue obstacles to voting.
- The day Donald Trump was elected President, Missouri had a Democratic Senator, Governor, and a full set of Democrats in statewide office. Our values have won at the ballot box with wide margins for progressive referendums and go beyond what is possible in Washington — an increased minimum wage, more health care, stronger labor rights, and government reforms. The last time this Senate seat was up, it was decided by just three points — less than 80,000 votes. This is a race we can win.
Under the leadership of politicians like Roy Blunt and Josh Hawley, our country has been sucked dry by massive corporations and career politicians who’ve stripped our communities for parts and left our families struggling and divided.
In 1948, the United States enacted The Marshall Plan, helping Europe rebuild homes, infrastructure, industries, and whole cities after WWII. Now, after 40 years of devastation from unchecked monopoly power, Lucas thinks it’s time to invest here in the heartland, through a Marshall Plan for the Midwest to rebuild forgotten communities, create the next generation of energy jobs, and bring power back to American workers. Instead of spending trillions of dollars on forever wars in the Middle East and printing billions of dollars every month to juice Wall Street, we’ll put our tax dollars into towns and cities here at home.
We’ve been building things right here in Missouri for generations, so Lucas’s plan would put our carpenters, tradespeople, sheet metal workers, laborers, and engineers to work rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, expanding broadband coverage, and making our homes, businesses, and public buildings energy efficient. At the same time, we’d be investing in job training, local governments, and the factories of the future to create generations of sustainable jobs.
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