Josh Turek

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931 appearances 8 recordings 5 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 21 Aug

Josh Turek’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 8 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 4.

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I was born with my disability.

I was born with a condition called spina bifida.

It's due to my father's exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam.

I had my first surgery at one day old.

I had 21 surgeries before I was 12.

Thankfully for me, found wheelchair basketball and had a very successful wheelchair basketball career, both collegiately and professionally.

Ended up playing in four Paralympic Games.

Won back-to-back gold medals representing the USA in wheelchair basketball.

And then got involved in nonprofit work for disabled kids and got involved in healthcare.

I was assessing and providing mobility devices like power wheelchairs for individuals with progressive conditions.

And we were seeing a thousand percent increase in denial rates for individuals that were on Medicaid here in Iowa.

And so decided to run.

Won my first election by just six votes.

And I did that by dragging my wheelchair upstairs every single day, rain or shine, hot or cold.

I represent the reddest district that was won on election day in the most recent election.

The two communities I represent, Trump won by 18 points and by 10 points, I was able to win my district by six points.

And now running for the U.S.

Senate because I believe it's a once in a generation opportunity to win Senator Harkin's seat back.

That is absolutely true.

I wasn't very efficient, but I became very effective.

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