Joel Funk for Southern IllinoisVerified account

@Funk4Congress

Advocating for and leading in Southern Illinois. Father of two, husband, veteran, former army and special operations aviator and .

Illinois, USA
Joined January 2019

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    The 12th District of Illinois is winnable! Help elect new and effective leadership by donating today.

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  2. ... We did things that people make movies about and in some cases, writers and producers wouldn’t even try to write our story... the rucksack is heavy... and when it gets heavy we [&$#*] help each other, but you have to reach out... Don’t let the Valley win.‘“

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  3. “He sent a passionate appeal this week to the rest of the battalion: ‘Text me, I told you before my door is open... my phone is at hand...

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  4. We honor him not by remembering how he died, but how he lived and by healing those who are also suffering by any means possible.

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  5. This is one of those articles that punches you in the gut, but must be read. The scars of war run deeper than the surface and those wounds are disproportionately laid upon a smaller population of Americans than ever before.

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  6. We honor him not by remembering how he died, but how he lived and by healing those who are also suffering by any means possible.

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  7. This will be the first of many videos I’ll be posting to speak on issues, share knowledge, and present perspectives to take into consideration as we navigate through the choppy waters of now to a better future tomorrow.

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  9. It has been almost four months since Illinois’ primary election, which in some ways feels a lifetime ago and in other ways feels like just yesterday. Our world is drastically different now with challenges all around us, but with difficulty comes opportunity.

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  10. ...They’ve even gone as far as to hide their free filing options from Google search results by editing the code in their website. STEM has gone too far.”

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  11. ...Last Year, TurboTax and other companies used deceptive web design and misleading advertising to trick more than 14 million taxpayers, some lower income, into paying to file their taxes even though they were eligible to do it for free...

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  12. “I qualify for free tax filing. Why can’t I figure out how to do it? Because tax prep companies are making it really fucking hard.

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  13. Don’t give your money to companies for a service they are obligated to provide for something the government obligates you to do. Enjoy!

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  14. On the site lists the actual free versions of the most popular tax filing software. They have a great FAQ section that explains how the industry has been screwing over low income Americans for years and a section that lists the largest corporate tax avoiders too.

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  15. I just finished watching this episode of and came across a gem that was too good not to share. The deadline for filing your taxes is a little less than a week away. If you haven’t filed yet go to .

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  16. ...Pressed on whether he believed Russian payments led to U.S. deaths, McKenzie said: ‘No, I'm not convinced of that. I'm just not.’”

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  17. "’I'm very familiar with this material and I'm a theater commander and I've had an opportunity to look at it. I found it very worrisome. I just didn't find that there was a causative link there,’ McKenzie told reporters, according to a transcript released by Central Command...

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  18. Jumping to conclusions and getting enraged over things that are unproven only serves to benefit our adversaries.

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  19. Until that point we must trust the integrity of our senior military leaders to report accurately and if necessary use alternative means of communicating the truth to protect our service members if politics attempts to silence them.

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  20. If the allegations of Russian paid bounties for our troops are founded then swift and decisive action must occur.

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  21. As someone that has had friends and loved ones in harms way in Afghanistan for close to two decades and still have those close to me deployed there today, I take what happens there very seriously.

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