A fearless champion of individual freedom, Matt Kibbe has spent his career challenging the establishment, empowering grassroots movements, and turning the next generation on to the values of liberty. As President of Free the People, he uses storytelling and video to bring libertarian principles to life, and as host of BlazeTV’s Kibbe on Liberty, he insists that you think for yourself—a radical idea in an era of conformity.
A political strategist, economist, and grassroots organizer, Kibbe built FreedomWorks into a powerhouse for the Tea Party movement, prompting Newsweek to call him “one of the masterminds” of modern grassroots politics. Steve Forbes once said, “Kibbe has been to FreedomWorks what Steve Jobs was to Apple.” MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann called him “the second worst person in the world”, which, frankly, he took as a compliment.
A #2 New York Times bestselling author, Kibbe has written Don’t Hurt People and Don’t Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto, Hostile Takeover, and Give Us Liberty. His background spans economics, political strategy, and deep dives into Austrian economic theory, and his past work includes advising Rand Paul’s 2016 campaign and helping to launch AlternativePAC to shake up the two-party duopoly.
When he’s not raising hell for liberty, Kibbe is a Deadhead, whiskey connoisseur, craft beer evangelist, and cat dad to three Objectivist felines—Roark, Ragnar, and Rearden.
