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Matt Kibbe
President and Chief Community Organizer, Free the People
Matt Kibbe is president and chief community organizer at Free the People, a post-partisan grassroots community advocating civil and economic liberties. He most recently served as a senior advisor for a super PAC supporting Rand Paul for president. Until 2015, he was president of FreedomWorks, a grassroots advocacy organization that he founded in 2004. Kibbe is a distinguished senior fellow at the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna. He is the author of the New York Times best-seller Don’t Hurt People and Don’t Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto and is a regular guest on FOX News, HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, and CSPAN.
Previously
![Hate the Game, Not the Players: Fixing Our Democracy by Changing How Campaigns are Won](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null62b958b1-7f59-48f8-a620-9b37b22e69d4/27973914606_7a52d048d3_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C79%2C1600%2C899&w=400)
The conventional playbook for winning office involves relying either on big moneyed interests or the angriest and most extreme fringes of our society. Of course, political cam...
![Why Trump?](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/null6ceeea17-de72-43b8-b4c1-7f2aef2d20e4/28003286175_bb3838cf35_h.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C87%2C1600%2C901&w=400)
Almost no one predicted it. He began the Republican primary as the most disliked candidate in the field and heads to Cleveland its presumptive nominee. Political establishment...
![The Story of Citizen Power: Using Narrative to Create Change](https://aspenideasfestival.imgix.net/6674bb7d-0b22-4e43-b62f-0da754d9bbec/27888113621_dd01cd8213_o1.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=min&fm=jpg&h=225&q=80&rect=0%2C458%2C4928%2C2777&w=400)
Our nation’s founders envisioned a republic in which the people would be the ultimate source of power. However, a pervasive cultural narrative—across the right and the left—te...