7 American Libertarians You Need To Know

3. Matt Kibbe

Matthew B. “Matt” Kibbe is the current senior advisor at Concerned American Voters, a pro Rand Paul Super PAC lead by Young Americans for Liberty president, Jeff Frazee. Before Matt joined the crew of Concerned American Voters, he was the longtime president of FreedomWorks, a conservative-libertarian think tank and activist mobilization organization responsible for the Tea Party movement in 2009 . Matt originally joined FreedomWorks (previously known as Citizens for a Sound Economy) as a policy analyst, but beforehand worked as chief of staff to U.S. Representative Dan Miller (R-FL).

Kibbe has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, USA Today, RedState.com, American Spectator, and Reason Magazine. Matt has appeared on MSNBC’s The Dylan Ratigan Show, MSNBC’s Hardball, FOX News’ Fox & Friends, FOX News’ Glenn Beck, NBC’s The Today Show, FOX News’ America’s Newsroom, C-SPAN, FOX News’ Neil Cavuto, FOX Business Network’s Happy Hour, and HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.

Matt has authored several highly successful books, including Don’t Hurt People and Don’t Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto, and Hostile Takeover, which both speak of the current libertarian insurgency within the Republican party.