Matthew B. Kibbe () is the President and Chief Community Organizer of Free the People, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting

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ideals. Prior to founding Free the People, he was the President of

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He also worked as Chief of Staff to U.S. Representative Dan Miller (R-FL), Senior Economist at the Republican National Committee. Director of Federal Budget Policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Managing Editor of ''Market Process'', an academic economics journal published by the Center for the Study of Market Processes at George Mason University. Kibbe's Free the People argued for the inclusion of third-party candidates in the

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, and he participated in Our America Initiative's 2016 Liberty Tour to promote this campaign. In an interview with

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, Kibbe accused the

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of "rigging" the debates by excluding third parties.

FreedomWorks

Kibbe originally joined the organization (previously known as Citizens for a Sound Economy) as a policy analyst in 1986. He was the President from 2004–2015. He was formerly CEO, the post now held by Adam Brandon. According to

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, “Kibbe has been to FreedomWorks what

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was to Apple.” Kibbe and

Chairman

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wrote ''Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto'' in 2010. The book reached best-seller lists including those of ''USA Today'' and ''The Washington Post''.

Personal life

Kibbe's wife, Terry, is the Chief Executive Officer for Free the People.

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