Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., is a resident scholar with the Institute for Policy Innovation, a research-based, public policy “think tank.” He is a health policy expert and weekly contributor at Forbes.com. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Texas Advisory Committee of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Dr. Matthews is a past president of the Health Economics Roundtable for the National Association for Business Economics, the largest trade association of business economists. Dr. Matthews also served for 10 years as the medical ethicist for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Institutional Review Board for Human Experimentation, and has contributed chapters to several books, including Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate and The 21st Century Health Care Leader and, in 2009, Stop Paying the Crooks (on Medicare fraud).

He has been published in numerous journals and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Barron’s, USA Today, Forbes magazine and the Washington Times. He was an award-winning political analyst for the USA Radio Network.

Dr. Matthews received his Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Texas.

Rachel has over a decade of experience fighting for conservative policies in Washington. Beginning in 2006, she served in both the House and Senate in various roles including as legislative director for Senator Rand Paul.

In 2013, she was named one of National Journal’s Most Influential Women in Washington under 35. Her policy analysis and punditry appear widely in print and on television. Rachel serves on USA Today’s Board of Contributors, and is also the senior tech columnist for The Federalist.

Along with CPI’s Chairman, Sen. Jim DeMint, Rachel is the co-author of Conservative: Knowing What To Keep. She also serves on the board of Council for National Policy Action, the Advisory Board of American Moment, and the Advisory Board of The American Conservative.
Born and raised in Dansville, NY, she received her bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude from Grove City College in 2006. She also holds a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University. In addition to her public policy pursuits, Rachel is an accomplished sommelier, a wine educator, and a diploma candidate in the Wine & Spirit Education Trust.

Representative Candy Noble is in her second term in the Texas House of Representatives, where she has quickly emerged as an effective conservative leader. During her first two sessions, Candy has worked to pass major bills to improve border security and election integrity, defend the unborn, protect religious liberties and second amendment freedoms, empower taxpayers, strengthen education, and much more.
Representative Noble's committee assignments for the 87th Legislative Session include the House Committee on Human Services and the powerful Ways & Means Committee. Rep. Noble also serves on the Resolutions Calendars Committee.

First elected in 2018, Candy was elected by fellow Republicans to serve as the House Republican Caucus Secretary. She also serves on the Board of the Texas Conservative Coalition and on the Board of the Texas Conservative Coalition Research Institute, where she works to promote conservative legislative solutions.

In her first term, Representative Noble authored and passed a major piece of priority legislation. Senate Bill 22, a bill that protects taxpayers from funding abortion providers and their affiliates, passed and was signed into law by the Governor. This bill has saved taxpayers millions of dollars and also was instrumental in shutting down abortion clinics that depended on tax dollars for their operating expenses.

In 2019, Representative Noble was named an “Emerging Leader” by GOPAC, a national GOP group dedicated to electing the next generation of Republican leaders. She was one of only 30 Republican state legislators from across the nation to earn this distinction that year.

A strong proponent of education, Representative Noble has a degree in Education from Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene and serves on their Board of Trustees.

A twenty-eight year resident of Collin County, Representative Noble serves the residents of Texas House District 89. This fast-growing area includes some or all of Allen, Copeville, Fairview, Lavon, Lowry Crossing, Lucas, Murphy, Nevada, Parker, Plano, Sachse, St Paul, and Wylie.
Candy has been married to Robert for 38 years and they live in Lucas. They are active members of Prestonwood Baptist Church. Candy and Robert are blessed with three daughters, three sons-in-law, and nine grandchildren.

There has been a long-running narrative that big business leans Republican because both Republicans and big business generally oppose high taxes.

It’s Nov. 2 and Americans are going to the polls.

Americans are asking whether the radicals of CRT and BLM have any decency left.

By: The Editorial Board - wsj.com - November 10, 2021 For something we’re told is “transitory,” inflation sure is persistent. The latest evidence arrived with a jolt Wednesday when the Labor Department reported that consumer ...

The increase recorded in consumer prices — soaring 0.9% just for the month of October alone and 6.2% for the past 12 months — is stunning news. It is the fastest pace in over 30 ...