Catherine Engelbrecht with True The Vote 2024

The Downtown Rotary Club of Houston is pleased to have Catherine Engelbrecht as our luncheon speaker on Tuesday, October 22, 2024, at the Ballroom at Bayou Place.

Catherine is the Founder and President of True the Vote.

Catherine is a mother, business owner, native Texan, and lifelong practitioner of common sense.

What became a full-time call to grassroots activism started in 2008, when she could no longer watch silently as Government acted in stark contrast to America’s principles of personal liberty and economic freedom.

In 2010 she started True the Vote, a citizen-led effort to restore honor and integrity to our electoral system. True the Vote educates voters, trains and mobilizes citizens to work at the polls, researches the veracity of voter rolls, and advocates for election code reform. True the Vote is now the nation’s leading voters’ rights organization.

Catherine believes when government isn't held accountable, it inevitably abuses the rights of American citizens. So, when she learned the Internal Revenue Service was targeting her organization and others, Catherine stood her ground and took action. In 2013, True the Vote embarked on a precedent-setting lawsuit against the IRS and its top leadership, leading to a historic victory in 2019. Now, True the Vote’s groundbreaking use of cell phone data has revealed staggering levels of fraud in the 2020 election.

As a nationally recognized spokesperson on voters’ rights and free speech, Catherine appears regularly on television and talk radio, she has testified numerous times before Congress and state legislatures, and speaks to grassroots activists across the nation.

Catherine has received national recognition for her work with True the Vote, including the CPAC Ronald Reagan award, the Horowitz Foundation Annie Taylor award, the Breitbart Stand With award, along with dozens of state and local organization commendations for leadership and strength under fire. Catherine is a co-producer with Dinesh D'Sousa of the hit movie "2000 Mules".