PERSON: Catherine Engelbrecht

True the Vote

Co-Founder

Catherine Renee Engelbrecht is the American co-founder of True the Vote and King Street Patriots, a nonprofit Tea Party organization which is active mostly in Texas. She is also the co-founder of “The Freedom Hospital” with Gregg Phillips, and the CFO of CoverMe Services Inc, one of his companies. The company was formerly known as AutoGov, Inc.

Engelbrecht was a small business owner and a parent–teacher association volunteer until Barack Obama won the 2008 United States presidential election. In 2008, after volunteering at the election, Engelbrecht began sharing her opinions about the US voting system, catching the attention of the Tea Party movement.

In 2009, Engelbrecht founded the King Street Patriots, naming the organization after the 1770 Boston Massacre. Several members of the King Street Patriots, including Engelbrecht, its president, were dissatisfied with the voting process in Harris County, Texas, during the 2008 United States Presidential election, especially the shortage of poll workers, which they believed “invited fraud and other problems at the polls.” Later in 2009, Engelbrecht co-founded True the Vote.

Politico named Engelbrecht as “one of the 50 political figures to watch” in 2012. In 2018, Phillips renamed AutoGov, Inc. To CoverMe Services Inc. With himself as CEO and Catherine Engelbrecht as CFO. CoverMe claimed that “in the span of a five-minute interview, hospitals can provide patients with real-time eligibility and enrollment support, creating better outcomes for both the patient and provider.” It made $1.7 million charging services to University of Mississippi Medical Center for work through 2023.

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