Michele Morrow was most recently the Republican candidate for North Carolina State Superintendent of Public Instruction. She narrowly missed winning this election by only 2 points despite being outspent by more than $7.8 million by her opponent and leftist supporting organizations like Planned Parenthood, National Education Association and many others. Michele is a product of North Carolina’s public schools, graduating from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and receiving her bachelor of nursing degree from UNC-Chapel Hill. She has worked in the ICU and ER as well as served families in some of the most rural counties in the U.S. and the poorest communities in Central and South America. Michele's five children attended public, private, and homeschool. Like many parents, when the system didn't meet the needs of her children, she sought alternatives. With the cost of private school out of her family's reach, she decided to homeschool her children. Michele helped other families who chose to homeschool their children. She taught high schoolers biology, chemistry, Spanish, and civics in parent-led micro-schools, a mid-point between traditional schooling and homeschooling. Parental rights, school safety, privacy in girls' bathrooms and locker rooms, girls' rights and safety in sports, and protecting children from being medical guinea pigs in the madness of gender manipulation are important issues that Michele has been actively defending. She has spent countless hours challenging school boards and elected officials. Michele served as a spokesperson for Liberty First Grassroots, advocating for election integrity, medical freedom and educational reform. She spent two years as a citizen lobbyist for the Pavement Education Project trying to remove sexually inappropriate content from our children’s classrooms and public school libraries. Michele is a regular public speaker and guest on numerous opinion and news shows about the dangers of the politically charged, racially divisive and sexually explicit agendas in our schools that are robbing our children of their innocence and a sound, basic education. Michele believes that students should master reading, writing and math before moving on to middle school. They also should be given well rounded instruction on history, biology, civics and economics. The biggest threat to our constitutional republic is the radical and incomplete presentation of these subjects in school curriculum. Michele wants to expand the Career and Technical Education program to offer every high school student a paid internship opportunity during their junior and senior years by partnering with local businesses throughout the state to make that a reality. She insists on auditing the government school system’s finances to ensure that our tax money is focused on students, not pet projects and special interest groups. She understands that the system is broken and that it will take someone from the outside to fix it. She wants our young people to appreciate the blessing of being citizens in the greatest country in the history of the world and to be equipped for success as adults. Michele believes that the future of our nation is determined by the quality of education. Public schools should be the gateway to the American Dream. Everybody wins when schools produce critical-thinking and morally flourishing individuals who will be successful employees, employers, inventors, tradespeople, and entrepreneurs and civil servants our nation will need to remain safe, prosperous and free. Michele will work tirelessly to ensure that every student in our Great Nation has the opportunity to reach their full potential.

Sam Hassell is an accomplished entrepreneur, political strategist and national advertising and media executive. He has worked with a wide array of national and international brands, direct-to-consumer companies and political and issue organizations driving multi-million dollar national media campaigns as well as statewide grassroots campaigns. As the CEO of The Association of Mature American CItizens (AMAC), Hassell drove membership from a few thousand to more than 1.5 million members in two years, securing their position as the conservative competitor to the AARP. As CEO of his own companies, Marketel Media and Intelimarc, Hassell worked with Super Pac’s, PAC’s and issue organizations such as: Adelson-backed, Winning Our Future in support of Newt Gingrich for President, America Continues, Dinesh D’Souza’s record-breaking movie: 2016 Obama’s America, National Right To Life and the New American Energy Opportunity Foundation among others. Hassell also founded and lead Cross Platform Media, which included USA Radio Networks and USA Headline NEWS with 24/7 news and nationally syndicated talk and music programs reaching an estimated 15 million listeners weekly. HIs company Intelirep, became the second largest media sales representation firm for Christian radio and web networks with an audience of over 45 million through clients K_LOVE, Keep the Faith, Focus on the Family, Todd Starnes, Moody Broadcasting and others.