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Procter & Gamble Fights to Keep Its Own Shareholders Off the Ballot
The federal government spent the summer quietly dismantling one of the last tools ordinary investors have to hold a company accountable. Procter & Gamble is helping it along — and asking shareholders to look the other way. National Legal and Policy Center has...
REUTERS: Meta’s $18B Settlement Highlights Voice of Shareholder Activists
Following last week's $18 billion settlement by Meta with dozens of state attorneys general over its failure to protect children and teens who use its social media platforms, we pointed out that Chairman/CEO Mark Zuckerberg (pictured above) --- who owns 61 percent of...
NLPC Proposal at P&G Seeks to Lock In Shareholder Eligibility
Writing for Law.com yesterday, reporter Chris O'Malley highlighted NLPC's shareholder proposal that will be considered at the annual meeting of Procter & Gamble in October. The proposal seeks to preserve certain shareholder-access thresholds. Under Rule 14a-8 of...
Meta Settles Lawsuit for $18B; NLPC Warned in 2024 About Child Safety
The Wall Street Journal reported this morning that Meta Platforms, Inc. has reached a settlement with state attorneys general in a lawsuit that had accused the social media company of lax controls and protections for minor users of Facebook and Instagram. From the...
Pro-ESG Gatekeepers Hate NLPC’s Intrusion on Their Territory
With most annual meetings of S&P 500 companies in the rearview mirror for 2026, most postseason analyses of the meetings' shareholder proposal and board election vote outcomes have been published. The results are the results, but the spin on them often doesn't...
Atkins Doublespeak: SEC Shareholder Rulings Don’t Count; Corporations Should Cite Them Anyway
The Securities and Exchange Commission has stopped settling arguments between corporations and their shareholders. On August 14 the agency's Division of Corporation Finance ("CorpFin") announced it will no longer answer companies that ask permission to keep a...
Amazon Knows What Its Climate Pledge Costs But Won’t Tell Shareholders
Amazon's board told its shareholders (see page 38 at link) in April that calculating what The Climate Pledge costs would be "impractical," and that the answer would not be "meaningful" to them. Both claims appear in the voting materials the company sent out before its...
Home Depot’s Next Cost Problem Is Plastics, and It’s Self-Inflicted
One sentence in Home Depot's second-quarter earnings release Tuesday told shareholders more about the year ahead than the headline beat did. The company reaffirmed its outlook for fiscal 2026 and then explained what that outlook rests on. Guidance, it said, "includes...
Congress Wants the Data Behind McKinsey’s Bogus DEI Findings
In February 2025, with Accenture, Goldman Sachs, Meta, Amazon and Ford backing away from their diversity commitments, McKinsey & Company's global managing partner sent a memo to staff. Some had asked whether the firm would keep prioritizing diversity, Bob...
Dominion Energy’s $715M Side Bet on Offshore Wind Has No Takers
Chairman/CEO Robert Blue had a theory: build America's only Jones Act-compliant offshore wind turbine installation vessel, corner a market that didn't yet exist, and lease it up and down the East Coast between Dominion Energy's own construction runs. The Charybdis...
GM Bets Next 20 Years on China, Three Years After NLPC Warned Shareholders
In May, General Motors sold more than 10,000 units of a new Buick in its first month on the market — a rare bright spot for an American automaker in China. The nameplate is all-American. Almost nothing else about the car is. The Buick Electra E7 was designed,...
Bank of America Pledges $250B to Industries Its Climate Targets Punish
Bank of America wants two things at once that cannot both be true. On August 12, the bank unveiled its Critical Infrastructure Finance Initiative, a plan to mobilize $250 billion over 18 months for data centers, semiconductors, power generation, transportation, and —...
Benioff Funds AI Startup After Saying Software Jobs Aren’t at Risk
Marc Benioff (pictured above) told the Wall Street Journal this month that concerns about artificial intelligence killing off software giants like Salesforce are "dead wrong." He told a technology podcast that AI still cannot replace software engineers. His own...
NLPC GOVERNMENT INTEGRITY PROJECT
Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch Must Go Now; Why is Justice Roberts Applauding His Woke Record?
The Smithsonian describes its Secretary position as "the chief executive officer of the Institution," with authority over 21 museums and the National Zoo. The present Secretary, Lonnie Bunch, announced on September 8 that he will retire by year's end. That’s waiting...
The Ethics Reporter Looks at NLPC’s Bar Complaint Against E. Jean Carroll Attorney Roberta Kaplan
From The Ethics Reporter story titled Thirty-Two Days, Two Sentences: New York’s Grievance Committee Tosses the Ethics Complaint Against E. Jean Carroll’s Lawyer: It took the National Legal and Policy Center months to research and draft its 15-page ethics complaint...
NLPC Appeals Dismissal of Bar Complaint Against E. Jean Carroll’s Lawyer Roberta Kaplan
National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has filed an appeal of the rejection of its complaint against E. Jean Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan by the Attorney Grievance Committee (AGC) of the New York Supreme Court. On August 3, the Committee, or rather its Chief...
Soros-Funded Indivisible Tries to Embrace Dolly Parton
Ezra Levin, the cofounder of the protest group Indivisible, opened a recent email to followers with a tribute to Dolly Parton. Quoting essayist Rebecca Solnit, he urged recipients to “be what she was.” Activist Levin’s embrace of Dolly’s legacy is bizarre. She spent...
ICE-Baiting Rep. McIver Not Protected by Congressional Immunity, Court Rules
A federal appeals court delivered LaMonica McIver a defeat on August 26, ruling that the New Jersey congresswoman is not shielded from prosecution for her role in the chaos at Delaney Hall detention facility in Newark. A divided panel of the U.S. Third Circuit Court...
Hasan Piker Confirms Neville Singham Funding Network; Democrats Disown Hate Merchant — Sort Of
Twitch star Hasan Piker built an audience of millions with hard-left commentary. In recent months he has handed critics something more useful than talking points. Piker's own words, spoken on his own broadcasts, now confirm what his fans spent years denying — his...
Good Riddance! Harry and Meghan Head Home to Britain
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle spent six years trying to make it in America. Now they're leaving. The couple reportedly plans to settle outside London this fall, pulling their children out of American schools in favor of British ones, a quiet admission that the West...
Soros’ Open Society Is Not Popper’s
George Soros has spent more than four decades telling the world he is philosopher Karl Popper's heir. Soros named his sprawling philanthropic network the Open Society Foundations (OSF) after Popper's 1945 book, credits Popper as the formative influence of his life,...
Self-Proclaimed Communist Singham Cries McCarthyism Over House Subpoenas
Three nonprofits tied to Neville Roy Singham, who is worth hundreds of millions, are fighting congressional subpoenas by comparing themselves to victims of the Red Scare. The irony is hard to miss. Singham calls himself a socialist and lives in Shanghai, capital of a...
Replacing the Electoral College: A Soros-Aided Power Play
The Electoral College, enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, defines how we elect presidents. The candidate who gets the most votes in a state wins the vote of appointed electors whose numbers equal those of that state's congressional delegation. Nationally, the victor...
New York Times’ Kristof Disclosed Payments but Not From Gates
Nicholas Kristof, the longtime New York Times opinion columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, spent part of the summer disclosing donors from his failed 2022 run for Oregon governor. The paper appended correction notices to nine of his columns, acknowledging he...
New Documents Show Jack Smith Let Swalwell Skate in Chinese Spy Case
The White House on August 17 declassified FBI files documenting Rep. Eric Swalwell’s yearslong relationship with suspected Chinese intelligence asset Christine “Fang Fang” Fang. The records, released through the administration’s Government Transparency Task Force, lay...
Why Did Mangione’s Murder Charge Become ‘Stalking’?
NLPC Counsel Paul Kamenar has an op-ed in today's Washington Examiner: While running for president in 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump once famously boasted, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? It’s,...
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THE BILLIONAIRES DESTROYING AMERICA
We are pulling back the curtain on the billionaires bankrolling our nation’s division and chaos.
Why do the biggest beneficiaries of capitalism fund Marxists? Why do the wealthy, who have gotten rich because of the rule of law and orderly markets, support anarchists and activists who would tear it all down?
The answer is simple. They seek to buy off the forces that would question the morality of their wealth. It is a cowardly and shortsighted strategy. To save our country, the rest of us must make sure that they fail!
Senior Fellow Carl F. Horowitz researches and writes about the so-called Open Society Foundations, with assets of $25 billion, funded by George Soros and now managed by his son, Alex Soros.
Senior Fellow Dr. Steven J. Allen follows the Gates Foundation, formerly the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, funded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. Combined with a related entity, the Gates Foundation Trust, its assets total $163 billion.
Our staff also tracks LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, who has dumped $200 million in politics and activism since 2012. Hoffman’s funding of “law fare,” political dirty tricks, and false-flag operations, demonstrates his recklessness and disdain for democratic norms.
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#WeToldYouSo
Corporate corruption. Boardroom blunders.
ESG gone wild. In the #WeToldYouSo series, NLPC’s Paul Chesser connects the dots between our early warnings and the corporate disasters that followed.
From Disney’s boardroom chaos to GM’s EV retreat, these stories prove one thing:
we saw it coming — and we said so.
GM Bets Next 20 Years on China, Three Years After NLPC Warned Shareholders
In May, General Motors sold more than 10,000 units of a new Buick in its first month on the market — a rare bright spot for an American automaker in China. The nameplate is all-American. Almost nothing else about the car is. The Buick Electra E7 was designed,...
Benioff Funds AI Startup After Saying Software Jobs Aren’t at Risk
Marc Benioff (pictured above) told the Wall Street Journal this month that concerns about artificial intelligence killing off software giants like Salesforce are "dead wrong." He told a technology podcast that AI still cannot replace software engineers. His own...
#WeToldYouSo: Meta’s Shield Cracks as $1.4 Trillion Trial Opens
Meta Platforms tried to make more than 3,000 lawsuits go away by invoking the federal law that has protected internet companies for three decades. On Monday a federal appeals court told the company no. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act shields online...
#WeToldYouSo: Big Banks Fled Net Zero Alliance but Kept Its Broken Yardstick
Three years ago, NLPC told America's largest banks that their climate commitments rested on a fantasy. In 2023 exempt solicitations circulated to investors at Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo, NLPC warned that the banks'...
