NLPC Calls for Strengthened Data Privacy Protections from Google at Annual Meeting
NLPC presented a “Report on AI Data Usage Oversight” shareholder proposal today at the annual meeting of Alphabet Inc., parent of Google and YouTube, that requested the Company to increase its reporting of the risks of “unethical or improper usage of external data in...
NLPC: Netflix’s Board is Insular and Ineffective, and Needs Reform
Today, National Legal and Policy Center presented an “Adopt Cumulative Voting" proposal at the annual meeting of Netflix, Inc. Board elections are usually conducted on a majority voting basis, and shareholders can only vote "yea" or "nay" for each member across the...
At Walmart, Shareholders Who Aren’t Waltons Deserve Board Representation Too
Today, National Legal and Policy Center presented a “Request for Cumulative Voting for Board Elections” proposal, at Walmart‘s 2026 annual shareholder meeting. Board elections are usually conducted on a majority voting basis. That means that a coalition representing...
NLPC Demands Board Accountability at General Motors After Our Warnings Went Unheeded
National Legal and Policy Center today presented a proposal that calls for an independent chair of the Board of Directors at General Motors Company‘s annual meeting of shareholders. The proposal would require the positions of board chair and CEO to be held by two...
Exxon’s CEO Couldn’t Defend the Record, So He Attacked the Critics
NLPC's two previous posts examined how ExxonMobil's annual meeting on Wednesday was conducted — the 17-minute pre-buttal, the individual attacks on a 106-share owner, the editorialized proposal title, the three-year procedural buildup that made the meeting's posture...
NLPC: Netflix’s Board is Insular and Ineffective, and Needs Reform
Today, National Legal and Policy Center presented an “Adopt Cumulative Voting" proposal at the annual meeting of Netflix, Inc. Board elections are usually conducted on a majority voting basis, and shareholders can only vote "yea" or "nay" for each member across the...
At Walmart, Shareholders Who Aren’t Waltons Deserve Board Representation Too
Today, National Legal and Policy Center presented a “Request for Cumulative Voting for Board Elections” proposal, at Walmart‘s 2026 annual shareholder meeting. Board elections are usually conducted on a majority voting basis. That means that a coalition representing...
NLPC Calls for Strengthened Data Privacy Protections from Google at Annual Meeting
NLPC presented a “Report on AI Data Usage Oversight” shareholder proposal today at the annual meeting of Alphabet Inc., parent of Google and YouTube, that requested the Company to increase its reporting of the risks of “unethical or improper usage of external data in...
NLPC Demands Board Accountability at General Motors After Our Warnings Went Unheeded
National Legal and Policy Center today presented a proposal that calls for an independent chair of the Board of Directors at General Motors Company‘s annual meeting of shareholders. The proposal would require the positions of board chair and CEO to be held by two...
Exxon’s CEO Couldn’t Defend the Record, So He Attacked the Critics
NLPC's two previous posts examined how ExxonMobil's annual meeting on Wednesday was conducted — the 17-minute pre-buttal, the individual attacks on a 106-share owner, the editorialized proposal title, the three-year procedural buildup that made the meeting's posture...
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Research Backing Corporate DEI Was Fabricated; Why Does It Still Run Boardrooms?
Following the overwhelming vote at the Colgate-Palmolive annual meeting in early May against a shareholder proposal to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion criteria for choosing board of director nominees, NLPC documented how the alleged DEI rollback in corporate...
Dear Darren Woods and Exxon: Your Insecurity is Showing
In a post published on Friday, NLPC asked why ExxonMobil's Chairman and CEO Darren Woods, presiding over a company at multi-decade-high hydrocarbon production levels, devoted significant time at the May 27 annual meeting to attacking a 106-share owner by name. The...
Why Was Exxon CEO Darren Woods So Angry at a Small Shareholder?
Public-company annual meetings are usually procedural affairs. The corporate secretary opens, recites the formal business of the meeting, calls the shareholder proposals, takes the votes, sometimes reports the preliminary results, and adjourns. Chairs sometimes offer...
NLPC: Benioff’s Failed Attempts to Share Power at Salesforce Demand Board Reform
Today, National Legal and Policy Center presented a “Stockholder Proposal Requesting the Adoption of Cumulative Voting” at the annual meeting of Salesforce, Inc. Board elections are usually conducted on a majority voting basis, and shareholders can only vote "yea" or...
NLPC: Meta is Not to Be Trusted with Users’ Data; Greater AI Disclosure Needed
NLPC presented a “Report on AI Data Usage Oversight” shareholder proposal today at the annual meeting of Meta Platforms, Inc., parent of Facebook and Instagram, that requested the Company to increase its reporting of the risks of “unethical or improper usage of...
Three Signature Missteps in 18 Mos. Means Exxon’s Woods Needs a Power Check
This morning National Legal and Policy Center presented a proposal at Exxon Mobil Corporation‘s annual shareholder meeting that asked the board to implement a policy to require the Chair of the Board of Directors to be an independent member from the CEO. In other...
NLPC Calls for Strengthened Accountability for Chevron Chairman/CEO Wirth
This morning National Legal and Policy Center presented a proposal at Chevron Corporation‘s annual shareholder meeting that asked the board to implement a policy to require the Chair of the Board of Directors to be an independent member from the CEO. In other words,...
Behind Colgate’s Pro-DEI Vote: BlackRock, Blue-State Pension Funds, and a Rigged System
Last week's first installment in this series documented the evidence that corporate America's celebrated retreat from diversity, equity and inclusion policies has been, in large part, a public relations exercise — a strategic rebranding designed to satisfy political...
NLPC at Annual Meeting: Verizon’s Board and CEO Have Failed Shareholders
National Legal and Policy Center today presented a proposal that calls for an independent chair of the Board of Directors at Verizon Communications Inc.‘s annual meeting of shareholders. The proposal would require the positions of board chair and CEO to be held by two...
NLPC Tells Home Depot to End Costly Plastic Recycling Mandates
NLPC presented a shareholder proposal today at the annual meeting of The Home Depot, Inc. that asked the company to revisit its plastics packaging policies, to implement serious scientific and economic analyses instead of following environmental alarmist agenda...
US Corporations Rewrote Their DEI Language, But Delta Doubled Down
Delta Air Lines, Inc. is one of a shrinking number of major U.S. corporations whose proxy statement still defines board "Diversity" as race, ethnicity and gender alone — at a moment when more than 200 S&P 500 companies have scrubbed such language from their annual...
Amazon Asked to Explain Its Climate Claims in Light of Data Center Power Needs
Today National Legal and Policy Center presented a proposal at Amazon.com, Inc.‘s annual shareholder meeting that asked the board to report to investors on the financial impact of the company's renewable energy implementation, especially in light of its massive...
It Took 5 Years for McDonald’s to Show Results and Now the CEO Gets More Power?
National Legal and Policy Center today presented a proposal that calls for an independent chair of the Board of Directors at McDonald's Corporation‘s annual meeting of shareholders. The proposal would require the positions of board chair and CEO to be held by two...
NLPC: Oreo-Maker Mondelez Only Has Itself to Blame for Excessive Packaging Costs
NLPC presented a shareholder proposal today at the annual meeting of Mondelez International --- parent company of Nabisco and maker of Oreo cookies --- that asked the company to revisit its plastics packaging policies, to implement serious scientific and economic...
NLPC Asks JPMorgan Chase to Reconcile Industrialization Plan w/ Its Carbon Reduction Commitments
Today, National Legal and Policy Center presented a “Report on Congruence of Security, Resiliency and Climate Initiatives” proposal at JPMorgan Chase & Co.‘s annual shareholder meeting. In October the company announced a $1.5 trillion Security and Resiliency...
Mastercard’s Board Speaks With One Voice; Shareholders Deserve a Second
Mastercard's board wants shareholders to believe that letting a minority of investors elect a single director is the threat. The real threat is a boardroom where nobody pushes back. NLPC has circulated an exempt solicitation to Mastercard Incorporated investors urging...
#WeToldYouSo: Vote on NLPC’s Colgate Proposal Exposes Corporate America’s DEI Deception
On May 8, Colgate-Palmolive held its annual shareholder meeting, and investors voted on a National Legal and Policy Center proposal to remove race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation from the criteria the company uses to select its directors. Nearly 97% voted...
Popular Travel Website Covers NLPC’s Proposal for American Airlines
Earlier this week NLPC published its solicitation report to investors in American Airlines, asking them to vote for our shareholder proposal that calls for cumulative voting for board of director contests, which would mean stockholders could aggregate their votes for...
Will Billionaire (and Soros Ally) Tom Steyer Control California?
Leftist billionaires are an odd lot. Having accumulated great wealth through capitalism, they donate enormous sums to organizations committed to socialism. George Soros and the lesser-known Neville Singham epitomize this type, though mercifully without seeking public...
Detroit Reporter Highlights NLPC’s ‘Formidable’ Work Related to GM
Earlier this week NLPC's shareholder report on General Motors, and our call for the company's board of directors to seek the resignation or removal of Chair/CEO Mary Barra (pictured above), caught the attention of Eric Starkman. Writing for online Motor City news and...
American Airlines Board & Execs Paid 45 Percent of the Profits; Reform Way Overdue
In a year when American Airlines Group Inc. produced just $111 million in net income on $54.6 billion in revenue, the Company's five named executive officers and twelve directors collected approximately $50.5 million in compensation. That figure equals 45.5 percent of...
The ‘Microplastics Crisis’ Targeting Target is Built on Junk Science
A group of shareholders want Target Corporation to issue a report on reducing synthetic microfiber shedding from its clothing — and NLPC is circulating its case to Target investors ahead of the company's June 10, 2026 annual meeting, urging a vote AGAINST Item 7....
ConocoPhillips’ Recent Earnings History Calls for Shake-Up of Board Leadership Structure
National Legal and Policy Center today presented a proposal that calls for an independent chair of the Board of Directors at ConocoPhillips‘s annual meeting of shareholders. The proposal would require the positions of board chair and CEO to be held by two different...
Appeals Court to Hear Case of Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Arrested for Bringing Up Gates and Epstein
A three-judge panel in Omaha will hear arguments Tuesday morning in the case of the shareholder who was arrested at the 2023 Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting for citing the reputational risk to the company posed by Warren Buffett’s relationship with Bill Gates,...
Comcast Under Brian Roberts: From 10x Netflix to a Quarter of Its Size
When Brian Roberts (pictured above) closed the 2011 acquisition of NBCUniversal from General Electric, Comcast Corporation was worth roughly ten times what Netflix was worth. Today, Netflix is worth about four times Comcast — a roughly forty-fold reversal of relative...
NLPC Rips Colgate-Palmolive at Annual Meeting for Clinging to DEI
NLPC presented a shareholder proposal today at Colgate-Palmolive Company‘s annual meeting of shareholders that asked the company to remove criteria related to diversity, equity and inclusion from consideration of board of directors nominees. The company’s board...
Google Just Paid $1.9 Billion in Privacy Settlements; Shareholders Should Intervene
It cost Google nearly $1.9 billion in privacy settlements over the past 12 months alone. Now Alphabet, Google's parent company, is asking investors to trust its internal AI governance — without showing them what it actually does. That choice goes to a vote on June 5,...
How Netflix’s Board Cost Shareholders the Warner Bros Discovery Deal
Netflix, Inc. entered 2026 with a deal that should have been the entertainment industry's defining transaction of the decade. By the end of February, that deal was dead, and Netflix had handed its biggest acquisition target to a competitor. NLPC has circulated to...
NLPC: It Shouldn’t Have Taken an Activist Investor to Hold PepsiCo CEO Accountable
National Legal and Policy Center today presented a proposal that calls for an independent chair of the Board of Directors at PepsiCo, Inc.‘s annual meeting of shareholders. The proposal would require the positions of board chair and CEO to be held by two different...
Walmart Shareholders Get a Rare Shot to Break the Waltons’ Lock on the Board
For 56 years since Walmart's 1970 IPO, every director seated on the company's board has been picked by one family. On June 4, shareholders get a chance to change that. National Legal and Policy Center ("NLPC") urges Walmart investors to vote FOR Proposal No. 5 — a...
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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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Exxon’s CEO Couldn’t Defend the Record, So He Attacked the Critics
NLPC's two previous posts examined how ExxonMobil's annual meeting on Wednesday was conducted — the 17-minute pre-buttal, the individual attacks on a 106-share owner, the editorialized proposal title, the three-year procedural buildup that made the meeting's posture...
Research Backing Corporate DEI Was Fabricated; Why Does It Still Run Boardrooms?
Following the overwhelming vote at the Colgate-Palmolive annual meeting in early May against a shareholder proposal to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion criteria for choosing board of director nominees, NLPC documented how the alleged DEI rollback in corporate...
Dear Darren Woods and Exxon: Your Insecurity is Showing
In a post published on Friday, NLPC asked why ExxonMobil's Chairman and CEO Darren Woods, presiding over a company at multi-decade-high hydrocarbon production levels, devoted significant time at the May 27 annual meeting to attacking a 106-share owner by name. The...
Why Was Exxon CEO Darren Woods So Angry at a Small Shareholder?
Public-company annual meetings are usually procedural affairs. The corporate secretary opens, recites the formal business of the meeting, calls the shareholder proposals, takes the votes, sometimes reports the preliminary results, and adjourns. Chairs sometimes offer...
NLPC: Benioff’s Failed Attempts to Share Power at Salesforce Demand Board Reform
Today, National Legal and Policy Center presented a “Stockholder Proposal Requesting the Adoption of Cumulative Voting” at the annual meeting of Salesforce, Inc. Board elections are usually conducted on a majority voting basis, and shareholders can only vote "yea" or...
NLPC: Meta is Not to Be Trusted with Users’ Data; Greater AI Disclosure Needed
NLPC presented a “Report on AI Data Usage Oversight” shareholder proposal today at the annual meeting of Meta Platforms, Inc., parent of Facebook and Instagram, that requested the Company to increase its reporting of the risks of “unethical or improper usage of...
Three Signature Missteps in 18 Mos. Means Exxon’s Woods Needs a Power Check
This morning National Legal and Policy Center presented a proposal at Exxon Mobil Corporation‘s annual shareholder meeting that asked the board to implement a policy to require the Chair of the Board of Directors to be an independent member from the CEO. In other...
NLPC Calls for Strengthened Accountability for Chevron Chairman/CEO Wirth
This morning National Legal and Policy Center presented a proposal at Chevron Corporation‘s annual shareholder meeting that asked the board to implement a policy to require the Chair of the Board of Directors to be an independent member from the CEO. In other words,...
Behind Colgate’s Pro-DEI Vote: BlackRock, Blue-State Pension Funds, and a Rigged System
Last week's first installment in this series documented the evidence that corporate America's celebrated retreat from diversity, equity and inclusion policies has been, in large part, a public relations exercise — a strategic rebranding designed to satisfy political...
NLPC at Annual Meeting: Verizon’s Board and CEO Have Failed Shareholders
National Legal and Policy Center today presented a proposal that calls for an independent chair of the Board of Directors at Verizon Communications Inc.‘s annual meeting of shareholders. The proposal would require the positions of board chair and CEO to be held by two...
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Soros-Backed Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner Calls ICE Agents ‘Wannabe Nazis;’ Vows to Hunt Them Down
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has officially abandoned any pretense of upholding the rule of law. In a move that signals a total breakdown of constitutional order, Krasner announced on January 27 a coalition of radical District Attorneys—including four...
Funding the Soros Crime Wave: Justice & Public Safety PAC
As midterm election campaigns gear up, multibillionaire George Soros’ continuing role in electing radical local prosecutors should not go unnoticed. Starting in the middle of the last decade, he has donated tens of millions of dollars to political action committees...
Groups Blast Judge’s Decision to Allow Restart of Virginia Offshore Wind Project
A group of public interest organizations involved in an ongoing lawsuit to stop construction of the massive Virginia offshore wind project is condemning a federal district court judge’s decision to overturn an order of the Department of the Interior pausing...
Senate Chairmen Subpoena AT&T, Verizon Over Jack Smith’s Lawfare Against Trump
After being stonewalled with document redactions by AT&T and Verizon in response to previous subpoenas issued by Sen. Ron Johnson, Chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley --- related to...
Soros-Funded Protest Groups Fan Flames of Anti-ICE Violence
In November, I wrote that the left is awaiting an event that will allow them to instigate widespread political violence. I theorized that because debt-laden Western economies hadn’t seen a downturn since 2008, the next economic crisis might provide the opportunity....
Governor Glenn Youngkin Asked to Withdraw Support for Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind Project
National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) today asked Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin to withdraw his support for the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project before he leaves office on January 17, 2026. On December 22, 2025, the Interior Department issued a...
Max Baucus, Other Big Shots Disappear from Website of Ilhan Omar Husband’s Firm
Gabrielle Fahmy and Geoff Earle report in the New York Post: Embattled Rep. Ilhan Omar’s husband’s venture capital firm quietly scrubbed key officer details — including former Obama officials — as scrutiny grows over the family’s skyrocketing wealth, The Post has...
Is AOC’s Turkey Giveaway a ‘Fraudulent Scheme’?
Geoff Earle and Gabrielle Fahmy report in the New York Post: This fundraiser is for the birds. Power-hungry “Squad” member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) cooked up a new way to have her cake and eat it too this Thanksgiving – by tying her annual turkey giveaway...
Soros-Funded ‘No Kings’ Protests Are Not What They Seem
Sara Bedford has written a Washington Examiner story titled, “What protests in the street have in common with deep-pocketed radical movements.” It is behind a paywall but here are some excerpts: Millions of people took to the streets to protest something in...
Fla. Attorney General Probes JPMorgan Chase Over Debanking Trump Company
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday sent a letter to JPMorgan Chase Chairman/CEO Jamie Dimon (pictured above), demanding that he order the preservation of all documents and records related to the debanking of President Trump's media company that was...
#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.
#WeToldYouSo: Vote on NLPC’s Colgate Proposal Exposes Corporate America’s DEI Deception
On May 8, Colgate-Palmolive held its annual shareholder meeting, and investors voted on a National Legal and Policy Center proposal to remove race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation from the criteria the company uses to select its directors. Nearly 97% voted...
UPDATED — #WeToldYouSo Times Three: Overboarded Barra Writes Off More Losses for GM
Update Oct. 16, 2025 11:45 a.m. ET: We are reminded of another unfulfilled promise Mary Barra made about GM's electric vehicle future: General Motors is on track to largely miss its goal of surpassing Tesla in EV market share in the US. Back in 2021, CEO Mary...
#WeToldYouSo: Comcast is Flailing Under Brian Roberts’s Control
Last week we pointed out how NBC's "The Tonight Show" embarrassingly needed the guest appearance of Fox News's Greg Gutfeld, a rival/competitor, to inject some ratings life into the graveyard of late night variety programs. The show highlighted the decline of the...
The NLPC Report Podcast: WeToldYouSo
From the National Legal and Policy Center Podcast: The NLPC Report For years, the National Legal and Policy Center has been shouting from the rooftops: Stop dumping shareholder cash into “green” projects that collapse the second government...
