It’s Time for Saudi Arabia to Make Whole Pensacola Terror Victims
From my op-ed in the April 14 Washington Times: President Trump can take a large share of the credit for a deeper, more fundamental shift in Middle East geopolitics than the Iran conflict. It’s the extraordinary transformation of the Saudi-U.S. alliance, which in...
Amazon Won’t Tell Shareholders What Its Climate Pledge Costs in Age of AI
Amazon made a sweeping climate promise in 2019. Seven years later, the company has become the world's largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy — and has never once told shareholders what that strategy costs them. The National Legal and Policy Center demands an...
Soros Money Drenches Virginia for Gerrymandering Campaign
Gerrymandering, the practice by which the majority party in a state legislature redraws congressional maps in ways that maximize the party’s representation in Congress, at times with bizarre boundaries, suddenly is a political weapon of choice. California voters last...
Obama’s Two Attorneys General Cashed In; US Corporations Paid the Bill
Last week NLPC documented how Eric Holder — Barack Obama's first Attorney General — built a lucrative racial equity audit practice at Covington & Burling, billing corporations nearly $2,300 an hour to certify their racial justice compliance while simultaneously...
McDonald’s Board Consolidated CEO’s Power, but Called NLPC’s Proposal ‘Dictatorial’
McDonald's Corporation holds its 2026 annual shareholders' meeting on May 20, and National Legal and Policy Center is circulating to major investors an exempt solicitation report urging a vote FOR Proposal 4 — which would require the company to separate the roles of...
Amazon Won’t Tell Shareholders What Its Climate Pledge Costs in Age of AI
Amazon made a sweeping climate promise in 2019. Seven years later, the company has become the world's largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy — and has never once told shareholders what that strategy costs them. The National Legal and Policy Center demands an...
Soros Money Drenches Virginia for Gerrymandering Campaign
Gerrymandering, the practice by which the majority party in a state legislature redraws congressional maps in ways that maximize the party’s representation in Congress, at times with bizarre boundaries, suddenly is a political weapon of choice. California voters last...
It’s Time for Saudi Arabia to Make Whole Pensacola Terror Victims
From my op-ed in the April 14 Washington Times: President Trump can take a large share of the credit for a deeper, more fundamental shift in Middle East geopolitics than the Iran conflict. It’s the extraordinary transformation of the Saudi-U.S. alliance, which in...
Obama’s Two Attorneys General Cashed In; US Corporations Paid the Bill
Last week NLPC documented how Eric Holder — Barack Obama's first Attorney General — built a lucrative racial equity audit practice at Covington & Burling, billing corporations nearly $2,300 an hour to certify their racial justice compliance while simultaneously...
McDonald’s Board Consolidated CEO’s Power, but Called NLPC’s Proposal ‘Dictatorial’
McDonald's Corporation holds its 2026 annual shareholders' meeting on May 20, and National Legal and Policy Center is circulating to major investors an exempt solicitation report urging a vote FOR Proposal 4 — which would require the company to separate the roles of...
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Oreo Maker Can’t Meet Its Plastics Goals — So Why Is It Doubling Down?
Mondelēz International — the snack giant behind Oreo, Cadbury, Ritz, and Clif Bar — can't come close to meeting the plastic packaging targets it set for itself in 2018 and 2021. Yet it continues to advocate for the very Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) mandates...
Which Supreme Court Justice Invited De Niro to Birthright Hearing?
The following letter to the editor by NLPC Counsel Paul Kamenar appeared in the Washington Times: As a member of the Supreme Court Bar, I had the privilege last week to sit in the front section, reserved for bar members, during the oral argument challenging President...
How the Left’s Go-To Law Firm Built a Corporate Racial Justice Racket
Last week the New York Times reported that Covington & Burling, one of Washington's most politically connected law firms, had served as legal counsel for ActBlue — the Democratic Party's primary online fundraising platform. The arrangement ended badly. In early...
On CNBC, Warren Buffett Says the Same Things for Which He Had Me Arrested
In a CNBC interview last week, Warren Buffett distanced himself from Bill Gates, his longtime friend whose foundation has enjoyed his largesse. In doing so, he affirmed the very point for which he had me arrested at the 2023 Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders’...
Who is Ryan Lance? He’s ConocoPhillips’s Man with Too Much Power
ConocoPhillips shareholders can cast their ballots for May 12's annual meeting any time now, and NLPC urges them to send a message to a board that has grown far too comfortable with the status quo. NLPC has circulated an exempt solicitation report (PDF) to...
Is the Transformation of BlackRock’s Larry Fink from Woke to Anti-Woke Now Complete?
NLPC has scrutinized the leadership and judgment of BlackRock Chairman/CEO Larry Fink going back to at least early 2018, when his highly influential annual investor letter (some might say intimidation letter) espoused (some might say demanded) companies implement...
Former Ben & Jerry’s Board Chair Sues Parent Company for Defamation
In December we reported to NLPC followers that Anuradha Mittal (pictured above) was removed from the board of directors for Ben & Jerry’s, which was once under Unilever‘s ownership, but has been spun off under another company called Magnum. This followed news...
Jesse Watters Highlights FEC Complaint Against AOC Over Campaign Funds for Ketamine Psychiatrist
Fox News host Jesse Watters highlighted a bombshell ethics complaint last night on Jesse Watters Primetime, exposing how Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) allegedly misused nearly $19,000 in campaign donations for personal psychiatric services. The National Legal...
PepsiCo Can’t Hold Its CEO Accountable When He Also Chairs the Board
NLPC is circulating to PepsiCo investors an exempt solicitation report (PDF) urging shareholders to vote FOR Proxy Item No. 4 — the independent board chair proposal — at PepsiCo's Annual Meeting on May 6, 2026. An executive summary of the report lays out the core case...
‘No Kings:’ Media Ignores Soros Funding and Weird Agenda
Yesterday, the streets of our nation’s capital and major cities were once again filled with the "No Kings" protests. To the casual observer—or the viewer of any mainstream news broadcast—it appeared to be a spontaneous, grassroots eruption of protest of the...
Ethics Complaint Filed Against AOC for Using Campaign Funds for Ketamine Doctor
National Legal and Policy Center on March 27 filed a complaint jointly with the Federal Election Commission and the Office of Congressional Conduct against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). From the Complaint, drafted by NLPC Counsel Paul Kamenar: NLPC alleges...
Colgate-Palmolive: One of Corporate America’s Last Remaining DEI Holdouts
Corporate America has spent the past two years in a retreat from diversity, equity and inclusion board mandates. Goldman Sachs dropped its board diversity policy. Uber eliminated identity-based criteria for filling board seats. Walmart, Amazon, Bank of America,...
UPDATE: Los Angeles, NM Juries Hit Meta, YouTube with Multi-Million-Dollar Verdicts
UPDATE March 26, 2026 10:00 a.m. ET: In addition to the decision by a New Mexico jury explained in our original post described below, a Los Angeles jury reached a $6 million verdict against Meta Platforms and Google in a lawsuit over social media addiction. ORIGINAL...
AOC’s $19K “Leadership Training” Payment to Ketamine Psychiatrist Sparks NLPC Ethics Complaint
The National Legal and Policy Center is preparing to file complaints with both the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and the House Ethics Committee over Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) apparent misuse of campaign contributions for personal psychiatric...
NLPC to Challenge BofA Chair/CEO Moynihan Over ‘Laggard Performance’
National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has issued a formal exempt solicitation research report and related executive summary, which calls on Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) shareholders to vote FOR Proposal 4 on the 2026 proxy ballot. The proposal requests...
NLPC Seeks Accountability for CEO Brian Niccol at Starbucks Annual Meeting
Today, National Legal and Policy Center presented a “Request for Board of Directors to Adopt Policy for an Independent Chair” proposal, at the Starbucks 2026 annual shareholder meeting. Starbucks's CEO and Chair is currently Brian Niccol (pictured above), the former...
Dominion Energy Shareholders Asked to Reject CEO Robert Blue’s Unchecked Power
Dominion Energy shareholders will vote on May 5, 2026 on Item 4 of the Company's proxy ballot — a proposal requiring the Board of Directors to adopt a policy for an independent Chair. National Legal and Policy Center, which filed the proposal, has circulated an exempt...
#WeToldYouSo: California’s Investment in Recycling is a Massive Failure
California fancies itself the nation's conscience on plastic packaging. It passed a sweeping law. It set ambitious targets. It lectured companies, pressured suppliers, and demanded a cleaner, greener, circular future. And now the results are in — or, more precisely,...
Soros, Gates & Zuckerberg Fund College Tuition for Illegal Immigrants
If one issue unites the Left more than any other, it is immigration. The prospect of unlimited entry and residence from abroad, especially the Third World, excites their utopian impulses. The Open Society Foundations, funded by multibillionaire George Soros, drives...
Exxon’s Darren Woods: Big Oil’s Biggest Carbon Regulation Advocate
In our first post in this series, we documented how ExxonMobil Chairman and CEO Darren Woods spent years lobbying to preserve the Paris Agreement — the policy architecture that justified the company's multi-billion-dollar low-carbon investment program. In our second...
AOC Used Campaign Funds for Psychiatric Treatment from Ketamine Doctor
Gabrielle Fahmy reports in the New York Post that Rep. Alexander Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spent more than $18,000 from her campaign for mental health treatment, apparently in violation of the law. AOC received therapy from Dr. Brian Boyle, the chief psychiatric officer at...
Financial Planning Site Covers NLPC’s Criticisms of SEC Under Atkins
On Friday, Financial Planning, a news publication that caters to wealth management professionals, reported how NLPC --- after winning several anti-DEI concessions from companies including American Express, Deere & Company, and Goldman Sachs --- has become critical...
Wells Fargo’s Board Wrongly Gave Scharf the Keys to His Own Oversight
When Wells Fargo's board handed CEO Charles Scharf (pictured above) the chairmanship in October 2025 — and then revealed his compensation had surged to $94.52 million — it offered shareholders a vivid illustration of what happens when no independent check exists on...
Selective Neutrality: Why Did Oreo Scrub a U.S. Gold Medal Hockey Hero?
In the high-stakes world of corporate branding, "consistency" is usually the gold standard. But for Mondelez International, the parent company of the iconic Oreo brand, consistency seems to have been replaced by a reactionary and ideologically driven "cancel culture."...
Confirmed: Microsoft’s Reid Hoffman Not ‘Cleared’ of Wrongdoing by Justice Dept.
A couple of weeks ago when we asserted that the walls were closing in on Reid Hoffman's and Microsoft's ability to keep him on the tech giant's board of directors, due to (among other things) the LinkedIn co-founder's Trump Derangement Syndrome and evasions about his...
NLPC Calls for Disney to Embrace Board Reform, Reject Woke Capture
Today, National Legal and Policy Center presented a “Request for Cumulative Voting for Board Elections” proposal, at Disney's 2026 annual shareholder meeting. This is the first of several cumulative voting proposals that NLPC will present this proxy season. This is...
Coca-Cola and Disney Play the Shareholder Deception Game Again
In the world of Corporate America and engagement and communication with shareholders who bring proposals for annual meetings, some companies are sleazier and more adversarial than others. In NLPC's experience, two of the biggest offenders on this count are also two of...
Coca-Cola Plastics Failures: NLPC Demands Independent Audit for 2026
National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) is calling on shareholders of The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) to support a critical governance reform at the upcoming 2026 Annual Meeting. Identified as Item 5 on page 91 of the Company's 2026 Proxy Statement, the proposal...
Microsoft’s Board Committee Charter Should Get Reid Hoffman Removed from Building
Reid Hoffman is not exactly burdened with board responsibilities at Microsoft. While his fellow directors hold assignments on the Audit, Compensation, and Governance and Nominating committees — the bodies that perform the actual, unglamorous work of institutional...
Exxon’s Taxpayer-Funded Carbon Empire; Now Darren Woods Wants Mandates
In our last post about ExxonMobil, we described how Chairman and CEO Darren Woods overcorrected in response to the 2021 Engine No. 1 board insurgency, steering the company into a multi-billion-dollar low-carbon investment program built on the assumption that the Biden...
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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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Oreo Maker Can’t Meet Its Plastics Goals — So Why Is It Doubling Down?
Mondelēz International — the snack giant behind Oreo, Cadbury, Ritz, and Clif Bar — can't come close to meeting the plastic packaging targets it set for itself in 2018 and 2021. Yet it continues to advocate for the very Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) mandates...
How the Left’s Go-To Law Firm Built a Corporate Racial Justice Racket
Last week the New York Times reported that Covington & Burling, one of Washington's most politically connected law firms, had served as legal counsel for ActBlue — the Democratic Party's primary online fundraising platform. The arrangement ended badly. In early...
On CNBC, Warren Buffett Says the Same Things for Which He Had Me Arrested
In a CNBC interview last week, Warren Buffett distanced himself from Bill Gates, his longtime friend whose foundation has enjoyed his largesse. In doing so, he affirmed the very point for which he had me arrested at the 2023 Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders’...
Who is Ryan Lance? He’s ConocoPhillips’s Man with Too Much Power
ConocoPhillips shareholders can cast their ballots for May 12's annual meeting any time now, and NLPC urges them to send a message to a board that has grown far too comfortable with the status quo. NLPC has circulated an exempt solicitation report (PDF) to...
Is the Transformation of BlackRock’s Larry Fink from Woke to Anti-Woke Now Complete?
NLPC has scrutinized the leadership and judgment of BlackRock Chairman/CEO Larry Fink going back to at least early 2018, when his highly influential annual investor letter (some might say intimidation letter) espoused (some might say demanded) companies implement...
Former Ben & Jerry’s Board Chair Sues Parent Company for Defamation
In December we reported to NLPC followers that Anuradha Mittal (pictured above) was removed from the board of directors for Ben & Jerry’s, which was once under Unilever‘s ownership, but has been spun off under another company called Magnum. This followed news...
PepsiCo Can’t Hold Its CEO Accountable When He Also Chairs the Board
NLPC is circulating to PepsiCo investors an exempt solicitation report (PDF) urging shareholders to vote FOR Proxy Item No. 4 — the independent board chair proposal — at PepsiCo's Annual Meeting on May 6, 2026. An executive summary of the report lays out the core case...
Colgate-Palmolive: One of Corporate America’s Last Remaining DEI Holdouts
Corporate America has spent the past two years in a retreat from diversity, equity and inclusion board mandates. Goldman Sachs dropped its board diversity policy. Uber eliminated identity-based criteria for filling board seats. Walmart, Amazon, Bank of America,...
UPDATE: Los Angeles, NM Juries Hit Meta, YouTube with Multi-Million-Dollar Verdicts
UPDATE March 26, 2026 10:00 a.m. ET: In addition to the decision by a New Mexico jury explained in our original post described below, a Los Angeles jury reached a $6 million verdict against Meta Platforms and Google in a lawsuit over social media addiction. ORIGINAL...
NLPC to Challenge BofA Chair/CEO Moynihan Over ‘Laggard Performance’
National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has issued a formal exempt solicitation research report and related executive summary, which calls on Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) shareholders to vote FOR Proposal 4 on the 2026 proxy ballot. The proposal requests...
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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...
Election Winner is George Soros
The big election winner is George Soros. One might ask how a Ugandan-born, 34-year-old Muslim socialist came out of the blue and was elected New York City mayor. It’s not far-fetched when one considers massively-Soros-funded institutions like the Working Families...
Unconstitutional Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Surveillance Scandal Widens
After the revelations that Special Counsel Jack Smith authorized the FBI to surveil the private phone communications of nearly a dozen Republican senators, it now comes out that Smith’s operation was aimed at virtually the entire conservative and Republican...
Soros Money Fuels California Prop 50 Gerrymandering Campaign
On November 4, California voters will decide whether to approve a proposal, Proposition 50, that would amend the state constitution to authorize a temporary redrawing of congressional districts to boost Democratic Party representation. While redistricting is...
John Brennan Must Be Indicted
Today, with the House Judiciary Committee’s referral of former CIA Director John Brennan to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution, we’re one step closer to accountability for the Russia collusion hoax, one of the most egregious abuses of power in modern...
Disbarment Sought of Virginia AG Candidate Jay Jones
National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has filed a complaint with the Virginia State Bar asking that it subject Virginia Attorney General candidate Jay Jones “to a revocation of his bar license or at the least a suspension.” In text messages sent in 2022, Jones...
Chinese Communist Figure is Big Donor to NJ Governor Candidate Mikie Sherrill
From a story by Thomas Catenacci in the Washington Free Beacon: A Chinese auto executive and an active member of the Chinese Communist Party donated over $65,000 to New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rep. Mikie Sherrill's campaign, according to state...
#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.
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...
#WeToldYouSo: David Solomon Draws Trump’s Criticism For Poor Management
Two worlds collided this week: President Trump's tariff revival and Goldman Sachs’s brand of virtue-signaling finance. CEO and Chair David Solomon’s DJ hobby got caught in the crossfire—and the clash underscores exactly why NLPC questioned Solomon’s judgment as CEO...
