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ISS Backs NLPC’s Shareholder-Access Proposal at Procter & Gamble
The most influential voice in proxy advice has told Procter & Gamble's shareowners to vote for a proposal the company opposes. Institutional Shareholder Services — the firm whose recommendations steer a huge share of institutional votes — has urged a FOR vote on...
Chapek Memoir Further Shows Disney Board’s Incompetence
NLPC has summarized the accounts of the sabotage (including a "58-minute read" by the New York Times) waged by former Disney CEO Robert Iger (pictured above, right) upon his successor Bob Chapek (left), which in hindsight had the effect of dumping COVID- and Florida...
BLOOMBERG: Shareholders Pressure Companies to Keep Proposals at Annual Meetings
The Securities and Exchange Commission wants to abolish the rule that lets shareholders put proposals to a vote at corporate annual meetings. Last week Bloomberg Law reported on the pushback from investors who regularly use it — NLPC among them. From the article:...
Starbucks Brings Its Brand to Xinjiang, Home of Uyghur Genocide
Travelers landing at the international airport in Urumqi can now order a Starbucks latte. So can shoppers at the city's Grand Bazaar. Urumqi is the capital of Xinjiang, the far-western Chinese region where the U.S. government says Beijing has carried out genocide...
The EV Bet’s Hidden Bill: GM Can’t Build the Cars Buyers Want
In 2024, General Motors shut down production of the Chevy Malibu at its Fairfax plant in Kansas to make room for a battery-powered car. By 2027, that EV will be gone from Fairfax too, replaced by a gas-powered Chevy Equinox. That round trip, from gasoline to battery...
Oracle Says Threat to Shareholder Rights Is ‘Hypothetical’ — It Isn’t
Oracle Corporation wants its shareholders to believe there's nothing to worry about. Federal regulators are moving to scrap a decades-old rule that lets ordinary investors — not just Wall Street giants — put proposals to a vote at the companies they own. Oracle's...
#WeToldYouSo: Only a Leak Exposed Gmail’s $117 Million Hit to GOP Donors
Two economists set out to measure what happened when Republican fundraising emails vanished into spam folders last year. They found an answer, an estimated $117 million in lost donations, and a problem they could not get around. They could see the cause only because...
Susan Rice Holds Less Netflix Stock Than Any Director; Shareholders Lost 42.5%
Of all the directors on Netflix's board, Susan Rice held the fewest shares — fewer even than a colleague who had arrived ten months earlier. While occupying that seat, she warned corporations accommodating President Trump that they would face consequences when...
Microsoft Agrees to Preserve Shareholder Proposal Rights Through 2027
So far this year NLPC has submitted a few shareholder proposals that seek to preserve basic stock ownership thresholds that have been embedded in a Securities and Exchange Commission rule, in order for a proponent to be eligible to submit a proposal at a company for...
SEC Plan Would Leave Only the Biggest Investors With a Voice
The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed on September 16 to repeal the rule that guarantees shareholders a place on their own company's ballot. Strip away the legal vocabulary and the change is simple. Right now, an American who has owned $2,000 of stock for...
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...
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Billionaires Soros, Wyss, Hoffman Fund ‘Grassroots’ Talarico Campaign
"Everything in Texas is best," goes a popular Texas expression. It would be hard to apply it to James Talarico. A Democratic state lawmaker, Talarico is running against conservative Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for the U.S. Senate seat of John Cornyn,...
Criminal Complaint Filed Against Florida Senate Candidate Angie Nixon for Not Disclosing IRS, Student Debt
National Legal and Policy Center has filed a complaint against Florida Senate candidate Angie Nixon with the Senate Ethics Committee and the U.S. Attorney for Northern Florida for filing false financial disclosure statements. Click here for the complaint. The...
Congress Looks at Nonprofit Abuses: Will Soros & Singham Ever Be Made Accountable?
If billionaire-supported nonprofit groups, including the George Soros-funded Open Society Foundations, can get away with subsidizing radical political groups under the guise of philanthropy, much of the blame rests with a lack of government oversight. Some frustrated...
FL Senate Candidate Angie Nixon Broke Rules by Not Disclosing IRS and Student Loan Debt That She Refuses to Repay
Andrew Kerr reports in the Washington Free Beacon: Florida Democratic Senate nominee Angie Nixon, an avowed Democratic Socialist who owns two homes and raked in at least $270,000 from her jobs and investments last year—in addition to her husband's unpublished...
NLPC Demands Financial Documents After ‘Stunning’ Dismissal of Complaint Against Ilhan Omar
NLPC Counsel Paul Kamenar is demanding the public release of documents related to the NLPC-triggered investigation of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) by the Office of Congressional Conduct (OCC). The panel cleared Omar of wrongdoing regarding her false financial disclosures...
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,...
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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.
#WeToldYouSo: Only a Leak Exposed Gmail’s $117 Million Hit to GOP Donors
Two economists set out to measure what happened when Republican fundraising emails vanished into spam folders last year. They found an answer, an estimated $117 million in lost donations, and a problem they could not get around. They could see the cause only because...
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...
