Exxon’s CEO Feuds With Trump Once Again, This Time Over Venezuela
The Wall Street Journal reports that President Trump signaled he may bar ExxonMobil from re-entering Venezuela after CEO Darren Woods opposed the President's plans to get U.S. companies to invest in the nation's oil projects: “I’ll probably be inclined to keep Exxon...
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...
Ford Lit $19B on Fire with EVs; Now GM is Up to a $7.6B Write-Off
NLPC has repeatedly highlighted the impracticality of electric vehicles (both in recent years and during the Obama administration). Now, following Ford's announcement last month that it would take a $19.5-billion write-down on its EV investments, General Motors...
Dear Corporate America: THIS is How You Respond to Anti-Law Enforcement Behavior
After a few days of one of its franchisees' recalcitrance to repent over denying services to ICE agents at one of its Hampton Inns in Lakeview, Minn., Hilton Worldwide stripped it of its branding. Alpha News snapped a photo of a crane removing the hotel's sign on...
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...
Exxon’s CEO Feuds With Trump Once Again, This Time Over Venezuela
The Wall Street Journal reports that President Trump signaled he may bar ExxonMobil from re-entering Venezuela after CEO Darren Woods opposed the President's plans to get U.S. companies to invest in the nation's oil projects: “I’ll probably be inclined to keep Exxon...
Ford Lit $19B on Fire with EVs; Now GM is Up to a $7.6B Write-Off
NLPC has repeatedly highlighted the impracticality of electric vehicles (both in recent years and during the Obama administration). Now, following Ford's announcement last month that it would take a $19.5-billion write-down on its EV investments, General Motors...
Dear Corporate America: THIS is How You Respond to Anti-Law Enforcement Behavior
After a few days of one of its franchisees' recalcitrance to repent over denying services to ICE agents at one of its Hampton Inns in Lakeview, Minn., Hilton Worldwide stripped it of its branding. Alpha News snapped a photo of a crane removing the hotel's sign on...
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Meta’s Smart Glasses Open a New Front for Data Collection and Privacy Risk
Meta’s pause on international expansion for its Ray-Ban smart glasses is a reminder that demand for AI-enabled wearables is racing ahead of real safeguards. NLPC has pressed the company—and its competitors—on AI and data-privacy risks. These devices can record audio,...
JPMorgan Chase Dumps Proxy Advisers, a Win for Conservative Shareholders
JPMorgan Chase’s break with ISS and Glass Lewis is a watershed for corporate governance—and a tailwind for conservative shareholder activism. For years NLPC has argued that the proxy advisor duopoly exerts outsized sway over investor vote outcomes. They almost always...
Ted Cruz Says Ford CEO ‘Terrified’ That He Might Have to Answer for Losing $19B on EVs
Ford Chairman/CEO Jim Farley has reportedly bailed on a planned hearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, which motivated Chairman Ted Cruz (pictured above) to postpone the session. According to Politico: “Well, for whatever reason,...
Trump’s SEC Chairman Aligns with Pro-DEI Woke Corporations
In early December we explained how the Securities and Exchange Commission, under President Trump's handpicked Chairman Paul Atkins (pictured above at his swearing-in), has washed its hands of resolving disputes between public companies and their shareholders when it...
Science Behind Gender Transitioning Collapses; Corporations are Culpable
This month saw a series of revelations, policy developments, and personal testimonies disseminated in the media related to the emotionally and physically destructive ideology and practice of trying to change an individual's gender. For context, NLPC's Corporate...
Disney’s Board STILL Marred by Leftism, Wokeness and Failure
Two-and-a-half years ago NLPC produced a 27-page report to our fellow Disney shareholders, which called upon them to vote against the entire slate of board of director nominees, after gross negligence with their oversight responsibilities led them into a period where...
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...
Trump Admin Pauses Offshore Wind Projects and Dominion’s Costs Will Balloon More
The inefficiencies (especially compared to alternative generation) and the extreme costs to electricity customers of Dominion Energy didn't put a stop to the utility's development of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. Nor did concerns about...
Reuters: Bank of America ‘Ripe for Activist Treatment’
Reuters columnist Stephen Gandel says Bank of America could soon draw an activist campaign, citing years of trailing performance and a widening valuation gap with JPMorgan Chase. Gandel flags an aging board, underperforming wealth unit, and muddled capital-allocation...
Red State AGs Investigate Big Tech’s ‘Green’ Claims
Back in September, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, joined by his counterparts in 15 other states, launched an investigation into Big Tech’s renewable energy marketing, alleging “misleading energy use claims” that could violate state law and distort the true...
Ford’s $35-Billion Bonfire: Why Does Jim Farley Still Have a Job?
If any other CEO in America had incinerated $35 billion of shareholder capital on a failed ideological crusade, security would be escorting him or her out of the building with a cardboard box in hand. Yet, at Ford Motor Company, CEO Jim Farley (pictured above in a...
Win Without War: Soros-Funded Anti-Americanism
Self-described peace activists typically act on the premise that America is a unique threat to world peace, a threat removable only by bowing before our enemies. The Center for International Policy (CIP) lives by this credo. Founded over 20 years ago, the Washington,...
Chair of Ben & Jerry’s Gets Booted from the Board
Last week we highlighted news reports that Anuradha Mittal (pictured above), the radical anti-Semite who led the board of directors for Ben & Jerry's under Unilever's ownership, was formally denounced by the company as unfit to lead. This week the ice cream...
MELTDOWN: NLPC’s Warnings About Ben & Jerry’s Chairwoman are Finally Heeded
It took five years, a corporate spin-off, and a damning financial audit, but the corporate owners of Ben & Jerry’s have finally reached the same conclusion that NLPC reached in 2021: Anuradha Mittal is unfit to lead. The latest news out of Unilever's spin-off of...
Reid Hoffman’s ‘Google Before Going’ Excuse Ahead of Epstein Island Visit is Bunkum
A few weeks ago, we questioned the veracity of LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman's (pictured above) denials regarding his knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s background while helping solicit donations for the MIT Media Lab. The evidence suggested that Hoffman’s claim of...
Financial Times: NLPC’s Anti-DEI Campaign Bears Fruit
The Financial Times recently covered how National Legal and Policy Center's campaign to remove diversity, equity, and inclusion incentives from executive pay has made progress, with notable wins at several big name companies: PepsiCo and Mastercard recently ended a...
GM CEO Mary Barra Helped Build the EV Trap She Now Complains About
Not to be outdone by Ford CEO Jim Farley—who we recently noted suffers from a severe case of political amnesia regarding his role in the EV mandate disaster—General Motors CEO Mary Barra has entered the chat with her own revisionist history. Speaking at the New York...
NLPC Again Presses Microsoft to Increase AI Risk Transparency
Today, National Legal and Policy Center presented a “Report on AI Data Usage Oversight” proposal at Microsoft's 2025 annual shareholder meeting. The proposal requested the Company to increase its reporting of the risks of “unethical or improper usage of external data...
Ford’s CEO Pretends He Wasn’t the Co-Pilot of the EV Crash
There is a specific kind of amnesia that seems to afflict corporate America whenever a new administration enters the White House. This week, Ford CEO Jim Farley (pictured above standing next to President Trump in the Oval Office) exhibited a severe case of it....
Don’t Trust Bill Gates
Is Bill Gates changing, or is it a ruse? My money’s on “ruse.” For years, Gates has been a major funder of, and spokesman for, leftwing causes that are opposed by conservatives and Trump supporters. Now, he may or may not be moving to the center. He’s not the only one...
Will Disney Choose Another Committed Leftist to Succeed CEO Bob Iger?
As mentioned previously, Disney plans to choose CEO Bob Iger's successor soon prior to the expiration of his contract at the end of 2026. The Wall Street Journal reports today that the decision has been likely narrowed to two in-house candidates: The company is widely...
NLPC to Microsoft Shareholders: Vote FOR Our AI Data-Usage Oversight Proposal
National Legal and Policy Center is, for the second year in a row, urging shareholders of Microsoft to vote for its shareholder proposal to increase reporting on the potential for unethical data usage in artificial intelligence development, its risks, and its...
The SEC Bows Out as Referee Between Shareholders and Companies
Occasionally in the past NLPC has explained some of the arcane rules related to our shareholder activism under the Corporate Integrity Project. The vast majority of our activities under this initiative are the shareholder proposals we sponsor every year at various...
Did Reid Hoffman Soft-Play His Role Shielding Epstein at MIT?
Last week's release of thousands of emails and documents pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein revealed a few previously unknown communications between the late convicted sex offender and billionaire Microsoft board member Reid Hoffman. Following the release, when asked about...
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...
Bard College: Soros’ Laboratory for Campus Radicalism
It’s not often that a small, private liberal arts college receives nearly a billion dollars from a single source. But Bard College, located in bucolic Annandale-on-Hudson in upstate New York about 90 miles north of New York City, is no ordinary school. Over the last...
Newsmax Interview with NLPC Chairman Peter Flaherty About Berkshire Hathaway Arrest For Epstein Comments
The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) has filed its opening appellate brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, asking the court to reverse a federal district judge’s dismissal of our lawsuit against Berkshire...
#WeToldYouSo: U.S. Corporations Even MORE Beholden to China than Previously Thought
Among the concerns about China in the United States --- whether one views them as an enemy, adversary, or just a competitor --- is that its rapid and global economic expansion is a threat on many levels. One cause for the uneasiness is the communist nation's Belt and...
Target Will Try Everything—Except Ditch the Woke Policies Tanking Its Sales
Target has been caught in an ongoing self-destructive spiral for the last couple years. The company's leadership has proposed just about every remedy imaginable short of embracing the obvious -- drop the woke charade that has crushed its reputation. The Wall Street...
Berkshire Shareholder Who Warren Buffett Had Arrested at Annual Meeting for Mentioning Jeffrey Epstein Files Appeal
Berkshire and Buffett Accused of Orchestrating “Unprecedented” Crackdown on Shareholder Speech [St. Louis, MO] National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) filed its opening appellate brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, seeking to overturn a lower...
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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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JPMorgan Chase Dumps Proxy Advisers, a Win for Conservative Shareholders
JPMorgan Chase’s break with ISS and Glass Lewis is a watershed for corporate governance—and a tailwind for conservative shareholder activism. For years NLPC has argued that the proxy advisor duopoly exerts outsized sway over investor vote outcomes. They almost always...
Ted Cruz Says Ford CEO ‘Terrified’ That He Might Have to Answer for Losing $19B on EVs
Ford Chairman/CEO Jim Farley has reportedly bailed on a planned hearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, which motivated Chairman Ted Cruz (pictured above) to postpone the session. According to Politico: “Well, for whatever reason,...
Trump’s SEC Chairman Aligns with Pro-DEI Woke Corporations
In early December we explained how the Securities and Exchange Commission, under President Trump's handpicked Chairman Paul Atkins (pictured above at his swearing-in), has washed its hands of resolving disputes between public companies and their shareholders when it...
Science Behind Gender Transitioning Collapses; Corporations are Culpable
This month saw a series of revelations, policy developments, and personal testimonies disseminated in the media related to the emotionally and physically destructive ideology and practice of trying to change an individual's gender. For context, NLPC's Corporate...
Disney’s Board STILL Marred by Leftism, Wokeness and Failure
Two-and-a-half years ago NLPC produced a 27-page report to our fellow Disney shareholders, which called upon them to vote against the entire slate of board of director nominees, after gross negligence with their oversight responsibilities led them into a period where...
Trump Admin Pauses Offshore Wind Projects and Dominion’s Costs Will Balloon More
The inefficiencies (especially compared to alternative generation) and the extreme costs to electricity customers of Dominion Energy didn't put a stop to the utility's development of the Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project. Nor did concerns about...
Reuters: Bank of America ‘Ripe for Activist Treatment’
Reuters columnist Stephen Gandel says Bank of America could soon draw an activist campaign, citing years of trailing performance and a widening valuation gap with JPMorgan Chase. Gandel flags an aging board, underperforming wealth unit, and muddled capital-allocation...
Red State AGs Investigate Big Tech’s ‘Green’ Claims
Back in September, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, joined by his counterparts in 15 other states, launched an investigation into Big Tech’s renewable energy marketing, alleging “misleading energy use claims” that could violate state law and distort the true...
Ford’s $35-Billion Bonfire: Why Does Jim Farley Still Have a Job?
If any other CEO in America had incinerated $35 billion of shareholder capital on a failed ideological crusade, security would be escorting him or her out of the building with a cardboard box in hand. Yet, at Ford Motor Company, CEO Jim Farley (pictured above in a...
Chair of Ben & Jerry’s Gets Booted from the Board
Last week we highlighted news reports that Anuradha Mittal (pictured above), the radical anti-Semite who led the board of directors for Ben & Jerry's under Unilever's ownership, was formally denounced by the company as unfit to lead. This week the ice cream...
NLPC GOVERNMENT INTEGRITY PROJECT
Virginia AG Candidate Wanted to Put ‘Two Bullets to the Head’ of Republican
Virginia's 2025 general election is on November 4, including the high-stakes gubernatorial race between Abigail Spanberger (D) and Winsome Earle-Sears (R) But the focus now is on Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for Attorney General. Jones, a former state delegate...
In Amicus, NLPC Counsel Condemns ‘Barfare’ Case Against Jeff Clark
NLPC Counsel Paul Kamenar joined eight other attorneys in an Amicus Curiae, also known as a “friend of the court” brief, arguing against the disbarment of former Justice Department official Jeff Clark (in photo) by the D.C. Bar. Click here to download the brief. On...
VIDEO: Kamenar Says Case Against James Comey is Strong
Former FBI Director James Comey faces federal indictment in Alexandria, Virginia, on charges of lying to Congress and obstructing a congressional investigation into Russiagate leaks. Legal analyst Paul Kamenar of the National Legal and Policy Center tells One America...
Smithsonian Should Be Evenhanded, Not Woke
Inside Sources has distributed my op-ed titled” Smithsonian Should Not Propagate Ideology” as a counterpoint to an op-ed titled “Yes, President Trump is Censoring History,” by law professors Joseph Toman and Sidney Shapiro. The op-eds are appearing in daily newspapers...
Soros Champions Free Speech But Funds Pro-Censorship Groups
From an Open Society Foundations post on X: Attempts to silence speech undermine our democracy and harm all Americans. We’ve signed a letter with 120+ organizations to stand for this fundamental freedom. The recent murders of Charlie Kirk and Melissa Hortman have no...
Soros Foundations Finally Condemn Charlie Kirk Murder After Our X Post
The Soros-funded Open Society Foundations (OSF) have “unequivocally condemned” the Charlie Kirk assassination via an X post at 5:46PM on Monday. The Open Society Foundations have unequivocally condemned the horrific murder of Charlie Kirk. Our thoughts are with his...
Charlie Kirk’s Murder Shows Double Standard That Protects Demagogues Like Charles Schumer
Does the reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder now confirm that when conservatives engage in free speech, it’s labeled as hate speech, but when liberals engage in hate speech, it is excused as free speech? Take for example Senator Charles Schumer’s direct threats against...
Soros Asked to Stop Funding Protest Groups Following Charlie Kirk Murder
NLPC Chairman Peter Flaherty today sent the following letter to Alex Soros, Chair of the Open Society Foundations: The National Legal and Policy Center promotes ethics in public life. In this context, we research and monitor extremist groups and movements. With the...
Pam Bondi: Serving the Nation, Not Just the President
The op-ed below by NLPC Chairman Peter Flaherty is one half of a point/counterpoint distributed nationwide by Inside Sources. It has been published by a score of daily newspapers. The counterpoint, titled Trump 'Legal' Warrior Pam Bondi Doesn't Represent the People,...
Confused Ilhan Omar Goes Off on Sudden Wealth Report
A September 1 story by Andrew Kerr in the Washington Free Beacon that Rep. Ilhan Omar disclosed that she may have assets as high as $30 million apparently struck a nerve. The Minnesota Congresswoman has responded by posting an Instagram video in which she makes a...
#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...






