#WeToldYouSo, But Last Year the SEC Wouldn’t Let NLPC ‘Tell You So’
Last week the Federal Trade Commission settled with three advertising agencies over their alleged collusion to exclude placement of ads with conservative-leaning news sites and social media, including Elon Musk's Twitter/X, via the now-defunct Global Alliance for...
Omar Amends Filings to Show She is Not Wealthy; Her Excuse is ‘Laughable’
In apparent response to NLPC’s February 16 complaint against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), she has amended her financial disclosure report to show what we suspected all along, that her husband Tim Mynett is not successful in his businesses, and that the couple is not worth...
Verizon’s CEO Should Never Be Chairman: A Case Study in Value Destruction
Verizon Communications shareholders face a critical governance decision at their May 21 annual meeting: whether to lock in an independent Board Chair policy that would prevent CEO Dan Schulman from accumulating additional authority. National Legal and Policy Center is...
The Tactical Purge of Eric Swalwell
The political demise of Eric Swalwell is being framed by the mainstream media as a long-overdue reckoning—a moment where the Democratic Party finally decided that personal scandals and questionable associations are disqualifying. But for those of us who monitor...
Did Swalwell Use Campaign Funds to Facilitate Alleged Rape?
Andrew Kerr reports in the Washington Free Beacon: Disbursements from Eric Swalwell's campaign accounts corroborate the allegations leveled by a woman who says the former congressman sexually assaulted her in 2018, raising the prospect that Swalwell used campaign...
Omar Amends Filings to Show She is Not Wealthy; Her Excuse is ‘Laughable’
In apparent response to NLPC’s February 16 complaint against Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), she has amended her financial disclosure report to show what we suspected all along, that her husband Tim Mynett is not successful in his businesses, and that the couple is not worth...
Verizon’s CEO Should Never Be Chairman: A Case Study in Value Destruction
Verizon Communications shareholders face a critical governance decision at their May 21 annual meeting: whether to lock in an independent Board Chair policy that would prevent CEO Dan Schulman from accumulating additional authority. National Legal and Policy Center is...
#WeToldYouSo, But Last Year the SEC Wouldn’t Let NLPC ‘Tell You So’
Last week the Federal Trade Commission settled with three advertising agencies over their alleged collusion to exclude placement of ads with conservative-leaning news sites and social media, including Elon Musk's Twitter/X, via the now-defunct Global Alliance for...
The Tactical Purge of Eric Swalwell
The political demise of Eric Swalwell is being framed by the mainstream media as a long-overdue reckoning—a moment where the Democratic Party finally decided that personal scandals and questionable associations are disqualifying. But for those of us who monitor...
Did Swalwell Use Campaign Funds to Facilitate Alleged Rape?
Andrew Kerr reports in the Washington Free Beacon: Disbursements from Eric Swalwell's campaign accounts corroborate the allegations leveled by a woman who says the former congressman sexually assaulted her in 2018, raising the prospect that Swalwell used campaign...
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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...
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge Hits ‘Hard Times’
It looks like my instincts were right. Now even the New York Times is taking a critical look at the so-called Giving Pledge, administered by the Gates Foundation, whereby billionaires promise to give away their fortunes. Written by Theodore Schleifer, the Times...
Socialist AOC Loves Pricey Pampering in Makeup Artist’s Chair
From the New York Post, by Gabrielle Fahmy: Far-left “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — who once boasted about doing her own makeup in an Instagram tutorial — shelled out more than $2,000 last fall to a celebrity makeup artist whose clients include Bad...
Epstein Revelations Further Reveal Depravity That Infects Big Tech Leadership
A more in-depth look at the massive release of Jeffrey Epstein documents by CNN, published today, focuses on the activities and events that occurred on his private island, and further reveals the culture of depravity and willful blindness regarding his abuse of young...
NLPC Launches Documentary Series: Soros Exposed
Washington, D.C. – The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) today proudly announces the release of its first-ever documentary series, Soros Exposed. This nine-part investigative project marks a significant milestone for the organization, expanding its...
Does Reid Hoffman Have an Undisclosed Conflict of Interest in Microsoft’s Anthropic Defense?
When Microsoft stepped into one of the most consequential legal battles in the history of American artificial intelligence this week, it did so without disclosing something its own shareholders arguably have a right to know. On Monday, Microsoft filed an amicus brief...
Governance Media Site Says NLPC ‘Increasingly Visible in High-Profile’ Corporate Battles
Recently Governance Intelligence, a U.K.-based website that focuses on news and trends for an audience made up heavily of corporate secretaries and governance professionals, interviewed NLPC's Paul Chesser, director of our Corporate Integrity Project, about his...
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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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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...
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,...
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...
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...
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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...
Unconstitutional Special Counsel Jack Smith Spied on GOP Senators
Newly released documents reveal that former Special Counsel Jack Smith authorized the FBI to surveil the private phone communications of nearly a dozen Republican senators during his hyper-partisan January 6 investigation. This is a blatant abuse of power that...
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...
#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: 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...
#WeToldYouSo: China STILL Detains U.S. Executives Without Explanation
Two years ago NLPC presented numerous shareholder proposals at major U.S. companies that sought a "China Risk Audit," calling upon boards and executives to deliver greater disclosures about the many risks they face related to the extent their business operations...
