Author: The National Center

Scott Shepard at the 2020 Walgreens shareholder meeting

The 2023 Shareholder Meeting Season in Review

Free Enterprise Project /
Like last year, the 2023 shareholder meeting season was a mixed bag of hope and frustration. On one hand, rampant wokeness and corruption continue to define shareholder meetings. But promisingly, there is more pushback to corporate wokeness than ever before, ...
Mastercard

Potential Violation of Civil Rights and Debanking of Conservatives by Mastercard, Says Conservative Shareholder Group

Press Release /
Washington, D.C. - Shareholder activists with the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project (FEP) will close out their most active shareholder season to date by presenting a proposal at Mastercard's annual shareholder meeting that seeks to protect civil liberties and address the ...
courtroom

FEP Takes Legal Action Against the SEC, Starbucks, Target and More

Free Enterprise Project /
In conjunction with a wide array of law firms, both private and nonprofit, the Free Enterprise Project (FEP) has initiated legal proceedings against both government actors and corporations to stop the spread of woke ideologies through our laws, regulations and ...
handcuffs

Woke CEOs May Play Dumb, But Judges Will Know Better

FEP Commentary /
You would think that corporate executives would be smart. After all, they have been given powerful positions and a lot of money to make good decisions for their companies. And yet those justifying their woke positions seem to be completely ...
Kroger

Kroger Policies Put Employees with Conservative Values at Risk, Says Shareholder Group

Press Release /
Washington, D.C. – Shareholder activists with the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP) will present a proposal this morning at The Kroger Company’s annual shareholder meeting addressing company policies that fail to protect against discrimination based ...
transgender

Corporate Support for Transgenderism is Risky Business

FEP Commentary /
"Embracing transgenderism is risky business for corporations these days," writes Free Enterprise Project Associate Stefan Padfield in The Washington Times. The recent controversies -- and plummeting profits -- for Anheuser-Busch and Target are high-profile cautionary tales of what happens when ...
Human Rights Campaign

Human Rights Campaign Should Declare a State of Emergency for Itself, Not for LGBTQ People

FEP Commentary /
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has declared a state of emergency for people who identify as LGBTQ+, but Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard assures anyone alarmed by that warning that "gay people in America are not at any higher ...
Global Elites Exercise Full-Spectrum Dominance to Control Us While Lining Their Own Pockets

Global Elites Exercise Full-Spectrum Dominance to Control Us While Lining Their Own Pockets

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Global elites are "adopting a military doctrine... called 'full-spectrum dominance'" in order to control us, warns the National Center's Bonner Cohen. In an interview with One America News Network's Stella Escobedo, Bonner elaborated: Under full spectrum dominance, it is incumbent ...
Target Pride

Target Shareholders Take Legal Action as Company’s Pride and Politics Sink Their Investments

FEP Commentary /
"Well, it’s finally happened. A company has strayed so far into politics, at the demonstrable and shattering detriment to its bottom line, that shareholders have begun a process that – unless Target mends its ways – will end in court." ...
Horace Cooper discusses Barack Obama

Obama’s Odious Record With Black Americans Gives Him No Credibility to Criticize Tim Scott

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On the Fox News Channel, Project 21 Chairman Horace Cooper expressed incredulity that former President Barack Obama had the audacity to criticize current presidential candidate Tim Scott, a black conservative. Horace told host Brian Kilmeade: If I had the record ...

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