The Free Enterprise Project (FEP) is the conservative movement’s most effective full-service shareholder activism & education program. Part of @NationalCenter.
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It pays to engage with woke corporations.
On @FinancialIssues, FEP Director @StefanPadfield revealed that $CVS dropped its sponsorship of the Human Rights Campaign after FEP urged the pharmacy giant to distance itself from #HRC.
Watch: piped.video/nXOu_f96b0o
@SethUdinski #CVS
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"Chick-fil-A is free to embrace DEI — and we are free to eat elsewhere," Free Enterprise Project Director @StefanPadfield told @WSHStand.
washingtonstand.com/article/…
#Chickfila #CFA #DEI @ChickfilA @ChickfilANews
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Companies should be in the business of... well, business. Not politics.
Free Enterprise Project Director @StefanPadfield explains how FEP is helping corporations get back to neutral.
Watch: piped.video/cErCNwbZ1FE
@BEKNewsTV @LOA_View @PattiArmstrong #BackToNeutral #ESG #DEI
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Many companies haven't cut #DEI programs but have simply rebranded them.
Watch Free Enterprise Project Director @StefanPadfield explain : piped.video/PnFOGgyUthc
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We submitted a proposal to get #Apple to end its diversity efforts on the grounds that DEI poses risks to companies, and therefore risks to their shareholders.
Apple CEO Tim Cook "acknowledged that the firm’s #DEI policies may need to shift over time."
itpro.com/business/business-…
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On Financial Issues, Free Enterprise Project Director @StefanPadfield resolved to honor #CharlieKirk's legacy by continuing to engage, even in the line of fire.
Watch: piped.video/hQHwo0Yl_Zw
@financialissues @SethUdinski #PoliticalViolence
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On @financialissues, Free Enterprise Project Director @StefanPadfield detailed how FEP is responding to allegations brought to us by a #MorganStanley whistleblower.
Watch: piped.video/BumNzMMd0x8
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On the All American Talk Show, Free Enterprise Project Director Stefan Padfield pulled back the curtain on #Dell's woke policies.
Watch: piped.video/zqiFTES0I1s
@StefanPadfield @AllUSATalk @PhilBell4022 @NicoleeAmbrose #GoWokeGoBroke #Wokeness
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"White Men Can’t Work!" host @TimSamuels and Free Enterprise Project Director @StefanPadfield discussed how companies are rebranding #DEI to hide their #discrimination.
Stefan's clip: piped.video/DpqJ-7lQ7hw
Full episode: piped.video/_FCt_SDsLZg
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On @LOA_View, Free Enterprise Project Director @StefanPadfield defended free-market capitalism over forced so-called "equity."
Watch: piped.video/C6lgUOMKxas
#capitalism #freemarkets #equity #freeenterprise @PattiArmstrong @BEKNewsTV
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On @LOA_View, Free Enterprise Project Director @StefanPadfield described some ways FEP is holding woke companies accountable.
Watch: piped.video/cMYryXgxzZg
#GoWokeGoBroke #DEI #ESG
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On @preconceived_p, Free Enterprise Project Director @StefanPadfield made the case against #DEI.
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/56K…
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On @financialissues, FEP Director @StefanPadfield described how FEP is working with #RobbyStarbuck and others to move corporations away from woke and back to neutral.
Watch: piped.video/pfBkMOabPUw?si=MH84…
#GoWokeGoBroke @SethUdinski #DEI #Paypal #Walmart #ESG
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"Pro-DEI activists will take a loss on our part with one of these anti-DEI proposals and run around saying, 'Shareholders love #DEI.' They can't do that if both the pro-DEI and the anti-DEI proposal lost by over 90%."
- FEP Director @StefanPadfield
afn.net/business/2025/06/26/… #DEI
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"We need to celebrate the victories of corporations getting back to neutral, waking up to how divisive and costly these discriminatory initiatives are. But at the same time, we're definitely seeing some changes that are purely cosmetic." @StefanPadfield
afn.net/business/2025/06/11/…
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At this morning's #AmericanAirlines shareholder meeting, we're asking @AmericanAir to fly away from the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index.
nationalcenter.org/ncppr/202…
americanairlines.gcs-web.com…
$AAL #HRC #SaveWomensSports
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Today we're presenting a shareholder proposal requesting that #Google/#Alphabet consider ending its participation in the Human Rights Campaign’s controversial Corporate Equality Index.
More: nationalcenter.org/ncppr/202… $GOOGL
#HRC @Riley_Gaines_ #SaveWomensSports
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Today we'll be asking #PayPal to analyze the risks its partnerships with #SPLC, #HRC, etc. pose to the company -- especially in light of how these groups discriminate against religious people, falsely labeling their words "hate speech."
nationalcenter.org/ncppr/202… $PYPL
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This morning we're asking #Walmart to explain why it refused to revise its #DEI policies until @robbystarbuck got involved. $WMT
nationalcenter.org/ncppr/202…
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On @AllUSATalk, FEP's @StefanPadfield told @PhilBell4022 & @NicoleeAmbrose that activists within corporations are destroying company value.
True of #DEI of course, but also #antisemitism.
#UnitedAirlines resumed flights to #Israel after FEP sued.
Watch: piped.video/AkZBR5AT4cY
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ICYMI: On "Blunt Force Truth," FEP Director @StefanPadfield and @BFT_Podcast host @MarkYoungTruth discussed #DEI, #Entrepreneurship, the so-called gender wage gap, and how #HigherEd institutions have become indoctrination centers.
Watch: piped.video/uPm4hhPlA0Q?si=fpA6…
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"Most Americans don't believe in #discrimination based on race or sex. While they want to address inequality, they find it morally wrong to use race or sex to decide who gets hired, promoted or fired."
- FEP Director @StefanPadfield
newsweek.com/nationwide-walm… #DEI #Walmart
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" @StefanPadfield, of conservative think tank @NationalCenter, praised the #EEOC's shift as a much-needed course correction that will open the floodgates for complaints against #DEI practices that should be deemed illegal."
- @Alexolson99 & @c_thesavage
latimes.com/world-nation/sto…
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Instead of implementing #DEI programs that "divide people on the basis of race & sex," says FEP Director @StefanPadfield, "the best way to improve the lives of all our citizens, and all our neighbors, is to allow the free market to lift all the boats."
bbc.com/news/articles/c24110…
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A day after we asked @Apple to drop its #DEI programs, President Trump took Apple to task for refusing our request.
nationalcenter.org/ncppr/202…
#Apple $AAPL @POTUS @StefanPadfield
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This week on the Speakeasy Podcast, FEP's Stefan Padfield & host @_girlnamedblake discussed how #DEI has shifted from preventing workplace discrimination to actively enforcing race- and gender-based hiring and promotion policies.
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/06o…
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This week on the Price of Business Show, Free Enterprise Project Director @StefanPadfield spoke with host @KevinPriceLive about how FEP is getting companies back to neutral and away from the partisan agendas of #ESG and #DEI.
Listen here: usabusinessradio.com/the-lea…
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"The Trump administration announced they’ll investigate nine companies for their #DEI practices, and you’re seeing corporations scramble to not be among those nine,” Free Enterprise Project Director @StefanPadfield told @FoxNews.
foxbusiness.com/media/disney…
$DIS #Disney
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On @NTDNews, FEP Director @StefanPadfield says PwC's #DEI job fair is discriminating in the name of #antidiscrimination.
Watch: piped.video/mQMgJIFwjaY
#PwC #Discrimination #DiversityandInclusion #Diversity @PwC
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Just look what's happened to our society under #DEI.... 😢
And FEP Director @StefanPadfield explains how the Race Industrial Complex continues to promote false narratives to keep us from recovering.
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#DEI sounds really nice... until you look under the hood.
Free Enterprise Project Director @StefanPadfield explains how the implementation of DEI causes more discrimination, not less.
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Today FEP's @StefanPadfield schooled a so-called #DEI expert on @trtworld.
He adeptly explained why systemic racism is a myth, and how "the Race Industrial Complex" manufactures that myth to push DEI #Discrimination.
Watch: piped.video/LyGCO2-wHio
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How did our #DEI proposal at #Costco fail when so many Americans oppose DEI discrimination?
Today on @financialissues, FEP's @StefanPadfield explained how the leftist "Big 5" controls the votes of most shareholders.
Who's voting your shares?
📺: piped.video/7rfwjSkgISY
$COST
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Thank you to the Wall Street Journal's @AAndriotis & @ajsaeedy for featuring us prominently in their coverage of the way we and others are pressuring banks to ditch their #DEI policies.
wsj.com/finance/banking/dei-…
#banking #banks #DiversityandInclusion #GoldmanSachs #bankofamerica
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"Getting mgmt. to think about the issues we're raising is a major part of what we do,” says @StefanPadfield after successfully negotiating #DEI concerns with AT&T execs.
“We know that corporations often take years to fully resolve these types of issues.”
afn.net/business/2025/01/14/…
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Even this left-leaning Harvard Law School publication has to admit about our recent win over the #SEC:
"With this Fifth Circuit ruling..., the last remaining U.S.-based board diversity rule has been struck down."
corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2025…
#DEI #LegalVictory #NASDAQ #Diversity
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The rumors are true: #Microsoft won't be our last #Bitcoin proposal.
On Friday we presented a Bitcoin proposal to #Amazon.
Read our $AMZN proposal here: nationalcenter.org/wp-conten…
$BTC $MSFT #Crypto #CryptoNews #cryptocurrency
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"We have had a wonderful year or two," acknowledges the Free Enterprise Project's Scott Shepard.
But the war against Woke Capitalism isn’t over yet. "We’ve got a huge fight ahead of us."
#GoWokeGoBroke #ESG #DEI
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Thank you to our veterans and their families.
The freedoms we enjoy today are due in large part to your service and sacrifice.
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Free Enterprise Project Director @StefanPadfield was on @BFT_Podcast with @MarkYoungTruth discussing the backlash we've seen against #DEI & #ESG in American corporations.
WATCH HERE: piped.video/CNBQQHjFJqg?si=nezm…
#GowokeGobroke @chuckwoolery
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Boycotts are fine, but they're not enough, says the Free Enterprise Project's Scott Shepard.
Here's what you can do to actively push back against woke corporations.
#Boycott #boycotts #GoWokeGoBroke #ESG #WokeCapitalism #BlackRock #pension #RetirementPlanning @ThePolForum
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In his Evil Empire speech, Ronald Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as the locus of evil in the modern world.
Scott Shepard of the Free Enterprise Project says that distinction now belongs to #Davos, home of the #WorldEconomicForum.
#WEF @ThePolForum @justindanhof @FRCdc
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If you're wondering where fascism lurks today, Scott Shepard can tell you how leftist CEOs and politicians have colluded to constrain the American people.
#ESG #DEI #decarbonization #Equity @ThePolForum @justindanhof @WSHStand @FRCdc @tperkins #PVSS2024 #Collusion
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Tomorrow morning Scott Shepard will be on a panel with some of our best buddies at the Pray Vote Stand Summit prayvotestand.org/
#PVSS2024 @justindanhof @ThePolForum @WSHStand
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We're #hiring!
If you've got top-notch research and writing skills and want to help us fight the leftwing takeover of corporations, please apply to become our Free Enterprise Project Associate.
You may work out of our D.C. office and/or virtually.
talentmarket.org/ncppr-fep-a…
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Free Enterprise Project Director Scott Shepard tells AMAC's Andy Mangione what FEP means when we say we fight #WokeCapitalism.
@AMACforAmerica @Amaccapitolhill @AMACAction #ESG #investing #investments #investors
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Voting recommendation for #Salesforce shareholders:
Vote FOR #8, requesting that @salesforce evaluate the risks of denying or restricting service to customers based on viewpoint or ideology.
More at proxynavigator.com/ and s23.q4cdn.com/574569502/file….
$CRM
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Voting recommendation for #Dell shareholders:
Vote FOR #4, requesting that $DELL list major donations on its website.
Contributions to extreme left-wing LGBT groups pose significant risks to shareholder value.
More at proxynavigator.com/ and investors.delltechnologies.c….
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Voting recommendations for #Kroger shareholders:
Vote NO on 4 - Tobacco
Vote YES on 5 - Charitable Contributions
Vote NO on 6 - Living Wage
Vote NO on 7 - Just Transition
For explanations and more, see proxynavigator.com/
$KR
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FEP's Scott Shepard tells @KaylaGaskinsTV that we must "get corporations back to the middle ground, back to neutral, back away from making any sort of extreme, partisan, social commitments that aren’t directly related to the core business." #ESG
WATCH: piped.video/jXpiMygJJ5Y
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