In a free republic, the mob should never rule

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Hello John,

“In a free republic, the mob should never rule.”

That’s what Horace Cooper, co-chairman of our unique Project 21 program, told former President Trump advisor Sebastian Gorka during a recent interview on his national radio show.

But mob rule in our cities is exactly what the radical left wants.

They want it to intimidate the silent majority to keep it silent. They want it to prevent businesses from re-opening to delay the economic recovery. They want it to undermine every institution that holds America together. And they want it to blackmail Americans into capitulating to their socialist agenda.

This is about seizing power, plain and simple.

And the truly alarming thing is that major American corporations are providing these radicals with the funding they need to keep the violence going.

There’s only one group with the programs to take on both the radical Black Lives Matter and their corporate underwriters … your National Center for Public Policy Research.

Our Project 21 team is making a record number of media appearances and is reaching more Americans – including black Americans – than ever before. Horace Cooper has become a near regular on the “Ingraham Angle” and “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox News.

Project 21’s aggressive media campaign – condemning both the killing of George Floyd and the violence, looting, and rioting that have since ensued – even caught the attention of Vice President Mike Pence. Pence then invited Horace and several other black leaders to lunch to advise him on what should be done about it.

Through our Project 21, the National Center is showing the tremendous benefits our limited-government, pro-freedom agenda can have with black communities.

For example, we released our Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America, offering 57 concrete, budget-neutral, free-market recommendations to ensure the American dream is attainable for everyone.

Project 21 is now working on Blueprint for a Better Deal for Black America 2.0 that will include recommendations for improving black community and police relations… while making its support of policemen who put their lives on the line every day of unequivocal.

I am pleased to tell you we have discussed the bold policy initiatives in the Blueprint with key staff at the White House, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and with three cabinet secretaries, including Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson.

In short, our Blueprint isn’t about “reparations,” or tearing down statues, or scrubbing history, or group shaming, or paternalistic government. It’s about more opportunity!

But as you know, the Black Lives Matter movement and their powerful, deep-pocketed corporate backers are working against us at every turn.

They and the radicals and anarchists occupying our cities want us to believe all the violence and lawlessness is necessary to teach us that black lives matter. It goes without saying that black lives matter. Of course they do. All lives matter.

But the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLM), as an entity, should not matter. Did you know it is an actual communist organization? Co-founder Patrice Cullors has admitted that she and other leaders of the movement are “trained Marxists.”

And did you know a top leader of BLM’s funding arm was a member of the May 19th Communist Organization – a terrorist who bombed the U.S. Capitol and the Navy Yard?

The group also demands a radical redistribution of wealth through racial reparations. It seeks to “disrupt … the nuclear family structure …” And it heavily promotes the radical LGBTQ agenda.

The Marxists running Black Lives Matter may be leading the charge, but none of it would be possible without some of America’s leading corporations footing the bill for the unrest.

What corporations am I talking about?

Among the corporations cutting big checks to the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation are: Airbnb, Amazon, DoorDash, Fitbit, Gatorade, Microsoft, Nabisco and many more! These corporations represent just the tip of the iceberg.

With corporate America joining the left in a war against conservatives and conservative values, someone needed to fight back.

Through our Free Enterprise Project, we call these woke corporations out in the national news media. We file shareholder resolutions demanding changes in their policies. We directly challenge their CEOs at their annual shareholder meetings. And we petition federal agencies for regulatory changes that make it difficult for corporations to engage in political activism that diminishes shareholder returns.

Like our Project 21 spokespersons, the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project is also all over the news, educating millions of Americans about how corporate America is undermining freedom. All of this media coverage helps us build a grassroots army that can compel corporations – and government – to change policies.

Corporations underwriting economic disruption and civil unrest – say by bankrolling the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation – will necessarily lead fund managers to consider such corporations to be more risky investments.

One of the key elements of our battle plan has been to force ideological diversity onto corporate boards. And I’m happy to say your support has already led to some big successes.

By using the logic taken by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in approving the leftist model on the basis that “diversity” leads to better corporate governance, the National Center’s Free Enterprise Project is in turn now filing resolutions calling for “ideological diversity!”

Last year, four major corporations – Walmart, PepsiCo, CVS, and Gap – agreed to add more conservatives to their boards as a direct result of the shareholder resolutions we filed. This year, we have so far convinced four additional corporations – Walgreens, Prudential, Wells Fargo, and JP Morgan Chase – to do the same. We also forced Costco, Deere, Boeing and Eli Lilly to take our resolution demanding ideological diversity to a vote of their shareholders!

We recently created the conservative movement’s first-ever investor tool, the Investor Value Voter Guide. Its purpose is to advise conservative and religious investors on how to vote their 2020 shareholder proxies consistent with their beliefs.

Each year, publicly-traded corporations issue proxy statements that give shareholders a voice in the selection of corporate board members and corporate policies.

While citizens will be casting ballots for the presidency, Congress, and other positions of leadership across America in November, there are thousands of other votes taking place throughout the year (and every year) that can also leave a profound impact on American culture and help turn the tide against Black Lives Matter and all sorts of other socialist endeavors!

Make no mistake: Neutralizing leftist corporations is one of the most critical, make-or-break battles the conservative movement faces today.

It will affect what happens at shareholder meetings and at the ballot box – on Main Street and Wall Street, in our cities, and in the halls of power in our nation’s capital.

Simply put, we cannot advance our pro-freedom agenda if corporate America remains almost universally allied with the left.

The National Center stands almost alone in fighting against corporate assaults on the conservative values you and I share, and in exposing and fighting their shameless fomenting of racial divisions and the rioting in our cities – and against their profligate support of the Marxist Black Lives Matters Global Network Foundation.

Major corporations have declared war on conservative values – and they are doing so by funding and encouraging the mob and trying to foment racial division!

It’s time we fought back.

John, at this critical moment for our country, I ask you to please help us expand the work of the National Center’s Project 21 and Free Enterprise Project to defeat the radical, race-baiting agenda of the far left and instead advance conservatism in 2020 with your tax-deductible gift.

The left knows we’re gaining ground. But I fear we could lose our momentum if we don’t accelerate our efforts now. Please respond today.

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David A. Ridenour
President

The National Center for Public Policy Research is a communications and research foundation supportive of a strong national defense and dedicated to providing free market solutions to today’s public policy problems. We believe that the principles of a free market, individual liberty and personal responsibility provide the greatest hope for meeting the challenges facing America in the 21st century.

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