A Banner Year for the Fight against ESG
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Originally published February 2, 2023
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Mount Sinai Backs Down. Will Corporate America?
September 21, 2026The writing is on the wall for gender ideology and corporate America should respond. Its authorities are discredited, its sciences unfounded, and its public support dwindling — not to mention the very providers who push sex-denying procedures on minors are now being held accountable for the experiment they’ve been running. Mount Sinai Health System is the latest example of this as they reach an agreement with the Department of Justice to stop providing sex-denying procedures on minors and provide free health care to those experiencing adverse side-effects of their experimentation. DOJ began its investigation on the premise that the nonprofit hospital may have violated federal law regarding its sex-denying procedures on children. The nationwide probe follows the landmark HHS report that exposed WPATH perverse influences on providers, along with an insurance scheme that let hospitals to charge insurance, private and federally subsidized, for sex-denying procedures on minors that would typically not be covered. Additionally, Mount Sinai agreed to dedicate $2 million to treating the adverse effects of sex-denying interventions, free of charge, to those who received them as minors. Keep in mind, sex-denying interventions are largely irreversible and carry side effects into adulthood, even for those who detransition. Detranstitioner Chloe …
HRC’s Bias in Political Endorsements
September 21, 2026The table below catalogs every candidate endorsement issued by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Human Rights Campaign PAC found in HRC’s online press release archive, covering 1,386 individual endorsement announcements and 980 unique candidates from 2010 through August 27, 2026. Not one identifies a Republican nominee or officeholder. For companies and foundations that direct charitable giving, sponsorships, or workplace-program funding to HRC under the banner of LGBTQ+ inclusion, this pattern bears directly on partisan alignment risk: HRC’s electoral arm functions, in practice, as a wing of one political party’s candidate infrastructure. Regardless of intent, partnering with an organization with progressive values may be viewed as partisan if support is not balanced by comparable partnerships with organizations aligned with conservative or traditional values. Search the full record or view methodology below. All partiesDemocratRepublican All years2026 (61)2025 (4)2024 (19)2023 (55)2022 (777)2021 (26)2020 (241)2019 (2)2018 (158)2017 (16)2016 (10)2015 (1)2014 (7)2013 (4)2012 (1)2011 (3)2010 (1) Sort: Date, newest firstSort: Date, oldest firstSort: Candidate, A to ZSort: Candidate, Z to A 0 shown of 0 matching · 1386 total endorsements Candidate Party Date Source Neil Abercrombie Democrat Jul 22, 2010 HRC release ↗ Tammy Baldwin Democrat Sep 6, 2011 HRC release ↗ Mark Pocan Democrat …
Starbucks and the Rising Cost of DEI
September 19, 2026Starbucks becomes the latest example of the legal and financial liability of DEI governance policies after settling its civil rights lawsuit with the state of Florida. The settlement came with the agreement to pay the state $1 million and commit to complying with the state’s civil rights laws. The suit claimed that the company paid certain employees more than employees of other races with equal experience, and that until March 2024 the company tied executive bonuses to diversity goals. This adds to the growing list of companies spending millions of dollars to settle allegations of discriminatory hiring practices, with Accenture, Deloitte, and IBM all paying multi-million-dollar settlements to the DOJ over the last few months. The coffee giant has a long, recorded history of DEI priorities, but as part of the settlement, it has also agreed to not participate in organizations that require increased racial diversity on its board of directors. This is a clear walk-back of the company’s 2020 commitment to BIPOC representation of “at least 30% at all corporate levels and 40% at all retail and manufacturing roles by 2025,” which was tied to the Board Diversity Action Alliance. Companies like Starbucks are a cautionary tale for others …
Shareholders Challenge Nike over support for transgender surgeries on minors
September 17, 2026At Nike’s annual shareholder meeting this month, Christian and conservative investors put the company’s relationship with the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) directly on the record. The HRC’s Corporate Equality Index is a voluntary survey that companies can participate in to have their gender-ideology workplace policies scored. To earn the CEI 100 designation, companies must cover sex-denying procedures for minor dependents under their employee health plans. Nike has scored 100 three years running. Inspire says Walmart told the group its plan doesn’t cover transgender surgeries for children. Walmart’s 2026 benefits book says gender reassignment surgery “is not considered medically necessary for individuals under the age of 18.” Inspire also says Charles Schwab told the group that it no longer covers such surgeries for children. Another conservative group, 1792 Exchange, wrote to 568 companies in June asking them to exclude transgender drugs and surgeries for children from employee health plans. Some companies have also decoupled from HRC. The full article can be found in Heartlander News.
The Founders Built a Business Charter: The U.S. Constitution
September 17, 2026On September 17, 1787, 39 men signed a document we celebrate as the world’s most successful and enduring political charter. In our nation’s 250th year, it is worth remembering that the Constitution is not only a charter of limited government and ordered liberty; it is also the greatest business charter ever written. No governing charter has done more to create the conditions in which enterprise can flourish: stable laws, secure property, enforceable contracts, free exchange, individual liberty, and protection from arbitrary power. The men who gathered in Philadelphia knew commerce under the “old system.” They lived as colonists in a mercantilist empire where the right to trade was a favor dispensed by the Crown, where charters went to the well-connected, and where a merchant’s property and contracts were secure only so long as he stayed in the government’s good graces. When they wrote a new charter, they were determined that American commerce would rest on a solid foundation of law, not on the shifting sands of political favor. Consider what they built. The Commerce Clause, with related provisions, created a continental free-trade zone. The Constitution transformed 13 competing states into a vast common market. It gave Congress authority over interstate commerce and …