Americans for Financial Reform
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AFR is a nonpartisan and nonprofit coalition of more than 200 civil rights, consumer, labor, business, investor, faith-based, and civic and community groups. We are working to lay the foundation for a strong, stable, and ethical financial system.
"When shareholders actively vote to limit their own legal protections while approving trillion-dollar payouts, it signals that Tesla operates in a reality all its own." buff.ly/NR6eCUY
Tesla Shareholders Boo Their Own Rights Away for Musk's $1T Prize
Shareholders vote to limit lawsuit powers while approving trillion-dollar pay package
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November 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"When shareholders actively vote to limit their own legal protections while approving trillion-dollar payouts, it signals that Tesla operates in a reality all its own." buff.ly/NR6eCUY
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Today's the day Tesla shareholders will vote on Musk's insane $1 trillion pay package. For a rundown of all the key resolutions on the company's annual meeting agenda, check out this piece by Natalia Renta of
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Musk’s Trillion-Dollar Pay Package Isn’t the Only Bad Thing on the Tesla Shareholder Ballot
Investors will vote on several issues at the heart of a broader national effort by oligarchs and corporate insiders to consolidate power over our economy.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Today's the day Tesla shareholders will vote on Musk's insane $1 trillion pay package. For a rundown of all the key resolutions on the company's annual meeting agenda, check out this piece by Natalia Renta of
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AFR's Natalia Renta shares a quick rundown of what's at stake at Tesla's annual shareholder meeting today. Many are saying today will be the most significant day in the company's history so far, but how shareholders vote will have impacts far beyond just Tesla. 📖 ➡️ inequality.org/article/musk...
November 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
AFR's Natalia Renta shares a quick rundown of what's at stake at Tesla's annual shareholder meeting today. Many are saying today will be the most significant day in the company's history so far, but how shareholders vote will have impacts far beyond just Tesla. 📖 ➡️ inequality.org/article/musk...
🚨 Tomorrow, Tesla shareholders have a chance to stand up & vote NO on Musk’ outrageous $1 trillion dollar pay package. While the general public can't vote, your state’s pension officers & money managers can, and they need to hear from you ASAP!📝 ➡️ takebacktesla.com?source=afr
Take Back Tesla: Vote NO on Musk
Tesla workers, investors, and consumers helped make Tesla an industry leader in Electric Vehicles. But Elon Musk’s recent political activity threatens the company’s brand. Musk has embraced…
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November 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
🚨 Tomorrow, Tesla shareholders have a chance to stand up & vote NO on Musk’ outrageous $1 trillion dollar pay package. While the general public can't vote, your state’s pension officers & money managers can, and they need to hear from you ASAP!📝 ➡️ takebacktesla.com?source=afr
💻 Coming up at 12:00 pm-1:30 pm PT/3:00 pm-4:30 pm ET today! Connect with others, build skills, and learn more about what organizers across the country are doing to fight for a livable planet and push back against authoritarianism. Register ➡️ us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
💻 Coming up at 12:00 pm-1:30 pm PT/3:00 pm-4:30 pm ET today! Connect with others, build skills, and learn more about what organizers across the country are doing to fight for a livable planet and push back against authoritarianism. Register ➡️ us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🚨 New polling shows most people oppose Elon Musk’s proposed $1 trillion Tesla pay package by 2-to-1 and think he already has more wealth than any one person should. Tomorrow, shareholders will vote to approve or reject what would be the largest pay package ever awarded to a CEO. buff.ly/vJUzjGG
Press Release: New Poll Reveals the General Public Opposes Elon Musk $1 Trillion Tesla Pay Package - Americans for Financial Reform
A new poll revealed that the public opposes Tesla’s proposed $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk by a 2-to-1 margin.
ourfinancialsecurity.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
🚨 New polling shows most people oppose Elon Musk’s proposed $1 trillion Tesla pay package by 2-to-1 and think he already has more wealth than any one person should. Tomorrow, shareholders will vote to approve or reject what would be the largest pay package ever awarded to a CEO. buff.ly/vJUzjGG
Crypto kiosks were associated with $250 million in scams in 2024, targeting Black and Latine communities. Despite this, the Senate is considering pro crypto legislation that would expose everyday people to more risk.
Crypto Legislation Must Address the Rampant Fraud at Crypto Kiosks - Americans for Financial Reform
Sometime after the shutdown dust settles, the Senate is expected to consider legislation to give a congressional seal of approval to cryptocurrency despite the widespread fraud and risks to everyday…
ourfinancialsecurity.org
October 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Crypto kiosks were associated with $250 million in scams in 2024, targeting Black and Latine communities. Despite this, the Senate is considering pro crypto legislation that would expose everyday people to more risk.
“Tesla shareholders can either check Musk’s corporate power grab or vote to cede him more and more control. These votes will likely set the stage for similar attempts by other oligarchs to consolidate their own power.”
What’s at Stake at the Upcoming Tesla Shareholder Meeting - Americans for Financial Reform
Months after Elon Musk’s self-serving deployment of DOGE to gut federal agencies inspired a song titled “Hostile Government Takeover,” Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting on November 6th will be…
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October 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“Tesla shareholders can either check Musk’s corporate power grab or vote to cede him more and more control. These votes will likely set the stage for similar attempts by other oligarchs to consolidate their own power.”
President Trump’s pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao demonstrates the corruption that is emanating from the White House. CZ’s business is entwined with the Trump family crypto empire. Crypto crime is not just being encouraged, it is being rewarded.
The Lessons of an Indefensible Pardon for a Crypto Billionaire
Donald Trump’s grant of clemency to the founder of Binance, Changpeng Zhao, shows how the checks on Presidential power are failing.
www.newyorker.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
President Trump’s pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao demonstrates the corruption that is emanating from the White House. CZ’s business is entwined with the Trump family crypto empire. Crypto crime is not just being encouraged, it is being rewarded.
"These Democratic principles cannot become a starting point that just gets watered down in the final legislative negotiations...Instead, the principles must be the absolute floor of requirements for any crypto legislation to gain the bloc’s support."
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Devil Will Be in the Details of Senate Democrat Crypto Principles - Americans for Financial Reform
The crypto industry has continued its legislative onslaught as the Senate begins considering giving a federal seal of approval to crypto trading.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"These Democratic principles cannot become a starting point that just gets watered down in the final legislative negotiations...Instead, the principles must be the absolute floor of requirements for any crypto legislation to gain the bloc’s support."
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Regulators have caved to climate deniers and rescinded vital principles designed to prevent bank failures from climate vulnerabilities. “The bank regulators have chosen to ignore the growing & substantial climate financial risks to communities.” -Jessica Garcia, AFREF
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October 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Regulators have caved to climate deniers and rescinded vital principles designed to prevent bank failures from climate vulnerabilities. “The bank regulators have chosen to ignore the growing & substantial climate financial risks to communities.” -Jessica Garcia, AFREF
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❌ NO to masked agents terrorizing communities
❌ NO to letting billionaires loot our economy
❌ NO to gutting healthcare & environmental protections
❌ NO to spreading hate
❌ NO to masked agents terrorizing communities
❌ NO to letting billionaires loot our economy
❌ NO to gutting healthcare & environmental protections
❌ NO to spreading hate
October 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
🚨There's still time to find a #NOKINGS event near you to attend: buff.ly/rDzNYnv
❌ NO to masked agents terrorizing communities
❌ NO to letting billionaires loot our economy
❌ NO to gutting healthcare & environmental protections
❌ NO to spreading hate
❌ NO to masked agents terrorizing communities
❌ NO to letting billionaires loot our economy
❌ NO to gutting healthcare & environmental protections
❌ NO to spreading hate
Today OMB Director Russell Vought unlawfully claimed he would eliminate the CFPB in its entirety within the next few months. Read AFR Co-Executive Director Ericka Taylor's statement in response: ourfinancialsecurity.org/news/stateme...
Statement: OMB’s Vought Threatens Unlawful Dismantling of CFPB - Americans for Financial Reform
Today, OMB Director Russell Vought unlawfully claimed he would eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in its entirety within the next few months.
ourfinancialsecurity.org
October 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Today OMB Director Russell Vought unlawfully claimed he would eliminate the CFPB in its entirety within the next few months. Read AFR Co-Executive Director Ericka Taylor's statement in response: ourfinancialsecurity.org/news/stateme...
Consumers living in the 20% of zip codes hit worst by climate change related disasters face the steepest increase in cost for insurance premiums. People shouldn’t be forced to pay more in insurance for properties with increasingly smaller value.
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October 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Consumers living in the 20% of zip codes hit worst by climate change related disasters face the steepest increase in cost for insurance premiums. People shouldn’t be forced to pay more in insurance for properties with increasingly smaller value.
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Banks and other companies want to automate routine decision making using AI, but this poses real harm to people when algorithmic decision making can violate civil rights and consumer protection laws. buff.ly/rZnOJMC
Blog: Sandbox or Quicksand: The Big Risks with the Plot to Let Unregulated AI into Your Bank - Americans for Financial Reform
The House Financial Services Committee is once again venturing into the artificial intelligence (AI) game and seems poised to let AI and Big Tech team up with Wall Street banks with almost no…
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October 13, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Banks and other companies want to automate routine decision making using AI, but this poses real harm to people when algorithmic decision making can violate civil rights and consumer protection laws. buff.ly/rZnOJMC
Banks bounced back pretty quickly from the 2008 crisis, but the economic trauma lingered for years for the millions of families that lost their life savings, homes, and jobs. Now Trump is daring history to repeat itself by aiming to weaken the safeguards put in place.
Blog: Weakening Bank Capital Rules Puts Us All at Risk - Americans for Financial Reform
This summer, federal bank regulators proposed a rule to massively weaken the key post-2008 financial crisis banking regulation designed to make the mega banks more resilient and reduce the risk of…
ourfinancialsecurity.org
October 13, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Banks bounced back pretty quickly from the 2008 crisis, but the economic trauma lingered for years for the millions of families that lost their life savings, homes, and jobs. Now Trump is daring history to repeat itself by aiming to weaken the safeguards put in place.
🚨 Scam alert! With the FTC shut down and not taking consumers' fraud complaints, fraudsters looking to "exploit fear and uncertainty" are demanding consumers verify their data or even pay a fee to ensure their benefits continue. This is a scam!
Consumer watchdogs warn of increase in government shutdown-related scams as workers worry about pay, benefits
Scammers may look to exploit fear and uncertainty as people worry about pay and benefits in the ongoing government shutdown.
www.cbsnews.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
🚨 Scam alert! With the FTC shut down and not taking consumers' fraud complaints, fraudsters looking to "exploit fear and uncertainty" are demanding consumers verify their data or even pay a fee to ensure their benefits continue. This is a scam!
Allowing crypto assets in retirement accounts is incredibly risky & a bad idea. Crypto is highly volatile, ridden with fraud, plus in a major downturn, retirement savings could evaporate, as happened in the crypto winter 3 years ago when $2 trillion were wiped out.
Morgan Stanley will now allow crypto investments in any type of account, including retirement accounts.
October 10, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Allowing crypto assets in retirement accounts is incredibly risky & a bad idea. Crypto is highly volatile, ridden with fraud, plus in a major downturn, retirement savings could evaporate, as happened in the crypto winter 3 years ago when $2 trillion were wiped out.
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unregulated finance is open to everyone now, full stop
I'm writing a piece about this & it just keeps getting worse
I'm writing a piece about this & it just keeps getting worse
Morgan Stanley will now allow crypto investments in any type of account, including retirement accounts.
October 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
unregulated finance is open to everyone now, full stop
I'm writing a piece about this & it just keeps getting worse
I'm writing a piece about this & it just keeps getting worse
Industrial loan companies (ILCs) *are* banks. They accept deposits, process payments & issue loans. So why aren't they subject to Federal Reserve supervision? This regulatory loophole poses big risks, especially regarding Big Tech or retail companies' privileged access to consumer financial data.
Blog: Big Tech, Predatory Fintech, and Big Retail Would Reap Bonanza from Expanding the Industrial Bank Loophole - Americans for Financial Reform
If the Trump administration gives a flood of Big Tech companies, fintech firms, and others their own industrial loan banks these operators will be free to prey upon people with unfair terms, junk…
ourfinancialsecurity.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Industrial loan companies (ILCs) *are* banks. They accept deposits, process payments & issue loans. So why aren't they subject to Federal Reserve supervision? This regulatory loophole poses big risks, especially regarding Big Tech or retail companies' privileged access to consumer financial data.
Trump's call to privatize Fannie & Freddie is downright reckless, especially right now. It ignores renters & homebuyers already struggling with unaffordable housing & puts the stability of our entire housing finance system at risk just to benefit a few billionaire investors.
Blog: Rushing to Privatize Fannie and Freddie Would Make Housing More Expensive While Putting the Entire U.S. Economy at Risk - Americans for Financial Reform
The Trump administration has called for the recapitalization and return to private control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which provide critical support for the mortgage market.
ourfinancialsecurity.org
October 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Trump's call to privatize Fannie & Freddie is downright reckless, especially right now. It ignores renters & homebuyers already struggling with unaffordable housing & puts the stability of our entire housing finance system at risk just to benefit a few billionaire investors.
Have you been to a Capital One Café? While on the surface the idea of a big bank running a coffee shop is just weird, the deeper implications of this illegal mixing of banking and commerce reveal a much more insidious threat. ourfinancialsecurity.org/news/blog-ca...
Blog: Capital One’s De-Branching Comes After your Locally-Owned Coffee Shop - Americans for Financial Reform
When the Federal Reserve foolishly approved the Capital One takeover of Discover, it ignored the fact that Capital One had relentlessly closed bank branches after a series of mergers over the past…
ourfinancialsecurity.org
October 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Have you been to a Capital One Café? While on the surface the idea of a big bank running a coffee shop is just weird, the deeper implications of this illegal mixing of banking and commerce reveal a much more insidious threat. ourfinancialsecurity.org/news/blog-ca...
A resilient financial system depends on strong capital standards and other guardrails. Weakening capital standards now would make the system shakier, the economy more fragile, and the public more exposed—just like the deregulation that led to the 2008 financial crisis.
Blog: Weakening Bank Capital Rules Puts Us All at Risk - Americans for Financial Reform
This summer, federal bank regulators proposed a rule to massively weaken the key post-2008 financial crisis banking regulation designed to make the mega banks more resilient and reduce the risk of…
ourfinancialsecurity.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
A resilient financial system depends on strong capital standards and other guardrails. Weakening capital standards now would make the system shakier, the economy more fragile, and the public more exposed—just like the deregulation that led to the 2008 financial crisis.
🚨 Big money from crypto billionaires = big threat for families, our economy, and our democracy. We need YOUR voice to stop their dangerous agenda. Join the nationwide VIRTUAL RALLY on Oct. 7, 6:30pm ET.✍️ RSVP: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
🚨 Big money from crypto billionaires = big threat for families, our economy, and our democracy. We need YOUR voice to stop their dangerous agenda. Join the nationwide VIRTUAL RALLY on Oct. 7, 6:30pm ET.✍️ RSVP: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
What does the crypto industry really want? Don't miss this episode of the Computer Says Maybe podcast as AFR's Mark Hays joins host Alix Dunn to discuss who benefits and who loses from the dark side of crypto’s supposed promise of innovation & financial freedom.🎙️🎧▶︎https://buff.ly/gPKs8vP
September 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
What does the crypto industry really want? Don't miss this episode of the Computer Says Maybe podcast as AFR's Mark Hays joins host Alix Dunn to discuss who benefits and who loses from the dark side of crypto’s supposed promise of innovation & financial freedom.🎙️🎧▶︎https://buff.ly/gPKs8vP