Everything on Government & Unelected Power →
Primary documents
- Vanguard Index Funds Form N-PX, ExxonMobil 2021 annual meeting
Corporate Filing · 2021
Vanguard Index Funds
Vanguard Index Funds N-PX filing covering the 2021 ExxonMobil meeting, where Vanguard backed two Engine No. 1 nominees (Goff and Hietala).
- Vanguard Index Funds Form N-PX, ExxonMobil 2022 political-contributions proposal
Corporate Filing · 2022
Vanguard Index Funds
Vanguard Index Funds N-PX filing covering ExxonMobil's 2022 meeting, which included the shareholder proposal for a report on political contributions. The vote cast is recorded in…
- Vanguard Investor Choice Participation Grows More Than Sixfold, Surpassing Half a Million Investors
Document · 2026
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
Vanguard reports approximately $4 trillion eligible and $151 billion participating, with 507,000 participating investors in 2026. Choice applies only to eligible funds and investors.
- Vanguard June 2026 distributions announcement
Document · 2026
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
Official Vanguard statement of global AUM. Combined with the two 10-K figures, the three manage approximately $32.5 trillion, using different as-of dates.
- Vanguard Settlement Agreement and Stipulated Dismissal
Court Filing · 2026
The Vanguard Group, Inc.; Attorneys General of Texas and other states
Vanguard agreed to $29.5 million and five-year passivity commitments; claims against Vanguard were dismissed with prejudice. The settlement expressly is not an admission of wrongdoing.
- Vanguard Specialized Funds Form N-PX for period ended June 30, 2026
Corporate Filing · 2026
Vanguard Specialized Funds
Actual current Vanguard fund N-PX with 634 vote records; example: Procter & Gamble say-on-pay voted For. Vanguard votes are filed by registrant fund complexes.
- Vendor Information Archive (New York Fed crisis-era contracts)
Government Record · 2010
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
The New York Fed's archive of crisis-era vendor contracts. It names BlackRock on the Maiden Lane LLC, Maiden Lane II and Maiden Lane III management contracts,…
- Victims Receive Reparations for Burge-Era Torture
Government Record · 2016
City of Chicago Mayor’s Office
Of 98 people seeking financial reparations, 57 were approved. This implementation count differs from the Goldston report’s at least 50 potential victims and later litigation’s more-than-100…
- Vulnerable & Vanishing: The Struggle to Protect Arizona’s Foster Youth in DCS Care
News Report · 2026
FOX 10 Phoenix
FOX 10 Phoenix reported that 74% of children who went missing from Arizona DCS care between January 2024 and September 2025 disappeared from group homes.
- WA to pay $9 million to woman who said she was sexually abused in foster care
News Report · 2025
Seattle Times
Washington State agreed to pay $9 million to Ashley Miller, who said she was sexually abused in foster care from ages 5 to 12 while the…
- Wag the Dog (1997): release record
Document · 1997
Rotten Tomatoes
Catalog record: Wag the Dog, a film about a staged war to distract from a presidential sex scandal, opened December 25, 1997.
- Wall Street Journal: Inside the U.S. Antitrust Probe of Google (2015)
News Report · 2015
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal, March 2015: reported on an FTC staff memo, released by mistake, in which FTC lawyers in 2012 recommended suing Google and found 'real…
- Wallace v. Powell, No. 3:09-cv-00286: Judgment (M.D. Pa. 2022)
Court Filing · 2022
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
The federal judgment in the Kids for Cash civil case: $106,296,945.53 in compensatory damages and $100,000,000 in punitive damages against Ciavarella and Conahan.
- Wallace v. Powell, No. 3:09-cv-00286: Memorandum on Damages (M.D. Pa. 2022)
Court Filing · 2022
U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
The federal court's 2022 memorandum awarding $100 million in punitive damages against former judges Ciavarella and Conahan to Kids for Cash victims.
- Washington Post: How the Post Analyzed Hunter Biden Laptop Data (2022)
News Report · 2022
The Washington Post
Washington Post, March 2022: two security experts it hired verified thousands of emails from the laptop data as authentic, using cryptographic signatures from Google and other…
- Washington Post: Koch-Backed Political Coalition, Designed to Shield Donors, Raised $400 Million in 2012 (2014)
News Report · 2014
Washington Post
Washington Post, January 2014: a network of conservative groups tied to the Koch brothers, built to keep donors hidden, raised about $400 million in the 2012…
- Washington RCW 10.116.040: Police Ban on Military Equipment (2022)
Government Record · 2022
Washington State Legislature
Washington State law, 2022: police may not acquire or use military equipment, including long-range acoustic devices and directed-energy systems.
- Washington University Summary of Conclusions (2023)
Document · 2023
Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University’s internal review found Reed’s allegations of substandard care causing adverse outcomes unsubstantiated, while recommending stronger consent and custody-documentation procedures. It reported 1,165 patients since…
- Webseed and Brighteon v. Department of State: Complaint (2024)
Court Filing · 2024
Webseed, Inc. and Brighteon Media, Inc.
Webseed and Brighteon Media, May 2024: the Natural News and Brighteon companies sued the State Department, NGOs and platforms, alleging government-funded blacklisting by NewsGuard, ISD and…
- Webseed v. Department of State: Magistrate Recommends Transfer (2025)
Court Filing · 2025
Magistrate Judge Dustin M. Howell, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
Magistrate Judge Dustin Howell, federal court in Texas, February 2025: recommended granting Google, Meta and X's motions to move the Brighteon case to the Northern District…
- Webseed v. Department of State: Order Denying Reconsideration (2026)
Court Filing · 2026
Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin, October 2026: refused to let the plaintiffs seek reconsideration of the dismissal and kept the October 28, 2026 deadline for amended complaints. Later…
- Webseed v. Department of State: Order Granting Motions to Dismiss (2026)
Court Filing · 2026
Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin, federal court in California, September 2026: dismissed the Brighteon case and a related case for lack of standing, ruled claims against the closed…
- Webseed v. Department of State: Order Transferring Case to California (2025)
Court Filing · 2025
Judge Robert Pitman, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
Judge Robert Pitman, federal court in Texas, April 2025: overruled the plaintiffs' objections and moved the entire Brighteon case to the Northern District of California. A…
- WEF Global Risks Report 2022
Document · 2022
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum's 2022 survey of global risks.