Dear Friends and Partners,

As June unfolds, business leaders face a timely reminder: companies thrive when they focus on their core missions of creating value, serving customers, employing people, and generating prosperity, not when they wade into divisive social and political activism.

At 1792 Exchange, we are helping businesses get back to business. In advance of a second House Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), we issued an updated open letter to Benevity, one of the largest corporate charitable-giving platforms, calling on the company to stop relying on the discredited SPLC's “Hate Map” and “Hate List.” This filter steers billions in employee donations and corporate matching gifts away from mainstream conservative, religious, and pro-family organizations while favoring activist causes. The letter, now signed by new partners including Turning Point USA, Focus on the Family, and PragerU, highlights how more than 200 Fortune 1000 companies use Benevity portals—often unknowingly outsourcing moral judgments to a partisan smear machine.

We are actively engaging these companies, providing data and guidance to help them demand viewpoint-neutral policies from vendors, exit risky partnerships, and restore neutrality on contested issues. Our Corporate Bias Ratings now flag Benevity users, empowering shareholders and boards to push for sound governance and long-term value creation.

The Buttonwood Agreement of 1792 was a simple, practical commitment to honest commerce after chaos. Today we carry forward that spirit, offering research, coalitions, and practical roadmaps so companies can refocus on excellence, integrity, and enterprise.

The Buttonwood Brief will continue delivering concise wins, emerging trends, and actionable steps. Thank you for standing with us as we help American business rediscover what made it great.

Best regards,

Doug Napier

Executive Chairman & CEO

Activity from Allied Organizations

Coalition Grows as Turning Point USA, PragerU, and Focus on the Family Join Demand for Benevity to Drop Discredited SPLC Hate List:

1792 Exchange last week announced the growing coalition behind an open letter to Benevity demanding that the charitable-giving platform immediately stop using the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) discredited “Hate Map” and “Hate List” to determine eligibility for corporate giving and employee matching programs.


The coalition has expanded with the addition of Turning Point USA, PragerU, and Focus on the Family, joining a powerful group of mainstream organizations that have been slanderously labeled “hate groups” by the SPLC, not for any violence or extremism, but solely for dissenting from progressive orthodoxy on issues of life, family, faith, and liberty.

New Feature: 1792 Insights

1792 Exchange has rebuilt its digital home and continues to add additional features to give corporate leaders, investors, and consumers faster access to data that matters.

We have recently launched a 1792 Exchange Content Hub: 1792 Insights, where you can find the latest headlines from 1792 Exchange along with analysis from our experts.