Recorded at the Texas Public Policy Summit’s 2025 Texas Policy Summit in Austin, TPPF Distinguished Senior Fellow Sherry Sylvester shares her Winners & Losers list from the week of February 21.
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We put this week’s edition of Winners & Losers in podcast format taped during TPPF’s annual Texas Policy Summit on the University of Texas campus in Austin. You can listen to the entire list — here’s couple of top lines:
TPPF’s Family Success Agenda earns a top spot on the “Winners List” for taking steps to integrate the “Success Sequence” into public policy, ensuring state agencies will support programs to help young Texans finish high school, get a job and wait until they are married before having children.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is also a big winner this week for educating the always obtuse Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation. In case you missed it, Brennan compared Vice President J.D. Vance to Hitler for “weaponizing” free speech. Rubio reminded her that there was no free speech in Nazi Germany, where citizens were jailed if they criticized the government and book burnings were routine.
Former President Joe Biden is still on the “Losers List” this week because we just learned that, in addition to his family, he commuted the sentence of Leonard Peltier, who killed 2 FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota 50 years ago.
Finally, Baylor University in Waco is erecting a new statue — a Memorial to Enslaved Persons — in order to help students and faculty “repent the sin of slavery.”
But wait, there’s more. Watch and listen to all this week’s Winners & Losers here:
Sherry Sylvester is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and the former Senior Advisor to Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick.
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TPPF Distinguished Senior Fellow, Sherry Sylvester, has spent decades working at the nexus of public policy and politics. She began as a decidedly left-leaning Democrat on the East Coast but years of working closely with the left-wing pushed her to the right. After two decades in Texas, she is committed to Keeping Texas Texan — a beacon of freedom and liberty, a center of innovation, and a major force in the global economy. Coming off a 17-year stint working around the Texas Capitol, including 7 years as Senior Advisor to Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, 9th
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