Podcast
TPPF’s Sherry Sylvester sits down with political communications expert Ray Sullivan to discuss what first caused Texas voters to reliably go to the right when they cast their ballots, what policies and issues people cared about in 2002 that they still care about now, and what challenges he sees to ensure that Texas remains a conservative beacon for America and the world.
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TPPF’s Sherry Sylvester sits down with acclaimed journalist Mark Hemingway to discuss the 2023 Texas Tribune Festival, which brought newsmakers and news reporters together in Austin.
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TPPF’s Sherry Sylvester sits down with Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Chief Executive Officer, Greg Sindelar and Distinguished Senior Fellow for Next Generation Texas, Tom Lindsay to discuss the ongoing battles to stop radically divisive and discriminatory DEI policies in higher ed. These political ideologies are wriggling their way around the law and into culture and institutions — including Greg’s beloved Texas A&M — in the name of social justice.
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TPPF’s Sherry Sylvester sits down with Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, Do No Harm founder and author of “Take Two Aspirin and Call Me By My Pronouns – Why Turning Doctors into Social Justice Warriors is destroying American Medicine” to discuss the fight to stop the radically divisive and discriminatory political ideologies that are eliminating, among other things, testing and training standards in medical institutions in the name of social justice.
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TPPF’s Sherry Sylvester sits down with famed historian J.P. Bryan of the Texas State Historical Association to discuss the importance of preserving our great state’s history, free from distortion and historically inaccurate bias.
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The Right Idea: Brian Phillips and Derek Cohen discuss the people, policy, and politics that drive Texas. Subscribe on Apple or Spotify.
The Hard Country: Joshua Treviño and Melissa Ford discuss U.S.-Mexico relations and some Texas history. Subscribe on Apple or Spotify.
9th & Congress: Sherry Sylvester presents her insights and updates on Texas politics, policy, news, and history. Subscribe on Spotify.
Brian’s Breakdown: Brian Phillips and his guests get right to the heart of the tough questions and important debates in the public policy world. Subscribe on Apple or Spotify.
The Sweet Tea Series: For way too long, conservative girls of all different backgrounds, ages, and stories have been craving a space to spill the tea on policy in our country, pop culture, and girl talk. Hosts Taylor Dawson and Ariana Silva interview women who are shaping the future of the conservative movement. Subscribe on Spotify.
The Arena with Greg Sindelar: TPPF CEO Greg Sindelar sits down with today’s leading policymakers to learn about their backgrounds and foundational beliefs that drive them in shaping the laws that will shape our great land. Subscribe on Spotify.
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Here in Texas: We share everyday Texans’ stories to highlight injustices throughout the Lone Star State.
TPPF’s Sherry Sylvester sits down with Texas Public Policy Foundation colleagues Brian Phillips and Sam Pohl to discuss the dozens of news stories where the Texas media creates their own narrative while ignoring the views of the conservative majority of Texans, pushing out daily news reports portraying our state as a bunch of backward, dull-minded, racist, sexist, whatever-ists — while never explaining why hundreds of people move here every day.
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TPPF’s Sherry Sylvester talks with Ryan Gravatt, a pioneering digital strategist who led Texas conservatives into the digital age, regarding what we can expect to see next in the digital communications world of politics and public policy as we edge closer to a presidential campaign year and massive issue battles in Texas from property taxes to parental empowerment.
Ryan is a member of former Texas Governor Rick Perry’s original campaign team and his digital expertise and strategic vision has ensured that the delivery of Texas’ conservative message has always been cutting edge. He launched his firm, Raconteur Media, in 2004, years before the iPhone was released, and he set the bar for website development, social media outreach, email, digital advertising and search engine marketing from the beginning. Ryan is also an award winning expert in developing digital strategies and analytics for audience engagement.
The pair discuss what’s changed in digital communications in the last twenty years – — what conservatives are doing right, what’s going wrong and what’s next.
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Sherry Sylvester discusses the Supreme Court’s ruling that America’s colleges and universities could no longer use race as a factor in determining who could be admitted with Dr. Richard Johnson, Director of the Booker T. Washington Institute at Texas Public Policy Foundation.
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In the inaugural episode of the 9th & Congress podcast, Sherry talks with Dr. Daniel Bonevac, the only University of Texas professor who testified in support of the Texas anti-DEI bill, where he likened DEI to the “campus thought police.” He discusses what it’s like teaching on a Texas campus that has become overwhelmingly woke.
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