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The Sherry Sylvester Show | Raised in Politics w/ Luke Macias

I grew up in a political family, so the days when the polls are open are not only filled with anticipation of the final counting, but also lots of family memories. The guest on my podcast this week, Luke Macias, also grew up in a political family and I figured Election Day would be a good time to talk about the political lessons we learned growing up — what is still true and what has changed.

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Winners & Losers: Some Gold Medals and Some Good Shows

Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on Talk 1370 Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. Here’s hoping you don’t have Winners & Losers fatigue after our first Winners & Losers LIVE show on stage last night at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

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Winners & Losers: Bettencourt Deserves a Pulitzer

Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on Talk 1370 Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. Friday the 13th may be the reason for so many losers this week, but there are some big winners too. Here’s who made the list.

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Winners & Losers: The Only Relevant Question

Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on Talk 1370 Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. With the Super Bowl looming on Sunday and Texas’ primary election less than a month away, here’s who made the list:

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Texas A&M is Right to End Women and Gender Studies

Some professors at Texas A&M have issued a letter expressing outrage over the recent decision to eliminate the women’s and gender studies degree programs. Revving up the dramatics, faculty who run the program warn that the university is dismantling this degree track at a “moment of incendiary dispute across cultural, social, and political difference on the issues of gender.”

A moment of incendiary dispute? Let’s take a closer look.

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Winners & Losers: Homan & Elon Win, Communism Loses

Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on Talk 1370 Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. Texas’ electric grid and the hard work of Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to strengthen it would all be at the top of the winners list, but with the threat of more winter is coming, it’s too soon to call. Here’s who else made the list.

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9th & Congress: “Islamic Games” are “Identity Sports”

It didn’t take long for Grapevine-Colleyville ISD and Cy-Fair ISD to back off their offer of the use of public school facilities to host the so-called “Islamic Games,” once it was revealed that one of the sponsors was the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has linked to foreign terrorists.

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Winners & Losers: Davos, the Bible, Indiana and More

Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on Talk 1370 Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. Currently, it feels like we are living in scenes of “Game of Thrones” in which dark, ominous voices keep warning us that “winter is coming.” As we prepare to face down a national storm, here’s who made the list.

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Sherry interviewed Lt. Governor Patrick following the close of the Regular 2023 Legislative session.

Sherry Sylvester: An Award Winning Political Journalist

Sherry testified before the Texas Senate Higher Education Sub-Committee on why Diversity, Equity and Inclusion must be stopped in Texas colleges and universities.

Telling the Texas Story: Do Media Narratives Portray an Accurate State of the State?