Come be inspired at the 2025 Texas Values Faith, Family, & Freedom Gala with Coach Joe Kennedy who won the football prayer case at the U. S. Supreme Court and Kelly Shackelford, President of First Liberty Institute, who represented Coach Joe Kennedy at the U. S. Supreme Court. Because of our Coach Kennedy Supreme Court victory, a bad legal precedent is gone. This victory brings a powerful revelation — the days of Americans hiding their faith in public are over!

Senator Angela Paxton will be our Master of Ceremonies and you'll also have the opportunity to meet College Athlete Brooke Slusser the Texas college athlete who stood firm to protect women's sports.  

Enjoy an incredible evening with like-minded friends—it’s the perfect opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations, especially with a friend who finds politics to be a tough topic. Together, we can embrace the power of our voices, champion freedom, and ensure our representation in government!

Highlights include: Special presentations, a look ahead into 2026, and the 11th Annual Kelly Shackelford Award.

Texas Values board member Kelly Shackelford recently met with President Donald J. Trump following The Religious Liberty Commission meeting, where Kelly serves as a member.

U.S. Supreme Court Hears Case on Free Speech and Religious Liberty in Colorado.

Last Tuesday, Oct. 7, the U.S. Supreme Court heard Chiles v. Salazar, a case that strikes at the heart of free speech, religious liberty, and the proper boundaries of government regulation in mental health. Counselor Kaley Chiles, pictured above, wants to help young people distressed about their gender achieve their chosen goal to grow comfortable with their bodies and avoid harmful drugs and procedures. But a Colorado law is forbidding her from doing so, and Attorney General Salazar wants to enforce the “gag rule.”

Read more about the Supreme Court case here.

Texas Values has long stood firm for Religious Liberty in Texas, and with your continued support, we can keep defending the freedoms that matter most.

Religious liberty must be protected in Texas. Now is a critical time to stand for religious liberty for future generations of Texans. Your gift enables Texas Values to continue to stand for our God-given religious freedom. Please prayerfully consider a generous gift, believing that we can – and will – protect religious liberty in Texas.

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Watch the Chloe Cole Livestream Event Sponsored by Texas Values and Hosted by TPUSA TCU at Baptist Church

Last week, the story broke that the TPUSA chapter at TCU would no longer be holding their event on campus. Texas Christian University later issued a statement claiming their reasons for why the event was no longer being held on campus.

Nonetheless, we were happy that Birchman Baptist Church had agreed to host the event and Texas Values was proud to be a sponsor of it! 

Watch the event here on our Facebook page.

 "It’s undeniable that prohibitions against theft or murder —or even the idea that there’s a higher authority than human authority— all come from the Ten Commandments.” - Jonathan Covey

Read the KVUE article in it's entirety here.

The Texas Ten Commandments Law (S.B. 10) passed by the Texas Legislature earlier this year continues being actively implemented in many school districts despite continued legal attacks from outside-the-state, leftist organizations and their supporters. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AUSCS) sued 14 more school districts in a Texas federal district court recently in Cribbs Ringer v. Comal ISD. The lawsuit is asking the court for an injunction to require those school districts to remove Ten Commandments displays and stop hanging new displays.

This is the third lawsuit filed so far to stop the Texas Ten Commandments Law from being implemented. An earlier court decision in Rabbi Nathan v. Alamo Heights ISD is currently on appeal before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals after a district court judge ruled that 11 school districts were temporarily not required to post displays while the lawsuit is ongoing.

Despite these attacks, the Texas Attorney General’s office issued a formal legal advisory recently making it clear that all Texas public school districts, except for the 11 districts under federal court injunction, are required to display posters in accordance with state law.

Texas Values continues to help lead the rollout of S.B. 10 to uphold the historical and moral foundations of our laws as allowed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Kennedy v. Bremerton and other case law. So far, at least 4,751 schools have been adopted with Ten Commandments posters or displays.

You can buy posters to donate to your local Texas school district at www.RestoreAmericanSchools.com and you can read more about the Texas Ten Commandments Law and recent news developments at https://txvalues.org/ten-commandments-texas/

Even if you cannot drop off posters to schools, please consider making a donation to help us continue to expanding a culture of freedom in Texas! While adopting a school, please take a moment to mark "Texas Values" in the referral drop down menu.

October is National Respect Life Month — a time to celebrate the precious gift of life and affirm the dignity of both mother and child. Every life has value. Every story matters.

View the Texas Abortion Update: "Closed for Business" during our Faith Fest panel discussion with Dr. Abby Johnson, Faith Elwonger, and Chelsey Youman on our YouTube Channel. 

To learn more, visit LoveThemBothTexas.Com

Host Jonathan Saenz, President & Attorney for Texas Values, and special guest Melissa Ohden, Founder & Director of The Abortion Survivors Network, shares her story of surviving a failed saline abortion.

"I was accidentally born alive in the final step of the procedure….I’m sort of the poster child of what that looks like.

Nothing’s been more frustrating for me as a survivor, than being told that it’s a constitutional right to have an abortion.

I think we have to change the hearts and minds of our culture, this is not an overnight thing.

My children have been raised at my feet at podiums around the world knowing that this is worth every fight." ~ Melissa Ohden

Her interview is available to view on our YouTube Channel and on our Facebook page. 

Catch the weekly Texas Values Report at any time, day or night, and on additional podcast sites: Facebook, Apple, iHeartRadio, SoundCloud, Spotify, TuneIn and, YouTube.

Education Freedom Accounts Will be Available Soon

The Texas Comptroller office has announced that a vendor contract has been fully executed for the Education Freedom Accounts, formerly known as Education Savings Accounts. Parents should be able to apply for the accounts at the beginning of 2026. Please consult the Texas Comptroller website for updates on the program. 

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