Texas politics through a conservative faith lens.
The Texas Values Report tracks conservative fights in Texas courts, schools, elections, and public agencies. Its interviews move quickly from policy detail to moral argument, with guests framing education, privacy, and religious liberty as urgent civic battlegrounds.
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The Texas Values Report is a conservative Texas politics show with the tempo of live talk radio and the focus of an advocacy briefing. It is not neutral. Its center of gravity is faith, family policy, religious liberty, education, elections, and the public fights surrounding them. Episodes often begin with Texas Values staff setting the week’s stakes, then bring in guests from the State Board of Education, statewide office, church leadership, CPAC, or allied conservative organizations. The conversations are direct. They stack questions, repeat key points for emphasis, and keep tying procedural details back to moral and political consequences. One episode may spend time on social studies TEKS review, textbook adoption, House Bill 1605, and the power of publishers. Another may move from CPAC floor interviews to election timelines, the Texas Women's Privacy Act, or the importance of conservative organizing. Schools are a recurring pressure point. So are church-state disputes, Good Friday observance, patriotic education, and claims about gender policy in sports, bathrooms, locker rooms, and curriculum. The show is especially interested in how decisions made in Texas can shape other states, especially through textbook markets and conservative policy networks. It also gives space to movement fellowship: conferences, donor appeals, legal strategy, church leadership, and the work of groups linked to Texas Values. The pacing can be rough-edged and emphatic, with live-event energy and occasional repetition. That is part of its texture. The editorial frame is clear, and the show rarely hides its desired outcome. Supporters of Texas social conservatism will find a steady stream of names, fights, dates, agencies, and talking points. Skeptical listeners may still use it as a revealing source on how these issues are argued inside the movement. Its value is the close-up view: courthouse, Capitol, school board, media, election, and church conversation all treated as parts of the same fight.
Made for: Suited to listeners tracking Texas conservative politics, religious-liberty fights, education policy, and faith-centered civic activism. It especially fits people who want movement-side context rather than neutral news analysis.
What sets it apart: The show pairs granular Texas policy process with openly values-driven argument. Its interviews make school-board standards, legislation, statewide offices, and conservative conferences feel like connected fronts in one political project.
What Texans do to defend religious liberty, traditional values, and the life of the unborn has a ripple effect across America and the world. This is the podcast for "The Texas Values Report with Jonathan Saenz," a conservative talk radio show in Austin, Texas, where each week Texas Values President Jonathan Saenz interviews movers and shakers in the fight to defend faith, family, and freedom in the Lone Star State and beyond. In each episode, we review what's going on from the courthouse to the Texas House to the White House and how it all affects your freedom to worship, express yourself, and raise your family. You can help our work by sharing this podcast with a friend!#txlege #Texas #Prot…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Faith-driven commentary meets detailed explanations of how Texas education policy, legislation and conservative organizing work in practice.
The Texas Values Report turns conservative Christian advocacy into a close-up account of Texas public life. Jonathan Saenz and the show's fill-in hosts combine commentary with interviews, moving between religious-liberty disputes, legislation and the work of the State Board of…
Second reading at the Texas school board: if you want the political sausage-making, pull up a chair.
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A detailed look at Texas education process, from standards votes to the materials that follow.
The Texas Values Report gives a clear look at the Texas State Board of Education and the path from draft standards to the final vote, then follows that trail into the textbook and instructional material process that comes next.
A Texas CPAC conversation where the General Land Office, the Alamo, and conservative politics meet.
At CPAC in Texas, Jonathan Saenz speaks with Land Commissioner Dr. Dawn Buckingham about the General Land Office, the Alamo, and the public meaning Texans attach to both.
A Rowlett church fight becomes a conservative case for voting and school politics.
The Texas Values Report presents Pastor Cason Huddleston's run for State Board of Education as part of a broader conversation about religious liberty and local politics in Rowlett.
A Holy Week episode connecting Christian formation, Texas school policy, and faith-centered advocacy.
Jonathan Saenz shapes this single-episode review around Holy Week, Christian faith, and public disputes he sees pressing against those observances.
A Texas education-policy episode ties social studies TEKS review to textbooks, patriotic history, and conservative civic values.
Texas Values Report frames Texas' social studies TEKS review as a fight over who shapes lessons on history, founding influences, patriotism, and civic identity.
A Rowlett pastor turns a COVID-era church dispute into a local case for religious liberty and conservative civic participation.
A substitute host and Rowlett pastor use an education-framed conversation to press into religious liberty, local government, and voter participation.
A faith-and-politics episode links Easter memories, House Bill 239, and claimed electoral pressure on Democrats.
The Texas Values Report uses Easter-week reflection and memories of watching church services from home during COVID to frame a larger argument about religious liberty and Texas politics.
Astead Herndon reports the 2024 campaign trail, from Iowa evangelicals to America's non-voters
Jonathan Saenz discusses the urgency of passing key legislation, including SB 13, as the Texas legislative session nears its end, emphasizing the organization's focus on faith, family, and freedom.
This episode discusses the importance of U.S.
This episode previews an upcoming Supreme Court case on the Save Women Sports issue, discussing the unfairness of forcing women to compete against men in sports.
Jonathan Saenz introduces the Texas Values Report, discussing recent legislative work on faith, family, and freedom issues in Texas, including laws from special sessions and upcoming court activities.
Jonathan Saenz hosts Texas Values Report with guest Abraham George, chairman of the Republican Party of Texas.
Jonathan Covey hosts Pastor Cason Huddleston to discuss the Texas State Board of Education's social studies standards review.
Mary Elizabeth Castle opens the show by welcoming listeners and laying out why the Texas Values Report keeps its attention on courts, the legislature, the media, and public education.
Texas Senator Mayes Middleton discusses his role in passing the Texas Women's Privacy Act and defends his stance against transgender access to women's spaces at CPAC 2026.
Jonathan Saenz interviews Mercedes Schlapp at CPAC in Texas, discussing the event's theme of 'actions over words' and its focus on grassroots conservative activism in key election races.
Jonathan Saenz interviews Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham at CPAC 2026 about her role in managing state lands, funding education through oil and gas revenues, and defending conservative values.
Jonathan Covey opens the show on April 9 while filling in for Jonathan Sines.
Danny Forshee says Christianity is based on "concrete, historical, verifiable, empirical evidence."
Brandon Hall says Austin ISD used taxpayer resources to bus kids to the Austin pride parade and warns that March, June, and August Pride events all push the same message.
Jonathan Saenz discusses his recent participation in Radio Row at the Family Policy Alliance's social conservative conference in Indianapolis, highlighting interviews with key figures like Craig DeRoach and Tony Perkins.