Texas Values, which led the fight for the 2025 law requiring the state’s public schools to post the Ten Commandments, is now asking its supporters to help monitor schools’ compliance with the law.
“Adopt a district,” said Texas Values, which has created a “District Compliance Tracker” as part of its “Operation Fulfill the Law” to pressure schools to comply.
The compliance effort comes as Democrats elected to state offices in a midterm “blue wave” have pre-filed a bill to repeal the Ten Commandments law in the 2027 legislative session.
“Help fulfill the law,” said Texas Values, Focus on the Family’s activist affiliate in the state. “Support a district and help place the required posters in Texas classrooms.”
The law has faced numerous court challenges, and opponents want the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on its constitutionality.
The tracker shows 353 school districts, or 29% of the state’s 1,207 districts, have fully complied with the law while 300 (24.9%) have begun to implement it. Meanwhile, 553 districts (45.8%) are “not yet assessed” and one has refused to comply.
The state law requires public school classrooms to display a Ten Commandments poster or framed copy. Schools are not required to buy the posters but are required to accept posters donated by private groups.
Texas Values donated 100 posters to the Bloomington ISD in October. Patriot Mobile (“America’s only Christian conservative wireless provider with 100% U.S.-based customer support”) has donated 50,000 posters to schools in Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana.
A federal court temporarily blocked the law in 2025. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the law in April 2026. Opponents of the law have asked the Supreme court to rule on its constitutionality.
Texas Values warned Nov. 10 that the law still stands and schools must still comply: “Opponents want to tear down thousands of Ten Commandments posters in Texas classrooms. However, we will not stand by while they try to dismantle what Texans worked so hard to achieve. … We resolutely oppose any effort to tear these posters down.”
The group did not cite any examples of opponents tearing down posters.
Benny Johnson addresses the New York Young Republican Club’s 113th Annual Gala at Cipriani Wall Street on December 13, 2025, in New York City. (Photo by Adam Gray/Getty Images)
Texas Values has a long history of wedding conservative Christianity to far-right politics. The speaker for its upcoming black-tie fundraising Christmas Gala is Benny Johnson, an ethno-nationalist/Christian nationalist influencer with a long conservative resume (Turning Point USA, Breitbart News, Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze) and long track record of plagiarism and disinformation.
Speaking at an April Turning Point USA event at Baylor University, Johnson said President Donald Trump’s deportation policies are cleansing America’s “gene pool.”
“We have a history, and we’re proud of that history, and that history is European, Christian. That’s what built this country,” Johnson said.
Texas Values emerged from First Liberty Institute, a conservative Christian legal group founded in 1972. Texas Values was formally launched by First Liberty in 2012 and is now affiliated with the Family Policy Alliance, a network of 40 state Family Policy Councils created by Focus on the Family founder James Dobson in the 1980s.
Texas Values had a budget of $1.6 million last year, and like most Family Policy Councils, it has a sister organization, Texas Values Action, which does lobbying and political organizing (and has its own budget of $166,000.)
In the midterms, Texas Values Action “recommended” (but didn’t “endorse”) Ken Paxton, the scandal plagued Senate candidate; but TVA gave its full endorsement to Railroad Commissioner candidate Bo French, whose racism and intolerance were condemned by Texas Sen. John Cornyn.