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The WallBuilders Show

School Choice Wins In Texas

The WallBuilders Show

Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green

Wallbuilders Show, Education, Constitutional, Church, Christianity, History, Conservative, America, Family, Christian, Biblical, Religion & Spirituality, Wallbuilders.show, Government, News, Politics

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Want to see how ideas become laws that change lives? We trace a straight line from primary-source history to modern policy, then unpack how Texas advanced a billion-dollar school choice program while strengthening religious liberty protections. With Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, we dive into the long-game strategy behind expanding parental rights, why competition can lift outcomes for every student, and how teacher pay and public school funding fit into a balanced plan that keeps classroom...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture.

0:08.8

Thanks for joining us on the Wall Builders Show today.

0:10.9

Rick Green here with David Barton and Tim Barton.

0:12.7

You can learn more at our websites, wallbuilders.com and wallbuilders.

0:16.5

In fact, you want to visit wallbuilders.

0:18.5

Show today because if you missed yesterday, we had the first half of our interview

0:23.0

with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick of Texas, and today we'll get the second half.

0:27.9

David, Tim, yesterday we got to talk to Governor Patrick about the Religious Liberty Commission,

0:32.6

which, as we talked about yesterday, David, you got to testify before the commission.

0:37.1

And then, you know,

0:38.4

one of the members definitely created a lot of controversy. Governor Patrick was telling us about,

0:43.5

you know, basically removing her from the commission and some of the things that happened there.

0:47.6

And today we'll be talking a little bit more about Texas, which we tend to love to do. But for our

0:52.0

non-Texans out there, these policies affect you as well.

0:55.6

All right, guys, before we go to the second half of our interview, anything else from yesterday's

0:59.2

first half of the interview?

1:01.0

You know, what was really fun to me was that knowing I was going to talk to these folks

1:05.7

from the President's Commission and knowing that the testimony would be there, I wouldn't worry about the

1:11.7

content at all because, you know, we have the historical knowledge to know what happened.

1:16.6

But what we did, we really, we loaded up a couple of cars full of artifacts and took them over

1:22.4

and set up a number of tables for the commission and those who attended.

1:25.8

There was a couple hundred attending the

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