February 13, 2025
6:00 PM Meet & Greet
6:30 PM Meeting
President of Texas Gun Rights Chris McNutt
President of Texas Values Jonathan Saenz
Please join us as we welcome the presidents of Texas Gun Rights and Texas Values who will give us their top priorities for the Texas 89th legislative session. State Rep Mike Olcott will give us an update on his first month in the Texas House. We will also hear from Megan Stanford of Turning Point USA.
Location: In the high school room at 910 N Main St in Weatherford
Chris McNutt
Chris McNutt serves as the pro-gun voice for more than 500,000 members and supporters of Texas Gun Rights. As President, he is at the forefront of protecting — and restoring — the right to keep and bear arms for every law-abiding Texan.
Since joining TXGR in 2016, Chris has been a steadfast advocate for Constitutional Carry legislation, culminating in the signing of HB 1927 by Governor Greg Abbott in 2021.
Chris’s activism has not been without controversy. He emerged victorious from a high-profile confrontation with Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen in 2019 and has been a vocal critic of Senator John Cornyn’s support for “red flag” gun confiscation laws and the NICS Gun Registry Expansion.
Under Chris’s leadership, Texas Gun Rights has achieved significant legal victories, including challenging and defeating unconstitutional federal regulations like the Biden Administration’s ban on pistol stabilizing braces and the ATF’s classification of forced reset triggers as machine guns.
Chris’s influence extends beyond Texas. As the former Deputy Director of Field Operations for the National Association for Gun Rights, he successfully championed gun rights in a dozen other states, including Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Montana, and Oklahoma.
His leadership has earned him national recognition, including being featured on the cover of Time Magazine’s “Guns in America” issue.
A long-time resident of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Chris has been involved in Texas politics for nearly 15 years, including working for the office of former State Senator Don Huffines. He is a graduate of the University of North Texas at Dallas and resides in Parker County with his wife, two children, and their German Shepherd.
An avid firearms enthusiast, Chris’s favorite firearms are the FN Scar and his Wilson Combat-enhanced Sig P320. Through his leadership, Texas Gun Rights continues to be a driving force in protecting the constitutional rights of Texans.
Jonathan Saenz
Jonathan M. Saenz, Esq., is the President of Texas Values, a nonprofit group dedicated to preserving and advancing a culture of family values in the state of Texas. Jonathan’s work on these issues spans two decades.
Prior to leading Texas Values (2012), Jonathan headed the First Liberty Institute offices at the Texas Capitol in Austin where he served as Director of Legislative Affairs and Attorney for First Liberty Institute (2007-2012). He frequently presents research, analysis, and testimony before the Texas Legislature, State Board of Education, and other government entities on various issues affecting faith, family, and freedom.
Jonathan believes in religious liberty, sanctity of human life, family values, and constitutional rights and has been involved in numerous court cases, including cases before the Texas Supreme Court and the United State Supreme Court. Jonathan is the leading voice in Texas on marriage between one man and one woman and he was instrumental in the passage of Texas laws to protect religious liberty (“Under God” in the Texas pledge, the “One State Under God” license plate, the “Merry Christmas law”, the “Pastor Protection Law,” Freedom to Serve Children Act, and The First Amendment Defense Act/”Save Chick-fil-A” Law), pro-life laws such as the “Choose Life” license plate, the Sonogram law, HB 2 and many others. Jonathan served as a lawyer for Gianna Jessen, a courageous woman who survived a late-term abortion attempt when she was in the womb and is now a famous pro-life advocate.
Jonathan was also part of the winning legal team that successfully defended the religious freedom and free speech rights of nonprofit pregnancy care centers for women in Austin. Since 2005, Jonathan has worked to protect marriage between one man and one woman and policies that support this principle, and he has helped defeat threatening legislation on these matters in every legislative session since 2007. In 2015, Jonathan was the leading statewide voice in Texas that helped defeat the dangerous LGBT Houston “bathroom” ordinance, that would have allowed men into women’s bathrooms and would have restricted the religious freedom on businesses and nonprofit organizations. Jonathan also helped lead the State Board of Education victories to prevent censorship in the Science classroom and protect strong Social Studies & History teaching.
Jonathan hosts the weekly radio show “The Texas Values Report,” and has been featured in local, national, and international media such as Fox News, CNN, USA Radio, Austin-American Statesman, Dallas Morning News, and Houston Chronicle among many others, and is a sought-after speaker for important events. Mr. Saenz received his law degree from the University of Houston Law Center where he was the leader of the Pro-Life Cougars group that successfully defended its free speech rights in a landmark court case against the university. Jonathan received his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied family policy issues. Jonathan is a 5th-generation Texan with strong family ties to Central and South Texas. He and his family live in Central Texas and are members of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church.