{"id":10149,"date":"2025-10-18T20:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/10149\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T20:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T20:10:08","slug":"no-kings-2-protest-draws-crowd-of-people-including-officials-at-texas-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/10149\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;No Kings 2&#8221; protest draws crowd of people, including officials, at Texas Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas  \u2014 The Hands Off Central TX coalition is hosting the No Kings 2 protest Saturday afternoon. This is one of more than 2200 demonstrations across the United States that aims to reject authoritarianism and promote democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The event began with attendees assembling on the South steps of the Texas Capitol with featured speakers, including Congressman Greg Casar.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/no-kings-protest-draws-crowd-to-bastrop-county-courthouse#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/no-kings-protest-draws-crowd-to-bastrop-county-courthouse#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;No Kings&#8217; protest draws crowd to Bastrop County Courthouse<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The assembly will be followed by a march to Auditorium Shores where dozens of community organizations hosted what they called \u201cdemocracy villages\u201d, aiming to highlight issues such as immigration, labor, environment, education, and healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We rejected kings in 1776, and we reject them today,&#8221; the Hands Off Central TX Coalition stated in a press release. &#8220;This rally builds momentum for pro-democracy organizing across the state and nation.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The Hands Off Central TX coalition is hosting the No Kings 2 protest Saturday afternoon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9205,9206,9204,9203,3808,9202,1750,27,5601,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-10149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-authoritarianism","9":"tag-community-organizations","10":"tag-democracy","11":"tag-hands-off-central-tx","12":"tag-march","13":"tag-no-kings-2","14":"tag-protest","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-texas-capitol","17":"tag-texas-headlines","18":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}