{"id":372246,"date":"2026-07-14T07:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/372246\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T07:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:39:10","slug":"east-texas-tonight-political-party-chair-encourages-more-involvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/372246\/","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Tonight: Political party chair encourages more involvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">EAST TEXAS (KLTV\/KTRE) &#8211; Tonight on East Texas Tonight, we\u2019re sitting down with a local leader who\u2019s passionate about civic engagement and encouraging more East Texans to get involved in their communities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Kristen Hardin-Sigler is the Chair of the Smith County Democratic Party, a lifelong East Texan, community organizer, mother, and advocate for increasing civic participation. Throughout the years, she\u2019s worked to recruit local candidates, encourage voter engagement, and build connections across Smith County.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAST TEXAS (KLTV\/KTRE) &#8211; Tonight on East Texas Tonight, we\u2019re sitting down with a local leader who\u2019s passionate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[131850,131849,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-372246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-kristen-hardin-sigler","tag-smith-county-democratic-party","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372246","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=372246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}