{"id":9811,"date":"2025-10-18T12:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/9811\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:58:15","slug":"no-kings-protests-return-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/9811\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No Kings\u2019 Protests Return To Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands of Texans are expected at another round of No Kings protests against the Trump administration all over the state <\/p>\n


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\n Photo of the June 14 ‘No Kings’ protest from Dallas<\/p>\n

On Saturday, October 18, thousands of Texans are expected at rallies throughout the state to protest the Trump administration and its policies. This will be the second round of \u201cNo Kings\u201d protests taking place in Texas (named to represent that the United States is a democracy, not a monarchy).<\/p>\n

Back in June, over sixty No Kings protests were held<\/a> in Texas to coincide with a military parade Trump ordered in Washington D.C. to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army (which also happened to be his birthday). The protests in Texas were all peaceful and took place in large cities like Austin and Houston and smaller areas like Belton, Corpus Christi, Wichita Falls and McKinney.<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo of the June 14 ‘No Kings’ protest from Dallas<\/p>\n

Many labor and community leaders expect that this Saturday\u2019s protests will be even larger than the ones that occurred in the summer. Many speakers and protesters in Texas are expected to denounce recent actions from the White House that they believe have veered into authoritarianism. According to a protest locator<\/a> from No Kings, there are over seventy different protests happening in Texas.<\/p>\n

With the rallies set to potentially break records for attendance, many Republicans have taken to blasting the protests and protestors. At a press conference this week Speaker of the House Mike Johnson referred<\/a> to Saturday\u2019s event as a \u201chate America rally.\u201d Many opponents of No Kings have also accused the protesters of being staged or paid, including Texas Senator Ted Cruz.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Fox News, Cruz claimed<\/a> that Saturday\u2019s rallies were being funded by billionaire George Soros \u201cand may turn into riots all across the country.\u201d Cruz then touted a bill that he introduced into the Senate that would permit the Department of Justice to prosecute the funders of protests like No Kings under RICO statutes.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced<\/a> that he would be deploying Texas National Guard members to Austin for their No Kings rally, which he referred to as an \u201cAntifa-linked protest.\u201d In response, the Texas House Democrats released their own statement condemning Abbott\u2019s move.<\/p>\n

\u201cSending armed soldiers to suppress peaceful protests is what kings and dictators do \u2014 and Greg Abbott just proved he\u2019s one of them,\u201d said State Rep. Gene Wu, the Texas House Democrats Minority Leader. \u00a0\u201cBy inviting armed soldiers into our streets, the Governor has sold out our sovereignty to a corrupt politician looking to distract you from the Epstein Files, rising prices at the grocery store, and more Texans than ever unable to realize the dream of homeownership.\u201d<\/p>\n

A tenet that No Kings notes on their website is a commitment to nonviolence. \u201cWe expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events,\u201d they write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of Texans are expected at another round of No Kings protests against the Trump administration all over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-9811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9811","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=9811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}