US EditionTexas Democrat Passes 24-hour Mark on State House Floor to Protest Police Shadowing in Redistricting Battle
Nicole Collier's refusal to sign a Republican-imposed permission slip led to her overnight confinement as Democrats resist a GOP plan adding five Republican-leaning seats ahead of 2026 elections.
- Democratic Texas state Representative Nicole Collier spent Monday night inside the Austin House chamber to protest a requirement for constant police monitoring amid a disagreement over redistricting.
- On August 3, more than fifty Democratic members of the Texas House departed the state to prevent Republicans from reaching a quorum, thereby postponing a redistricting proposal that would add five Republican U.S. House seats before the 2026 election.
- Republican House Speaker Dustin Burrows required returning Democrats to sign 'permission slips' consenting to Texas Department of Public Safety surveillance to leave the chamber, but Collier refused and remains confined on the floor.
- Collier affirmed that she would not passively accept intimidation or discrimination, emphasizing that her largely minority community relies on her to advocate for their representation.
- The Democrats’ resistance delayed a Republican-backed redistricting vote set for Wednesday, while California Democrats simultaneously advanced maps to increase their U.S. House advantage in a broad partisan battle over congressional control.
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Texas GOP passes redistricting, threatens Collier with felony
The Texas House of Representatives has approved the GOP’s highly controversial and wildly gerrymandered congressional district map, designed to give Republicans five more seats in the U.S. House in the 2026 midterms. But not before threatening on high-profile Democrat with felony criminal charges for participating in a press conference call with other Democratic Party leaders from across the country. Rep. Nicole Collier — who spent 48 hours camp…
‘She has broken zero laws’: GOP bullies seriously making a Democrat sleep on the House floor for days
A Democratic representative by the name of Nicole Collier is currently being forced to stay within the Texas State House or face going to jail due to Republicans trying to push through new redistricting maps that require a certain amount of lawmakers to be present. Collier has spent the last two nights in the Texas Capitol after she arrived at work on Monday and was informed that she would not be able to leave the building without a police escor…
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How Rep. Nicole Collier’s Capitol protest sparked solidarity among these Texas women
This article originally appeared in The Barbed Wire. Tuesday morning, state Rep. Nicole Collier awoke from her seat on the floor of the Texas House, “bonnet and all,” after spending the night locked in the Capitol. It’s an image that will go down in history. In a photo posted online, the Fort Worth Democrat is wearing a dark blue eye mask and white and red blankets. They match her Texas flag, which marks a page in the book “African Founders: Ho…
Lawmaker spends night on Texas House floor after refusing police escort
The exterior of the Texas State Capitol building in Austin, Texas, is pictured. (Photo by EJ Rodriquez/Getty Images)A Texas House Democrat was confined in the Capitol overnight after she refused a police escort that Republican leaders imposed on lawmakers who participated in a two-week walkout over a GOP mid-decade redistricting plan. Rep. Nicole Collier, D-Fort Worth, declined on Monday afternoon to sign a slip giving her permission from Speake…
Texas Republicans Lock Dem State Rep. In Capitol After She Refuses To Leave With Mandatory Police Escort
Democratic Texas state Representative Nicole Collier is making national headlines for refusing to cede to Republicans' demands that she sign a permission slip to be under escort by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Collier was among dozens of Democrats who bolted from Texas earlier this month to block a Trump-backed redistricting plan designed to tilt the 2026 midterms toward Republicans. Some lawmakers returned Monday for a second special …
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