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Texas Democrats return as Rep. Nicole Collier spends night on House floor in protest
Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives returned to Austin on Aug. 18, 2025, but their protest of redistricting efforts continues. Democratic Texas Rep. Cassandra Garcia Hernandez speaks at a news conference outside of the House chamber in the State Capitol on Aug.
Texas Republicans mandated that Democratic lawmakers not be allowed to leave the state house without a permission slip and a ...
A Democratic state lawmaker who fled Texas in protest of a GOP redistricting effort is asking a court to let her exit the Capitol, after she was told she needs a police escort to leave the building.
The Fort Worth Democrat was confined in the Capitol overnight after refusing to be shadowed by state police, a requirement for lawmakers who had left the state.
State Rep. Nicole Collier can’t leave the Texas Capitol building because she won’t sign a paper agreeing to a state police escort.
Nicole Collier is being courageous in the face of authoritarianism, but what’s happening to her a story of “resistance.” ...
Other Texas Democrats, including from DFW, joined Rep. Nicole Collier after they tore up their “permission slips” to leave ...
Texas Republicans insisted that Democrats have around-the-clock police escorts to ensure they wouldn’t leave again.
A protest is planned Tuesday outside of the House chamber where one lawmaker is refusing to leave after rejecting monitoring ...
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