Several Texas Democrats joined state Rep. Nicole Collier (D) on Tuesday to protest new guidelines preventing party members from leaving the House chambers without a police escort and signed agreement.

Other Texas Democrats, including from DFW, joined Rep. Nicole Collier after they tore up their “permission slips” to leave the chamber.

Rep. Nicole Collier's refusal to accept an ordered police escort gains support from her Democratic Party colleagues via a grand gesture.

Texas Democratic Rep. Nicole Collier grabbed her bonnet and pillow to sleep on the state floor in protest to having police tracking her.

Fort Worth Democrat Nicole Collier refused to sign the permission slip Monday that allow her to leave only if she is shadowed by a DPS agent until the

Kamala Harris thanks Texas Democrats for standing up for the people during a redistricting fight. Democrats face a GOP mid-decade remap to avoid coalition districts.

Texas Democrats are back in Austin after they broke quorum two weeks ago in protest of the state's redistricting plan. State Representative Nicole Collier refused to leave the House chambers on Monday.

Republicans required their Democratic peers to have an escort to ensure they returned to the chamber on Wednesday following their two-week venture outside the state to thwart a GOP redistricting effort.

A Texas House Democrat was confined in the Capitol overnight after she refused a police escort that Republican leaders imposed on lawmakers over a GOP mid-decade redistricting plan.

Democrats who fled Texas in order to slow Republicans' plans to redraw voting maps say they have returned to the state capital "victorious". After a weeks-long standoff, the lawmakers said on Monday they are now "more dangerous to Republicans' plans than when we left,