Democratic Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the Texas House floor in protest after refusing a Republican demand to be placed under the watch of the state Department of Public Safety.

Rep. Nicole Collier is one of dozens of Democrats who fled Texas earlier this month to block a vote on a Trump-backed redistricting plan.

State Rep. Nicole Collier said she would not fall in line with the GOP House speaker's requirement that Democratic lawmakers be surveilled by state troopers.

Republican lawmakers are expected to quickly pass new voting maps, but Democrats still say they were victorious in the standoff.

Democratic lawmakers who fled their state to stymie Republican plans to redraw political maps at the behest of President Donald Trump announced on Monday they were "returning to Texas on our terms," as the battle lines harden 15 months before the U.

Democratic leaders say they will return for a second special legislative session after seeing California Democratic leaders proceed with plans to redraw their own U.S. House maps.

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.

Dozens of Democrats are returning to Texas, ending a two-week impasse with Texas Republicans over efforts to redistrict the state.

State Representative Nicole Collier plans to stay in the Texas Capitol until Wednesday in protest against a police escort policy.

Nicole Collier from Fort Worth returned to the Texas Capitol on Monday but says she remains locked inside the Capitol because she wouldn't sign a permission slip to be under escort by the Texas Department of Public Safety.