Texas Rep. Nicole Collier speaks out
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Other Texas Democrats, including from DFW, joined Rep. Nicole Collier after they tore up their “permission slips” to leave the chamber.
Republicans teed off debate in the state House of Representatives by making no bones that their goal is to help Trump hold onto Congress in what is shaping up as a difficult political environment.
Texas Republicans are likely to pass their redistricting plans on Wednesday following weeks of Democrat protests
Texas Republicans mandated that Democratic lawmakers not be allowed to leave the state house without a permission slip and a police escort.
Texas Republicans insisted that Democrats have around-the-clock police escorts to ensure they wouldn’t leave again.
Nicole Collier is being courageous in the face of authoritarianism, but what’s happening to her a story of “resistance.”
State Rep. Nicole Collier can’t leave the Texas Capitol building because she won’t sign a paper agreeing to a state police escort.
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