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More Texas Democrats Spent The Night At The State Capitol

HuffPost on MSN · 55m

More Texas Democrats Spent The Night At The State Capitol In Protest

More Texas House Democrats spent the night at the state Capitol in Austin in support of Rep. Nicole Collier, who wasn’t allowed to leave the building after she refused to consent to a police escort.

More Texas Democrats spend the night in the state Capitol to protest police escorts

A handful of Texas House Democrats were locked in the state Capitol overnight as a protest against a House rule that required members who fled the state earlier this month to be followed by a police chaperone.

CNN on MSN · 15h

Some Texas Democrats rip up agreements to leave House floor under police escort and will spend night in chamber in protest

Several Texas state House Democrats plan to rip up the written agreements that allowed them to leave the chamber with a police escort on Monday and return to the House floor Tuesday night, the caucus announced.

Texas Democrats return to Austin

CNN on MSN · 3h

Texas GOP nears vote on new maps as Democrats stage protest in state House

Texas Republicans are moving closer to approving new congressional maps amid a Democratic show of protest over the GOP House speaker’s order that members who fled the state weeks earlier be placed under law enforcement watch.

The Washington Post · 1d

Democrats return to Texas, clearing way for GOP to draw new map

Texas Democratic lawmakers left two weeks ago to block a GOP plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts. They said they were returning now that California Democrats are adopting a counterproposal.

The Texas Tribune on MSN · 1d

Photos: Texas Democrats return to Austin as redistricting standoff ends

Texas Democrats leave the Austin airport on a charter bus to return to the Texas Capitol on August 18, 2025 upon their return to the state following a two-week quorum break. Credit: Bob Daemmrich for The Texas Tribune Houston Rep.

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Even at the grocery store, Texas troopers don’t let Democrats out of sight after walkout

Texas Republicans insisted that Democrats have around-the-clock police escorts to ensure they wouldn’t leave again.

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Texas Democrat sleeps on House floor in bodyguard protest

A Texas Democrat slept in the House chamber overnight after rejecting an around-the-clock police escort tasked with ensuring ...

FOX 26 Houston29m

Four protesters arrested after refusing to leave Texas Capitol building

AUSTIN, Texas - Four protesters were arrested after refusing to leave the Texas Capitol grounds Monday night. According to ...

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Opening of new migrant detention center in Texas met with protests

Texas' Camp East Montana, the latest and largest of the migrant detention centers being opened across the country, is being ...

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Rep. Nicole Collier refused GOP ‘permission slip’ rule, was locked in the Texas chamber — and slept in her bonnet overnight to protest

The detainment of State Rep. Nicole Collier has drawn outrage and imagery of Black women’s suffrage in America. Texas State ...

1don MSN

Texas Democrats who fled state in protest of gerrymandering return home, restoring quorum

More than 50 Texas Democratic lawmakers who fled their state two weeks ago in protest of their Republican colleagues’ ...

Vidor meeting by True Texas Project sparks protest over Islamic community plans

A meeting held by the True Texas Project at the Holiday Inn in Vidor sparked a counter-protest on Tuesday night. The group ...

KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco on MSN3d

Hundreds gather at Lake Merritt to protest Texas congressional gerrymandering

Hundreds of Bay Area residents gathered in Oakland on Saturday to push back against President Trump's attempt to gerrymander ...

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