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.

House Republicans in Texas are about to pass a Trump-backed congressional map meant to strip Democrats of five U.S. House seats, sparking a national feud over partisan redistricting. Texas State Rep.

Texas State Representative Nicole Collier has emerged as a key figure in the state’s ongoing electoral map controversy.

Rep. Nicole Collier was forced off a call with the Democratic National Committee that she had joined while under House arrest in the state capital.

Democratic state Rep. 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.

The Capitol grounds were cleared after 7 p.m. as a demonstration against a GOP redistricting plan was about to begin. Texas lawmakers and staff members were allowed to remain inside the Capitol.

Texas’ Republican-led legislature gave initial approval to a controversial new electoral map on Wednesday, a redistricting move designed to give the GOP an additional five seats in the U.S.

Nicole Collier spent two nights inside the Texas Capitol after she was barred from leaving the building over her refusal to agree to 24-hour police surveillance.