As one of the posters below says, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is a sex trafficker, has more freedom in Texas than Nicole Collier, Texas House Rep from Fort Worth (Tarrant)
Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2…
— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) August 19, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Texas Dem Rep. Nicole Collier held hostage at Texas capitol by GOP
— Raider (@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social) August 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Ghislaine Maxwell has more freedom in Texas than Nicole Collier.
— jkavanagh.bsky.social (@jkavanagh.bsky.social) August 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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KERA- AUSTIN — A Fort Worth lawmaker said on Monday that she can’t leave the Texas House chambers because she won’t agree to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers, which the GOP speaker is requiring of Democrats who fled the state.
GOP Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows is requiring the Democrats, who broke quorum in an effort to stop a Republican redistricting plan, to be escorted by state troopers in order to leave the House chamber.
But late Monday, after the day’s business concluded, Rep. Nicole Collier of Fort Worth remained, saying she would not agree to such monitoring of the legislators.
“I don’t know how long I will be here,” she wrote in a statement to the Fort Worth Report. “Instead of DPS officers looking for pedophiles, they have been assigned to follow Democratic state representatives around only to ensure their return to the Capitol on Wednesday (when the House reconvenes). I sure hope the public feels safe without those officers on beat.”
This is full-on authoritarianism. Free Nicole Collier. #txlege
— Senator Roland Gutierrez (@rolandfortexas.bsky.social) August 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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