State Rep. Nicole Collier can’t leave the Texas Capitol building because she won’t sign a paper agreeing to a state police ...

SMU political science professor Matthew Wilson explains the rarely enforced rules being applied during this second special ...

Collier is among the Texas House Democrats who broke quorum to block mid-decade congressional redistricting. She and at least ...

Activists protest the confinement of Rep. Nicole Collier (D-Fort Worth) outside the House Chamber at the Texas Capitol Austin ...

Collier speaks about her surreal ordeal, wherein she refused to sign a permission slip and accept a police escort to leave the Austin statehouse and had to sleep there for two nights.

A Democratic state lawmaker who fled Texas in protest of a GOP redistricting effort is asking a court to let her exit the Capitol, after she was told she needs a police escort to leave the building.

Fort Worth Democrat Nicole Collier refused to sign the permission slip Monday that allow her to leave only if she is shadowed ...

Other Texas Democrats, including from DFW, joined Rep. Nicole Collier after they tore up their “permission slips” to leave ...

Rep. Nicole Collier is refusing to sign an order requiring a DPS escort in the Texas House redistricting battle, drawing support from fellow Democrats.

Rep. Nicole Collier has been in the House for more than 10 hours Monday after she has refused to have a Texas law enforcement ...

A state lawmaker from North Texas slept on the Texas House floor on Monday night after refusing a Republican-mandated state ...

Texas Republicans mandated that Democratic lawmakers not be allowed to leave the state house without a permission slip and a ...