AUSTIN (KXAN) – The Texas House is adjourned until Wednesday morning, but one Democrat is staying in the chamber, staging a protest that's gaining attention.

On Monday, Republicans in the Texas House forced returning Democrats to sign what the Democrats called “permission slips,” agreeing to around-the-clock surveillance by state Department of Public Safety officers to leave the floor. The move came after some Democratic lawmakers left the state earlier this month, denying their Republican colleagues the attendance necessary to vote on redrawn maps intended to send five more Texas Republicans to Washington.

After ending their walkout, Democrats at the Texas Capitol on Monday were met with the Republican-led effort.

House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock) ordered the doors to the chambe

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