A Texas Democratic lawmaker slept at the state Capitol overnight rather than submit to Republican demands that she agree to allow a state police guard ensure her return to vote on a controversial redistricting plan ordered by President Trump.

State Rep. Nicole Collier (D-Fort Worth) crashed on chairs pushed together on the floor of the state House chamber in Austin because she wouldn’t sign a GOP “permission slip” guaranteeing her return to a planned vote Wednesday on the plan to gerrymander the state’s congressional districts to flip up to five Democratic seats.

“I refuse to sign away my dignity as a duly elected representative just so Republicans can control my movements and monitor me with police escorts,” Collier said. “I know these maps will harm my constituents. I won’t just go

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