At least three Texas House Democrats spent the night inside the state Capitol in protest of a Republican-backed redistricting plan, which they say would diminish the voting power of minority communities.

State Rep. Nicole Collier of Fort Worth spent Monday night in the House chamber, sleeping on leather chairs after rejecting new attendance rules that required Democrats who previously broke quorum to check in and be monitored by state police.

“I feel like that is an invasion of my rights as a person and it is dehumanizing and demeaning and I just won’t take it.” Collier told the Texas Newsroom.” I won’t agree to it.”

Collier began livestreaming from the chamber just after 1:30 a.m. Tuesday morning and was still broadcasting at 12 p.m. She was joined by Reps. Gene Wu of Houston and Vin

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